Saving a duck from drowning

A fun, satisfying piece on BDVille-

Portfolio - done!

So I finished my portfolio. Please check it out and tell me what you think - and hell, even forward it to any directors you might know!

angouleme!

Ugh, sorry I haven't updated in a while! Here's a drawing of Angouleme. I'll start putting more stuff up soon! But just friend me on facebook, that's where I'm putting up most new stuff!

Next BDVille here! It's all about the coffee. To go. Read it all here.

Ok! Here's the first installment of the new memoir-style comic I'm doing called "BDVille." The first page is here, but read the rest here!

some new images from Power Out

So I've been happily updating Power Out since I've been here in France. Here are some of my favorite panels so far.

So I went to cartoonist /  friend Lucile Duchemin's African dance class yesterday to do gestural figure drawing with cartoonist / recovering pyromaniac Laure Clémandsaud-Madia. Happy with the results, I filled over 70 pages of my sketchbook!

There's something fantastic about doing quick gestural drawings. I think my favorite part is that you don't have time to think. I'd like to take more time to meditate, but I always make an argument against it - I have work to do, I need to draw! Drawing quickly, and mindfully, in its own way is a kind of meditation.

Here are some results:


It started off with Lucille's beginner's class. This felt easier for drawing, since the motions were slower and more repetitious. You could anticipate the movement better.



For a forty minute break, there were break dancers. They are so hard to draw! They move so fast and there's very little predictability to their movement. There was one guy who had a real slow, in control pop / lock type movement, it was fun to watch.




 

Laure made it into this sketch

The last class was an advanced African dance class. Everyone was moving much faster! Very difficult, but their were some great gestures.



 

If you're on facebook, you can check out the whole album here.