Saturday, November 30, 2013

30 Characters 2013


http://www.30characters.com/2013/11/30/j-james-mcfarland-30-characters/

It's that time of the year again, the November 30 Characters Challenge is over for me.  The concept is simple, the execution can be tiresome though... in 30 days, create 30 characters (preferably one per day) and post it on the official online competition blog.



You can click on the flier to the right to go directly to the final characters from me for this year, as well as the two previous years as well.  That's nearly 100 sketches of character ideas, and...



...well, when you're looking at my figures, you really need to read between the lines (so to speak) because each individual figure tends to be a fairly oblique reference to something else, whether clever or foul.





Here are a few of my favorites from this year.  I may post more here in the coming days.

- J.






Thursday, November 7, 2013

Working Pages Maize

Here is the first penciled pages from the second issue of Maize. 

The first issue is still going up online as I work on the second.  Since most of my printed comic work tends to be rushed to get ready for cons, I am determined to take more time on these pages... although I'm still coming in at a very reasonable period of time.  My hand is fast even when I'm not on deadline.

- J.