Art Thread: E. Spears

[morna]

damn yer getting good ers!

:)

[Mikolaj]

update!


playin' with ink. messed up her arm hardcore.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/girlsketch021606.jpg

did this straight with dipping pen and ink thing. was high for most of it, which explains a lot about it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage021706.jpg

present for my friend Kelly who is deathly afraid of whales, because they're so big.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/whale021906.jpg

to be continued...
Here's a funny tought bout the whole "fuck you whale" piece ( I LOVE IT BTW!!) The "wale family" sound exactly the same as "to jerk off" in Polish! a reason for hour of laughting when I was in secondary shool...
As allways- awsome art!

[E. Spears]

Morna--thanks :).

Khan--haha, I was not aware. thanks!

so finals week is killing me. I officially hate entomology, if only because of the massive amounts of shit to study. and Art Theory, despite it being my favorite class, is goddamn retarded because all the theorists we study make shit that's not fucking complicated into shit that is way complicated and dumb-sounding.

Like "what is a cyborg? blah blah blah, some shit about coyotes, also DuChamp again" FUCK YOU DONNA HARRAWAY, YOU DON'T MAKE SENSE.

gehh. more art later, assuming finals week isn't the end of me.

-ers

[Johann]

again, love that Hills piece.

[E. Spears]

Some images.

Kyle's party.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage032506.jpg
Aragog is the name of Kyle's pipe. We smoked ourselves retarded with it. Bingo was the word of the evening. The guy at the top is my best friend Jake.

Chris holding Kyle's pet snake the following morning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/snake032606.jpg

Still-life from the Utah trip. That's my friend Katrina in the mirror.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/tripsketchB032806.jpg

Everything looked like this on the way to Utah.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/tripsketchA032806.jpg

more...

[E. Spears]

EDIT: other other new stuff is on the previous page, but it's on the bottom of the page, so don't forget to look at that shitz.

Smoking monkey, the result of a lot of drinking and a love for monkeys.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/smokingmonkey032906.jpg

PB and no J, the result of a lot of smoking pot and drinking and a love for peanut butter.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/pb040806.jpg

Just finished reading V for Vendetta. I rarely do fanart anymore, but I just had had had to do it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/vA041506.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/vB041506.jpg

also, photos from the UTAHVENTURE I did this spring break. We saw the Spiral Jetty and the Sun Tunnels. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/d181/myimagehost2/UTAH%20TRIP/

enjoy.
-ers

[morna]

Hey buddy! I was just wondering where you'd gotten to! I really really like the snake one! And the car/landscape with the visor but your friend in the mirror looks like an afterthought (maybe she is) though it may just be that she didn't get ink... or am I reading too much into it!

;)

uh... did I mention that I love the snake one?

[Sparky]

They’re all swanky, but that smoking monkey is the bee’s knees.

Simian General’s Warning: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.

[E. Spears]

Morna--thanks mucho! I think you might be reading into the one with Katrina a bit too much, I just liked the looseness of the pencils to still be in the image ;). Katrina was no afterthought, she was supposed to be there in the first place.

Sparky--thank you, glad you like the monkey. The group of drunken art majors I was hanging out with when I did it liked it a lot, too :).

more stuff eventually...

-ers

[E. Spears]

bumped from near page-death with a new drawing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/katrina042506borders.jpg

that's katrina again. enjoy.

-ers

[Petersen]

holy crap! why aren't you doing comics that look like this?

[E. Spears]

haha, thanks! and probably because of school being crazy busy and me not being that much of a storyteller.

another one kinda like that:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/lightbulbman042506borders.jpg

enjoy.
-ers

[Johann]

some really great colors going on.
esp. on the katrina piece.

good illustration too... do i see some Daniel Clowes influence?

[heavysoul]

Nice linework! I love every piece. The colors are cool as well.

[Tad]

Seriously, you should be at the indy tables at SDCC. Next year for sure. Maybe you can hook up with a buddy who's inspired by your images then feeds a story back to you.

My only suggestion is to keep the story real, about what your life feels like, no matter how fantastic the images. Great, great stuff and the smoking monkey could be a t-shirt.

[Maija]

holy crap! why aren't you doing comics that look like this?Yes, why aren't you? ;)

That cigar-smoking monkey rocks. And the Katrina piece is beautiful. The lightbulbhead guy is pretty neat too.

[gary bolt]

Yay, lightbulbhead guy! He must hate it when that happens.

[E. Spears]

Johann--thanks!! I loves Daniel Clowes, he's got the goods.

Heavysoul--thank you :).

Tad--I'd love to have a table at comic con, I was initially planning on doing it this year, but things didn't play out.

Ruta--thanks muchly! I'm way happy with how the Katrina drawing turned out, she liked it also.

Sir Ed--haha, I bet. I do likes lightbulbs.

another drawing...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/katrinafeets042606borders.jpg

enjoy.
-ers

[E. Spears]

two more.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfportrait050206.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/coachella050306aborders.jpg

enjoy.
-ers

[morna]

I really love the two feet and shadow piece very stylish and a bit eerie too! Keep up the good work - and make comics already! ;)

[E. Spears]

morna--thanks muchly! Katrina liked that one, too (it's from a photo I took of her at the great salt lake during our spring break trip to the spiral jetty).

new one...ended up looking like a frog monster, but that's not what it was in the first place. hurmph.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/monster050306.jpg

enjoy.
-ers

[Petersen]

Love the drawing, love the pallete so far....could use a 2nd color to add some depth.


again...MAKE COMICS!!!

[E. Spears]

thanks...you're you're right about the colors, i might go back and add some more touches to it.

and you know what? maybe I don't really want to do comics! so there! :p

here's one from today...digital, paint shop pro 9.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/bluetribe050706borders.jpg

enjoy.
-ers

[Petersen]

your blue dude is creeping me out....

and it's not about what you want...it's about what your adoring public wants!

[E. Spears]

Petersen - haha, glad blue man got a sweet reaction :). and i might do comics. eventually. but not right now, college is hurting.

i rarely post progress of images, so here's something i started yesterday:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/doodle050706wip1.jpg

edit: more progress. decided to expand the composition.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/doodle050706wip2.jpg

don't know if i'm going to finish it yet, prolly will.

enjoy!
-ers

[gary bolt]

Great stuff, The Cure. I think the expanded composition looks great. The non-expanded version reminds me of this a guy a little bit...

http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/3509285/click2enlarge/999981913294_fester01.jpg

All of the images you've posted recently are great. I love the image of the feet for some reason.

You mentioned school and I was wondering if you could share any of the work you have done for class assignments.

[E. Spears]

Thanks gary! glad you like the feets and the expanded version, but I think the composition was stronger when it was just a bust. I think I'm going to salvage the body for something else in the future, but it wasn't really helping the image.

haha, uncle festor rules! i forgot about him :)

I have some paintings from my painting class, I'll try to take pictures of thems to share. they're all just real quick studies of still lifes.

here's the colors in progress.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/doodle050706Bwip3.jpg

i think i'm going to re-do it in dark browns and maroons, it might look better.

enjoy!
-ers

[E. Spears]

haven't gotten much farther in that other picture, but I hope to finish it as soon as I can. but in the mean time, here's a couple self portraits I did the other day.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfportrait052406a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfportrait052406b.jpg

party hat!

enjoy.
-ers

[E. Spears]

little bit of progress on the lightbulb picture:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/doodle050706BfiguredoneWIP1.jpg

don't know what I want to do with the background yet, I was thinking sort of industrial looking pipes and stuff, but now I don't really want to do that. Something more abstract, maybe.

enjoy.
-ers

[Tad]

You could play with abstract shapes that suggest industrial pipes. Or shapes that are and extreme close up of bolts or fittings.

[Johann]

really like the groove ya got going on the last progress pic. very cool, looking forward to seeing how you finish it.

