And Red All Over

And Red All Over

step 4: Pen, marker & liquid whiteout on paper (unfinished)

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What's a zombie clown without blood? The reds balanced out the blacks pretty well. Plus I needed it for the Ronald McDonald vibe.

Black & White

Black & White

step 3: Pen, marker & liquid whiteout on paper (unfinished)

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step 2: Pen & marker on paper (unfinished)

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Worked out the blacks and came in with a Pentel fine point correction pen for detailing.

Marker base

Marker base

step 1: Pen & marker on paper (unfinished)

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For the illustration portion of my Thought Processor submission, I decided to work in pen and liquid whiteout on 100lbs hot compress watercolor paper. Starting with a loose base marker sketch using a Letraset Promarker cool grey, before going in with a fine tip Sharpie.

My Thought Process on the Thought Processor

My Thought Process on the Thought Processor

Pen & liquid whiteout on paper

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Pen & liquid whiteout on paper

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Pen & liquid whiteout on paper

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Here are a few sketches I had made to prep for the Thought Processor show currently at Camion de Pompier. Thought Processor is a project created by Phoneticontrol with Sjors Trimbach's paper toy model. Having made a showing around the states including Ney York City, San Francisco, L.A., Seattle and Chicago. This will be the only showing in Canada.

Le Stumpy

Le Stumpy

Sharpie pens & liquid whiteout on paper

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Sharpie pens & liquid whiteout on paper

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Here's a couple of preliminary sketches to get the ideas flowing when I started work on the Eric Broers "Thought Processor" project. The concept was a 1940's angry French Octopus. Part of why he was so disgruntled was that he had stubby tentacles. On top of that one of them was even shorter than the rest due to a birth defect... Like I said, it was a launching point. I liked how the curly handlebar moustache looked like curled up fists, as seen in some cartoons depicting old school boxers.

Hobo Panda jr.

Hobo Panda jr.

Sharpie pens & liquid whiteout on paper

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Sharpie pens & liquid whiteout on paper

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Sharpie pens & liquid whiteout on paper

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First post of 2011. Quick update with a few sketches and a new Tofucubed logo. Been busy trying to finish up the Thought Processor colorway for Eric Broers's (aka Phoneticontrol) Tho Pro Montreal show at Camion de Pompier. A little less than a month to finish up. Sketches and previews will be posted up once it's done.

New Sketchbook!

New Sketchbook!

Sharpie pens & liquid whiteout on paper

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Was looking for a new sketchbook to do a lot of inking on. Mainly Sharpie pens and liquid white out. Hard to find a good quality sketchbook that doesn't bleed through, especially a small format book with lots of pages. Was told of the Moleskine sketchbook, known for it's smooth, yellow tinted paper which surprisingly holds ink very well. The sketch of Totoro (shown up above) gave it the biggest test so far. The paper did bleed a bit, but not much. So far, so good.