Sketchbook: October Girl color experiment...

Quick color experiment on the Cintiq. Still playing around with different approaches to drawing and coloring digitally.

Sketchbook: Shaz from Ashes to Ashes...

Too busy of late to do much sketching, but needed to clear my head tonight, so I worked up a quick digital sketch of Montserrat Lombard as Shaz from the show Ashes to Ashes.

Sketchbook: The 12th Doctor, again...

Another quick 12th Doctor sketch. Couldn't help myself. Again.

Sketchbook: The 12th Doctor...

A quick doodle of the just announced 12th Doctor -- Peter Capaldi.

Sketchbook: Doctor Occult/Blue Devil...

The finished Doctor Occult/Blue Devil piece I've been using as a warmup the last couple of days.

Work In Progress: Yet Another WHO Warmup Sketch...

Another quick warmup sketch on the Cintiq, another random drawing of the Eleventh Doctor.

Sketchbook: Doctor Occult...

Another quick Cintiq sketch, and another DC supernatural character -- Doctor Occult.

Sketchbook: Blue Devil...

A quick Blue Devil sketch on the Cintiq. I've always loved "Big Blue", as Geoff Johns calls him. One of my favorite DC characters.

Sketchbook: Eleventh Doctor, digital sketch...

Another digital Doctor Who warmup sketch in Manga Studio, this time featuring the Eleventh Doctor.

Sketchbook: First Doctor, digital doodle...

Working on a secret comic book script for the last week or so and didn't get a chance to draw much of anything. Did this quick doodle of the First Doctor in Manga Studio this morning to loosen up the drawing muscles.

Sketchbook: Self-Portrait, digital sketch...

More playing around with drawing on the computer. Needed a doodle of myself for a FCBD book my friends Ron Marz, Paul Harding, Jennifer L. Meyer, Richard Clark and I are doing for two of our favorite shops in the area, Excellent Adventures and Comic Depot, so I did this very quickly in Manga Studio.

Sketchbook: Doctor Who, digital sketch...

If you follow me on Twitter, you may know that I've started experimenting with Manga Studio. As someone who has been making comics with pen and paper for 19 years now, the idea of drawing on the computer seems very science-fiction-y, but I'm intrigued by the possibilities.

So.. here's a quick sketch I did while working out what all the tools in Manga Studio do and just generally trying to get used to drawing with a tablet while looking at a computer screen.

And I should mention my friend Doug Hill's excellent Manga Studio tutorials, which helped me every time I hit a snag. Doug literally wrote the book on Manga Studio, and his tutorials are excellent. You can find the first of his 3-part 'webinar' on MS 5 here.

Sketchbook: Eleventh Doctor, Again...

One last sketch of the Eleventh Doctor. I was never quite satisfied with my take on him in the Doctor Who comic, but when you're in the company of guys like Mitch Gerads, Mark Buckingham, and Josh Adams, it's fairly easy to feel inferior. A talented bunch of creators.

Sketchbook: Eleventh Doctor...

A quick sketch of the Eleventh Doctor.

Sketchbook: Batman...

Quick warm up sketch from this morning -- Batman.

Sketchbook: Catwoman

Sketchbook: Shadow Lass

A quick warmup sketch of Shadow Lass from the Legion of Super-Heroes. I've always been a big fan of the Legion. It was one of the first comics I ever read, and Keith Giffen's work on the Great Darkness Saga was an important early influence for me.

Wanted to do something simple and very minimal with color here. I'll let you judge whether it works or not.

Sketchbook: 11th Doctor Headshot

Another quick warmup sketch as I get today's batch of pages going. Still playing with line and shadow on the Doctor's face, and since I wasn't happy with the likeness on yesterday's sketch, I did an Eleventh Doctor headshot this morning to see how it turned out.

Sketchbook: 11th Doctor

Just a quick warmup sketch of the current Doctor. Playing around with a looser line quality in my work. Lost control of the likeness a bit in this, but I still like the piece, in general.

Sketchbook: Abe Sapien

Another quick sketch, and another character from Mike Mignola's Hellboy -- Abe Sapien.