I thought I would have my next strip finished by today, but it has kind of taken on a life of it's own.  I have it all sketched out and ready for inking there are 9 panels. I can't help it, it's epic. Some might even say amazing or even speculator. 


I will also be doing a making of post of the strip so you can see the process behind my art from the sketchbook to the finished panels. You know, if you care about that sort of stuff.


So for today, I thought I would share something out of my sketchbook:

This is my view of Bunk any time I am in the kitchen. He will meow constantly and get underfoot the entire time it doesn't matter what you are doing or how long it takes you. He thinks at some point, he will get food.

Batman Bunk

I sketched this one today after seeing KATE OR DIE's awesome Kitty Heroes print and having a crazy discussion with Mark about what super heroes Bunk and Lola would be.

I'm the goddamn Batman!

I'm pretty happy with how the sketch turned out but I still have a bit of tweaking I need to do before I ink it. I was having some real problems with the head for some reason so I originally tried drawing vague shapes and filling them in. You know, like real artists do.

Yeah, no I didn't draw that.

But that totally didn't work so I ended up sketching from the belly up to the shoulders because I knew how I wanted that proportion then the arms. The head was really hard for some reason until I just stopped trying to draw Bunk's head and put a Batman mask on it and decided to just draw a fat Batman head and then added Bunk's chin.

Now that I have this sketch done I will be marinating on it. I like to draw then put it away for a while so I can look at it later with fresh eyes. I find it's easier for me to tweak things that way. Then I can ink and colour. I can't decide if I want to do a classic black Batman t-shirt and some kind of weird purple/black colour for the cape or go with the black cape and some bright fun colour for the t-shirt. Hmmmm......