Collected Lil Charlie...

if you wanna see all the Lil'Charlie pages I did for my graduation portfolio go to my Comics Space page: http://www.comicspace.com/john_bivens/

they are all put together in my comics gallery there.

Page in Progress--

I've been really sick the last week, so have accomplished next to nothing... but here's something I have inprogress. It's for the comic I'm working on with Sam Costello, and still has a long way to go to be finished. This shows just how rough my pancils are before I get to the inking stage, if I'm doing the inking myself.

Steam Man of the Prairies

a character remodel for The Engine.

So, what's going on this week...
Well, last week I received an offer to make a lil bit of extra money this summer doing a web comic with Sam Costello, which I am accepting so I will be doing some character development work and thumbnails this week.

Also, currently trying to put together a proposal to Adult Swim for my Lil Charlie character. Really don't know if anything at all will come of this, but I'm meeting with my writer friend, Devin Hansen, this week to go over script ideas. Devin is the guy I've been working with on a proposal to Image comics.

Oh yeah, and Thursday I will officially be another year older, and will most likely be hitting some bar here in DeKalb that night *sighs*

Then the week after this I start up my last two classes at NIU, a math class I've been avoiding since I turned 18, and an illustration class at the field museum in Chicago.

This is shaping up into quite the busy summer.

character studies

figured I'd try to put together a proposal package for Adult Swim with my Lil' Charlie character, so I'm doing a bunch of character study illustrations. This one is of God in all his alcoholicy goodness.

coloring done

Here's the colored page that will replacing a page in my Robert Johnson/Lil Charlie story.

ReWorking a page...

that I did over the last semester... it didn't fit with the story I had going as much as I wanted it too. This is the line work and shading I did today... coloring is tomorrow.

twisted sci-fi

Did this for fun to post on THE ENGINE, it's what I get for watching old sci-fi flicks late at night while I'm sketching.