Next Five Exercise

Over in the twitter world Emma Coats aka @lawnrocket posted the challenge of taking a random picture and drawing the next 5 panels.  An awesome storytelling exercise I tell ya.  So here's my take.  I pictured the girl waking up abruptly and then a tendril/vine thing shoots out of the ground.  As she gets up a bunch more tendrils shoot up and she decided to climb one of them.  If I'd gone any further I had the idea for a dragon flying by that she would hop on.  Why not?

Here's the original picture

#nextfive

Comic Bookin'

I've been itching to draw some more comic book pages and took a break between commissions to do a few.  Just a little story showing Wolverine of the X-Men running away from the X-Mansion, gets tripped up, gets mad etc.  Figured I'd throw in a little action for good measure.  These were inked with the intention of doing the backgrounds digitally, so I'll add to those eventually.  Now back to some more painting...

Olivier Coipel

The stuff you see below was done by Olivier Coipel and he's pretty much the best comic book artist out there right now.  Hailing from France with a background in animation.  Olivier's line work will make your jaw drop.  He has a great sensibility for drawing the figure which I admire and he's so great at making everything look dynamic and full of energy.  I've never met him but I've met his frequent collaborator and inker, Mark Morales, a couple of times.  Each time I see Mark I hit him up for whatever pages I can afford at the time.  So far I own 5 Coipel originals and I'm hoping to add some more soon.  Look this guy up, people.

Here's some examples of Olivier's mind-blowing work:

Here's 4 of the pages I own.  If there was a fire, I'd probably grab these first.