Whew! Busy week. I'm struggling at work to illustrate a stadium 20,000 screaming fans, not easy. I turned another year older, spent a few hours with Angie at a life drawing session which was excellent. We also got to attend the DSVC event with Mick Wiggins speaking.
Our model for the ABOSG life drawing session was fantastic. A good model is so important to a successful session. Good poses and the ability to hold them is vital. The class size was good to and the space at Janimation was wonderful. Those guys have a great studio (I'll get some photos up soon).
The DSVC night was a good event with Mick exposing some of his secret methodologies (it's all about papyrus!) and showing a few story ideas that he's never felt compelled to publish. That even was both inspiring and sobering. The inspiration came from Mick's wonderful body of work and candid explanation of his process. The sobering part was the very very real side of the illustration world and how it is a business and a job that we do to keep the lights on and shoes on our feet, despite the fact that we often pine away about longing and art and desire and blah blah blah. So many self-initiated projects (read: unfinished) are started out of love but abandoned out of financial need.
If that's not enough to inspire you, take a few minutes and watch Mr. Kubert talk about his wonderful approach to making comics. His method is being lost and once his generation leaves the scene, everything will be about extensibility and change (dare I say by committee). Quick, get your original art while people still make it. Soon, it will ALL be digital.
Comics Legend Joe Kubert Talks About His Process from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.
In the meantime though, a couple of analog works for you:
A few of my sketches from our life drawing session... 5 minute poses.
The sketch I conned Mick Wiggins into doodling for me in my book (no 37).