
The Mysterious Owl returns!

The Mysterious Owl returns!

Here’s a little adventure that has been simmering in my mind this week- it’s the mysterious owl!

Here’s a test shot for a new comic I’m working on with my friend Brendan. It was partly to try out an inking technique I’d seen in other comics, and partly to see if I could actually draw snow in a somewhat realistic manner. I think we’ll be ok!
For this picture I used references from Yoji Yamada’s The Hidden Blade. It’s a beautiful film, and definitely worth your time. The film is part of Yamada’s Twilight Samurai trilogy- a series of samurai movies that aren’t really samurai movies.

People often ask me, ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ And I say ‘Arrgh, get away from me! What are you doing in my suitcase?’