Cameron Stewart

Barbie Timelapse

I mentioned this over on Instagram but I never would have expected that the Barbie movie of all things would end up being one of my favorites of the year, but I was truly surprised by Great Gerwig’s ability to turn what would have easily been a toy commercial into something heartfelt and artful. I had to do a drawing...

Toning Timelapse

Warmup/cooldown drawing

A piece that began as a quick warmup to start the day but grew into a full piece that I finished to wind down at night. 

Otto & Olya Page 9 Timelapse

I redrew Olya and the coat check girl multiple times in panel 1 because I just couldn’t get them to look satisfying to my eyes. I still don’t think I nailed it but at some point you just have to take the L and move forward! 

I’ve Made the decision to hand-letter this comic instead of using a font - I made a font based on my own hand-lettering a while ago but it didn’t feel ri...

Otto & Olya Page 9

The eternal decision between staying out or being responsible…

Variety of Faces

Happy 4th of July (to those who celebrate it)! Today as an exercise I decided to do some sketches based on photos taken by a remarkable photographer named Earth , who goes to fairgrounds in the US and captures candid shots of the people there. Her work reminds me to always be building a visual library in my mind of a wide ...

Katana (Suicide Squad) Commission

As the title says, this was a quick digital drawing I was commissioned to do today, of Katana from the first Suicide Squad movie. I didn’t care for the movie but this was fun!

Otto & Olya Page 8 Timelapse

Videos like this are interesting for me to watch because I forget how often a page changes in the process - I had forgotten the exploration at the beginning trying to get those first couple of panels right. Panel 3 was also a bit of a struggle, I couldn’t nail the right feel until late in the process. 

Otto & Olya Page 8

Sometimes a look says everything. 

Using Photo Reference

I always struggle drawing Spider-Man. There’s something about the flexible, acrobatic posing that I find a challenge, and more often than not I find my drawings of Spidey to be kind of stiff or unconvincing. This is where using photo reference can come in handy. 

I try not to reference other artist’s drawings too much for posing, because I would rather not be too influenced by ho...

Aurélie greyscale/color process

Here’s a video demonstrating the process for coloring this piece - more often than not my first stage is painting the tones in greyscale. My brain still seems to work better in black and white than in color. Once I am satisfied with the values in grey, I will then use either an adjustment layer or a gradient map to add colors. The final stage is to add finesse, minor highlights, value tweaks,...

Aurélie

My iPad was stuck in a restore for the better part of 5 days (!) so I haven’t been able to do any drawing since last Friday, but I was able to do this piece last night/this morning. Based on a photo of @darling_onzola on instagram. More Otto & Olya soon!

Key Questions For Laying Out A Comics Page

Patron ChrisDraws asked the question of how I approach illustrating a page, what questions do I ask myself before starting to draw. I think there are a couple to consider:

What are the “impact” moments on the page?

Whether I am drawing my own script or working from one by another writer, the first step for me is always to identify what the key moments are. Every...

What Would You Like To See?

For the “Behind The Artwork” Patrons I have a question - what would you like to see me post here apart from timelapses showing the process? If you have any questions about how I work, please reply in the comments with what you want to see and I will make some detailed posts about it. Thank you for your continued support!

Otto & Olya Page 7

Don’t touch Olya when she’s having a moment…

Warmup Sketch

A warmup sketch of my friend Dee (@tinyladydee on instagram)

Otto & Olya Page 4 Timelapse

Otto & Olya Pages 4-6

Something’s happening on that dancefloor…

Cooldown Sketch Timelapse

I drew this tonight after a long day of some deeply unsatisfying work for hire...I was in the “zone” enough from hours of work that this drawing came pretty easily with very minimal reworking. Trust me they aren’t always like this…

Warmup sketch

A sketch drawn as a warmup before getting into some “real” work I had to do.  I always realize shortly after starting to draw lace that it’s kind of tedious but by then it’s too late!

Otto & Olya Page 3 Timelapse

Sometimes I look at these videos and marvel at how chaotic my process is. In the moment it makes sense as I’m drawing but when I see it played back it’s all over the place! I was skipping ahead to put in the greyscale on the unfinished panels just to give myself a greater understanding of how the page might look when it was finished. Sometimes that gives me a sense of excitement that pushes...

Barry

Did a sketch of Bill Hader as Barry as a warm-up drawing today. Have you seen this show? I love it, Hader is a beast of a talent. I can’t wait until he directs a horror movie. 

Otto & Olya Pages 1-3

I couldn’t wait any longer! I’ve teased this for a while over on instagram but I‘m finally ready to start sharing pages from Otto & Olya, my new long-form comic project. I’m really excited about this and I hope that you will be too! I have a lot of long-term ideas for this project, and I’m sure that with ...

Otto & Olya Teasers

I’ve posted these over on my instagram, but figured I would put them here in larger format. These were exploration pieces, concept art for myself to develop these characters. I also like the idea of doing an ongoing series of these single images - 80s/early 90s fashion photography is a big influence and it would be f...

Abandoned Poster

This was work-in-progress for a print I was tinkering with that I ultimately abandoned, but I still do like the drawing.

Question for Patrons

Hey there, thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed in this first week, it really does mean a lot to me! I’m going to be posting some new stuff this week, including the beginning of the Otto & Olya comic I’ve been working on!

I’d like to know how often you expect me to post! I’m new to Patreon so I’m still feeling out how to make it valuable for both Patrons and...

Still Life Page 3 Timelapse

Here’s an example of how chaotic my workflow on a page can be. I sometimes approach a page very methodically, finishing one panel completely before moving to the next, but often I will jump around on the page like this and half-draw things, hopping around as my eye catches things that I feel like working on in that exact moment. This is another example of a page that was drawn largely intuiti...

Still Life, Part 2

Here’s the second half of Still Life. As mentioned in the first post, I drew this while in a period of depression and creative block, and this story helped me out of it. It’s a bit morbid, but I was interested in the idea of finding creative inspiration in something ugly and terrible. 

I showed this story to Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, and his only note was that drowned co...

Eraserhead

I went and saw David Lynch’s Eraserhead at a local cinema the other night and did a sketch of Henry, the main character. 

Patron Critique - Chris P. Part 3

Let’s have a look at the last of Chris’s images.

IMAGE FOUR

I like this piece, the pose is nice and I think you communicate the emotion, but I also really feel that there is an excessive amount of hatching, and the line weights of the hatching feel very inconsistent whi...