Strip #3 - Speechless... They have no speech!

I had no idea what I was going to do after that first panel!

I'm drawing these straight down with the brush pen with no preliminary pencil drawing... very tricky! But a good exercise!

Also noticed a little thing... the drawings seem to get slightly worse as I progress across the strip! Weird! I guess the first drawing is easiest because it doesn't have to follow anything!

Strip #2 - Hat's Nice!

Hmm... not sure about this one... I fluffed the last panel with poor drawing... ah well.. onward to Tuesday!

(Mental Note: Don't do this whilst sorting other stuff out!)

Strip #1

I've decided to be completely unoriginal and copy this guy and do a tiny little comic strip each day... Just make it up as I go along...

This one was done using a Pentel Brush Pen but I'll get myself something less cumbersome to draw with this week...

Anyway, it's not very funny and not very well drawn but it's a fun experiment!

Elephantuses!

Some silly elephants drawn in pencil and then inked using a Pentel brush pen! These are a page in my sketchbook that I have inked over...

This is a great way of practising and getting used to the brush. It's really satisfying and almost meditative! I have coloured one of the elephants to see what it would look like... However, these aren't great drawings or inkings but just a bit of practice, I suppose!

Also, as I have been trying to learn Spanish in fits and starts for a while now, it was nice to find this brilliant podcast called Notes From Spain by an English guy called Ben and his Spanish wife, Marina. It's such a cool insight into life in another country. This month they are doing another podcast every day called Notes In Spanish to raise money for a sponsored motorbike trip across India... Anyway, more info can be found on their blog here:

http://www.notesfromspain.com/

So I recommend it heartily and I've added a link to it on the right... over there! Look.. over there! sigh!

Hasta luego!

Garbutt-ered toast!

http://www.arenaworks.com/Artists/ChrisGarbutt1.html

Like this guy's stuff! Fun!

AtomFilms - Learn Self Defense

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Check out Chris Harding's wonderful short! Great timing and colour and drawings and oh... well... everything!