Bevers - for a fun Broad City fan show in LA
I spent several days watching and rewatching Broad City episodes, taking screenshots and piecing Abbi's apartment together the best that I could. I know Bevers is Abbi's unseen roommate's boyfriend but I can't recall ever seeing the roommates room - so I didn't draw it.
It'll be at Meltdown Comics. These guys are putting the show together.
INKED! Today starts the watercolor phase....
BIG SCHOOL - a 70" wide pen & ink drawing on a single sheet of paper (currently being watercolored). I'd like to create an affordable print and fund it via Kickstarter starting late in October or early November. I've been working on this project for nearly a year and documenting the progress here. BIG SCHOOL takes lessons I've learned after drawing BIG CANAL and then BIG HOSPITAL. Some of those lessons include:
- a more standard print size is less expensive to frame (this one will be 24" x 36")
- drawing less outside walls leaves more room to see STUFF inside - making the drawing just....MORE (also the original overall size of this one is larger, though the scale is the same)
- people don't love to look at or think about a hospital (my last drawing)
- BIG SCHOOL includes tons of 'easter eggs' - some I'll tell you about, others you'll have to find by yourself.
Watercolors from Star Island, Isle of Shoals, NH
Feel free to download hi res images for personal use (click on the thumbnail of the first two)
Driver's Ed Trailer (No. 1 Building)
When I was in high school in Mequon, Wisconsin in 1988 a portion of the drivers' ed class required a certain number of hours in the driving simulator before we could begin our actual behind-the-wheel lessons in a real car. It was completely ridiculous. There was a retrofitted trailer next to my high school that contained a line of fake drivers seats/dash boards with foot pedals (maybe 10 in a row?) and we all faced a single movie screen on one end of the trailer. The instructor would run a 16 mm film and we were led to believe that as we watched footage of (from the POV of someone in a car) a car driving down a road, the actions on our individual simulator units were being scored and would effect our final grade of the class. No one ever scored better than a D, from what I saw. Being the out of control kid that I was, I got to the simulator early one day and noticed the large fiberglass backing of one of the units was loose. So I pried it up and saw a bunch of those rainbow flat ribbon cables. I quickly unplugged a bunch and plugged them into the wrong slots and closed it up. That broke the whole system and for the duration of my 4 week class (and several classes after mine) nobody had to use the simulator any more. I heard that the school had to call in a "simulator Doctor" in from Ohio to fix the thing.
NEW print just arrived!
Kayrock Editions just released this huge gorgeous 8-color donut print on heavy 220# paper stock. They measure 14" x 17".
Big School inking phase starts
The very last picture before I start to ink and erase the graphite. How I'm inking this 70" wide beast, see short video below ↓↓ This will culminate in my Kickstarter campaign for a 24" x 36" high quality full color print in November.