[TheRonin]

That monster with yellow/orange BG is one of my fav from you, Robert :D
Keep em coming, my friend :)

Uncle Francesco ;)

[Jake Capps]

I really like frog guy, and light-bulb man. Very cool!
*frog guy, and light-bulb man are reg trademarks by Bandit 37*

[E. Spears]

Tad--that's a good idea. I haven't been able to play with that one any more, but I'm going to finish it eventually. hopefully.

johann--thanks! i'm wanting to see how I finish it as well ;-).

Uncle Francesco--thanks a lot! I thought you'd like that one.

Bandit--thank you much. I don't know if you can for real copywrite names like frog guy and lightbulb man, though ;-).

picstures.

birthday present for my best friend:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage052606_jakebdaypresent.jpg

new sketch page:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage060506.jpg

skull thing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/skullbolts060606.jpg

some doodles from english class that i rather like. pretty much nsfw.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/englishsketchA060606.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/englishsketchB060606.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/englishsketchC060606.jpg

666 themed stuff is on the way, it just needs to be finished and scanned. woooo.

enjoy.
-ers

[Johann]

pretty cool all around.. love the skull thing and there are some amazing panels up there.

I can't believe i let 666 do to waste, i didn't do anything satanic at all. :(

[E. Spears]

pretty cool all around.. love the skull thing and there are some amazing panels up there.

I can't believe i let 666 do to waste, i didn't do anything satanic at all. :(
thanks johann!

I didn't do anything satanic on 666, but I did see the Omen and I smoked a whole lot of pot. so that was good.

[E. Spears]

decided to abandon finish the 666 themed stuff, got real bored with it.

so instead i did some other stuff.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/swirlman060906.jpg

pretty much done with this, might go back and clean the background up. maybe.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/doodle050706Bfinishedprolly.jpg

enjoy.
-e

[E. Spears]

long time no update.

i got some sweet brush-pens when i was art-supply shopping wiht my girlfriend (also an art major, super double bonus). Brush pens are the best thing ever invented.

here's the first doodles I did with the brush pens:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/katrina063006.jpg<---that's my girlfriend. she's cute.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/versailles063006a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/versailles063006b.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/versailles063006c.jpg

more...

[E. Spears]

more...

drawings done in the car:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/hellboycar063006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/dank063006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/panelscar063006.jpg

and a self portrait about how I don't like being in front of crowds with a microphone. It rarely happens, but it's something i think about and dread.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/openmic063006.jpg

more...

[E. Spears]

more...

a not-brush-pen drawing, but it's based on a character from a sweet movie called City of God. He's Knockout Ned, who is sweet.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/knockoutned063006.jpg

brush pen girl with swords, and a naked monkey.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/swordsgirl063006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/monkeywang063006.jpg

more...

[E. Spears]

more...

first round of the newest batch, i took more time with these. really getting the feel of the brush pen here.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/mansquiggle063006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/girlcigarette063006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/katrinabanana063006.jpg<--that's Katrina again, at least it's supposed to be. She's real cute.

more...

[E. Spears]

more...

obligatory mignola-esque monkey drawing from me...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/monkeybzzt063006.jpg

mutant zombie
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/mutantzombie063006.jpg

pointy lady
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/pointer063006.jpg

and that's the end, folks. enjoy.

-e

[E. Spears]

more more more.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/claire071806.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/creepyhoses071806.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/creepybubbles071806.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/hallway071806.jpg

to be continued...

[E. Spears]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/oilman071806.jpg

boobies warning (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/baldwoman071806.jpg) (NSFW)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/squiggle071806.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/willard071806.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/katrinapipe071806.jpg<--Katrina again.

to be continued...

[E. Spears]

boobies warning (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/armswoman071806.jpg) (NSFW)

weener warning (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/cowboy071806.jpg) (NSFW)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/baldbulb071806.jpg

boobies warning (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/eyewoman071806.jpg) (NSFW)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/swimswirl071806.jpg

enjoy.
-e

[gary bolt]

Sweetcore bunch of drawings, The Cure.

There's a strength and consistent quality to all of these new pics. I really like the underwater drawings and some of the adult material. Moving away from solid black and white is a good move for the way you draw. There is good energy in the way you fill in dark areas and I like your use of grey marker in the most recent ones.

[morna]

this one's a beauty ers!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/claire071806.jpg

[E. Spears]

gary--thanks!! I agree, playing with greys more is definitely a good idea (didn't do it in the batch coming up, but there'll be more of it later).

morna--thanks muchly :-).

Comic Con. one intense week of partying. Stoned for a week straight, basically. During the entire time I was in San Diego, I was sober only a handful of hours a day. it was beautiful.

and I did manage to get some drawings done while I was there--

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/facesstont072706.jpg<---so high

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/threeeyesfire072706.jpg<---little high

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/gabe072706.jpg<---just woke up

...

[E. Spears]

...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/kellah072706.jpg<---gettin' high

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/evanandchris072706.jpg<---high

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/squiggledude072706.jpg<---stont

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/lightbulbman072706.jpg<---just woke up

enjoy.
-e

[Maija]

I have been missing out on this thread!

This is really good, I love the arms, the depth and the movement:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/monkeywang063006.jpg

This is pretty interesting. You've got a good handle on hands:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/pointer063006.jpg

But this just rocks my socks:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/girlcigarette063006.jpg

Channel more of whatever energy that came from!!! The pose, the gaze, the narrative are really strong. This is brush pen on paper, right? Not digital?

The last couple of images you just posted are really engaging too, but I like the clean, direct style of the stuff I just mentioned (and you did say you took more time with these. That time paid off).

Are you familiar with Philip Guston (http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=88)? Your painted digital stuff like the Hellboy you did on the ArtPad thread really remind me of his work. He was featured in an essay in the McSweeney's comic book issue, which seems quite appropriate. Check him out!!

[E. Spears]

Ruta--thanks a lot! glad you like the brush-pen stuff. It's interesting that you like the girl with the knife so much, I got a comment on deviantart saying it was the best drawing in my gallery. And I actually am somewhat familiar with Guston, we watched a video about him on the last day of my painting class, I really enjoyed his work. It's awesome stuff.

i need to get some more drawings done, haven't worked on anything since comiccon. probably this weekend.

-e

[E. Spears]

stuff from yesterday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/woman080606.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/iwantmoredrugs.jpg<--my favorite one as of late.

Nudity Warning (NSFW) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/girlheadphones080606.jpg)

enjoy.
-e

[Sparky]

Wow, it's like some kinda fabulous art pinata exploded all over the thread! I like the pointy lady, she looks like some kind of religious icon...Saint Gothattaway?

[E. Spears]

thanks a lot, Sparky! Glad you like the pointly lady, she was fun to do.

playing around with colors on "I want more drugs..."
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/iwantmoredrugs080606colors.jpg

enjoy.
-e

[E. Spears]

last update before I crash. got back from a HIMSA concert in Victorville (good bands never come here, so this was intense), and then I finished this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage080706.jpg

it's easy to guess what it's about.

it's about doing drugs. and then there's my girlfriend in the top right corner, cuz she's cute.

enjoy.
-e

[E. Spears]

aaaaand. another.

I don't think this one's NSFW. if it is, don't look at it at work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/floatygirl080906.jpg
enjoy.
-e

[Petersen]

ERS:
The color on 'I want more drugs' is really nice! very subtle. I didn't expect this from you.

And the woman in grass is a great composition. have you ever tried uploading these as threadless designs or opening a cafe press store? I know you said earlier you didn't want to do comics (are you still doing the sketchbook of the paneled non-sequitur images???) Your designs/drawings would make killer tees!

[E. Spears]

Thanks a lot, Petersen! When I did that I was trying to use stuff I learned and tried in the painting class I took last quarter.

I've thought about doing something for theadless. My friend Jake and I always talk about doing t-shirt stuff on cafepress, too. It could happen. I'm still doing the sketchbook with all the pages, I just don't know when yet. probably next summer. maybe.

