Killing Time (Re-Posting Old Stuff) / Finding a Home

Although I am currently inking a one-page, 16-panel 12-panel (I can't count) comic involving Satan and Gandhi (gonna be awesome), it won't be done tonight.  So, here is a little blast from the past.  I have started and "stalled" in several other blogs involving my art.  I am hoping I have found a solid foundation with Ink Puddle as a way to talk about art techniques and solicit ideas and feedback.  So, to keep up the pace of regular postings, I will sometimes re-post previously posted pieces of art.  These two below were ones I posted on another blog as well as on my now defunct Facebook page.  They are tidbits, brief moments in time.  Not actually comics in terms of sequential art, because they have only one panel.  Any sequence or movement is implied through the dialog, but there is not second panel, no transition or movement or sequence proper.  But I think when you try to instill some emotion in the facial expression and eyes of someone and you add a dialog, you don't always need a second panel.  Emotion, dialog, caption.  I think those three things are necessary.

This first one is an imagined conversation.  Never really took place.  I read a lot of comics, but I do not read them non-stop every day.  I read a lot of other stuff, too, so there is a lot in the world of indie comics as well as mainstream stuff that I feel I am not caught up on. I have a whole back log of books I feel I should read and study.

I made this using basic brush work, scanned, with text and halftone effects added in.  This second one is a pretty common experience.  Conversation with friends in a car on the way to an event.

More halftoning with this one, too.  And again, no sequence to follow with multiple panels.