So, it has been awhile. As soon as I start posting regularly and start a new project, real life takes over and backs things up. It seems like the art gods are telling me it is not the time to start working on anything fun. Oh well, it pays the bills.
Some time ago I worked out a storyline years after the original comics. I decided Mig would be an ornery old man with a big grudge. Here is the first concept sketch I drew.
Hope you like.
I spent a few hours last night digging through old art CDs I had. I have not seen some of this artwork in a long time. I found this character I created in 2002 and decided to draw him again, just a quick sketch, on the spot. Here is the older version on the right.
This is not only interesting because of the difference the years make, even though I am rusty, but also the absolute newbie I was in Adobe Photoshop. It was funny to see on a lot of this older art I put affect after affect in, and it doesn’t really help the art all too much. What was I thinking lol.
Of course, I did not have the time to completely ink and color it. I love the roughness a quick sketch brings. I feel the drawing is more organic and fresh seeing all the lines that form the main image. I would love to one day create an entire short 3 or 4 page story like this.
Hope you like the image. Also, last night I threw up the epilogue of Into The Void, one of the first stories of Migrayn. Take a look.
I think I did not know how to draw noses, which is why a ton of my early art had characters without noses. How the hell do they breathe?
I get asked that question often, or did at the time. I do sometimes draw that way still, just when I am feeling nostalgic.
