Comic: Unicycles

I've wanted to draw comics and cartoons for a while. For the last six months or so I've been trying to draw for about an hour every day, and once-elusive aspects of the human figure are now tenuously in my grasp. One of the things that still bothers me is the face. I've been doing portraits on a regular basis for over ten years now, but drawing cartoon faces - far from the cakewalk I expected - is demanding and subtle beyond my imagination. So I've been drawing faces. Lots of them. Every day. I'll develop a style sooner or later.

The actual process of inking was also more difficult than I expected. I learned that I should probably use a non-aliased brush for the linework (and probably a thicker brush at that), as coloring with the pen is difficult and the paint bucket is much more efficient. The whole thing took about 6 hours from concept sketch to end-result. I'm decently pleased.

Also, I'm taking a figure drawing class at Berkeley through the ASUC Art Studio. It's major fun. Being in front of a naked person is intimidating (and if it's intimidating for me, I wonder how the models feel being buck-naked in front of 20 people who are intently studying your body), but the experience is very rewarding and I feel like I'm making good progress. There really is no substitute for a live model, not even DeviantArt.

Writing credits go to Katie (pictured in the pink dress), who does have a legitimately bad shoulder injury.