pregnant void

MFA

2012-02-01T09:13:00.001-08:00

whipping out the watercolors for a museum trip.

2012-01-11T11:46:00.000-08:00

18"x24" with a brush pen

fuckup

2011-12-18T16:29:00.001-08:00

A scrapped page.

....When inking just ain't goin' right.

figure drawing

2011-12-09T22:10:00.001-08:00

Some 10 and 15 minutes sessions with a big brush pen on 18 x24.

sketchbook 2011

2011-11-30T11:06:00.000-08:00

A few random adventures to the cafe.

All pen and watercolor.

2011-10-29T00:17:00.001-07:00

Some spreads from the sketchbook. Having fun playing with the watercolors again.

2011-10-12T06:56:00.000-07:00

A couple days in the sketchbook.

Goin' through a were-dog phase....

2011-10-07T21:01:00.000-07:00

Some figure drawin' on 11x24 with a big fat brush pen.

2011-09-13T03:15:00.000-07:00

2011-08-28T19:38:00.000-07:00

Sorry Katie.

2011-08-19T23:56:00.000-07:00

Some junk, old and new.

2011-07-29T14:02:00.000-07:00

short story concepts from the sketchbook.

Some watercolor, ballpoint and photoshop

2011-07-24T01:22:00.001-07:00

Here's a mini, stream of consciousness comic I drew back in December for fun. You can tell that winter claustrophobia was an unconscious motivator for this. I would certainly like to continue something like this some day.
-ballpoint pen

2011-07-24T01:19:00.000-07:00

tiny figure warmup.

2011-07-15T21:31:00.000-07:00

Trying out some palettes on the ol' field drawings.

2011-07-09T07:05:00.001-07:00

figure drawing in brush pen. A lot of these irk me quite a bit.

2011-07-04T15:37:00.001-07:00

Some brush pen scribbles from a figure drawing session. Apologies for the poor quality of the digital pictures.

2011-06-20T10:49:00.000-07:00

Boston life with monsters.

2011-06-13T20:59:00.000-07:00

This is from walkin' around Boston followed by a trip to the Museum of Fine Art. They had an exhibit of Odilon Redon's lithographs that were inspiring as hell! Than it was off to the African and oceanic wing to draw some freaky heads. Those tribal head ornaments were so Kirby!

2011-06-09T22:08:00.000-07:00

I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently and drew some stuffed, dead things (not the folks on the subway ride there on the left--they were mostly alive). I also took some pictures of funky rocks and minerals. Enough inspiration at that place for texture and form to keep you busy for half a lifetime.

2011-06-05T00:29:00.001-07:00

Figure drawing on 18"x24" in brush pen. One of my pens died halfway through the first drawing but it made this great grey for those lighter values on the rest of the doodles.

The poses ranged from 30-45 minutes.

2011-06-01T22:44:00.000-07:00

a quick warmup

2011-05-25T12:39:00.000-07:00

My experiment with micron instead of ballpoint continues. Lots of pages with mixed results so far.

2011-05-24T11:25:00.000-07:00

Just a page of monster doodles from the sketchbook with a nuclear color palette added as a bonus

Daryl from BPRD

2011-05-20T04:33:00.000-07:00

This version has a slightly richer red than what I posted on deviantart. http://jharren.deviantart.com/#/d3gp8cm

2011-05-18T05:50:00.000-07:00

a new challenge

2011-05-15T04:33:00.000-07:00

I've decided recently to undertake a new challenge; I suspect my comfort with the ballpoint pen may be stunting (comfort is for old ladies!) SO in my daily field drawing and doodling I'm only going to use those tools that I use for my comic work. I'm trying to close the disparity between my comic pages and my sketchbook and I think this is worth the ol' college try. So it's microns, japanese pens, brush, brush pens, etc for drawing and the ballpoint is going to stay on the sidelines for awhile. So you folks can see my updates and let me know if my progress is pathetic or not.

Cheers!

*grey tones were added later in photoshop to help organize this mess.

2011-05-13T20:55:00.001-07:00

Folks at the cafe. The one on the bottom left was an attempt at micron and the others are all my addictively comfortable ballpoint. I shall quite you one day ballpoint. One day...

2011-05-12T04:15:00.000-07:00

An old warm-up with some color added.

featuring scrunch n' snob

2011-05-09T00:15:00.000-07:00

some tiny warmups

2011-05-05T14:39:00.000-07:00

warm ups

2011-04-28T14:04:00.000-07:00

2011-04-24T22:52:00.000-07:00

2011-04-21T02:36:00.000-07:00

2011-04-20T04:16:00.000-07:00

moo

2011-04-17T04:55:00.000-07:00

I've been hittin' the cafes pretty hard lately.

2011-04-10T00:39:00.001-07:00

2011-04-06T23:02:00.000-07:00

2011-04-02T00:05:00.000-07:00

doodlin' in the cafe. I do these in ballpoint and add colors later in PS for anyone who wasn't aware.

2011-03-28T12:19:00.000-07:00

pacifier

2011-03-26T11:25:00.000-07:00

For a comic idea that's become far too grand to actually be feasible.

2011-03-15T11:40:00.000-07:00

2011-03-12T03:30:00.000-08:00

2011-03-10T03:27:00.000-08:00

Brush pen on 18x24

2011-03-02T22:25:00.000-08:00

Drawn at the, now deceased, Borders cafe.

