A war wages within me between traditionally and digitally inking my cartoons. I go back and forth between my pens and brushes and my Wacom tablet. It depends on the job, my mood or whatever is close at hand. Cosmic, Man was inked traditionally.
Category Archive: Sketch
Rumble in the Jungle Sketch
I had a lot of fun drawing the most recent edition of Monkey & Bird. It was inspired by the passing of artistic giant Frank Frazetta and my rediscovery of some terrific pulp adventures via my iPod Touch and a wonderful little application called Stanza. Essentially its an eBook reader, and there are thousands of …
Bell Man & Beverage Boy
This is another fun idea that never quite made it. Back in the late ’80s, early ’90s I was working with a couple of guys trying to dig up freelance clients in need of graphic design and/or illustration. We were trying to convince a beer distributor that they really needed to use us for all …
The Modern Prometheus
Sometimes I do sketches that I keep meaning to chase down again. This version of the Frankenstein Monster is among them. I was working on a company Christmas card that I wasn’t really enthusiastic about, and this fellow kept on popping up in the margins of whatever I was sketching. This guy needs to be …
Vampire/Rat Man
Another pen and ink doodle from the mid-80s. Technical pens were my weapon of choice at the time.
Grimly Fiendish
I was rooting through my sketchbooks looking for old sketches that would have worked out for a Monkey & Bird idea, but of course, I got sidetracked. This is a drawing of a pair of ghouls as envisioned for a horror comic idea that never quite took wing. Ghouls being corpse eaters are not highly …
More Origins of the Species
Monkey before Bird. A sketchbook sketch in pencil from February of 1988. Be on the look out for Monkey & Bird coming soon to CO2 Comics!
London After Midnight
Sketchbook sketch from July of 1985 of Lon Chaney from his sadly lost London After Midnight. Done in technical pen in a Strathmore wire-bound sketchbook.
It Came from the Sketchbook!
I was thinking of formalizing the posts to Willceau Illo News by making regular features. I want to make Monday It Came From The Sketchbook day and post some doodles Tina or I made in a sketchbook and forgot about. So, until I change my mind, today is It Came From The Sketchbook day. I forgot …
Driving the Big White Bus
For some reason this is one of my most popular images on my Flickr! account. If I knew puke cartoons were going to be so popular, I would have done little else. I drew this in a sketchbook using Koh-i-nor Rapidographs way back in 1986. I used to shoot photostats so a stat of this …
Junk Drawer
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