We Flew Airplanes

New Site!!

2010-11-27T15:37:00.002-06:00

Wow! I neglected this blog for nearly two months! Oops :\

But! I made a new regular blog that has both my comics and will also have a sketchblog on it! I haven't made any posts for the sketchblog yet, but you can check out the other stuff just go to: http://citriccomics.com/ hopefully I'll do a better job keeping the sketchblog there updated if not I'll at least be keeping the journal comics I've been doing in secret for the past year (well year and 20 days since I hadn't posted about it on here until now) so check those out!

I'll probably update this page in a week or so to automatically re-direct to the new site, but for now thanks for reading the stuff on here, the new site has RSS hopefully not too many people are relying on just doing that blogger follow thing.

One more time the site is : http://citriccomics.com

thanks everyone!,
ian

2010-10-09T14:46:00.004-05:00

I don't have a lot of sketchbook pages to post because the two books I've been working in are both going to be mailed out so I want the recipients to see the pages first and make sure they're fine with posting it online. (one of them I'm probably going to post anyways)

Most of this was already posted on Tumblr but a few I forgot to post or didn't feel like they should be, so here they are!

This one is fan art of Toradora! I really liked that show.

This one is also fanart of Mickey Z's Bullshit Frank and Gorilla Joe which is a great webcomic, my favorite one so far is this one. That comic blows my mind.

Also, if you haven't checked in a while, there are probably a couple new comics that you haven't seen that I posted to Citric Comics so check those out! Also, what do you think of that name by the way? I'm thinking of getting a web address soon and hopefully setting up a full site instead of just fiddling with the blogger layout.

I'll have a post with some of the doodle pages I can post in a while, lots of school stuff to do first.

Sketchbook Page 600

2010-09-19T14:23:00.007-05:00

Woo two weeks gone by like that! Time for another post of stuff, maybe I should do these more often so it doesn't take me half an hour to scan and upload everything, but somewhere in here is sketchbook page 600! only 400 more until I need to make a new folder! (or just add a 4th place to the filenames)

first this dude:

And now all these pages without explanations, mostly just in class drawing to keep my mind from wandering

these last few are from design class

that's it for now, sometime next week I'll post the mini I was working on, also since I lasted posted here there are probably two new pages on the comic I was doing a daily panel for, which I'm not doing it daily anymore because of schoolwork, but new pages are still being made as i have time so check there if you haven't recently

What's this?

2010-09-03T17:52:00.009-05:00

Hmm, no talking, gotta get back to work, enjoy, comment below :)

Okay, just one comment, the image above is part of a comic that I'm drawing/posting a panel of each day on tumblr, you can read it there or read the whole pages as the show up on the Citric Comics blog here

oh another note, this was for Mis0happy's diglett contest, which I won! Thanks Nina! below are some other ideas for it.

One more, this was for Phil McAndrew's Mustache contest, which I didn't win but it was fun to do anyway.

Stuff and NEW blog

2010-08-16T18:34:00.007-05:00

Woah, while since last post oops,

first I made another comic:

And drew a lot more sketchbook pages than I have been recently, few studies for the comic show up in these

I also finally collected my more recent work doodles

I'm working on this comic one panel a day, but I'm fleshing it out in my head a lot quicker than I'm working, so I might speed up a bit soon.

And here are the last days of the 30 day drawing challenge:

The last day is all of them together

I also made a new blog that will just be a gallery of all my comics:

Right now it's citriccomics.blogspot.com might need to change that to citricacidcomics.blogspot the double cc is kind of confusing to me, but it already seems too long, thoughts?

Also, does anyone know how to get the default image upload on blogger to be larger? I'd like at least a 600 width for my thumbnails, over half my pics could be here without having to click through.

30 Day Project + Doodles

2010-08-05T16:08:00.008-05:00

Okay, so I'm starting to forget what I've posted here and haven't bear with me if anything is showing up twice I'll edit through soon.

First here are more of the 30 day challenges:

A bunch of digital doodles

I haven't been drawing too much on regular paper, and I feel bad about it I think I should be trying to get more of that done, but drawing with the tablet is a lot more fun right now and doing things with a brush is even more exciting but takes a lot longer so there's not much to show just yet.

And finally more pokémon index cards

A lot of this was already online at tumblr, but I'm going to try to get more sketch pages done so I can update more regularly, there is a lot of stuff I should probably be studying with pencil and paper, so hopefully I can get back into doing it that way.

EDIT:
OH, I forgot to post this:

I made that for Koyama Press
Anne Koyama is having people draw versions of the Kickass Annie logo
so I decided I wanted to do one check them out at KP FB page for more of them

Scribblies and 30 Day reposts

2010-07-26T05:50:00.008-05:00

I don't really have a lot of stuff that isn't already online, I've kind of gone crazy on tumblr so aside from posting most of what I do have there I've also neglected to draw much in my sketchbook.

I do have a bundle of little paintings that I haven't uploaded:

And 3 small sketchbook pages:

A few index cards

The rest is already on tumblr but why not post it here too :D

I was doing these random pokémon teams as brush warm-up which is why there are less index cards, I was hoping to do it everyday, but I got off my inking schedule after the first three and haven't picked it back up yet.

Here are the latest from the 30 days project, I'm having a lot of fun doing these

Here's the original version of that comic

In other news, which may or may not be new, I've been up until 6 am for about two weeks now I can't seem to get off this schedule, I like it but it's also getting kind of weird, I find myself constantly trying to figure out what time it would be if I woke up at 8. Not much else to share right now, I'm practicing something else but I'm not ready to show it yet, I also have 3-4 ideas for short (1-3 page) comics that I need to go ahead and just make instead of sitting on them, especially now that Toothache is finished. The more I think about it that comic is such a downer, I'd love to do more with the character, maybe a continuation that has 2-3 more books and ends up a bit less sad.