-e

[E. Spears]

not feeling very good on a number of levels these days. haven't practiced in too long.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfportrait082506.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/goggles082506.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfmaybe082506.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/chrisbday082606.jpg

enjoy.
-e

[Petersen]

Sorry you have been in a funk ERS.

the first one has some real emotional weight.

the 2nd has some great texture and hand gesture

3rd reminds me of Blankets for some reason (that;s a good thing)

the 4th is just dynamite composition


Best wishes to you cause ya know we all want to see more work from you :)

[E. Spears]

Thanks very much Petersen. Never had my stuff compared to Blankets, thanks a lot :).

Finally found the picture of my final project from beginning painting last quarter.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/paintingfinalproject06.jpg
most of the other paintings I did in that class can be seen here if anyone's interested:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/Spring06Paintings/

and something that's actually new. Another self portrait.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfruint083106.jpg

enjoy.
-e

[morna]

ah angst

good for you!
use it
it's the purest source of inspiration I've found


I love your first of the previous batch - very poignant

and ruint ... it really comes across - well done

(and a big hug too)

[Petersen]

Ruint is all sorts of good!!!
It's got black white and grey tones, it's got strong shapes and linework. Bravo!

[E. Spears]

morna--angst is lame. I'm way more pumped about the negativeangst when I go back to school. and thank you.

petersen--thanks! I'm really happy with that one.

another thing. don't know what to think of it yet, but I think I like it. maybe.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/hammerbulb090506.jpg

enjoy.
-e

[E. Spears]

colored ruint.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfruint083106color.jpg

nothing actually new, though. gahh.

-e

[E. Spears]

gots some new ones.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/talktalk091206.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/cactus091206.jpg

AC ID (nudity warning) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/AC091306.jpg)NSFW :)

as it turns out, Talk Talk is a band. huh.

-e

[Conundrum]

Robert- Unique stuff. LOVE the partially self-censored piece. That is VERY well done.

[E. Spears]

Beau - - thanks a lot. i'm really proud of the AC ID peice, it's one of the few times I'll do something that has some sort of meaning and isn't just random shit thrown together. hahaa.

more stuff later, prolly.
-e

[6are54]

WOW! I love your stuff! It's really neat.

[E. Spears]

thanks 6are54.

only one new thing. haven't even started classes and riverside's keeping me busy :/. gahhh.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/handsface092506.jpg
i'm not sure if i like it yet. i screwed up a lot of parts, and there's nothing new in it that i haven't already done a hundred times before. blah.

-e

[Tad]

Been a long while since I clicked in. Great stuff. You sure you're not interested in comics. Maybe there's a soulmate out there with stories to tell and no one to draw them.

Fantastic seeing the growth.

T

[E. Spears]

hey tad! thanks a lot, glad you think I'm getting better. I don't know, comics don't have the same appeal they did in seventh grade. I haven't wanted to tell a story in a while. That might change, though.

nothing new yet. soon.

-e

[Petersen]

Seems like most of your imagery wants to tell a story. It may not be some grand tale of intrigue, romance, epic battles, or triumph and torment...but it says more than what is presented at the moment in the image.

[6are54]

I'll write for you! Your strokes are amazing.

[E. Spears]

Petersen - - hah, I never thought about any of my pictures like that. cool. I still might change my mind as far as comics go, It's just that at this very moment in time, I'm definitely not focused enough to make a story. Too much of too many different things, and at the same time not enough of other things. nutty.

6are54 - - thanks. I'm not really looking to collaborate with any writers right now, but I appreciate the offer :).

see what I mean about being unfocused? the new page didn't work out so well.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage092806.jpg

blah.
-e

[6are54]

thats cool, I'm not really a writer anyways..:p

[E. Spears]

word.

another page, this time it's a solid page of self portraits (more self portraits). I'm so vain.
Every picture of a guy with long hair and shitty chin-hairs is me. I do a lot of self portraits at this point.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage092906selfportraits.jpg

more later today or tomorrow. I've got to recover from excessive partying at the moment.

-e

[E. Spears]

new thing. went in a different direction than the last one (not a piece about me).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage100306.jpg

cool info about this one--

The caption is the title of the opening song on the self-titled album by the band Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound of Riverside, CA (where I go to school).

I put it on MySpace, and the band (JMTSS) saw it and liked it (they've already expressed some admiration for my stuff), and asked me to do some art for their next album. I'm real pumped.

here's their band's myspace. Their new stuff is pretty sweet, it's real mellow and atmospheric mostly. the album they have released currently is kind of like a mix of Norma Jean's album Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child and Converge's album You Fail Me. pretty cool stuff.

yay.
-e

[Neil Hill]

Very cool stuff Cure! I see shades of Troy Nixey as well as some independent (some might call them alternative) cartoonists whose names aren't currently jumping to mind. Great work my friend! :)

[Petersen]

ERS,
you could format most of your previous work for Threadless (tee-shirt design contest) and see what happens. Since you refuse my pleas to do comics, perhaps you would endulge me in entering this??? :)

http://www.threadless.com/

[E. Spears]

Stygian - thanks a lot! I've never heard of Troy Nixey, I'll have to check him out.

Petersen - I've been kind of leaning that direction. I'll probably put something on threadless (or actually do something t-shirt wise with my friend like we've been talking about) soon. Thanks for the encouragement.

new stuff - -

nudity warning (NSFW) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/bumsnakes100506painted.jpg) :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/firehead100906paintsadjust1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/glugghead100906.jpg

all three are kind of experiments.
enjoy.
-e

Some cool news--since

[E. Spears]

another new one, digital from start to finish this time.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/headsplode101006.jpg
bleargh.

-e

[E. Spears]

new stuff.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage101306.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/smokehead102006.jpg

bleargh

[6are54]

no, not "bleargh"..WOW.

[E. Spears]

thanks 6are54. The bleargh wasn't a reference to the art as much as it was a sound I enjoy, but I appreciate it ;).

No new art yet. I haven't had a chance to finish any art in too long because of midterms and school and craziness. and the parties, been busy with those, too. Really, it's just the parties, I've dropped out of college to pursue a life of debauchery. My friends and I are going to begin manufacturing drugs so that we can sell them on the street and make a ton money. It's going to be great.

Art soon, maybe like tomorrow.

[TheRonin]

Freakin' awesome, Robert :D You are developing a very unique, refreshing
style :) Keep it up, my friend :D

Cheers,
Francesco

[E. Spears]

thanks a lot Francesco :), I'm glad you're digging it. I'm enjoying the direction my work's going, as well.

something new - drawing of my friends Jessee and Kelly, the other members of the totally awesome death metal band DEATH ADDER (http://myspace.com/deathaddermetal)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/deathadder110606colortest2b.jpg
yup.

[Johann]

wow, love the death adder one, would make a great Tee. (to jump on petersen's bandwagon.)

[Sparky]

They're all awesome (as usual), but I like Pantsless Zombie Beatnik With A Fishhook* best.

*If this wasn't the name of a Frank Zappa album, it should be.

[E. Spears]

Johann - thanks a lot. It might actually end up as a tee, my buddy and I are thinking more seriously about making some badass shirts.

Sparky - thanks much. I'm really happy without how that one turned out. And Zappa FTW.

a new thing:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage110906.jpg

not digging it as much as open (mouth) radio and bitch is the snake, but it works.

and some progress shots of another new thing:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/bugeyeslightbulbsetc111306WIP1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/bugeyeslightbulbsetc111306WIP2.jpg

mroe to come.

[gdeo]

great stuff man..cannot wait to see more.

[E. Spears]

thanks a lot, gdeo.

here's some more.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/bughed111406.jpg

finished...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/bugeyeslightbulbsetc111306.jpg

yep.

[Maija]

Once again I'm playing catch-up on your thread. The "Bug" piece is cool. I hope you're going to colour it up.

