Friday, December 2, 2022

Premiere Episode: Drawing Raven

Thursday, December 1, 2022

HENRY CAVILL: The WITCHER's Thorny Path - A Documentary | Life Story

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

The Very Occasional Podcast Episode 3 with Sheydin Dew

Thursday, November 24, 2022

My oldest cat - Tazzy

 Going to see my old buddy Tazzy today. Super glad he's in a wonderful home now. Sadly though Aikido is no longer with us, but I'm sure she's with Lisa and all our other babies who had short but loving lives.


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LG2cTIElwDA


#YouTubeShorts #cats

Friday, October 21, 2022

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Blocking Out Black Areas in a Illustration - Making COMICS and ART 273

When you draw a picture, if its cover art, a pinup or even a panel from a comic book you want it to grab people's attention. Now I've seen with many who use digital tools (Use what you have I say, that's coming from someone how has been using traditional tools for going just past 3 decades.) Time and again line art of drawings where its only just that, lines. Flat lines at that. We can do better. We can add volume and depth, light and shadow. Don't just do what you know how to do, push yourself as well as your skills into areas you may never have before.
When I draw this Aquaman piece I liked the bare bones well enough, but wanted to add a bit more to it.
I wanted to block out some black areas. 

So I copied and replicated the image 6 times. Do this with your next piece of art. 
REMEMBER, the next time you see a amazing piece of art online or in a comic think about it for a second. You think they just magically applied pencil to paper the very first time and went right into inks without even a thought on how it would take shape? Without erasing? Without trial and error??

NO!

The very best artists have used all the art practices you've seen in book s and online over and over again. Mastering them, sure. So the one or even 100 times they went live streaming working on some new art they have already done it both wrong and right so they can even live make it look ever so easy.

Here is a stream I did, making the above piece with my thoughts as I went.


I hope you've learned something new here today. ...or at the very least re-learned not to take the steps for granted.

Keep making art, Peter.

Friday, July 29, 2022

Inking Gaz Gretsky's RETRO - Making COMICS and ART EP251

The Wildcat Anthology is on Indiegogo

 Please consider taking a look at our project. Wildcat is a creation of C.B. Smallwood along with 6 indie teams creating a tapestry of stories with Wildcat being thrown into other genres with a wraparound story by C.B. himself ah la Heavy Metal movie. We are currently at 53% funded and just want to get our book out. ...if you like what you see take a moment to share it out.  

WILDCAT ANTHOLOGY



Kelley Jones Interview Part 1

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Hawk of New York Invades HEROES Con - Making COMICS and ART EP 226

FLASHBANG - A comic in the making! 🔥😍🔥 PAGE 1


I love Cyberpunk (Who doesn't.) This was me creating a story on the fly. (15 videos worth.) I do plan to go back and work out the best story with what I laid out. A project for 2023, got lots of other cool projects coming this year!!!