I feel awkward about doing plugs, but I am interested in getting more use out of these other web services (especially twitter)
TUMBLR: http://weflewairplanes.tumblr.com
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/weflewairplanes/

TOOTHACHE - a comic

2010-07-23T19:05:00.005-05:00

It's finished!

So this is what I've been working on for the past month roughly, each panel was done on a separate 4x6 piece of cardstock, and at first I was just making different drawings in the cave environment with the character before I formed the story around them and they were pushed to different parts of the book. I'm surprised some of these pages work, next time I'll be putting everything on single pages to avoid some of the awkward page layouts.

I was thinking of making a print version, but decided against it since it's only a 12 page story (including cover) I think I'll make 2-3 more short stories like this and put all of them together before I print anything.

Hope you enjoyed this, any comments would be very appreciated.

EDIT: fixed the last page, had the panels backward somehow .-.;;

Many Directions

2010-07-16T18:56:00.010-05:00

Okay lets start with these two comics I made!

That one I kind of just decided I needed to use that paneled page I printed out so I drew it straight forward and figured it out by the second panel.

This one is deffinetely heavily inspired by Ryan Pequin's Three Word Phrase comics, those comics are so good, jeeze.

Here are the sketch pages, I was watching Two Towers during the first few

I should probably have edited that dwarf out.. yeuch.

Drew these pages during a ustream by nina of mis0happy.tumblr more about that further down in the post though

Some index cards, these are becoming my favorite way to draw.

These last two were from index cards I took to work, and a couple pieces of the printer tape which happens to be index width.

A few random doodling getting my tablet work out that I put off doodles.

This is for a thing that was going around tumblr, a 30 day drawing challenge which you can read about here and this is the tumblr for the person who started it princesssylvia.tumblr I'm going to try to do all of these in that same "lineless" sort of look, as far as I can anyways.
These last few were drawn in a style I learned from nina who I mentioned above, the doodles on her blog are really cute, so I had asked if she drew at size and she explained her technique in this post
I used it to draw some pokèmon and other things
I've been watching Avatar recently, I'm a few episodes into the second season, really enjoying it, I think there is an avatar drawing in the index cards above.

I think that's all I have, I'm almost finished with the longer comic I've been working on (well kind of working on, the last two days I mostly studied cute drawings, I think I'll force myself to either color all the stuff that's ready for it or draw the panel and cover and back and color half tonight and then finish it up on saturday, and somewhere between there get this other comic that I have blocking me up out, that is if I can stop wanting to just draw cute tiny pokemon.

The only other thing I want to mention is this:

I've listened to this album at least twice each day this week, soooo good

There's a bunch of great fan art of her from an IDYS on the Electric Ant Zine Blog which I now wish I had jumped on the last 3 hours when I found it to get a piece in for this.

that's it for now, I had more stuff than I thought

Fragments

2010-07-09T15:55:00.006-05:00

Okay, I haven't posted in a while, but I promise I'm working on something neat, that will be done sometime next week for sure, I wanted it on Sunday, but it's not looking like I'll make it.

Here's another of those 4x6 watercolors, I have about 5 more on my desk but haven't gotten around to coloring them yet.

More Pokemon Doodles

Here's another page from that comic, which I'll try to be doing more of soon, even though I'm not sure where it's going. I think I might need to draw it larger because this was so much stuff to cram into a letter-size page.

These are from a comic that I started drawing digitally but never got around to finishing because they started to look too noisy, and I threw away the words because I thought I had them somewhere else, I may or may not revisit this idea though.

Here are the newest set of index cards:

I also made another 4-frame animation, a dancing Nar from Niko Anesti's GEOWeasel

He's still reposting all the episodes on NewGrounds, so go up vote those if you can, they're some of my favorite cartoons: GEOWeasel.Newgrounds

Oh, also the amazing Michael Deforge made a mixtape for the INKSTUDS blog, and it's totally amazing, check it out here: http://inkstuds.com/?p=2983

I think that's all for now, hope you like these and I'll post that thing as soon as I have it ready.

2010-06-29T14:47:00.007-05:00

Maybe I should pause this book, but I'm listening to Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions right now so I'm not thinking of what to write here.

I watched the first 4 episodes of Pokemon last night, I don't know if I'm going to watch more, but man that show is not how I remembered it, but Pokemon are such silly creatures.

Some more index cards, need to be inking more and making these.

UPDATE:
KC Green mentioned it was draw a dog tuesday today, so:

check out his HERE
You could also follow us both on twitter:
him: @choadmalma
me: @weflewairplanes

I also decided I wanted to make this in honor of Jess Fink's birthday.

She draws the awesome(though NSFW) Chester 5000 XYV
You should check out her blog: finkenstein on livejournal
She's also on twitter: @JessFink

I think that's all, I do like making these 4 frame animations though.

NO IDEAS!

2010-06-24T14:27:00.005-05:00

I don't have as much stuff as I would like to for this post, but I got a new dog and that's distracting me, plus I'm loosing ideas for drawing in general which means I need to refuel on some learning soon.

This first page is based on the awesome James Kochalka's American Elf strip about not needing any ideas to draw: read it here you should also check out Box Brown's and Niko Anesti's

Now for the paper.

Still struggling with drawing street scenes, it's half my perspective drawing understanding is so basic that everythign lines up too well, and half I don't know what to put on half of the stuff, most of what I see is boring strip mall junk living too far in the suburbs.

And here's two more pages of that comic that may or may not be going anywhere:

UPDATE:
Check this out! You might even be better off to go to youtube and watch it in 720, it's worth it:

via @JessFink who is awesome on twitter and her blog: http://finkenstein.livejournal.com

Stuff Stuff

2010-06-18T15:02:00.002-05:00

Just going and going but not getting much done really.
Let's do the index cards first:

These first few have a couple of Night People references, and that one dude is totally ripped from ideas by Micheal Deforge who is amazing: http://kingtrash.com

Now the regular stuff, the colors in these are completely off, but I don't feel like trying to doing the levels myself, just know these look a bit better in terms of color.