The piece that you cut down for your avatar is fantastic! Are you doing any paintings on canvas yet? I could see you playing around with oils with great effect. Or encaustic, with an underpainting of black and then you cut a drawing into the wax to reveal the black underneath.

[E. Spears]

Thanks Maija. I don't have any plans to color Bug, but you never know. I haven't done anything on canvas in forever, not since my beginning painting final from spring quarter. I'll try to pick up the brushes again during my upcoming break. I used oils, I enjoyed them very much.

new stuff. woo.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage120606.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage121006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage121206.jpg

mmhmmm.

[Nate Higley]

I really dig the "lightbulb head guy" on the last page and the mask guy in the 8th panel. Nice design...

[gdeo]

Robert-your line work is great!!!

[dogboy443]

Your work reminds me alot of what was published in Steve Bissette's Taboo. That's an anthology of the macabre dating back to the mid 90's originally published by SpiderBaby Grafix. Hit your local comic shops that might have older inventory and check it out.

Mark

[parrish]

I really like those last pages you posted. Is that something you're going to publish?

[E. Spears]

Nate Higley - Thanks a lot! I enjoy lightbulbs.

gdeo - Thanks muchly!

dogboy443 - cool, I'l look that up. Thanks for the tip.

LoJo Fan Club - Thanks. Yeah, I intend to publish all of the pages like that, just don't know when yet.

Nothing new yet, art-wise. I'm finally back in the desert to relax for my winter break. Wooo. Hopefully I'll get something done in the next couple days that I can share.

[absenter]

robert, the work presented here is very inspired and interesting and really quite good. the best part about this thread (other than the artwerk of course) is watching your style develop and coalesce in some of the later pages (e.g. .5 skeletor & the death adder graphic) into some truly exellent stuff.
Keep it up. And Cheers!

[E. Spears]

absenter - thank you very much! I appreciate the encouragment, and I'm glad you see improvement--usually I'm too close to the work to really see if I'm getting better.

I haven't updated in forever because I haven't been drawing, actually. Been really busy with school and during xmas break I was, more often than not, in a chemically-induced state of being that was not conducive to drawing anything worthwhile.

In all the not-practicing, my inking skills (the little I had that worked for what I was doing) went out the window, my hands are too shakey to keep a straight line, and all of a sudden, the paper I've always bought has started to let my pens (admittedly sharpies and brushpens) bleed all over, which hasn't happened before. Bleargh.

Since inking is, at the moment, out of the question, here's a few digital pieces that I recently.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/selfportrait011806.jpg self portrait (my hair is not actually that straight, but it looked good on paper)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/thereisnohelpcoming011806.jpg self portrait (i'm the one with the lightbulbhead)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/whiteface012006.jpg robot (robit)

indeed.
-e

[E. Spears]

new page.

Dirt rock love, lots of luck.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage012807.jpg

[6are54]

oops double posts sorry

[6are54]

ok, I'm honest here when I say I am not for one fraction of a second kissing ass. But, you and Ivar are my favorite artists on the board and are so damn talented its amazing. Love it love it love it.

[TheRonin]

You are like the wine: you just get better an better the older you get :D

Great and original stuff, my friend (and nephew ;))

Cheers,
Francesco

[howyadoin]

Hey, haven't checked into this thread in a long time. Good to know you're still at it, man.

[E. Spears]

6are54 - wow, thanks a lot! You're going to give me a big head, putting me up there with Ivar ;)

Uncle Francesco - Thank you very much! I appreciate you popping in with encouraging words. You are the best fake internet relative anyone could have. (:

howyadoin - yeah, I'm still at it. Scribblin and scribblin.

newwwthing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/scytheman020306Orange.jpg

[parrish]

That's a nice piece. I like the crown's in it.

[E. Spears]

Thanks parrish. Glad you like it.

No new pieces yet. My brain has recently imploded upon itself from consuming an exorbitant amount of illicit materials. I'm going to try to get some more things done in the coming days, as well as post the few photographs I've taken for my Introduction to Photography class.

[Sparky]

My brain has recently imploded upon itself from consuming an exorbitant amount of illicit materials.

Dude, careful with that stuff...fry your brain and you'll end up as an insurance-claims processor somewhere in Poughkeepsie, drinking bad coffee at your desk in a strip-mall storefront with beige carpet and fake ficus trees and one of those "Hang In There, Baby, Friday's Comin!" kitten posters on the wall. The fluorescent overhead lighting will flicker and buzz intermittently all day long. Bzzz. Bzzz. Bzzz. You'll sit there listening to "lite-rock" radio and scribbling in the margins of the Yellow Pages with a chewed-up Bic pen, but all you'll be able to draw is Garfield and Kilroy. Bzzzz. Bzzz. Bzzzz. Every once in awhile the secretary will find you hiding behind the water cooler, chewing on your tie and having psychedelic flashbacks. Don't let this happen to you!

That last pic you posted is great -- looks like he's limbo-ing under death. Ooh, DEATH LIMBO...now there's a band name.

[Maija]

Whoa man, you're talent is getting so hot--don't wreck it! :eek:

Your self-portrait is fantastic. The inking is really tight. It has been neat to see that skill evolve. The colouring on the lightbulb guy is great except for those red and green rectangles. I don't think they add anything and the green especially kinda kills the palette. However the colouring on Death Limbo is tasty. I love the composition too.

[howyadoin]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/scytheman020306Orange.jpgBrilliant. Just brilliant.

[Petersen]

I have to echo the sentiment of both how your work has gotten better with almost each post, and concern over the drug use.

The control of your compositions, linework, and color usage (wether you think it's controlled or not) is something I would hate to see deminished.

[E. Spears]

Sparky - Thanks. For the record, I will never be stuck listening to lite-rock radio. Death metal for life! PS the "Hellboard" shirt you made last summer is one of my favorite shirts still :)

Maija - Thank you! I'm not entirely sold on the colored rectangles in the lightbulb-head self portrait, either. I'm really happy wiht the way 'death limbo' (as yous guys've decided to call it ;)) turned out, too.

Howy - Thank you kindly.

Petersen - Thanks much! Actually I feel more in control of how my artwork turns out than I ever have in the past, colors and all. The painting class from last spring really really helped me with that.

I appreciate the concern about my silly drug habits, but nobody needs to be worried, for reals. I have grades to keep up, and that is my number one priority, so I never let my weekends get in the way of what I have to do.

Thanks once again everyone, and I'll try to scan my photographs from class soon.

[6are54]

I've been on more drugs than a East Hastings prostitute.
5 years straight of poly-toxicomania
I'm not using drugs anymore because I simply lost interest and I can't afford it anyways.

Plus, most ppl on drugs are annoying. It seems so silly today to think I use to waste my time that way.

Then again, if I hadn't...I would not be the person I am today. I love myself today. It's definitely opened doors to me. (I'm not talking about flaky hippy spiritualist crap.)

I don't tell most people because it makes them react and in turn makes me uncomfortable...especially when they are being caring but to me it seems a little none of their business or even condescending sometimes.

I'm lucky because I never had a severe addiction
But most of all, thank god I was also high on art all that time.

One thing for sure, sucks for your health.

sorry, I shouldn't talk bout that stuff in your art thread. just giving you a different perspective. :)

[E. Spears]

6are54 - I don't mind. I appreciate the perspective. I haven't taken anything like the stuff you mentioned before your post-edit, though. You must've been out of your mind in those days ;). Heh.

For reals, nobody needs to be concerned. I was joking more than anything my post on the last page. I'm no dummy, I don't do (terribly) stupid things.

I would have photographs scanned, but I had to turn all of them in yesterday to the teacher to have them graded in whatever way he intends to go about doing that. Instead, I have a drawing (doodle?) I did.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/blues021207.jpg

I almost want to paint over it on the computer. We'll see what happens.

[6are54]

hahahah! Damn, you caught me...I thought that was too hardcore..so I cut it.

cute sketch btw

[E. Spears]

Thanks 6are54.

