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Character Art Dump

Grizzly — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:46:44 +0000

As promised, I scanned some of the art I did as prep work for Vapor Trails.

I’m still trying to peg down a style for this comic, it’s definitely more cartoony than the work I’ve been doing lately. I’m trying to get back to my roots I guess, weird animals and people with simpler shapes.

I’m also working up a site redesign now, so expect some changes to the homestead soon enough.

The Ghost of Adolf Hitler

Grizzly — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:00:04 +0000

This blog is swiftly becoming a catalog of Things I Watched Last Night While I Was Drawing. I will look back in years to come and think “ohhhh right”.

Last night it was Ghost Hunters International’s big GHOST OF HITLER episode. Rob and the crew taunted, cajoled, and bragged to the nonexistent Ghost Hitler. Of course they didn’t find him because they are retarded and the show is really fake, but at least their nerd-courage in the face of absolutely nothing dangerous made me laugh a few times.

Lindsey and I have a game we play during any of the Ghost Hunting shows, I would recommend you do the same. Every time someone says “What the hell was that?” you try to say it in as many different inflections as possible. It’s a surprisingly long-running game.

So that’s the GHI crew down there, Rob on the left, Joe Chin and his epic fuzzy cockroach chin ornament, and Brandy the goblin. Oh and the ghost of Adolf Hitler

What the HELL was THAT?

I’m also sketching some stuff for a short I’d like to do as an anthology submission. If you know anybody that is looking for an anthology submission, this one is a doozy. Promise.

Hey look people! These guys will be doing some serious comic talkin.

Is it too early to reminisce?

Grizzly — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:00:19 +0000

This time of year has recently become my absolute favorite period of yearliness. I guess it’s always been that way, but it’s really come to fruition in the past 5 or so. Part of that is the fact that I’ve been on my own so long that I’ve had to form new traditions to epic-fy my holiday meanderings.

One of those is the consumption of absolutely every single piece of Christmas media I can get my hands on for pretty much the entire month of December. This month hulu, my dear sweet hulu, has pretty much dumped a truckload of Christmas cheer into my heart crevasse. DVDs and my favorite website on the planet have made this tradition just right. Alf, Elf, Santa Claus with Muscles. All is well.

I <3 you Christmas. I <3 you so much. I'm already remembering how great you were this year. BECAUSE I EXIST IN THE FUTURE.

I would also throw rocks at the Polar Express except it’s too fake to even seem corporeal

Chubby Asian Teenagers

Grizzly — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:38:40 +0000

I’ve been doing some sketching for a comic idea over the last few days. It’s a teen angst sci-fi mystery. Because the more genres you’ve got, the better right? I was not drunk when I wrote the last two sentences.

Here’s a little amalgamation of my favorite bits and pieces that came out. I was afraid I’d lost my line a few weeks ago, but I think it’s coming back full force. Now it’s just a matter of knocking out a script I can be happy with (besides Battlerock or El Segundo) and getting down n dirty on some bristol board. It will happen sooner than we all think.

And before I go pass out, let me plug the Supertron livestream and the Azure livestream. Both absolutely full of pants-shittingly delightful people, and Peter Timony.

Good night you horrible monsters.

Cute chicks and goofy schoolboys

meeerrrllliiinnn

Grizzly — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:16:17 +0000

I was working on a new story idea after an episode of Merlin tonight and then Lindsey started drawing. And then Lindsey was drawing Merlin. And then I wanted to draw Merlin.

Then I drew Merlin, or at least my summation of the series as a whole.

I’m sorry I made you look like a gene therapy baby, Merlin.

The most magical dick of them all

Dirty guys and massive beards

Grizzly — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:24:50 +0000

I have an obsession, I know, but I cannot resist the power of beard. Here’s a little character sketch of Mushezib (with and without face writing) for El Segundo Diablo. I’m experimenting with a few different styles, trying to get a feel for the right one, but it’s still a little ways off. My original ESD drawings were much more cartoony, stylized and loose. Which is great, but the story just isn’t going down that path anymore. So a little revamp will help it out.

Also there’s like a goat or something up there in the left corner and I think he represents fertility or the fall of man. Something incredibly deep I assure you.

Mushezib the demon warlord of Babylon