If you don't know, GeoWeasel is awesome and Niko is reposting the episodes on NewGrounds, go there and watch them, http://geoweasel.newgrounds.com/

I like writing 610 as the date, but I think it only seems important because I live in (near) Houston.

Umm, what else:

Everyone has probably heard these, but whatever:

SPEEDO!

Actually, Speedo probably has the right idea, never trust a cat in a hat.

This table is cool:

I guess that's it.

I'm going on two and a half hours sleep so I don't know if I'll accomplish anything else today.

Markers and Swords

2010-06-15T15:29:00.006-05:00

I started using my markers a bit more, but on this first page only Night Crawler is actual marker, the rest is digital coloring, that's probably more obvious than I remember.

I finally saw Conan the Barbarian.

I also started playing Dragon Age Origins, so expect more weird uninformed armor.

I watched Lord of the Rings last night and drunkenly drew through the whole thing (wow that movie is long)

I almost forgot these index card doodles, I have around 45 so far, I guess I'll need to get an index card box, I'm not really sure what I want to do with them if I keep it up, I guess I'm not getting that many that quickly, but I don't really need to end up with 6 boxes of index cards I don't look at. Umm.. enough writing I'll figure this out later.

Umm, what else

Oh, this Tezuka short is amazing:

It looks like there are some other ones on youtube which I'll be watching soon.

I guess that's it, I think I'm going to try to get working on a new daily comic, but I'm not sure how I should go about it, I have some ideas though.

Lots of Old Stuff plus some New New

2010-06-08T15:38:00.006-05:00

I guess I'll start with this digital doodling stuff first

I got some 11x17 Tabloid size copy paper, at first I thought it was awesome then I realized that the size was incredibly intimidating.
That's why these are all so akward

More index cards

And since I finally got around to putting them in my sketchbook, here are a bunch of old work doodles, I'm not sure which of these have been posted before, so bear with me.

These next few are the ones I just pulled out of my work book, but some of these are at least a month old if not more.

And ending on a less scribbly thing:

I'm not sure if I'm going to keep making pages for this or not, I just felt like trying a gutterless page, and not even panels, not sure not sure.

Also, I guess I'll mention this again, if you have twitter let's be pals on twitter: @weflewairplanes I keep seeing that Lewis Black stand-up preview raving about twitter, but I promise I won't post about buying shoes (or only once every other year when my shoes wear out completely forcing me to buy a new pair) Later Dudes!

Index Cards

2010-06-05T11:11:00.003-05:00

I've been drawing on this stack of index cards to make sure my brush is doing what I need it to inbetween inking pages, so I figured I'd share the 20 or so I've made so far.

And just some more doodling pages

I have a few more little paintings that I need to color, my staying up until 5 AM finally started taking its toll and I'm sleeping 10 hours a day so I have to figure out what I'm going to do.

Umm, what else

this is pretty cool

This too, although I'm not really sure what the deal is, if it was animated for that or what.

And this is kind of cool,

RZA production is great, but the kung fu is a bit too choreographed which I didn't mind at first but then I started watching clips of Bruce Lee

I guess that's it, I'll hopefully get a lot done and be back soon.

Post 500!! + BOOOOOO-TAE (nsfw?)

2010-05-28T18:37:00.008-05:00

Whooooo Page 500! Although, I shouldn't be celebrating, I should be kicking myself that it took so long, but whatever. Umm lots of half naked lady drawings coming up. I've been looking through Brandon Graham's comix blog, the guy is incredible at making and finding excellent comics check it out: royalboiler on livejournal. Over the last few days I've read through every post up there, and everytime after a few posts I start squealing about how awesome and exciting comics are, so be warned.

Anyways, all of this stuff is greatly influenced by stuff I saw there.

This next one is sketch500.. took long enough.

Now for some digital doodles, just playing around mostly, I should have drawn more dinosaurs. You might have to full view these because I don't think I reduced the size oops.

these two were probably drawn at 8 in the morning after no sleep, so there's that.

And last the morning doodles, which are not drawn when I wake up, but get done at some point even if it's at 3 AM while listening to audio books. I found out my library has online eAudioBooks, so now I'm totally hooked on that, finished Childhood's End last night and started Ender's Game, I'm also hoping to listen to the original Conan the Barbarian stories soon, oh yeah, in the drawings above, the last few were drawn while watching Conan the Destroyer for the first time. Netflix doesn't have The Barbarian on insta-view so I'm having them ship it once I watch or don't watch this Goddard film I picked out for some reason Vivre Sa Vie? What was I thinking, only Arnold movies from now on.

Last I guess I'll put up these two half sheets I was doodling on, these were probably before all the stuff above and less planned. I started watching the Dirty Pair anime, now I think I need to order the Adam Warren comics if I can find them.

Now this is what I want to be able to do, Milo Manara is a master:

Later dudes!

!!Super Late!! Free Comic Book Day Comic!

2010-05-22T12:55:00.006-05:00

Okay, I said I was going to post this yesterday if I didn't start coloring it which I didn't, but my internet was down until late at night so I decided I'd rather do it today, so finally here it is:

Hope it was worth at least part of the wait if anyone was waiting, I don't know. I'm also unsure why that guy is wearing a dokaka shirt, I really probably shouldn't have done that, but I was listening to Dokaka while inking that page and wanted the guy to have a shirt, so yeah.

Also, I decided that, after seeing James Sturms work during this quitting the internet thing he's been doing specifically THIS POST I wanted to make some little 4x6 paintings to put in a photo album too. So here are the first three, I'm going to try to do at least one of these each morning before I get on the internet. I'm not sure I'm set-up to quit completely.

That's all for now! Let me know what you thought of the comic guys!

Whoooooo PRRRRRR

2010-05-20T15:29:00.008-05:00

Okay! Since I still haven't started working on coloring that comic here's some other stuff.