Sorry for the lack of updates. Here's some of it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage022807.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/memouth031507.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/closer031907.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/11dicks032407.jpg

Couple self-portraits in there. Enjoy.
-e

[morna]

nice! I think I tried to post about the death limbo guy - I'm one of the many who love it - mmmm orange and turquoise! diggin' the sp's as well keep it up!

In other news I've decided that if I'm gonna call myself an artist I'd better get drawing so I'm commiting to do one a day as long as I live (or I lose interest whichever comes first) I'm REALLy hoping i'm out of practice and not just a talentless hack 'cause so far so not so good! sigh

[gary bolt]

Hey, fresh stuff! That's what's been missing in my life.

These are all great. I think I like the top one the most. Light-bulb-head-guy is a favourite recurring image you use. Plus there's tentacles, a monkey, "the Trudeau salute" and lots of ink. If you ever make a sketchbook I want one.

I was looking at the last couple of pages and read some of the concerns over you playing with drugs but you don't seem like you're much at risk to me. I think it's possible to explore that stuff safely and even learn some things about yourself.

[6are54]

Wow, always weird and beautiful.
Your art reminds me of this band...The Wipers..know them?
Maybe it's cuz they're always playing in my earphones when I'm checking out your work.
Anyways :)

[E. Spears]

Sorry I don't respond often. It's inconsiderate.

Morna - Thanks muchly. I hope your drawing a day project is continuing, it's excellent practice and it's good times.

Gary - Thank you! I'm glad you like that panel page, I'm real pleased with the results there. I will make a sketchbook, I will I will I will, I just don't know when. But it'll happen. And that is exactly how I feel about the d r u g s, too.

6are54 - Thankees. Never heard of the Wipers, but listening to them would probably remind me of the Wipers, too ;).

Nothing new yet, as school is very demanding of me (plus last weekend was 4/20 weekend). I'm working on a few different things at the moment, when I get them all done I'll put them up and share them. Probably before the weekend, and if not then I'll never post again, because this weekend is Coachella festival, and I will surely perish before its end. Yay!!

[E. Spears]

I guess I survived Coachella. Right on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/whiskeyinhell032407.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage050107.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/JD050107.jpg

[Tad]

Man, ers, it is amazing how good you've gotten.

And yet, I assume you still have no desire to do sequential art. Damn. Our loss.

Keep it up. Glad you survived Cochella AND 4/20.


Tad9

[Petersen]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/JD050107.jpg

This piece is out-frigging-standing!!!!!
WOW. Love the pose, it's looseness, the inkwork is perfect!

[Neil Hill]

Well, there's no denying that you have something here. Unique your vision may be, but it still crackles and demands attention. What's interesting to me is seeing your style (somewhat akin to Craig Thompson me thinks) with little nibbles of Mignola and even Guy Davis showing up here and there. I suppose one way or another artists are always going to reflect their influences, regardless of how subtle that reveal may be.

[E. Spears]

Tad - Thanks a ton! I don't know how good I've gotten, but I'm glad you see improvement. I'm interested in doing comics, I just need a story I can really get into. The junk stories I come up with myself barely hold my own interest.

Petersen - Thank you! That one was a lot of fun to do, cool that you think it works (:

Neil - Thanks! Those three are all definitely influences on how I work, Mignola especially. They's good at drawin'.

I don't usually show works-in-progress, but here's one I started today.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/killyou050307progress1.jpg

I intend to work on it more through the weekend.

[E. Spears]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/killyou050307progress2.jpg

more progress.

[E. Spears]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/killyou050307blue.jpg

it's done now.

[E. Spears]

a new page. I'm really proud of how this one turned out. I think it's more focused than the previous one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage051807.jpg

Let me know what you think.

[TheRonin]

Really cool psichedelic stuff, Robert :D
I especially like the dude with the bottle and tentacles from the previous page :)

Cheers,
Uncle Francesco ;)

[E. Spears]

Thanks much, Francesco.

Sorry, no real updates for the moment, I've got a few things halfway done but nothing complete. School's nearly out, which means every teacher watns to give us lots of work. yay.

I got some sweet news last week, though. Back in February I submitted almost twenty things to UCR's annual art and literature publication Mosaic, hoping that maybe one of them would see print.

Last week I got a letter that I won the Mosaic Award for Art, which makes me awesome. Eventually they'll send me 150 bucks. I'm getting two pieces printed, which makes me the only art-submitter that's getting more than one piece published this year. So yeah, I'm awesome.

These are the pieces that are getting published:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/girlcigarette063006.jpg

This second one is the piece that got me the award:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage121206.jpg

So give me a high five.

[Sparky]

CONGRATULATIONS!

You deserve it - both pieces are fabulous.

Also, you rock.

Oh, and HIGH FIVE

[E. Spears]

Thanks very much, Sparky. I'm pretty excited about them getting published.

More art soon.

[gdeo]

great job Robert...congratulations bud!!!!:D

[Tad]

Great news and you deserve it. Keep at it.

[E. Spears]

Thanks Gdeo, and thanks Tad. Tomorrow's the book release party, hopefully it's actually printed, because there was some question about whether it would be ready for the Thursday of the last week of instruction. :eyesrollingoutofhead:

Nothing major to share, but Facebook's got this graffiti application that lets you draw on peoples' profiles. It's pretty snazzy. Here's some stuff I've done there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/688d0c7b9850b2554120416c3651cd98_58.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/76f41b8da8fd18f3b8c675a2744bd8e0_58.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/94f8e7933b76d842561a3dae5fb6f3fd_58.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/2a7280095ba64b5c9a4ad9cc213bf107_58.png

mmhmmmm. doodles.

[absenter]

150 Clams!? Well deserved congratulations sir! Drinks are on you!:D

[E. Spears]

Thanks a lot, Absenter! I'm afraid I won't be able to buy the drinks just yet, they don't send me the check until the end of the month (award money is late, the book's not even printed yet...this year's Mosaic crew stinks).

new page. mmhmmm.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage060807.jpg

mo'o'd'same.

[Hellsaint]

Rob, great stuff!!

let me at the Mosiac crew!!! LET ME AT THEM!!!

[E. Spears]

Thanks, Hellsaint.

new thing...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/biteslice061907.jpg

yup.

[E. Spears]

doublepostforthewin.

[Hellbaby]

Cool stuff, boss! I like your style. Very macabre. :D

[E. Spears]

Thanks, Hellbaby. Glad you like it. (:

I don't have anything new to share yet. I'm finally on summer break, so I've been sleeping, and doing little else. I'd forgotten how hot it gets in the desert, but I'll take the dry heat over the humidity in Riverside any day.

I only get another week off before I get shipped to Fresno for a two week course on making comic books (did you catch that, Petersen and Tad and Maija and anyone else who's been buggin' me about comics? I'm making comics this summer). I get three units of general-ed credits for it, and at the end of the two weeks there's an exhibition of all the students' work. I'm kind of excited, but I'm a bit put-off by the six-day-a-week schedule and the 9am-7pm classes. :/

It'll be an adventure, either way.

Word up.

[gary bolt]

Thanks, Hellbaby. Glad you like it. (:

I don't have anything new to share yet. I'm finally on summer break, so I've been sleeping, and doing little else. I'd forgotten how hot it gets in the desert, but I'll take the dry heat over the humidity in Riverside any day.

I only get another week off before I get shipped to Fresno for a two week course on making comic books (did you catch that, Petersen and Tad and Maija and anyone else who's been buggin' me about comics? I'm making comics this summer). I get three units of general-ed credits for it, and at the end of the two weeks there's an exhibition of all the students' work. I'm kind of excited, but I'm a bit put-off by the six-day-a-week schedule and the 9am-7pm classes. :/

It'll be an adventure, either way.

Word up.

That course sounds great (except for the schedule)! For art-snob points you should refuse to use the word "comics" and substitute "sequential art" whenever the opportunity presents itself.

