I think I’m finally finished with my piece for the Bureau of Drawers Halloween show. Come check it out on Wed, 10/30 at 7pm, Cafe Racer in Seattle. I’ll be selling 12×16 wrapped canvas archival prints of this (printed as 15×19 and wrapped on canvas).

Prints now available: http://atomantic.deviantart.com/art/Why-Am-I-Bleeding-405122360

Why Am I Bleeding? by ~atomantic on deviantART

Hey everyone, my weekly comics drawing group just released our 3rd quarterly free digital anthology. More on the Bureau of Drawers website.

I just pulled out Sketchbook Pro on my iPad and started doodling with a stylus. My current strategy is to just keep layering and reducing opacity on each previous layer as I go. I haven’t gotten into playing much with the brushes or colors so it’s all pretty simple.

Stage 1:

Stage 2:

Stage 3:

Well, it’s been a crazy week and I missed several days of drawing but here’s what I did just before driving up to Seattle:

A page from the moleskine notebook of Ivan Infinity Ph.D.

There is only one photo of the Doctor, which was taken on a day when he was feeling particularly childish:

a bit of this is also yesterday’s drawing :)

Now on to writing!

Boy, weekends are killer. I’m trying to ramp up my training a bit more and dive into other things besides the Chris Hart Manga book. I’ve got a ton of books to get through but I also want to get cozy with drawing in Illustrator CS5–so I’m going through everything I can find on that. Plus, since I have a Graphic Novel story in progress, I’ve been trying to spend some time reformatting what I have currently in novel format into Antony Johnston’s standard comic book script format using Scrivener (awesome app)–and, of course, finishing the complete draft of the whole damn story. Ah, good times. It actually is really fun to start thinking about the story in terms of comic panels–it brings a whole new feel to it, more cinematic.

Well, anyway, with all that going on I probably won’t be posting a drawing every day but eventually, you should see some sketches relating to my graphic novel, which I won’t name publicly just yet.

Up View:

3/4 View:

Mark Crilley has some of the best manga drawing videos on YouTube.

The trickiest part I’ve found with drawing manga characters (so far) is the hair. He has a couple of videos on this, which I think are worth the watch:

How To Draw Manga Hair: Boys

How to Draw Manga Hair: Curly Vs. Straight

Got any drawing video suggestions for me?