Daily lady

Lady fighters are pretty rad, cause they are ladies and they are tough. If there's two things I respect, it's ladies and toughness. and, apparently not grammar...

Anyway, Rin Nakai has a unique body and like to pose, so there are numerous shots of her from various angles, which is a great way to study. and, there's lots of fight footage, so I can see her in action. and I would definitely base a character on Rin, if for no other reason, she's really fun to draw.

Also, so are towers and yojimbo's.

In other news, shipped out my first copy of LFCv2, and boy did I doodle all over the package.

-Jams

Lingua Franca Comics, vol. 2

Lingua Franca Comics, vol. 2 is available here!

The first round is out and ready to be disseminated across the globe. Get them while I still feel like assembling!

-Jams

sketchbooks and conventions

 Sketch pagies, some of this goes back to the summer, so I haven't dumped in a while. First off, Raboy studies for an issue of Master Comics I covered before Robert Goodin closed his awesome blog. See both versions here.

 Some condensed doobles, and the process by which I become Hibudon Kaiju, apparently.

 Some erotic studies, since, ya know, porn is so good for figure drawing. These are based on Riley Reid, although my favorite one is too cluttered by other drawings to get a proper scan of it, you'll just have to imagine how magnificent it is. Also, my first porn comic will be premiering soon.

and some wash experiments with Pope and Samehada, accompanied by some attitude donated by Tank Girl.

photo by Michelle Kanaar

In other news, I went to the NC Comicon last weekend, where I  met Bob Burden. Really nice fellow, I enjoyed chatting with him, and hearing his anecdotes about self-publishing back in the day. He's still going strong, and it's great to see amidst all the big name, corporate iconography, lots of people still interested in something small and off-kilter.

Anyway, it was my first time to a convention and I had a good time, so thanks to Turbo for the tickets, but I still wish he'd been able to attend. Thanks to Kanaar for support and photos, see the shots she took of cosplayers here.

More to come,

-Jams

monkey king

At one of my employments, the management has taken to calling me 'monkey king,' so there be many monkey king sketches floating around.

This one is based on an image by Xiaojun Li. Please find the original, you'll see how much this pales in comparison.

Been reading so much Dragonball recently, and it makes me want read/watch "Journey to the West"...and read more Dragonball.

Now I want to draw Dragonball characters...

So many pictures to copy, so little time,

-Jams

daily

Nothing to say in particular, I've been scanning and editing all day, with more editing and maybe some printing and assembling to do later. Have a bunch of sketchies, doodulls, and rump-up and downers to post, but I'm going to space them out a little bit, in an attempt to avoid HUGE gaps of postlessness.

We'll get to the porn when I am feeling a bit classier.

So there,

-Jams

daily waste

Some ramp-up and down sketches. I have pretty erratic work habits, which are compounded by working part time and having moved several times in the last few months, but if there is one thing I cannot stand, it is letting my ink dry out. After having gone through a stint of pouring ink, and then finishing a page(or too often, not), taking a break which ends up with a dishful of dried ink, I vowed to commit myself: once the ink is poured, I gotta use it.

So, I've developed a habit of warming up with ink sketches, and if I finish a page or image, and have some left over, then try to make a few more doodles with whatever's left over. Often, I sketch without an underlying drawing.

Waste-not, want-not, yeah?

-Jams

Dark of Artness

I was lucky enough to collaborate with El Roho on a mini called "Darkful," which he premiered two weeks ago at MICE. His pencils, my inks, telecommed all the way. His work is imaginative, and he has some of the freshest panel layouts I've seen. Really looking forward to possible future collaborations. Also, you can buy a pdf of the comic here.

I started working on the art right after moving to Durham, and rigged up a "light-box" using photo frames and lamps. I still prefer taping pages to the window, but I saw some overhead projectors today at a thrift shop, so I might invest in one. Ultimately, I need to build a lightbox. and a screen print set-up, and a darkroom...

Keep dreamin',
-Jam