Let's start off with these digital scribbles:
I've been playing pokemon, so I'm wanting to draw them, but then I realize I have no clue what they look like, I don't know who is thinking about my Wooper referencing Qwantz, this whole image confuses me.

I'm happy with Ash and Geodude, and maybe the guy at the bottom, but the rest of this page scares me.

I saw How to Train Your Dragon, finally, really really fun just like everyone said, so I looked at Katie Rice's drawings of the movie, these next few images are obviously influenced by her work, oh and more pokemon.

Drinking and watching Star Wars, sorry.

And last a couple of ink painting things that were fun to make but not that successful.

Okay, if I don't start coloring the comic tomorrow I'll just upload it as the inks only and not worry about coloring it even though I do want to.

Also, if you have twitter, or if you were thinking about getting one, you totally should and we should be pals: @weflewairplanes

That's all for now.

Pen Doodles and Another Animation

2010-05-17T19:18:00.005-05:00

I guess I haven't been doing much drawing the last week, even though I had finals, I did have two days completely open and the mornings on the weekend, but I guess I just let myself mess around and play video games and watch Party Down instead of drawing, so here's what I managed to get out in the last week.

I'm really happy with how this comic about fake pokemon turned out

I'm trying to learn to draw with regular pens, but it's so awkward for me.
My main problem is everything seems so scratchy and so many superfluous traceback lines because they don't have the weight variation that pencils or ink brushing do.

And this Bowie, today I've been listening to nothing but David Bowie and Talking Heads, except in the morning when I left The Authorities playing accidentally for an hour and half while I was picking up schoolwork.
And here is the final animation I did for my basic animation class

I animated the red shirted mannequin, made the annotations and arranged the musical elements.

I'll probably get my school work photographed tomorrow so hopefully I'll post that up sometime then.

I will also hopefully be excited after finally seeing How to Train Your Dragon tonight and will get on coloring that comic I was supposed to three weeks ago and have that up soon too, but we'll see.

Later Folks!

My Animation and Digital Stuff

2010-05-11T13:10:00.004-05:00

So first, I finally got a video file for my first hand drawn 2-d animation, looking at it I should have had a few more frames in the run and probably should have redone that turn around, but for my first try I'm happy with it.

And I've been doodling with my tablet in flash, so here's some of that stuff

I'll upload the paper doodles I have once I figure out where they are, and once I get my stuff back I'll upload everything from drawing I, and I still need to finish coloring up that comic, but now finals finals finals later folks

Blocking Up

2010-05-06T15:21:00.006-05:00

I think I might be about to hit a huge art block wall, so bear with me as these grind to a halt.

I'm not really sure why I uploaded this first one, besides that it was sitting on my desk, this is just a scrap paper I was using to make sure my brush was working how I wanted.

And a brush doodle
These were all drawn while taking a defensive driving course, and the terrible drawings in that course are probably why I can't think to draw well.

I decided I should draw a gnome person a bunch

And some Megaman robot masters who I don't remember what they are supposed to look like.
And Pokemon, which I'm going to be drawing a ton of probably
More Gnome
Then these from history where I decided I couldn't draw anymore

Trying to find something else to draw, I don't know what the hell is going on with that girl on the right
And blocked, all this last page was horrifyingly difficult to draw
So this is where I am now, I need to get back to trying to draw my way out of this hole.

I'm hoping that by next Friday I'll have started and finished coloring the comic I made for free comic book day and I'll post it here then, but that depends upon projects and whether I get my driving record in time which I'm more worried about each day since I think I'm supposed to be a the court next Wednesday.

Anyways, back to drawing.

Free Comic Book Day

2010-05-01T14:12:00.003-05:00

Yesterday was Free Comic Book Day!

I was going to post my comic up here then, but I think I want to wait until I get the coloring done, so instead here are a couple shots of the books themselves. Of course if you're following the twitter you've seen these.

One panel:

The Prototype:

The comics:

I was originally going to print the thing as half sheets of paper, but I changed my mind so I could print more and did them as quarter sheet pages. I also ran my printer out of ink printing these because I thought that it would be less expensive to print everything myself, turns out Kinko's would have been a much better choice.

Once I get everything colored I'll post the book here, I'm not sure when that will be though, lots of stuff to do these next two weeks.

I have 8 copies of the mini left if anyone wants one let me know, I'll also probably print a few copies at the intended size with the coloring to sell so I can buy a new ink cartridge for my printer.

That's really all for now, too much text in this post, back to doodling soon hopefully!

Short Post

2010-04-27T22:25:00.005-05:00

Short post today. Need to finish up a weeks worth of inking I put off and start working on a comic I was hoping to have done on Saturday for Free Comic Book Day.

So here goes:

I bought a new brush pen today, and it's really working out great, so expect more brush doodles, I might have to switch to something slicker than copy paper though it is kind of feathering on these.

Some brush doodles half penbrush half real brush:

And finally, Doctor Who:

That's it for now, more stuff soon, even though I'm working on that comic I'll probably manage to squeeze out a few doodles to paste up soon.

I leave you with this which I stole from who knows, facebook sucks at credits:

UPDATE

A great cover of one of my favorite (at the moment) Daft Punk songs:

Twin Sister - "Something About Us (Daft Punk)" from Ian Perlman on Vimeo.

2010-04-21T01:51:00.004-05:00

So the key to being productive is staying up until 4 in the morning and then sleeping until noon, in this way I've gotten everything I need to done and had time for doodling! Of course this might be because I have a lot less to do than I have in the past few weeks.

Today I got some new col-erase pencils, finally colors other than blue and red, needless to say I went a bit nuts.

I tried to control myself though, so it's mostly just light blue and purple that got added in with great joy, I wish they had given me a violet instead of three browns though.