[morna]

.... I'm finally on summer break, so I've been sleeping, and doing little else. I'd forgotten how hot it gets in the desert, but I'll take the dry heat over the humidity in Riverside any day.
I hear ya!
I only get another week off before I get shipped to Fresno for a two week course on making comic books (did you catch that, Petersen and Tad and Maija and anyone else who's been buggin' me about comics? I'm making comics this summer). I get three units of general-ed credits for it, and at the end of the two weeks there's an exhibition of all the students' work. I'm kind of excited, but I'm a bit put-off by the six-day-a-week schedule and the 9am-7pm classes. :/

It'll be an adventure, either way.

Word up.


Woot! That sounds awesome. We're going up to Atlin in a few weeks and the schedule will be similar... gruelling but fun - and productive. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

[Hellsaint]

Woh... Nice!! Good luck to you guys! :)

[Tad]

On behalf of all of us who nag you...

:D :D :D :D

[E. Spears]

ok...

I haven't had a chance to set up my scanner and scan the pages I did for the class, but I'll get 'em up soon. Promise. The course was awesome, by the way. Spain Rodriguez and Trina Robbins were our instructors, and a couple other cool people showed up and lectured, including Terry Zwigoff (director of Crumb and Ghost World).

At this point, I'm back to school in Riverside. The first week of summer school just finished, which makes me happy. I might get to go to a party tonight, which makes me more happy. I can't wait for fall classes to start, though - - I have two studio art classes and a couple other classes I could live without, but the art classes are what's to get pumped about. Intermediate painting and intermediate photography, I'm so excited. I'm gonna get my camera to the shop for a tune up to fix a light leak, then practice takin' some photos. I think I'm gonna do color photography, that seems like a good challenge.

While they're not the pages I did at the comic class, I have a couple other things I did after it was over. More of the same, I suppose.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/emilysketch071707.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/emilysketch071707BW.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sketchpage072007.jpg

That last page closes "The Second Year", the third chapter of the book-of-not-comics. They've kind of organized themselves by years in college, so I can't, in good conscience, start printing them until I'm done with 4 years at UCR. I'd feel like I was jumping the gun. I'll get some other shit printed in the meanwhile, I promise. After the comic book class, I've decided that I really want to do comics again. I just got so pumped up about them.

And I got my copy of Mosaic, the school art and literature mag I got an award for. In the table of contents, they screwed up the name of a piece from "All Systems Say Go" to "All Systems Go", and while they got the title right on the actual page, they cut off the bottom half-inch of the image, removing a bit of my signature and the bottom of the subject's shirt. Grrrr.

mmhmmm.

[E. Spears]

so. here's the pages I did. The quality is super terrible because they're scanned from the pages in the little zine it was printed in.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/heavy080807small1.png

this next one's the third and last page in a little story. two guys are wandering through a forest, and on the last panel of page two a voice from off panel says "Did you bring the piece?" And now you're up to speed.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/thepiecepagethree080807small1.png

and a little doodle I did yesterday.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/treesprerna080807small1.png

check it outz

[gdeo]

cool stuff as always,my friend!!!

[E. Spears]

Thanks a lot, Gdeo! Glad you dig it.

Here's a little doodle from yesterday evening...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/scarydude080807small.png

mmhmm.

[gdeo]

your line work gets better and better...keep it up;)

[E. Spears]

Thanks gdeo.

[E. Spears]

I've been somewhat of a ghost lately. My life's been pretty crazy, but everything's normalizing finally.

DRAWINGS!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/sixdollarsapound030908_lowrez.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/chainsaw_strangle_030908_crop_lowre.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/atthetable031308_resized.png

Yep.

[gary bolt]

Yay! I was wondering when we'd get to see more of your drawings. They have a bit of a wood-cut feeling to them, especially the bottom one. Thanks for sharing!

[TheRonin]

Great to see you are still kicking butts, Robert :D

Keep kicking! :)

Cheers,
Uncle Francesco

[Maija]

Holy shit! I can't believe I totally missed the comics stuff you posted last summer!!! That must have been when I was backpacking. I can't get over how your art has evolved. Wow. Your style reminds me a bit of Dylan Horrocks (http://www.hicksville.co.nz/) yet it's totally your own thing too. A lot of artists get going by aping someone else's style but yours has been yours from the start. I'm so glad you're making comics (well, back in August anyway! :p)

I hope you won't be a ghost so much and you've got more stuff to share!

[morna]

Kool stuff as always ERS. Thanks for showing us!

[E. Spears]

Gary - thanks! I got the woodcut comparison on that piece a few times now.

Uncle Francesco - Many thanks, good sir.

Maija - Thanks. Well, there was that time when I was doing little more than ripping off Mignola, hah. That Horrocks guy is way sweet, I've bookmarked his site for further exploration.

Morna - Thankees. Thanks for checkin' it oot!

This is a new doodle thing. Playing around with some new ideas. I've got an idea for a thing, I don't know what it is, but I've been trying to solidify it in my head.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/doomnotescomp032708resized.png

[TheRonin]

That would make a perfect cover for a book or sketchbook, Robert :D

Cheers,
Francesco

[E. Spears]

Thanks Francesco! Hopefully I'll put it to use as such a thing.

Follow-up to that one on the last page with some suckers sitting at a table.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/atthetabletwo032708resized.png

mmmkay.

[Kees_L]

Hi E. I've been peeking thru your stuff here and must say I really like where you're going. The pages work really well although the two feet is/are my favorite.
You sticking with your drawing would be a good thing.

[Tad]

Geez, it's been awhile since I checked in here. Wow. It is amazing how good your work has gotten. I feel like I'm going backward in my own stuff. I appreciate the solidity of the dudes sitting around the table. A rough style but with real anatomy and perspective. Congratulations on the growth!

[E. Spears]

Kees L - Thanks a lot, man! I will continue, don't you worry.

Tad - Hey! Many thanks, good sir. I still remember what you said to me when we met at comic con--"Choose a line, pal!" Or something like that, haha.

New thingy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/hahanosferatu041208resized.png

Yessir.

[E. Spears]

I found a pile of drawings from last summer I didn't scan. I'll post 'em as I scan 'em.

Here's one I did of my friends Dave and Farfi I did when I was visiting them in Berzerkeley. One of the ones from last summer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/daveoncouch_small.png

Aaand here's a new thing. Stockticker!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/stockticker041308resized.png

Word.

[gdeo]

your line work as always...rocks...love the hands in the last piece...i always have trouble drawing hands..great job

[fitzroy]

Loving the Stockticker, solid stuff as it's become over the years. Good stuff

[E. Spears]

GDeo - Thanks man! Hands are hard for me, too. They take me forever.

Fitz - Thanks a lot. Glad you think so. (:

[Maija]

Fantastic stuff! I love the suckers at a table, and the foreshortening on Tickerheadgirl is awesome. Really outstanding stuff.

[E. Spears]

Thanks a lot Maija! Glad you think so.

Another thing from summer 2007, from the mystery block of time where I wasn't posting. It was originally going to be a lot longer, but I lost steam on it when I left Berzerkeley, and it never got finished. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I know it did at the time, I was really excited about it, but there you have it. Oldy to me, newy to you all.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/AlmostCatharsis1-3_042108_small.png

And here's a...uh..a new thing. Woo! EDIT: Apparently, the tiny dick in this picture violated some terms of service at Photobucket, so here's the censored version. :rolleyes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/suit042308_censored_resized.png

[morna]

...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/doomnotescomp032708resized.png

Oh man! I love the bottom panel of this page. What a gorgeous sense of light and weight. It's really just delicious!

[Kees_L]

violated some terms of service at Photobucket, so here's the censored version. :rolleyes:

Edit: the following of my impractical joking I reject : [ Man, kick that bucket :cool:. ] and replace it by:
Man, them bucketheads oughta watch their bottoms. The boldness in your work should never be for taming!
Nice one (the pic I mean, or most of it anyway :wink:) Will probably miss the Man-E-Faces avatar though.

