smoke signals

Warm-up sketch, sending out my usual smoke signals.

International Women's Day

On my book, today's like every day. Every day I thank the women in my life for existing and for helping me be a better human being. (some men help, too)
But I did this warm up drawing to celebrate today anyway.

Morning warm up

Olé!

Siamese

I had more fun drawing this preliminary sketches than drawing the cat on the actual story, which was just a one page story. Now I want to think of other stories, even if just as short, and make the cat appear again just so I can draw him some more.

Front

TOMBO

Warm up for the day. Pencil with TOMBO brush pens. When we discovered TOMBO pens, we were fascinated by the brush pen, and all the different colors. We bought a bunch of pens years ago. Then we realized they are not waterproof, and if you draw with your hand touching the paper, you're going to make a big mess of your drawing.

We don't use these pens for any professional job anymore (maybe for some quick storyboards), but we still have a bunch and doing early warm up sketches is all I can think of so we don't waste them and throw them away.