This was a drawing for class, we were supposed to look at works by 3 artists and do something with the ideas found in one or a combination of their works, the only one I can remember off the top of my head is Robert Longo, who I chose to take my idea from based on this image. Initially it was going to be based on the Charlie Brown Christmas dance scene, but I felt like I was copying too much and even in Bill Melendez's animation, Peanuts is all about the lines to me, so I used that to inspire the poses and just made a non-specific Fleischer-esque dude. This is our only open-ended assignment so I decided I was going to have fun with it.

and here are some little crappy comics, I was going to try to draw 200 comics in a short time span, but I got to three before I decided I didn't have time to do this until summer break.

finally cool videos:

this is amazing

and one more

and then there's this:

okay, that's all for now

Drawings Finally

2010-04-18T23:47:00.002-05:00

Okay, I don't know why I didn't upload these before, I've had a few since tuesday at least

This was a sketchbook assignment from art class, just charcoal study of a spoon, presumably how light reflects on metal, I might take pictures of my other art stuff eventually, it's finally getting to where it's not completely exercise, but there is only a month to go.

I had this in my head all day when I drew that picture of Lincoln above, so I made a comic about it. Obviously this was inspired by Kate Beaton's "Hark, A Vagrant"

And here are some white board doodles, I got this thing at the dollar store so I could doodle and possibly make notes, but mostly I've just drawn on it and then forgot about it.

I'll try to get some new stuff up soon. I'm also hoping to make a comic for free comic book day, I have an idea but it's more dependent upon how much free time I have over the next two weeks.

update:
Couple of things I forgot to post in previous updates, just some digi doodles

video time

2010-04-15T23:48:00.003-05:00

Okay, so I don't have much to show and don't feel like scanning, but I feel that I should update so here are some videos I've enjoyed recently

Anyways, I'll have something to post soon, I thought I'd have less going on by now but I seem to be making trouble for myself.

EDIT

Just a few more:

Memoryhouse - Lately from Jamie Harley on Vimeo.

EDIT 2:

Umm, I don't know how I never noticed this conciously before, but the original Austin Powers soundtrack is really really good.

Cardigans - Carnival

The Lightining Seeds - You Showed Me

Broadcast - The Book Lovers

Sergio/Brasil '66 - Mais Que Nada

Or maybe that's just nostalgia because I loved that movie as a kid. Although I don't think you can go wrong with incorporating Nina Persson into anything

19 Doodles AGAIN?

2010-04-06T22:16:00.008-05:00

More doodles, I'm done with my animation drawing just have to do the backgrounds, hopefully I'll be able to post it soon.

I was looking through Bob Flynn's flickr set the other day.

This rabbit is inspired directly by Bob Flynn's Easter Bunny Story his is much more frightening, I went for cute, I'm pretty sure Bob's is the real one though.

That book only had 10 sheets folded in half no drawing on the back, so 20 "pages" in 2 classes isn't that bad.

I think I stole the top part of this last one from a Bob Flynn drawing too, his stuff is just great.

Check out this amazing cover by Dokaka:

Also, I was looking through my list of music favorites on Youtube and found this:

And another great favorite:

I also have 5 favorites for Bela Lugosi is Dead, so yeah..

Once again, Twitter, I'm still trying to figure out what I should use it for, but add me and we'll find out! http://twitter.com/weflewairplanes

2010-04-03T08:23:00.006-05:00

I had more stuff to upload than I thought, not sure why I thought I needed to delay.

These are from the book I made to doodle in at school.

I'm not sure what I was doing with this last one, just trying to remember what little I read from Loomis I guess.
Now for some Digi-Doodling

These last doodles were so fun to make, and easy to using this website.

The only other thing is, I may or may not be trying to use twitter again. So feel free to check @wakeupairplanes if you're so inclined. I'm not really certain whether I'll keep up with it, but I am using it to follow some cartoonists I like. Anyways, I'm going to do something besides sit here on my Birthday, later folks!

First Walk Cycle

2010-03-30T01:22:00.000-05:00

No sketches, still hard at work on my animation.

, but

I do have a short sample of my first walk cycle ever, (outside of stick figure nonsense from high school in flash)

This is probably a bit slower than it will actually play, and I added 4 more frames. Hopefully when the entire thing is complete the professor will give us a compiled video file, but that won't be ready until at least mid April.

I'll post some doodles tomorrow.

Sketchbook Page 400!! and some Stolen Stuff

2010-03-22T23:53:00.007-05:00

Doodles First
OH look the two shows I've been watching.

This is page 400 in the folder of Sketchbook Scans! Incidentally it's also the last page of yellowed Newsprint I have, I don't know what I'm going to draw on in history class now that this is gone. I do have another pad of newsprint, but it's not horribly old and beautifully acid worn like this stuff was.

Okay so, now for the stolen part, which is just videos other people found, I could say re-blogged, but I do feel like I'm stealing something someone else shared.

This great trailer for Kooky's Return from the dudes who made Machinarium.

via:James Kochalka's American Elf Super Site

This amazing Uke performance by Roy Smeck.

via:Kurdt's Blog: CreativeGarbageDump

This brilliant video from Marlo Meekins about the Albino Werewolf.

via:Marlo Meekin's Blog

and finally this beautiful cartoon about a Cat Named Woof.

viaBrianne Drouhard's blog: Potato Farm Girl

Also This,
Nominee for Best Website Ever

Regular Updates

2010-03-20T12:11:00.006-05:00

These first two should have been in the last post, I forgot to look in the folder.

Here's a little kind of comic.

Also, I'm planning on posting the long comic I've been slowly working on since January online.

I was going to start next week and just put two pages online on MWF but I decided I need to redraw the first few pages first because I started drawing the characters different and the lettering is crap, and my brushwork is probably a little better maybe, so more on that later.

2010-03-17T21:47:00.005-05:00

I'm really going to try to update every 2nd or 3rd day, seriously I don't want to have to scan so many things in a row all the time.

I got a new sketchbook, and this is the first time in a while I paid full price, so I'm going to put as much as I can into these pages.

I started watching Doctor Who, I found out it's on Netflix instant play, except for the last disc of each season. I really like it.
These aren't so much caricature as they are doodles inspired by faces.

