Big Cartoons
My Muse
I’m the kind of person that needs some sort of project going and these cartoons are my go to. That and building and painting scale models, but you’re not here for that.Illustration
My First Expensive Mistake
When I first started making these cartoons I chose the size that was easily divisible by three on a full sheet of 40” x 30” illustration board. I ended up buying a big printer which was expensive and just when I thought my troubles were over, I went to get the cartoons framed and that’s a racket I tell ya. Highway robbery. I’m in the wrong business. But I did get some pretty sweet standard size off cuts which in essence is just more illustration board. So win win.
Project Details
Client: Me
While at: Forever
Date: Forever
Online: This is as much as you'll ever get
Each one is hand inked, and meticulously thought out. Every line is accounted for and each thought is boiled and distilled until the joke slash loud-exhale-through-the-nose becomes a well refined discovery. I went to comedy school, no lie, but didn’t pass. I skipped out on punch line 101 a lot, so it’s not your fault if you don’t understand what’s going on in some of these.
I scan these in chunks because I don’t have the cash for a big flat bed. Then I stitch them back together and clean things up in Photoshop. Once they are stitched back together, so begins the laborious process of colouring. At the end of it all, I put on an orange colour layer on each of these to mix all the colours into an even tone. I like orange and you can’t tell me what to do.