mumblethief

shades of the past

 Two brief process-related snippets this week.  One is my continued attempt to train myself to flow more seamlessly between the more dimensional approach I am most used to, and the more f...

A request of the internet...

I know you all have seen this page already, but I made this sequence of slides to post on social media (I'll post this weeks patreon page once I'm done with this).  

I am already unbelieva...

The Turtle Library #23: Early Edition

Welp, I'm sick again.  I don't know about you all, but I've been losing faith in my immune system lately.  Being sick is such a pain!  Yesterday my head was too muddled to even approach...

The Turtle Library #22: Early Edition

The Japanese cartoonist Inio Asano is coming to TCAF this year, and in preparation, I am reading everything the library has of his work (about a dozen volumes).  

I've read a few of his st...

The Turtle Library #19: Early Edition

Posts are slow coming on this trip, but I will be back in Toronto and on a regular update schedule next week!  

I'm currently in New Jersey, visiting family, so there's not too much time ...

The Turtle Library #15: Early Edition

It always amazes me how difficult it can feel to sit down and draw some days, all of the tricks i find myself going through to get myself into a drawing mode. Maybe I've said this here before, but it ...

The Turtle Library #6: Early Edition

The book Cricket is reading is inspired by the BBC television show "Secrets of the Castle, with Ruth, Peter, and ...

The Turtle Library #3: Early Edition

Another tool has changed!  This week I made the big little decision to change my primary inking implement for this comic from a faber castel pitt pen to a Tombo marker like 2017-10-19 03:16:08 +0000 UTC View Post

animate animate

After a slow few days of re-learning how to make pictures move, I'm back up to speed working on this animation I started last year with my friend Nick Meurlott (aka Dangerlot). The goal is to have my...

Turtle Library webcomic #9

The King of Police (or K.O.P.) sure is a bag of contradictions.  Wisdom and foolishness in [approximately] equal measure.  I'm excited to see how this character and his gang evolve as the st...

c-c-c-c-cookie

Here's the pencils for the cover of one of the class "graphic novels" from the Story Planet comics workshop from a few weeks ago. Inks, color, 4 interior pages, and one more cover to go, and the work...

Turtle Library webcomic #4

I just realized I forgot to post this on Patreon when I uploaded it to the main Turtle Library website!  My apologies!  To make up for it I'll make two back-to-back machine-gun-turbo posts r...

About the Aliens

Just thought I'd take a break from pencilling this week's Turtle Library strip to show you the "about the authors"- type page from the "Official Investigators Logbook" Josh Rosen (joshdraws.com if yo...

testing a pen i thought didn't work. it worked.

'nother one

And here are the inks of the second shirt!  Plus, if you'll direct your attention downward, you will encounter evidence of the strange and circuitous process which lead to this illsutration. &nbs...

pinball shirt!

Here's what became of that pinball shirt drawing I posted pencils for the other day. I've also "accidentally" drawn up most of another possible shirt design, which i'll be sure to post once it's fini...

Story Planet!

A couple of "finally"s here:  finally found a way to post multiple images in one of these Patreon posts (though it is suuuper circuitous :0P) and I finally participated in a Story Planet workshop...

Climb and Go Sneak

Here's a quick pic of the prototype of my new game Climb and Go Sneak! I'm still working away at the Riverboat game that I believe I've mentioned before, and am part of the way through making the fir...

Moon Full cover!

And here's the last piece of pen and ink for the book! front cover is on the right side, back is on the left. Next is all of the digital production work. Getting close!

MOON FULL :: process II

Back again with another update on kid's book #2!  In an attempt to make wrestling with our current not-so-good computer situation, I've uploaded this batch to google drive rather then go through ...

tractorin!

mcdonalds as studio

Hello hello! Sorry I haven't been posting much this last week or so, my insufficient excuse is that I've been spending most of my time helping Marta with the grunt-labor aspects of her upcoming exhib...

Moon Full thumbnails

here's the thumbnails for pages 8 through 15. The pages are drawn a bit out of order again, so make sure you check the page numbers when reading!

That bird from the Black Kids music video has been popping up everywhere. Here he is in a drawing I made for a Polish publisher's collection of bull drawings (the publisher is named Taurus Media: tau...

A drawing for a friend

airport drawthings

yo, Turtle, yo yo!

Some friends in Massachusetts have an ongoing gigantic add-a-panel-in-any-order drawin game. Here's my contribution from this visit!