Puppet Angles & Boldtype

More views of the puppet heads are up on my website. Also, I wrote the feature for Boldtype this month, on the supersweet Fantagraphics imprint, the Ignatz Series.

Severed heads

Above are the puppet heads for Daniel Featherdown (the former) and Peter Thorn (the latter). Thorn took a week, Featherdown only took three or four days. Thorn, unfortunately, fell on the carpet a lot, since I hadn't made a stand for him yet. That gray stuff on him is gunk he picked up. I just sent them both to Steve to be painted. I'll post more angles of them on my website tomorrow.

New Illustrations

I've been working on the puppet heads for most of this past week. Almost done with one, so I'll post some pictures later if I can get a camera. In the mean time, there's three new illustrations up at my site, two for the next Commonwealth and one older one for the Believer's Game Issue last September. I've got a scanner finally, so I'll be starting to scan in my Grandville books, old work and various doodles to add to the "Misc" section in the coming weeks.

Vacant Lot Finished

I just got back from a week in rural, alpine Colorado, a place mostly untouched by the internet. While I was there, I finished the comic I'd been working on, the Vacant Lot. I'm hosting it on the website, so click on the picture above to check it out. Probably not the final draft, but enough for now.

Vacant Lot

Before the motorcycle incident I was working on a six page wordless comic tentatively called "Vacant Lot." Now that I've got my arm back and can actually maintain line quality without zooming in to 600%, I'm going to try to finish it. This is the unfinished first page, drawn before the accident. Click on it for a bigger version, it loses a lot of detail in the thumbnail. The rest of the pages exist in various lesser states of completion. Between this and sculpting puppet heads for Steve, I think I'm pretty set for August.

Delicious!

I went into SF General yesterday for what I thought was a diagnostic. Instead, they cut off my cast with a buzz saw. I have to wear a brace over my right wrist for another month, but the thumb is free. My crappy digital camera doesn't really do justice to the hideous dead alien baby texture of the hand, but you can see the weird angles the wrist and thumb are twisted into.

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Daniel Featherdown

More from the concept sketches for Thistledown Dirigible, Daniel Featherdown.

Peter J. Thorn

Early sketch for another character from the Thistledown Dirigible, Peter J. Thorn.

LOCKED IN THE INTERNET'S WARM EMBRACE!!

I finally managed to pull my shit together & learn Dreamweaver. As such, Andysaurus is now an honest to god website, with some of my old comics and illustrations from before the broke-arm days. It's pretty sparse at the moment, but dammit, it's there. I'm gonna keep updating the blog, too, but I'm trying to figure out what to do with it once they take the cast off (T minus a week maybe? They've been distressingly vague). I might, on Steve's suggestion, have it serve as a place to hash out upcoming projects & a sketch diary when I find the time. My mother, on the other hand, thinks I should try to teach myself how to draw with my feet.

www.andysaurus.com

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Wee little Drabkin.

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