the art of Will Terrell » pen and ink

Cartooning

WillTerrell — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:15:37 +0000

My freelance work the past few months has presented me the opportunity to develop my cartooning style a lot more. I am really enjoying it. The best part is that it comes out of desperation in a way. I have so much on my plate these days as far as projects go, that I don’t have time to over-think the work like I once did. I’ve got roughly 30 minutes to an hour to finish each panel and move on to the next in order to meet deadlines, and squeeze in other projects. Its a great way to learn. I love the challenge of having to boil down the storytelling to its simplest details, and still add in a twist of humor. The writers I’m working on are great at pushing that aspect of the story.

One project from a few months back, involved doing illustrations for a business article. These are a few of my favorite clips from that. Completely out of context and without dialogue of course. When the article hits the stands I’ll post about it here. Till then you can enjoy these shots.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Leonardo

WillTerrell — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:58:38 +0000

Lunch sketch from a couple of weeks ago. No it wasn’t pizza, dude. I went to to grab a bite to eat with Syd, one of my Robot Cowboy studio-mates. He was working on a pretty nice TMNT sketch of all four of the turtles, and I thought I’d take my try at it. I like how he turned out. I like drawing turtles. You don’t have to have a strong grasp of drawing knees or elbows. Makes things easier.

-Will

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Sketch Lubbock – August

WillTerrell — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:08:54 +0000

My wife Amber and I sketch people every where we go. Its a lot of fun, but its also great training. I am always trying to capture the way that a person walks, stands, sits, or carries themselves. It makes it a lot easier when I’m drawing pages or illustrations, to draw from experience, than to try to figure it out from my own head. Here’s a handful of the sketches from this month. The top sheet is from Taco Villa, the middle is from Barnes and Noble, and the bottom is from Market Street grocery store. Its rare that people actually notice me drawing them, but not uncommon for other people to see what I’m doing and come over to take a look. I’m always amazed at how excited they get at seeing people being drawn. No matter what race, or culture. Everyone loves art.

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Tales of Garcon cover

WillTerrell — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:27:20 +0000

I am working on a new project these days. I am illustrating a 200 page graphic novel for a text book company. The book is called Tales of Garcon and its a story that illustrates the pitfalls and opportunities of franchising in business. Its a fun story, and I like the characters a lot. Its been a lot of work so far. In July I penciled, inked and lettered the first 32 page chapter, and my wonderful, talented wife laid down the shading on it as well. 32 pages in a month is a lot. I’ve never done that before. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to. But I am enjoying the challenge.

This is the cover for the first chapter. I will be posting some pages before too long.

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I got married!

WillTerrell — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:22:21 +0000

I love my wife! She’s pretty amazing. And after being single for a very, very long time, it has been such a welcome change to share my life with someone as incredible as her. She is a cartoonist as well, we make comics together for a living, and in our free time we watch cartoons and draw. I am blessed. We got married at the end of May, and things got busy very quickly. I’ve got several big projects in the works, some of which I’ll be posting about here soon. Its kept us very busy, with myself working sometimes 60 hours a week. I can’t complain though. This is the life I’ve always wanted to live.

I’ll be posting a lot more this month, but to start things out, heres a few images from our wedding. And the cartoon (of course) directions to our wedding.

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