I just wanted to get this placeholder in until I had a chance to crank out an actual piece. Especially since Henry absolutely killed it with the first entry!
Once I get my piece finished, I’ll upload it in this post and take down this character study. I did this on the back of an old desk calendar page in pencil & ball point.
Page 3 from my webcomic, The Imaginox. Hope you guys dig, you can see more @ http://imaginox.blogspot.com/ or http://dacosta5.deviantart.com/
So this week’s Sketchercise was a scene with three characters from Archie comics: Jughead, Betty and Mr. Weatherbee. I immediately scanned my brainpan for the most fun image I could plug these three into and what came out the other side was…. the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald! I’ll admit my brain is, well, it’s not the healthiest organ around. But anyway, this was really fun and I think the 60’s connection between the characters and the imagery kind of marries up. I tried to spice this one up in Photoshop a bit to give it a newspaper feel. Hopefully I didn’t totally ruin it. Apologies to children and history buffs the world over.
Allright, gang. I gotta admit I enjoyed the groans I heard from one end of the table last night when I announced this week’s Sketchercise theme. Yes, you heard right. Draw three characters in one setting from the Riverdale gang: Mr. Weatherbee, Betty and Jughead. The rest is up to you. Have fun!!! 
Bloom County had an enormous effect on me as a young dude. I used to cut the dailies out of the Concord Tribune and paste them into spiral notebooks where I would practice drawing Bill the Cat in the margins. I might have been the only 11-year old in my school who knew who Caspar Weinberger was. I like to think reading this strip contributed a lot to my skewed sense of humor and general skepticism of authority.
Here I’ve drawn Binkley and Opus as Schroeder and Snoopy, banging out some cacophony on piano. It ain’t Billy and the Boingers but I suppose it’ll do.
Continuing on with the SKETCHERCSE theme sketch project: the first topic is favorite comic strip character. I did this the very day after we came up with the idea a few weeks ago…my favorite, Calvin & Hobbes! (apologies to Mr Watterson of course!) I usually finish things off with ink, but I really enjoyed knocking this one out with an old beat up school pencil during my lunch break. Maybe it’ll see inks at some point…
Now that I have a son the strip is about to take on a whole new meaning for me! It’s a weird position to be in, because just a few short years ago I still read it from the Calvin “perspective.” Now I look for how his parents respond to his adventures and brace myself for what’s surely coming down the pike!
I get the daily strip in my inbox via ucomics.com and I have just about all the paperback collections. I recently picked up the absolute collection for my “library.” As soon as Jonathan is ready he will inherit them and hopefully they’ll entertain and inspire him as much as they did me!
And here’s the inked version brought to you by none other than Sketch Charlotte’s own Eraklis Petmezas!
This week’s Sketchercise directed us to draw our favorite comic strip character. I was positive I’d get beaten to the punch on Calvin and Hobbes (and I did…post it Brandon!), so I decided to go with my other favorite strip, Boondocks. A lot of people might know these guys from the cartoon, but the strip was great as well!
And before anyone says anything, yes I know that Riley doesn’t have the cornrows in the comic strip. Shut up. Heh.
We tried out a new location this week and I think it worked out pretty well. We had a good group of artists come out to drink beer, eat burgers and draw in their sketchbooks. While most of the Sketch Charlotte guys fill their pages with imaginative cartoons or character drawings I tend to draw the people I see so here’s who I saw this evening.
On April 28, 2010, I had the opportunity to hear the late Harvey Pekar speak at Modern Myths, a comics store in Northampton, MA. I brought my sketchbook, as usual, and during the lecture I made some rough sketches. I thought they were pretty undistinguished at the time so I didn’t upload them, but in light of his passing this week, I thought I would share them.
He was 70 when he died. Way too soon.
I had free reign on this one, all that was specified was “Superman related character.” So I went with my favorite DCU villain Darkseid! Prismacolor pens & markers with white acrylic paint spatter on 9 x 12 bristol.