And then some digi-doodles, I have a really nice tablet but I've hardly been using it

I would love to use this as the cover for a cd

See you folks in 2-3 Days!

19 Doodles

2010-03-06T15:42:00.004-06:00

Here are the doodles I made the last two weeks.

When I'm in history I want to try and draw relevant things, but there are rarely pictures so I can only draw people I kind of know like Teddy

I finished this sketchbook, and very appropriately the last page was a trainwreck.

Not much else going on to say anything about, I'm trying to find time but I have so much work and school that I'm using most of the time I have off to just relax and read.

I started getting into regular comic books, so I've been using a lot of time on those since it's so far to drive and they're more expensive so I feel like I have to read them each a few times to get a good value. Right now I'm going through the Blackest Night (I know I'm super late), I bought a couple issues of Daytripper and Joe the Barbarian but I don't have the first issues so they're ordering them for me. I read Kevin Smith's Green Hornet, I'm not sure how I like it yet. I also bought First Wave the 10? issue series but I haven't read that yet, I don't even know what it's about. I'm also probably going to try and read one regular ongoing series (because those are all less than 12 issues)but I'm having a tough time picking between Green Lantern and Green Arrow who apparently just had or is about to have something major happen, but I might just go with the Flash instead since he was apparently just brought back after he died. I'm supplementing this with getting everything I can from the library to catch myself up.

You could totally skip that text, it's so boring.

Anyways here are some cool videos:

Björk ♥

This is really old, but it's still great:

This one might be better:

And this is probably the best:

2010-02-19T16:23:00.006-06:00

Wow, I didn't realize how long it has been since I updated.
Anyways, I don't think I'm going to get near as much doodling in during school this semester, two of my classes are drawing classes so I have to draw what we're supposed to, and in English I'm writing all the time, which leaves history and time between for doodling, but here they are.

Here's some of my drawings from my animation class for our first project, we had to design an original character. My write up for him is awful, but I liked drawing these, I don't like coloring with cheap pencils though, but I didn't want the pencils to get mixed up with marker, and digital color wasn't an option.

In other news, I'm working on a longer comic, but I keep running into time problems because I put off doing schoolwork for the last minute. I'm also still trying to figure out what happens next in Elle and Jelle, I printed a test copy of the first part, and it looks nice, but I want it to be a finished story before I try to sell it.

I feel really tired, so I'm just going to post this.

Doodles Again

2010-01-20T19:28:00.004-06:00

So I haven't posted doodles in a while, but with school back in I'm actually doing more. I don't know why I didn't do that many during my time off, but these first few are from that time:

These are from Tuesday, during which I had classes that I could draw in.

I need to stop drawing James Kochalka's Elf, but it's hard when I'm re-reading the comic all morning.

Then just one page from today, classes were more restricted so I drew in-between.
More sketches soon, hopefully I'll have something to share from my Basic Animation Class soon.

Elle And Jelle

2010-01-02T23:15:00.005-06:00

So I've been working on this since early November and going very slowly, but finally I'm finished, this is my first completed (although very miniature and only the first half) comic! It's only half as long as it was intended to be and I took twice as long to do this half, so hopefully I'll make the second part soon and in less time.
Let me know what you think in the comments!

I'm working on a print version for myself and giving away to friends and maybe mailing to some cartoonists to get advice, would anyone be interested in buying one? It'd probably be 2-3$ shipped (in U.S.) depending on how much printing is (it'll be halftone instead of red for the glasses).

That's all fer now folks!

Page Upon Page

2009-12-16T17:56:00.002-06:00

I'm not sure why I'm taking so long between updates, I guess I don't really need to drop a ton of doodles each time, I don't even have that many this time, I haven't been just drawing as much since I'm not in school anymore, I've just been doing the two daily comics, I finally got back in the groove of drawing just to draw on Monday and I started working on my story comic again yesterday, which is almost completely penciled, I just have one spread page and the cover to pencil and I think I have half of it inked already, or close to half, so I should be able to have that up sometime next week. So here are the doodles I did accomplish.

In other news, I found a new addiction:

This song:

And this horrible horrible web comic, that I found by searching for comics about James K. Polk after hearing the They Might be Giants song. This comic is incredibly offensive but in a good way if you're not super sensitive.
PolkOut.com

Anyways, that's all fer now folks!

Yay Stuff x100 Again!

2009-12-01T12:09:00.006-06:00

I meant to update a week ago, but whatever I've been.. not really busy but not completely lazy, just tired.

This next one is #300 in my sketchbook folder, I thought the last one was only a month ago, but now it's nearly two months, so I need to draw more obviously.

these are two characters for my comic about super powers, but they need to be reworked a lot, I haven't actually started on this it's still just an idea, but I like it, I want to make them more generic and suited to their powers though, because they don't really matter anyways.
I like the look of the Manilla scanned, but I hate drawing on it. Also, Kimbo surprise!!

I watched Star Trek again, I really like it a lot. Simon Pegg as Scotty makes me long for a sequel or new tv series.

I couldn't remember what Galactus looked like at all; he kind of ended up as a cross between himself and Akuma from Samurai Jack.
Civil War leaders drawn from powerpoint in History Class, plus a Van Buren!
I was heavily influenced by the amazing Hark, a Vagrant by Kate Beaton. I don't know enough history or English lit to get all the jokes but I love the ones I do, especially the last one on this page, my history teacher is from Tyler, TX.

Finally my Nightmare Theater 1930 fan comic:

I'm still making a daily comic at WakeUpAirplanes.tumblr.com but they're no longer really morning comics, more like late afternoon to almost the next day comics. I also decided to delay putting up my other daily comic until I have more strips done, because it seems like it won't be very good without a large chunk to get introduced. I'm also about to start inking the first part of my story comic, I decided writing a 30 page comic just doesn't work for me so I'm going to do 15 page installments instead which will hopefully encourage me to make it longer than just two issues.

Anyways, that's all fer now folks!

Comics!