[E. Spears]

Morna - Thanks a lot! That one was fun to do, drawin' myself in bed.

Kees - Hah, thanks man. That avatar didn't even have my face in it, it was just people in a band I like. What did you say originally?? There is very little one can say to me that'll offend me, short of calling me a Nazi. That would be over the fucking line. ;)

Here's a couple things.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/Spawn-Forum-Art-Project_050908_smal.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/SweatshopComixTeeth050408_WIP15_sma.png

So, I wish I had more new art to post. I've been drawin, even been doing some comics, but my new scanner is having issues. I'm gonna try it on this other computer I have, once I install all the drivers on that one. I wish it was working, it's huge--it can scan up to A3 sized stuff (about 11x17) without a problem. The only things I managed to scan on it before it starting having issues are these pages I've already shown, but this time not looking like crap. The pages I did for the comic-book workshop I did last summer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/HEAVY_bigscan_051608_small.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/ThePiecePage3_bigscan_051608_small.png

Word.

[E. Spears]

And a couple pages I did a several weeks ago but forgot to post here. Awesome.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/WH_p1042608_small.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/WH_p2042808_small.png

Word up.

[hellboyone]

This is really good stuff.

[gdeo]

loving the line work,bud.dramatic and moody.cool stuff,my friend!!!

[Kees_L]

Kees - Hah, thanks man. That avatar didn't even have my face in it, it was just people in a band I like. What did you say originally?? There is very little one can say to me that'll offend me, short of calling me a Nazi. That would be over the fucking line. ;)

Cool, I thought it was blokes with possibly you being one of them and Bill Murray aged 31?!
What I said was just 'kick that bucket' - referring to Photobucket and their no tiny peckers policy. Then I thought the remark could be regarded as not so nice.
Since starting my art thread I'm thinking of shopping for an A3 scanner but I have always thought it'd be above my budget, so I have yet to check one out. Also I'm far from up to speed with all the cool tidbits like a wacom(?), advanced Photoshop and such. (I kinda thought working digital only cool as an extra tool and when its invisible in the result. You do digital do you not? - And I think your lines and panels are sweet so you [may] have opened up new worlds for me!)
Anyway, hope you get your new setup sorted, and the new art as cool as all this already (and indeed nothing looks the least bit gunky in the scans - Mine do when made to fit in a post but I try something Fitzroy(?) said: up the dpi's and downscale the pic).

[TheRonin]

Hey Evan, you gotta be one of the most imaginative people I know :D

Keep'em coming :)

Cheers,
Francesco

[E. Spears]

Rick - Thanks man, glad you think so.

Kees - Haha, Bill Murray was in there, too. I do a lot of my drawings digitally, yes. This is the scanner I ordered (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WKSZ5A). It's the most inexpensive one I've seen. I got it to work again, it was my computer that had the problem, not the scanner. It works really nicely.

Francesco - Thanks a lot. I really appreciate that.

[Kees_L]

Cool. Thanks for the info input and keep up the awesome.

[E. Spears]

Couple of things. The first one's a forgotten page from the comic-book-workshop last summer. I'd forgotten about it entirely until I discovered it buried in a big folder of random stuff. The second one's the first page of a thing I'm working on. I'm inking pages 2 and 3 right now, it's going slower than I anticipated. This'll be the thing I put in Sweatshop #4, which is coming along smoothly; the other two people puttin' stuff in it have given me most of the work they want to put in it, so that's sweet. It'll be featuring a few little comics from me, a story with a cliff-hanger ending from my buddy Aaron, and a prose short story that by my buddy Jake, who's also going to Hellebration 2008 with me. Yay!

I might put this in Sweatshop, since it's not seen print before. Nothing legitimizes a publication quite like a poop joke.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/eateateatpoop_summer2007_060108_1_s.png

Page 1 of "Go to Hell". That's perspective not even a mother could love.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/GoToHell_p1_061308_highcontrast_sma.png

Word up.

[Kees_L]

Word indeed.
Love the 'Doo doo existenz' page. Love the 'let's not step on one another no? (for it'd prove our immediate end)' page.
Love it. You seem on fire off late :wink:.

[E. Spears]

Thanks.

So, school's back in session (I'm taking this semester at VVC instead of UCR, but I plan on going back there in the spring). I got a job as a tutor in the Writing Center, too. I've been drawing some, but not doing a lot of scanning. When I get get some time I hope to share some more.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/The_Cure_Spawn_Project_061608_ink_s.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/Selfportrat_061608_b_small.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/81908_p1_small.png

[MarisaSmith]

So, school's back in session (I'm taking this semester at VVC instead of UCR, but I plan on going back there in the spring). I got a job as a tutor in the Writing Center, too. I've been drawing some, but not doing a lot of scanning. When I get get some time I hope to share some more.

:biggrin: I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Spawn one!:biggrin:

BTW, where/what is VVC?

[E. Spears]

Thanks, glad you like it. VVC is the community college in the high desert, which is where I'm living at this point. I'm taking a break from UCR for a little while.

[Kees_L]

Coolz like Potsy, E. Especially the 'turnoff / turnon' and 'happy beers'. Am I wrong to think they're fully non-digitally rendered (not that digital would be less)?
Anyways, 'High Desert' has a ring to it, may it treat you, honorably.

[MarisaSmith]

Thanks, glad you like it. VVC is the community college in the high desert, which is where I'm living at this point. I'm taking a break from UCR for a little while.

Oh okay!
I had a few friends who went to UCR, but I'd never heard of VVC. (Then again, most people have never heard of my undergraduate college).

Taking a break is almost necessary these days. Especially with the work pile that stacks up with classes. Honestly, it's more work than I've ever had in any of my jobs.

Hey, it gives your more time to practice your talent.

[E. Spears]

Kees--Thanks! Yeah, the "Are You Serious?" one and the beers page were done on paper. The Spawn drawing was done digitally. The high desert is actually my least favorite place in the world, I hate this town so much. I escaped for almost three years, then I got sucked right back in. It's like a fucking curse.

Maria--It does get pretty intense. I don't have much in the way of down-time, though--four days a week I get back home after 9:00pm, and when I'm not working the writing center or in class or doing homework I'm either eating or sleeping. I've gotta work some time at the gym into all this, too. It's probably not a strenuous schedule by any real standards, but after two weeks I'm already exhausted. I'm not pumped that this school works in semester rather than quarters--16 weeks of this sounds like no fun.

Oh woe is me! :tongue:

[E. Spears]

It's not finished yet, but here's a strip about a ninja and some pirates on VVC campus.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/Episode1_pencils_100508_resized.png

I got my first regular gig making comics in my journalism class--they're being printed every two weeks in the school newspaper starting next week. My editor and I created the story and characters, but I'm doing most of the writing and all of the illustrating. I'm pretty excited.

I'll have this finished for reals by Wednesday night--that's when it's due. Deadlines are a drag, but at least they ensure I get something done, right?

[Kees_L]

Deadlines are a drag, but at least they ensure I get something done, right?

Looking sweet. Deadlines are no drag, they rule. Like you said exactly.

Could you maybe draw out (in a sketch or panels) how the high desert sucks for you, for me? I think it might be good, for me, for you, even for this High Desert.
Looking forward to your reply E. :cool:, kind regards ~ Kees L.

[E. Spears]

You know what, I might just do that. Just for you. If anyone else asks me to do something like that for them, I'll have to say "hell no, you're not Kees L. Get out." When I get a chance, I'll do a little thing like that. You need to see why it's so shitty.

INKS INKS INKS!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/DMFN_1_inks_forweb_100608.png

It'll be in color soon (it better be or my editor will have my head!). Get excited?

-E

[Maija]

Holy crap! While I've been missing out on your thread HISTORY has been taking place! Congratulations on the regular gig! Many fine strips have had their beginnings in student newspapers.

