First School St. Strips

Here are the first two strips of the freelance project I mentioned in my last post. The strip is tentatively being called "School St.". My co-conspirator, i.e. the guy responsible for all the words and stories, is named Martin Fernandez.

Martin is a teacher, and these things all really happened to him. Hopefully he'll have a web site up soon so I can point you to it.

I'm really having a lot of fun with this process, and I can't wait to do more. Keep an eye on this blog for more installments!

A New Project

I have my first freelance job. I'm pretty psyched! The project involves illustrating a series of vignettes authored by a friend of mine who is a teacher. These are short, funny interactions with young students. It's basically Kids Say the Darndest Things only with cartoons instead of Bill Cosby.

So I've been working up some ideas and character sketches I wanted to share. First up are some early character studies and a test strip which I think is actually quite funny.

Next, some additional character refinements.

 

Finally, here's another drawing I did based on the general tone of the stories. For this I tried using some ink washes. I really enjoyed it and I'll have to try it again some day.

So far, this has been a really fun process. I'm really enjoying working with someone else's ideas and I like the challenge of bringing these stories to life.