2009-11-22T14:25:00.006-06:00

Okay, so my regular scanner doesn't want to connect right now so I'm not uploading my sketchbook pages, but I did use the nicer but slower scanner to start importing one of my ideas.

A daily warm-up comic strip! This one is really crappy looking, I don't know if it was the ink or I was using the wrong side of the paper or the paper sucks or what but the next one was done correctly:

So I'm doing one of these every morning hopefully to get ready for the day and get a little brush practice everyday, I'm hoping they'll be funny, but they might devolve into simple studies or possibly a story of some sort, I don't know I've only made two so far.

If you want to follow these, I'm probably not going to post many on this blog, I set up a tumblr, I'd like to find a way to make a traditional webcomic set-up but I don't know where, so for now it's at: WakeUpAirplanes.tumblr.com

I also wanted to share my favorite videogame song at the moment,

I don't think I ever made it this far in the first Sonic, I'm pretty bad at games really, but I love the music and I like playing when there are other people to play with.

That's all fer now Folks!

A page a day

2009-11-18T17:18:00.005-06:00

I haven't gotten much doodling time in recently, most of last week I spent working on a book report, and when I wasn't doing that I was either going to work or working on music or my other now 2 extra projects, which I'm not ready to post about yet. So just a few pages of sketches from during class the past week. I also bought New Super Mario Bros. Wii which will probably bite out a good amount of my time.

I really like newsprint, it takes the pencils so well and looks really nice.

Last, a couple work doodles.

That's all for now folks, but I'll probably start posting one of the two projects after thanksgiving, it's a daily thing but I don't want to start sharing until I'm sure that I'll be doing it daily, so I'm working on making it a habit and just refining my ability to do it. The other project probably won't be finished until mid-December if I can get to the pace I wanted to be at, but I'm already kind of behind. Luckily it's mostly because I have so much stuff that I have to do besides that and not because I'm ignoring it and putting it off.

Art Slump Broken?

2009-11-11T12:19:00.008-06:00

This first stuff is from Monday last week, before I got swamped with work, school and other projects.

And here are the few blogable results from the block.

It had a lot to do with I just did not feel like drawing at all, so things came out terrible.

The block started to break in history class on monday, luckily

But now I'm out of practice so everything is very awkward and not what I want.
But at least it's becoming fun again.

Besides the Song A Day thing, I have one other project I'm working on, but I probably won't post anything from it until after thanksgiving, until then I'm not entirely sure I'm going to keep up with it, but it probably won't be until next year that I set it up.

I have a couple other ideas, but I haven't started them at all, mostly because I don't really have enough time right now, especially since I took up a job painting the windows at work, which is going terribly since the paint they bought is for decorating glassware I'm pretty certain, so yeah.

Anyways, good news now, an awesome Talking Heads/American Psycho cover:

I never would have thought to put these together, but Miles Fisher does an amazing job.

That's all fer now folks, but if you have a Tumblr let me know so we can be tumbl-buds.

Music Instead

2009-11-05T22:22:00.004-06:00

So I'm not sure what drawings I have that are new and what are worth scanning, so for now this post won't contain any drawings. Instead I'd like to mention this:

I've begun trying to make a song a day; unfortunately blogger doesn't allow audio from what I can tell, so I started a tumblr account: http://wetuneairplanes.tumblr.com/ the first four songs are up, and hopefully I'll be able to come up with one a year. I'm trying to spend about an hour each day coming up with a new song, but we'll see how long I can keep it up.

That's all fer now, Folks!

2009-11-02T13:01:00.004-06:00

Starting off, a few quick Mega Man doodles, I like the way he looks in the first games, I don't get why people draw him taller, he looks a lot better as a short dude. I guess Mega Man X is taller, but he looks awkward to me if he's drawn too tall and skinny.

These were drawn during my Treehouse of Horror Marathon

Then some lazy day of Halloween doodles, with two Geoweasel characters.

Yesterday I watched Die Hard for the first time, and it was great, further proving my theory that Bruce Willis is infallible, but hard to draw.

Finally, enjoy some Dick Dale, I think I'm going to make this my alarm clock starting tomorrow, what better way to wake up.

That's all fer now, Folks.

Friday October 30th

2009-10-30T10:11:00.003-05:00

I watched Tales of Terror with Vincent Price and very awesomely Peter Lorre on Tuesday night, I didn't expect Lorre to show up so that was a fun treat. Decent movie, but more or less just Poe's tales retold with Vincent Price and other actors, it's on Hulu.
Vincent was hilarious as the wine tasting guy, I forgot his name.

These are from lazy Wednesday night listening to SModcast, mindlessly doodling very very slowly.

This page is all I have to show for yesterday, from in class. I need to find a way to not feel so sleepy in government, but it's all stuff everyone should already know. The structure of our government isn't that complicated, the crap that the pull is.
Hopefully I'll have some new stuff tomorrow, although I'm planning on watching the first 11 Simpson's Tree House of Horrors since I bought the first 11 seasons when they were on sale this Summer and haven't really watched more than the the first two and a few episodes I wanted to see again from the later Seasons.
That's all Fer now Y'all!

2009-10-27T16:20:00.004-05:00

Back wit moar:
These first ones are at least a week old and are composited from two seperate pages I never drew more on, they just sat on my desk for a while.

The next are monday doodles during history class.

I'm so glad the sea green really cheap colored pencil I grabbed on my way out the door worked so well on this paper, very surprised.
Then some today doodles during government.

Finally, these are from my DS using the colors homebrew, the lines are done in there and then I colored them in photoshop.
It's not as nice as having my wacom working again, but it sure beats the mouse.
Computer mice that is.
Anyways, not much going on,

This is my new alarm clock song:

That's all fer now d00ds!

