HighMoon

Today we nod our heads to former Hypothetisicks studio memember Steve Ellis
with the theme "High Moon." This being the name of his and David G's popular Zuda book of course. Said book involved... yes...werewolves...

The Life Aquatic: Jelly fish

I find jelly fishes so mesmerizing and terrifying at the same time. Whenever I go to the aquarium, I spend the most time in front of jelly fishes, hypnotized by their fluid motion.

They are also my favorite side dish, it tastes great all chopped up with sugar and vinegar.

-Robin

the Life Aquatic

My favorite part is when they yell "You forgot your dog, idiots!", but I couldn't think of a way to sum it up in an illustration.

The Life Aquatic:Mermaid

Sometimes a guy just wants to draw a hot mermaid, y'know?

The Life Aquatic: Bill Murray

Triggerfish

Some years ago I used to dive regularly in the Indian Ocean. It's an amazing thing to do and I recommend it to everyone. I saw many incredible things. One of the ones that sticks in my mind was this one Triggerfish that decided that it wanted me to leave it's territory and to emphasize it's point it decided to attack me! Despite our enormous size difference this thing would NOT back down and kept swimming at me then darting away at the last moment. I had time to take some ( very poor) photographs of this happening. I eventually retreated to a safe distance as he was probably protecting his young or something and I was starting to feel guilty that he was spending so much energy on trying to frighten me. I remember thinking at the time it would be amazing to be able to sketch this.

This drawing was done in 35 minutes flat using a sharpie marker and Photoshop. I'm trying to get quicker at this sort of stuff.

The Life Aquatic: LOVIATHAN!

King Llyr of Atlantis, from my ACT-I-VATE webcomic, LOVIATHAN.

The Life Aquatic

The Life Aquatic is the theme today.
I was in a gag mood.
Even if it's a "meh" gag...

Life Aquatic: Cherish!

I know, this looks like some wicked queer polo ad (not that there's anything wrong with that!), but hear me out. Today's theme of Life Aquatic was George's idea, and the first thing that popped into my head was Madonna's Cherish video- u know, the one with the mermen?! Yeah, you totally remember it. Anyway this is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE PART (if you watch the video, it's at the 2:20 mark). I love how it looks like someone was just like "YO MERMEN" from off screen, and they all turn to look. Heheh.

So yeah. This was just a warm-up brush sketch, but I'm so giggly about it I feel like drawing a comic based on these guys, haha! So funny.

Wildstorm: Gen 13

In tribute to the end of Wildstorm, today's daily sketch was to do a drawing of one of their comic book characters. I chose Fairchild from Gen 13, which was one of my favorite books as a kid.

WildStorm: Tom Strong

So long, and thanks for all the Grifter!

A tribute to WildStorm. WildC.A.T.S. was a huge part of the comics I read growing up, so when I thought of what character to draw out of all the amazing books they published over the years, I decided it just had to be Grifter, because he was on the cover of the first WildCATS book I ever picked up. Which was I think the first WildStorm book I ever picked up! Thus the circle is complete. And my brush is pretty much dead after this one...

Thanks to everyone who worked at WildStorm, drew and wrote, lettered, designed and read these books.

Goodbye Wildstorm - Jenny Sparks

From the Authority, the bolshy bitch herself.

Intergalactic Planetary, Planetary Intergalactic

Just pencils for me, thanks.



So it was Becky Cloonan's turn to choose a warm-up topic today. To honor yesterday's dissolution of the company, her edict was: draw a Wildstorm character.

My first reaction was images of WildC.A.T.s and other uber-90's fare, but after seeing Tim Hamilton's post, I remembered just how varied and cool some of what Wildstorm published was. I went with the core trio of Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's Planetary series, a book I highly enjoyed (though, honestly, drifted away from as the wait between issues got progressively longer. And longer) . Even my girlfriend really dug Planetary. After drawing this, maybe I'll go and finish up the series in trade.

Good bye Wild Storm

Becky Cloonan chose today's "Theme" to pay tribute to
the publishing imprint known as Wild Storm which is
sadly no more if you read the news yesterday.

My favorite Wild Storm book?
Ex Machina

And I tried to get back into the spirit of these
being "just" warm up sketches by doing mine on
a piece of scrap cardboard.