the art of Will Terrell

Amber and I went to see “UP” today. It was an absolutely fantastic movie! I can’t recommend it highly enough. It was funny, deep, and very touching. A beautiful movie!

Afterwords we went to the park to sketch and spend a little time together before the week. This is one sketch I ended up liking. I turned back to look on the path to see if there was a nice composition, and just as I did the sun broke through the edge of the clouds and I was mesmerized. This is my feeble attempt to capture that.

-Will

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Amber and I went for ice cream after dinner tonight, and saw this kid walking past with a little red wagon, Puppy not included.    I thought it was such an adorable image I decided to do a quick sketch of it.  Its definitely starting to be summertime.

-Will

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We had some guests in the comic book studio today.   My friend Jenn Q brought a couple of the  foster kids that she’s working with, up to hang out with us some and draw.  We had a good time.  I know for me I had a very complicated childhood, but I can only imagine what some of these kids have been through, and what they’re still going through.  So I’m glad we got to brighten their week a little and give them some ideas on what their talent can do.

I was doing a digital sketch of some sort of alien thing when they came in, but they wanted to see Batman, so the sketch quickly became the Dark Knight.  I finished it up after they left.  I think he turned out pretty good.  I’ve never been all that great at drawing Batman.  So I’m pretty stoked that it looked like him.

-Will

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Lunchtime sketches today sitting at Georgios downtown watching them tear up the bricks on Broadway ave.  Construction workers are fun to draw.  I will do more of it I think.

-Will

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I spent about half my workday today messing around on the Cintiq at the studio.  Such a nice little machine.  I tried out Manga Studio for the first time today.  Its a lot better than I expected.  It was pretty easy to use, other than a few backwards shortkeys and such.  It was really great for pencil sketching.  And surprisingly good at inking.  I did all the B/W for this sketch in that program.  I’m really thinking of doing more of my gruntwork with that.  I switched over to color Electra in photoshop.  I am still having trouble converting colors from the Mac to my PC at home.  I suppose it would just be easier to get internet at the studio.  But then I would have the internet… and nothing would ever get done.

-Will

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