Here's an Easter Sunday comic to celebrate the occasion. The white borders were created in Sketchbook Pro.
Art Adrenaline
January 2014, I felt the need to take down my website & create a simple blog as a repository of all my current art work.
Josef Briggs
Art Adrenaline Studio
josefbriggs@hotmail.com
syringe
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
green solution
Here's a quick comic strip for Saint Paddy's Day to keep me in practice, while I wait to recover from singles.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Diver Noir
Am still on bed rest from shingles, but I managed to sketch a short strip of the diver in the style of Sin city.
Monday, January 1, 2024
DIVER 2024
Pearl Diver 2024, this is an impromptu comic that came to my mind on New Year's eve. The white border makes a huge difference.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Final Outline
At long last, the final outline for the Pearl Diver is finished. It's been almost a year since I started the project, and the draft went through 3 revisions. Judging from the way my creative process works, the next step now is just to illustrate the graphic novel from the outline and skip the process of writing it in prose. The outline has enough dialogue and minor details for the book.
The characters grew in number as I went through the revisions. Some characters were removed, while others shifted from being the villain to a more heroic character. Others were radically changed both in character and physical features.
My thought process has also changed in terms of sketching the diver. This time she can interact with a diverse selection of characters, so she is now more than just a pin-up.
Friday, July 15, 2022
Ross Andru
Here is the diver again with a sample story of her tracking down killers. The sketch is a homage to one of my favorite comic book illustrators, Ross Andru. Andru worked on The Amazing Spiderman in the late seventies and is known for his use of foreshadowing to make his poses more dynamic.
Once again the sketch was started in sketchbook pro, first using the pencil pal to draw the foundation of the sketch then using the signature ink brush to darken and accentuate the lines. Later a blend mode called glow was used to make the color of the diver less uniform. There's not much of a setting for the story just a lamp shade, a chair, and a door. The objects, however, serve as a place holder for the characters.
This sketch has its share of mistakes that's worth noting. First the panel right below the yellow arrow was mistakenly drawn from left to right (hence the need for an arrow.). In the panel where the diver kicks the gunman her bikini bottom was mistakenly rendered in blue instead of grey. The grey color of her bikini was supposed to transition to the grey color of her leg. Another shortcoming for the sketch are the dialogue bubbles without the use of tails. Finding a quick method to draw the tails with the same width as the bubble is still a work in progress.
Once again the final sketch was composited in procreate. First a similar blend mode called color dodge was used to replicate the initial blend mode from sketchbook pro, then a more vibrant color was achieved by adjusting the curves.
At this point in time the novella for the diver is now in its second draft. Hopefully the story will come out more condensed and cohesive.