Some more of the Stuntman getting hurt. Sorry about the pencil being so light colored. I was (for some weird reason) using a 2H (or #4) pencil when doing this. It is the pencil used by real comic artist, but not my favorite.

In this comic, the Stuntman drives a car (with a dummy riding shotgun) into a rock and lands on his face.

Now, why am I explaining this ? It’s supposed to be pantomime ! It’s the point not to have any words !

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Oh no. I am yelling at myself. I’ll just stop now.

Some examples of pantomime comics with the stuntman character.
Not a finished product, mind you.

Here he is on fire and falling to the ground.
The actions are only excuses to see how I could play with the movement of the character. Being wordless means the comic has to be dynamic and expressive, making it possible for some storytelling without any text.

Also, I have a lot of trouble drawing movement and figured I could use the exercise.

Some years ago, I thought about making a comic strip. I wanted to do it in pantomime, meaning a wordless comic. When wondering about what it could be about, I came up with the idea of a stuntman continually getting hurt. Then, I realized how tremendously difficult it would be and forgot all about it.

Anyway, it all came back to haunt me when I doodled this character and started hurting with him.

Well, the title pretty much sums it up.

Hmmm, I really have to work on a happy girl look.

Yup, I’m at it again. For some reason I want to draw pretty girls and always end up not really liking the result. I suppose if I waste enough paper I’ll succeed, someday. Well, they’re not that bad. Gotta work on proportions, though.

Anyways, those I did as practice before trying to use ink wash.

Another ink wash test. Have to work on my brush strokes so as to leave lesser marks.

And some anatomy principals wouldn’t hurt either.

-sigh-

This is an ink wash technique. Basically, it’s mixing water with ink to get different shades of gray.

It’s applied with a brush, and that’s where all the challenge is. Brushes and I don’t see eye to eye.

There’s a test number 2 that you will not see because I messed it up pretty bad. I like to think it is due to the paper I used, but it is mostly due to the fact I have no idea what I’m doing.

The next test will have a background behind the character, which (I believe) shows the point of using washes. I could be wrong, though. It’s been known to happen.

I was actually doodling and made this. And I told myself : “Hey, that’s Adam Sandler!”

And then I thought I was so good. And then I remembered I did it unintentionally.

And then I realized it kinda looked like Tom Beland‘s characters.

-sigh-

The same character, but in Glorious Technicolor !

In formal working attire and in actual working attire.

Another sketch I made for the Christmas cartoon contest. I had kind of forgotten about it. I believe the joke was Mrs. Claus was coming to tell Santa to lay off the blogging because those presents were not going to get to the kids by themselves. Or something like that.