[E. Spears]

Thanks a lot Maija. :)

The colors were published today. My editors don't know how to resize an image to save their lives, so it ended up being squished vertically in print. :( At least you all get to see the real and not messed up version.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/DialMForNinja_Episode1_forweb2.png

And here's a silly thing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/Goodness____by_erspears.png

Eek!

[gdeo]

soooo very cool,man...truly inspirational...between you and rick...i'm totally bummed at my lack of skills....great job,bud!:biggrin:

[E. Spears]

Thanks man, I appreciate it. I've been waiting for you to update your art thread dude, I like your style! That super angular Hellboy is bitchin', and the black paper and colored pencil drawings are excellent. Draw moar!!

[The Lobster]

Cool! From another Evan to another Evan :tongue:

[E. Spears]

Thanks, Lobster! Not enough Evans out there, if you ask me.

I'm currently pencilling episode 2. I've been bugged by editors and readers about the lack of dialogue in the previous one, and my editor said it's not wacky enough, so I guess it'll have dialog and be wackier. :tongue:

[gdeo]

dude..i think that your storytelling is strong enough and really doesn't need dialogue....but i can't wait to see and read it!

[E. Spears]

Gary - Thanks much. I should have it up by Friday.

[E. Spears]

Can you delete these posts, Jnapper?

[E. Spears]

Can you delete these posts, Jnapper?

[E. Spears]

Can you delete these posts, Jnapper?

[E. Spears]

Ultra delayed multi-post. WTF?

[E. Spears]

More for delete.

[E. Spears]

deleted. nao.

[E. Spears]

deleted deleted.

[E. Spears]

pffft deleted

[E. Spears]

no no no nonn nononononono

[E. Spears]

dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb

[E. Spears]

Ultra delayed multi-post. WTF?

[E. Spears]

Ultra delayed multi-post. WTF?

[E. Spears]

Ultra delayed multi-post. WTF?

[E. Spears]

Here's a new comic thing, but not the new comic thing I'm supposed to be working on. Uh oh!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/10-21-08_forweb2.png

[TheRonin]

the multi-ultra-delayed posts helped to build the tension :biggrin:
Low the raw-ness of this page :) What's you are supposed to be drawing instead?

Cheers,
Francesco

[E. Spears]

Thanks, Francesco. I was supposed to be drawing episode 2 of Dial M for Ninja. I got it in just in time. It's the comic strip I'm doing for the VVC newspaper. It's pretty silly, I like it a lot. I'll put it up sometime soon.

[Kees_L]

Uh oh!
Teriffic stuff. Love the rendering, great sound effects. This is not my new job interview I'm not aware of, is it? :biggrin:

It's pretty silly, I like it a lot.
Good to hear. You are very to the point.

[E. Spears]

Thanks a lot, Kees. Glad you like it. Nah, it's not a job interview--just my anxieties manifesting physically!

Episode 2 of Dial M for Ninja? Maybe??

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/DMFN_Episode2_inks_web.png
#_#

[gdeo]

Very cool...very funny.great job!:biggrin:

[Kees_L]

Superb!

(Even if, with a mouthful of broccoli, that'd sound like 'soup-burp'.)

[E. Spears]

Thanks Gary and Kees, much appreciated.

[morna]

hey ERS! Good to see new stuff. How's school going.

(me, I'm in a bit of a slump since my show.)

Your ninja panel remends me of a dream I just had - we were on a big boat with trees and plants and archer fish in a barrel and all kinds of species of things and crazy-ass science equipment. We were about to get troubled by pirates ( the modern kind that just look like guys) when I woke up. We were probably going to be OK as we had more guys and the crazy ass science equipment and stuff.

k, see ya

[E. Spears]

Thanks Morna! School's alright, just so damn slow--I'm not at all used to the semester schedule. I'd we're in week 10 and I'd be effectively done by now if I was still at a school on the quarter system.

That's an intense dream--maybe you need to make a comic out of it!

I just finished the thumbnails of the next three episodes of DMFN. They make up the Space Viking Trilogy. Get pumped?

[TheRonin]

These ARE a fun read, Evan :D

Cheers,
Francesco

[E. Spears]

Thanks, Francesco! I finished the thumbnails for the last three pages a couple days ago and I should have the next page done by the end of this week.

I've been busy with the band I just got into. I'm re-learning how to play saxophone and we have a show this coming Friday! Eek!

THE GIFTED

http://www.myspace.com/moregiftedthanyou

[E. Spears]

Episode 3: The Space Vikings Cometh!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/DMFN_Episode3_forweb.png

-E

[The Lobster]

Alas! More dial M for Ninja! Great stuff!

[Sparky]

Nice!

Naturally, the sound ninjas make is "wokka wokka wokka". :)

[TheRonin]

HAHA! You can't get cooler than Ninjas Vs Pirates Vs Space Vivkings!!! :D

Cool to hear you play sax too :)

CHeers,
Francesco

[Roblin]

haha! you gotta love space vikings!

/rob

[E. Spears]

Lobster--Thanks! I'm enjoying the strip, myself.

Sparky--Of course. :wink:

Francesco--Gah! But I have to find something that's cooler for next semester! Oh noes!

Roblin--Thanks a lot. :smile:

New strip! Whoo hoo! It's due in an hour!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/DMFN_Episode4_Inks_forweb.png

[E. Spears]

The final installment for the Space Vikings Cometh!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/myimagehost/DMFN_5_forweb.png

It looks like I'll have a lot on my plate next semester at VVC. The instructor for Journalism wants to split the publication into a newspaper and a magazine. It looks like I'll be art director for the paper (which means I get the logo I want, fuck yeah) and I'll be a really big part of the magazine. Judith (the teacher) wants DMFN to be in the magazine, which'll be monthly, and it'll be in four page installments. She and the new Editor in Chief want me do to political cartoons twice a week, as well. It's gonna be hairy, and that's just for ONE class! :eek:

[gdeo]

final instalment...What?!!:eek:
very nice,bud...i love it!:biggrin:

[Kees_L]

It looks like I'll have a lot on my plate next semester at VVC. The instructor for Journalism wants to split the publication into a newspaper and a magazine. It looks like I'll be art director for the paper (which means I get the logo I want, fuck yeah) and I'll be a really big part of the magazine. Judith (the teacher) wants DMFN to be in the magazine, which'll be monthly, and it'll be in four page installments. She and the new Editor in Chief want me do to political cartoons twice a week, as well. It's gonna be hairy, and that's just for ONE class! :eek:

Congrats man! Your DMFN rocks big-time, which also means you can obviously handle 'deadline delivery', which will be the root for all mag or newspaper publication. So it's nice to hear you're being appreciated.
Also, I can see you pull of great political *gags / gaggings* as well, especially if your educative executives promise it'll be hairy :smile:.
(Please remain yourself 'tho amid all this succes :biggrin:, shiny shoes with tassles will look stupid on anyone...:biggrin:.)

[E. Spears]

Gary - Thanks muchly! There might be more of this next semester, it all kinda depends. I might do a comic that I'd enjoy more, because ninjas and pirates are actually a little played-out, even for me. We'll see though---I have a sweet story written involving these characters, so maybe I'll stick with it.

Kees - Thanks. Hopefully I can stick with the deadlines. I'm really excited about being doing the political cartoons, especially given that we're getting a new Editor in Chief, who it just a way cool dude. I'll try to not let it all get to my head, Kees. :wink:

[gdeo]

YES!(fingers crossed)
great job again..

[TheRonin]

HAHAHA! The shark definitely adds extra cool factor to the cool
pirate/ninja/vikings trio :) Great conclusion and congrats for the "promotion" and
new gig :) Don't screw it up ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

[E. Spears]

Thanks guys, really.

Gary - It looks pretty likely that I'll be using DMFN again, don't worry yourself. ;)

Francesco - Thanks a lot, I definitely intend to not screw it up.