Sketches and Soulwind

Spent much of the day at Ground, doing a little sketching, and reading Scott Morse’s Soulwind, a big, satisfying brick of a comic. I’ve never been really happy with Morse’s work before this, but man, Soulwind delivers. He flips among a bunch of different art styles, all great-looking, for the story’s different settings (planets, eras) and occasional tales-within-tales, and it looks like he’s starting out telling one kind of story, then he winds that up, not quite in the way you’d expect, and goes off in a different direction entirely, picking up a thread that most authors wouldn’t have bothered with, and then loops that thread back around,.... If you’ve got $30 to drop on a 520-page paperback comic (I think there’s also a hardcover edition for more), this is the one to drop it on.

Looking at Morse’s brushwork all day had me in the mood to do some loose brush stuff of my own, but mine wound up sucking, so instead, here’s a cross-hatchy sketch I did yesterday while waiting for bugsybanana to show up for sushi:

( Big drawing, the view out the window of the Starbucks at the corner of Broadway & 17th St )