i don’t always get an assignment at work that involves drawing, so i started a little exercise that should be a fun start to each new work day. every day or so, at least when i get a chance, i’ve decided to draw a panel or two of a brand new seed comic- in color! this is just for fun and there’s not going to be a great deal of thought put into it, but the plan is to one: give me something to continually draw at my day job, two: practice my coloring (something i really need to work on), three: have something pretty to post on this here blog and four: finally give all of you who have been asking a new seed story (finally!). these’ll be rough little things, but at least it’s somthing, right? i’ll place these panels in their own category too for easy viewing.

now a quick explanation. this is not a direct continuation of my previous seed chapters. those ended because i no longer had the time to focus on them and, even more truthfully, when the first pirates of the carribean movie came out it pretty much did a lot of what i wanted to do with pirates. kinda like i can never write a zombie tale after seeing shaun of the dead. i still want to finish those chapters one day because i already wrote most of the story in my head and i think it’s a pretty good one, but there is plenty of pirate stuff out there right now that people are doing much better then i can so i’d rather just read their stuff instead for now.

but- i do know these characters. and i know where they end up. which is why i choose to use seed for this excercise. this stream of conciousness tale pretty much falls somewhere between the first story arc and the next. i don’t have any plan for this story. i’m just going to make it up as i go along and draw whatever i feel like drawing for it each day. it should be fun for all of us to see where and how long this eventually goes. :)

also- i realized how much i love nafae and paxhia. drawing them again was like a reunion with two old friends that i abandoned on a coffee table a long time ago. i know they are drawn a bit differently now then how there were before, but this is how i see them now. and also, some time has passed.

okay, that’s it. time for me to get back to work.

drawergeeks this week is werewolves. here’s my super, super quick contribution.

i’ve actually been working on a different one for a while this week but i’m just not happy with it. nor am i sure it’s that appropriate for the theme. i sketched this one just now so i wouldn’t feel left out this week. if i do decide (or find the time) to finish the other one though, i’ll post it on friday.

i can’t always post what i’m doing at work because of copyright reasons and what-not, but this is more for fun. the university i work at has a lion in thier logo. i thought i’d work on creating a character for them…

this week’s drawer geeks was pretty fun. we had to take a child’s drawing of a monster and attempt to re-illustrate it to look like well… a monster. the tricky part of this was to maintain the consistency of the original drawing as much as possible.

the drawing i based mine off of was done by the extremely talented hailey rose smith. she actually drew me fifteen completely orginal ideas that i had to choose from! she’s bound for artistic stardom.

this concept is originated by the amazing dave devries, where you can see him doing a far better job of this then i ever could over at his monster engine site.

decided to add to the new batgirl meme going on right now. i don’t think this color test came out as nice as the last one. which is funny because i spent more time on it. or maybe that was the problem. regardless, i should have just inked this one. ah well.

if you’re curious, you can check out the one i did last year. i pretty much drew the same batgirl. you can also see what this one looks like on a white background instead of the cream (i couldn’t decide which i liked better). there’s all sorts of fun stuff to click on today. :)