Eh, It’s Monday. Why not go ahead and post two times… This is another pin up girl for the book mentioned below. This will probably be used as the cover to the next issue of paper pusher too (that’s why there is so much dead space around her). I gotta give myself mad props for that gun, I mean Just look at it. Wow.

Here is a pin up I did about two weeks ago, It’s for a book of pin ups that I hope to0 have ready for heroes con in June. I know that sounds like a long time to put together a pin up book, but it’s not considering all the other comic related stuff I have to do before then as well. Wish me luck!

Hey! Hey! Day number two. Today I'm just posting this drawing of Dr Internet I did for our soon to be up and running video site. You'll probably be seeing a lot more pics of props and art from the show as the weeks roll by. Stay tuned!
THE WORST WAY TO DRAW ON EARTH:
I should probably say that while I'm not a big fan of gradients, I do prefer them in illustrator over any way I know (so far at least) to create outlines. It might have to do with the fact that when I draw by hand, I focus so much on line quality, that this is kind of like a little vectorized vacation for me. I still find drawing on the computer a big pain in the ass. I'm using a mouse and not a wacom tablet (which I have). Maybe one day I will learn to love it or at least like it, but for now it stays in the closet. So I've been sketching in photoshop using a light blue (just like I would with a blue pencil in the real world) For some reason this color seems to be easiest for me to rough in. I like the idea of red, but it just looks like scribbles to me. Here is the "blue line" sketch of this drawing i did with the mouse:
Sometimes I'll refine it with red but that is only if it gets too hairy, but even when I do, I still keep the blue lines around when I bring it in illustrator. I still prefer this to actually drawing on paper and then tracing it in illustrator, Partially because I end up liking the pencils so much more than the "watered down" vector version. But when I draw like this (with the mouse in photoshop) It gets the idea across in way I understand, but yet still looks like crap enough that It can only improve by being traced off in illustrator. Which is what I did next:

Bam! there it is. I changed the regular cop to a "Bobbie" and moved it around a little. I ended up flipping Dr Internet around for better composition and kept messing with the car too much. then I dropped in the background just as a place holder, as this will probably be animated (slightly).
So there it is, a drawing I don't really like, and now that I've shown you how to make a drawing that you don't like, you can open up all your fancy Adobe crap and spend a few hours on a drawing that would have taken you 30 minutes to complete by hand. I love vectors!