This month at Dr. Sketchy’s we had three awesome models who build their own vintage-style bicycles! And then they pose with them! Lots of fun was had, some great poses with good stories, here’s a couple:
How much cuter could they be?
Also last week, in memory of the great Frank Frazetta, we had a Drink and Draw in his honor at Mission: Comics and Art. We had two amazons posing, and I was drawing with some greats including Andy Ristaino, Dave Crosland, Josh Ellingson, and a great toast by Jack Shen. Some photos of the night can be found on flickr.
A great week of eccentric life drawing. It’s really fun to mix it up with a bunch of other artists and break out of drawing alone! Now back to drawing at my table as I work on the next set of Weird Fishes paintings.
Last week I made it to my second Dr. Sketchy’s, and it was DAVID BOWIE THEMED! Kitty Von Quim and Honey Penny were amazing models, Bowie songs and covers playing the whole time, a very distorted version of lifedrawing sessions we had in college! And I couldn’t love it more. I’m tempted to take some of these sketches into finished illustrations. Here’s pictures (a tiny bit nsfw):
And here’s something that recently surfaced, a video that my friend JFish did at APE last year, and if you’re patient you’ll see me on it!
This Sunday was very rainy and I got to break in my new studio properly and draw all day. Amongst a bunch of comics (you can read yesterday’s page here) and new drawings, I did some cute pinup girls that I’d like to share with you:
This is one of the most pinup-y drawings I’ve ever done, and I’m pretty happy with it! Her name’s Heather, and you’ll see her appear in my comic pretty soon!
I spent the morning catching up on Katie Rice and Luke Cormican’s webcomic “Skadi“, and man, I love the absolute abandon that the comic has, whether she’s killing beasts or going to hell or losing her clothing in the lake, it’s hilarious and a lot of fun. And she’s really, really fun to draw!
Also, last week I did a lot of drawing and coloring at work, and inbetween turn-in times I’d have little pockets of time where I got to draw in Flash. I did a bunch of fanart:
(for Eddie Wright)
And if you want to stay up-to-date on my comic, see my sketches as I do them and possibly even catch some impromptu streaming of me drawing, follow me on twitter @jamdye!
One week ago we had Wondercon here in San Francisco, and I did just about everything but sign books at the show, and so I documented it in my sketchbook as a comic so you know what I was up to. Click the pages below to read!
I’ve been spending a lot of time behind a tablet working in Flash and whenever I’m away from the screen I’ve been doing some giant inked comic pages that I’m excited to start posting next week. The sequel to Weird Fishes is coming along, one page a week. Speaking of which… my comic artwork is currently hanging in the Cartoon Art Museum’s Small Press Spotlight! Really fantastic. We’re holding a reception for it during the Wondercon party at CAM, Friday night on April 2nd. During the con itself, I’ll be at the Ghostbot booth on Friday promoting our animation projects, and I’ll be signing at SLG sometime during the weekend.
A couple sketchbook pages, I’ve getting a lot more comfortable with a brush and really loving it!
It’s been busy!
On February 20th I had my residency at the Cartoon Art Museum. Basically, I brought over all the supplies and drawings that I had out on my desk and set them up at the desk in CAM’s lobby, and got to work. Lots of kids were coming through for a cool samurai cartooning class, so I got to draw for a bunch of artistic kids and their curious mothers, and it was really cute and fun to entertain a different demographic than what you find at most comic conventions. I painted a penguin and a cat and a few other little animal sketches. I even finished painting a comic book page! Many thanks to Heather for setting it up and everyone else working at the Cartoon Art Museum.
This leads me to my next announcement… I’m going to be the next Small Press Spotlight at CAM! What cool people! I’ll get you more info on when my art hangs.
This week I had the chance to visit Barron Storey’s sequential art class at CCA and be a guest speaker. As luck would have it, it was on the same day that David Mack came to speak and show his art! Pretty fantastic to be in the same room with these two legendary artists, let alone speak alongside them! The class is working on some great comics that David and I got to go over and critique, and then it was our turn to put out our comics for everyone to look at and ask questions. It was a great experience, both humbling and inspiring, big thanks to Barron and David for having me there!
Now to finish with something completely different, I recently got addicted to the British teen drama “Skins” and did a few sketches from the show. Great characters and gripping storytelling, and my love for Cassie is a bit ridiculous.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the wonder that is the film “Daisies” but.. wow. Seriously inspired by this little Czech oddity. Good luck finding it, but yes, wow.
Work takes up a lot of the time whether you like it or not, but comic art and writing, painting, and t-shirt manufacturing is in full-swing! Yes, t-shirts! I just put a few up at my etsy store for you to gaze at. I’ve got an assortment of sizes and styles that haven’t been photographed yet, drop me a line if you have a size you want. Alice and I set up shop and have been choosing fabrics, cutting patterns and sewing on patches of my art to these unique shirts. T-shirt manufacturing, it’s cheaper than child labor if you do it yourself!
Last sunday we wrapped up the show over at Mission: Comics and Art. It was a good reception, orange juice was flowing and even some painting got done! Thanks to Leef and everyone who came.
But don’t put away your calendars, on Saturday Feb 20th I’m going to be the Artist in Residence at the Cartoon Art Museum! From noon to 2 (maybe later!) I’ll be working on Weird Fishes in their front reception area, doing my first public-comic-making event. Really excited to get to do this with CAM, they’re great, and you can use this as an opportunity to check out their new BATMAN exhibit! How can you resist watching me work AND looking at Batman art by the likes of Paul Pope? Right, you’re coming.
Plus, if you haven’t checked out weirdfishescomic.com lately (I need to find a way to link these 2 better) the new story is in full swing and on page four already! Having lots of fun plotting out this next one.
I recently saw the interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the Dick Cavett Show and I loved it so much, the way they both looked and the way they interacted that I realized I had to do a painting. So here’s my little painting from a youtube still. This makes me want to do more re-interpretations of low-quality internet stills and camera photos as paintings.
Jamaica D illustrates, animates and creates comics. She is the artist and writer behind the comic "Weird Fishes", a surreal webcomic-turned-graphic novel published by SLG.
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