2011-02-22T14:51:00.000-08:00

From the new brown-paper sketchbook. Now that I have one I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm not crazy about how it scans.

2011-02-20T07:22:00.000-08:00

2011-02-16T22:32:00.000-08:00

2011-02-14T15:45:00.001-08:00

2011-02-10T16:24:00.001-08:00

2011-02-07T16:58:00.000-08:00

Big, fat brush pen and some ballpoint.

2011-02-04T04:40:00.000-08:00

Using the fat brush pen at a figure drawing session. On 18"x24"
I like it when the models smile. It makes me feel like I'm not drawing someone against their will.

totem

2011-01-31T22:24:00.000-08:00

Found this on my hard drive a little while ago and forgot that I had drawn it. I was frustrated at the time with how boring professional comic work could be. Made me realize that I don't actually care to draw most superheroes.

it figures

2011-01-28T04:07:00.000-08:00

ballpoint with some photoshop help for colors.

2011-01-26T03:19:00.000-08:00

2011-01-22T17:24:00.000-08:00

Adding more color to the sketchbook

2011-01-20T18:31:00.000-08:00

warm-ups colored in photoshop

2011-01-18T09:56:00.000-08:00

2011-01-17T11:05:00.000-08:00

le cafe

2011-01-11T13:28:00.000-08:00

2011-01-09T03:49:00.001-08:00

2011-01-08T16:09:00.001-08:00

2011-01-05T04:11:00.000-08:00

2011-01-03T18:52:00.000-08:00

Some ladies stretching it out on my layouts.

2010-12-31T13:39:00.000-08:00

Best wishes for the New Year and a very sincere thank you to all who follow my doodles!

2010-12-29T14:06:00.000-08:00

yep

2010-12-23T10:32:00.000-08:00

Brush pen doodles with PS colors.

2010-12-17T04:38:00.000-08:00

stranger on the train

2010-12-07T23:11:00.000-08:00

more figure drawin'

2010-12-01T15:27:00.000-08:00

more figure drawing from a 6 hour session.

*pentel brush pen

figure drawing

2010-11-28T12:50:00.000-08:00

A few 10 min. poses from a 6-hour session.

*brush pen

Bookstore doodlin'

2010-11-19T16:42:00.000-08:00

junk palette

2010-11-12T01:27:00.000-08:00

Playin' around with palettes.

field doodles

2010-11-10T20:46:00.001-08:00

sketchbook stuff

2010-10-31T03:14:00.001-07:00

This is stuff. From my sketchbook.

*ballpoint pen.

Figure Drawin'

2010-10-23T06:15:00.000-07:00

Brush pen on 18"x24" paper. I ended up drawing the people around me more than the model.

H.P. Lovecraft

2010-10-19T20:35:00.001-07:00

A strip I did with John Arcudi for the Official program to the H.P.Lovecraft Film Festival & Cthulhucon. It was printed as a faux newspaper with a bunch of strips in the middle of it including one by the annoyingly talented Guy Davis.

ELRIC

2010-10-17T21:09:00.001-07:00

BLOOG

2010-10-11T21:33:00.001-07:00

playin' with PS colors. I did a different version where the jelly tendrils 'glow' more

geeez

2010-10-10T17:07:00.001-07:00

field doodlin'

2010-10-10T16:37:00.000-07:00

book store EXCITEMENT!

2010-10-04T23:38:00.000-07:00

Still doing little photoshop experiments with the sketches. Still pretty much suck at it.

truck

2010-09-25T03:51:00.001-07:00

Goob

2010-09-20T04:20:00.000-07:00

GOO

2010-09-16T13:48:00.001-07:00

THCARY

2010-09-14T03:02:00.001-07:00

Ya know, for kids

2010-09-10T02:28:00.000-07:00

illusions

2010-09-05T09:53:00.001-07:00

trident

2010-08-26T04:09:00.001-07:00

MET

2010-08-20T22:37:00.000-07:00

doodlin' at the museum.

One Score and Four

2010-08-11T03:48:00.000-07:00

It's my Birthday today, and I, James Harren, will be the best 24 year old... ever!

apologies to Bryan O'Malley

sketchbook 7-14 Kodama

2010-08-10T01:56:00.001-07:00

Peace Valley Park, PA.

7-10 sketchbook NYC

2010-08-10T01:49:00.001-07:00

Outside Madison Sq. park

couple of Harrens

2010-07-27T18:01:00.001-07:00

bus brother

2010-07-18T03:38:00.000-07:00

doylestown sites

2010-07-09T06:20:00.001-07:00

one of those things

2010-07-07T04:53:00.000-07:00

Still getting used to that brush pen.

New Hope, PA.

2010-07-04T03:46:00.000-07:00

Field drawing in New Hope, Pennsylvania. I'm still in the early attempts with my brush pen. It's more of a mess but makes me think harder about light and use of grays.

peepee monster

2010-06-29T05:28:00.000-07:00

I got one of those fancy Pentel brush pens and it's provided some great cool-down doodling time. Working 9-12 hours a day on other people's projects really inspires you to cultivate a place for your imagination. Or in my case...draw peepees.

Cherry picker

2010-06-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

it picks cherries.

*watercolor and brush pen