Hey Everybody! Here is the Motley & Harv comic page I started on my Comics & Manga Workshop Livestream (still available to watch in the Videos section or YouTube). It is part of an upcoming comic. More pages to come soon!
Looking forward to seeing what you all are creating! Any summer sequential art projects planned?
-Mees
Which artists first inspired you to create?
Growing up as an only child I often had to find constructive ways to entertain myself that my parents approved of. Reading comics and comics-related books fit that bill perfectly! One family friend gifted me the above book, A Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics and my life was changed forever. Inside this hefty tome was a treasure trove containing artists whose work I still aspire to. The ink mastery displayed by three in particular set the bar particularly high, Will Eisner, Wally Wood, and Walt Kelly.
Eisner
Wood
Love the references - that Smithsonian comic book looks great!! And love your examples from your sketchbook. I would always steal the full-page Sunday comics from the newspaper when I was a kid, and I would draw copies of them... I had a soft spot for Marvin, and Garfield of course. TBH my first person to inspire me to make art was probably Lisa Frank 😜 I'm a '90s baby, what can I say. But also we had such great talents in my family - my grandma was a great hobby painter + crafter; my aunt was a theater director + seamstress + pianist + voice actor (super creative), so I always was amazed when I would spend time with either of them. I think that planted the seeds for creativity.
Here is a short comic I wrote and illustrated from Don Simpson's recent Megaton Man: Multimensions anthology.
Drawn traditionally with point liners, color brush (black), and colored in Procreate.
Whoa! I can’t even wrap my head around this. The line work is amazing and those colors are soo drippy!!! Crazy good man!
Panel Prodigy
Sketchy Savant
So great!