UPDATE:
I was going to watch Nosferatu again and try to do some doodles from it, but since it hasn't happened yet, and since I don't know when it will, I'll just post this image I photoshopped of a sparkling Max Schreck. I don't know much about making gifs, but I couldn't find this on the internet anywhere else so I made it myself. Enjoy:

more drawing less excuses

2009-10-25T13:42:00.004-05:00

Not as much stuff as I would have liked to have, but my brother came to town for the weekend, so yeah, here's some stuff though.

Warm-up straight-ahead with a pen I found in the car.

Finally, some work doodles.
Later d00ds.

Woah, late late late

2009-10-22T00:37:00.007-05:00

A lot of stuff to post, but a lot is condensed so let's make this quick:

First some digidoodles, these might be the last for a while unfortunately, I managed to pull my tablet off my desk while standing up twice on Saturday or Sunday and now my computer either won't recognize it, or if it gets moved it disconnects, so :[

I was thinking about getting a new one, but I was hoping to keep this around if I ever get a laptop so I can doodle on the go, I guess not.
Some Stuff

Roky Erikson inspired stuff, that's not really what he looks like, I just guessed off of one video I looked up, but it apparently was just in that video that he had awesome mutton chops:

Now the wonk sets in, these next two were at school, I don't know if I was worried about my history test, but I felt like I couldn't draw at all, the first page on top is actually from two weeks ago, but by that time I was getting derivative:

So I switched to ball point and notebook and just tried to burn it out:
These look better to me now than they did orginally
These next ones not so much:
Which brings me to today:
And today I decided that I wanted some other character to draw, and this is what happened:
That colored image isn't quite how I want her, but it's the most clean although it's also the most boring.

I'm still trying to get more expressions than just boredom, bored and happy, bored and angry along with some better poses, gotta get through the blah.

That's all fer now folks!

Stuff and Such

2009-10-17T12:52:00.005-05:00

This post is the largest in some time, so I will only add brief annotations, plus I have lots of stuff to do today still.

Doodle Doodle Doodle, I realized that I don't draw much super expressive stuff, I mostly just make people that I think look funny but they aren't doing anything funny, I started trying to work some verve into these last two pages, but I don't think it worked out.
This one has a couple Flapjacks and Kimbos
This one is from the sketchbook I doodle in when I wake up to get warmed up, most of the stuff in there isn't worth scanning, but I liked this guy's teeth.
Finally practicing with a real brush and markers for the first time in a while.
Some Digital doodles, also kind of warm-ups:

This Kimbo was painted on my DS on the way to dinner, slightly cleaned and colored in photoshop afterward.

Then a digidoodle cleaned and colored for fun:

Finally, this song has been stuck in my head since yesterday morning:

The Fear // Lily Allen [Uncensored]
by melonfizz

Anyways, that's all fer now folks!

50th Post

2009-10-16T00:05:00.004-05:00

Can't believe it's already here! 50 Posts! Really? I think these numbers are inflating themselves, I seriously can't recall having made that many, I've made maybe 20 since I started again, but before then I had that many really? Okay.

Anyways, more doodles:

These aren't exactly in order, that first one is from this afternoon, but a couple of these are from last night.

Still need to work on not sitting around reading webcomics all day and start drawing from the time I get up.

It would probably work better if I could start getting up before 11 too.

I watched my favourite movie this afternoon, Chris Tucker moves around so much I wasn't able to get a good look at his face, need to work on that, now I really want to just watch more movies with him, but I don't know if I should watch that much Rush Hour.

Couple Teenage Mutant Flip the Frogs

Finally a couple from the lil' dewdull book:

That's all fer now, Folks!

Blah Blah

2009-10-14T16:45:00.005-05:00

Doodle Dump:

These all feel really stiff, need to loosen up the poses.

That guy in the Don't Copy that Floppy video makes some hilarious faces.

These last few I drew while watching X-Men Origins, probably obviously.

Finally, a couple pages from that small doodlebook which I haven't used much recently and two quick oekaki doodles.

Not writing much this time, need to go loosen up poses, need to draw more fun stuff less stiff awkwardness.

Th@s awl fer nao phullks.

Warrior in Woolworths

2009-10-11T15:12:00.004-05:00

First off, a couple really quick unstudied drawings of Manny and Kahn by the awesome Hat Lieberman check out the cartoon here.

I watched the second Harry Potter movie on friday night, and now I'm officially hooked.

The only thing that bothers me is I keep trying to relate it to Charlie Brown, I know everyone wants to pretend to be Snoopy / Harry Potter, but in reality, we're all Charlie Brown, but who is Charlie Brown in this universe?

Is it Ron? Or is it Neville Longbottom? Or is it that guy that explodes things everytime he tries to cast a spell?
I despise Neville Longbottom, I hope he never becomes a real wizard.
A couple Cromartie High inspired badasses:

Finally, a few digital doodles, haven't used the wacom in a couple weeks so this feels like drawing with a disembodied left hand, wish these had turned out better. Need to practice everyday.

Finally, I heard this song the other day, and it's been stuck in my head ever since:

That's all for now, Folks!

Werk Düdels

2009-10-09T00:47:00.004-05:00

I watched the first Harry Potter last night and drew a bit during the movie, I realized I actually watched the second half of this around xmas at my friends house, and I think this is the one we watched in German class, but I don't really remember that far back:

I feel like I'm really late to the party, and wish I hadn't looked up anything about what's going to happen, please no spoilers, I should be caught up to the newest movie by the end of the week or so.

This morning I spent a while doing quick drawings of Flapjack just to get a better handle of what he looks like, most of these are really bad, I didn't spend a lot of time cleaning them up, and it probably would have been better to do some actual construction, but this was still fun.

A lot of those are redrawn from the fun storyboards at Sean Szeles blog then I just looked for clips on youtube to work from.

Finally, some work doodles, I had one more that was probably the only one I really liked, but I don't know who ended up with it.

Those peppers at the bottom are based on this really awful "mascot"-ish thing we have on this e-mail program we have, I don't know where they found it but it's absolutely repulsive:

I would get plastered all the time too if I were him.

Anyways, I shouldn't still be awake, so That's all fer now folks.