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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
El Vocho #25
Visited the local art supply store yesterday and picked up a new brush--my two stand by brushes had gone a bit dead on me. An inkslinger like me needs a brush that I can enter into a give and take with, I mess with it's expressive potentials until we arrive at an unconscious fluid marriage of precise description & creation of a little world that is so much more than ink on white paper.
A good new brush is right up there with puttin' new strings on your guitar!
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
El Vocho #23
It's fair to say the El Vocho narrative takes a turn here. Who is this guy in the hat?! He is based on a real person. Any guesses as to who? There will be more clues in the next post.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
El Vocho #22
I'm back in Oaxaca at my drawing board after more than a month in California. I inked a little segment to warm up my chops, which I've posted here.
Just set up a stack of bristol paper to draw on, I'm gonna bust through a lot more of this story in pencil before returning to ink, in all likelyhood.
Eventually the ink will come, and I'll post more here.
Meanwhile, if you are a publisher looking to sign a book and pay an advance, I'm all ears! Ha ha!
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
El Vocho Update
Over the past two weeks, I've drawn (in pencil) and lettered ten new pages of material for El Vocho. I've been on a roll with this latest batch of pages and the story is really taking off. I'm not posting this stuff yet, as I still need to ink it, and I am stateside for the next month, away from my studio in Oaxaca.
When I get back in January, I'll probably continue to buzz through the story with pencil art before inking & posting much more of the story. This will allow me to get into the flow of the narrative without breaking to ink; actually this is the way I usually work, first I pencil a whole book before inking. The creative process opens up better for me if I pencil first, the muse settles in and stays with me.
The above art is actually a teaser from the piece I recently completed for the next issue of WW3 Illustrated, which will appear in March 2009. The story I did for it is a capsule version of El Vocho. I thought it would be nice to post a sample of that story without giving away too much.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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