On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Some of those WIP sketches in Clip Studio Paint I mentioned yesterday:




If the image files don't display properly - which has happened with files I've uploaded to Google Photos before - please let me know ASAP?

I've already given up on the idea of getting a sketch finished per day...and I still want to try for addressing every item in the Inktober prompt list for this year anyway.

Sketch # 2 - "Scurry"

This was the first thought I had for it.

This is still a work in progress. I am not happy with legibiity of the place names, not yet. I've switched most of the labelling over to Helvetica for now, pending a decision on what to switch the labels to.

If you know of any communities and connections that I should add to this map, please tell me!

A bit more progress on this sketch...

Still moving along, slowly...

Preliminary pose work for Local Hero # 1, pencilled back in 2007.

This has been gnawing at my brain for a while now. If a classic Kirby-style Helicarrier is as long as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should the innards look like in a "Master Systems Display"-type cutaway, such as you'll see on the TNG/DS9/VOY-era Star Trek shows?

So I took scans of Eliot Brown's work - other people had put them up years earlier - and started running with them.

The dorsal radome encasing the "island" needs work to make it symmetrical, and there's a lot of work after that to get it to the level of an Okuda or a Hansen...



Note to Disney/Marvel legal staff: If you'd rather, I'll take this down. I hope you'll leave it be, as I need the mental exercise of this project.

So I'll be running a half-table at this event tomorrow:

http://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-ottawa-small-press-fair-spring-2014.html

Hoping to sell books and sketches...

What if the first super-hero in the world was a British ad man?

What if that first super-hero got his origin by way of an experiment gone wrong via courier service mishap?

What if that first super-hero had his attempt to formally go public messed up by a news service's infamous penchant for spelling and grammar mistakes?

Lee Barnett's got a recently-revised theory to entertain you with. He's been serializing it for the past few days, and it'll continue for a few weeks yet: You'll Never Believe a Man Can Fly. He explains some of what's in the works here. You may want to follow along, or purchase an e-book edition as offered at his end of things.

Oh, and one of the illustrations accompanying the text is one of mine.

You might be interested.

I mentioned to mariness that I'd like to get out of my current tax bracket and maybe even have to pay a little extra income tax in future to preserve all those services our various levels of government provide that I consider of High Value and Satisfaction: health care, CBC, search and rescue, the National Research Council, NSERC and SSHRC, national defence, space exploration...you get the idea.

With that in mind, I'd like to remind you that I have these little things I've written and/or drawn, either on my own or in order to contribute to other people's stuff.

I also take commissions for sketch work. As I said on Facebook:

box_in_the_box pointed this link below out to me. As it happens, I don't have any scheduled work right now, just a lot of regular day-job hunting, presents for younger relatives to draw, and some writing on my own schedule. So if anyone wants a sketch, we can talk. I won't draw X-rated stuff, but we can talk. I might even be able to provide a "deliverable" within a month or two at worst...

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/11/28/commission-and-be-damned/