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Blank Spot | My 24-Hour Comic for 2009

Update: Here's a Detailed Blog of my participation in this year's event!

There are only 20 pages out of an attempted 24. Unlike last year, I was actually able to focus. Following the "spirit of the law", I walked in with no planning whatsoever. Like "School Fight!" and Lucky Seven", this story is rendered with traditional media tools. The Ames 3.5 lettering looks large on a 9" x 12" page, but I really wanted to test my new C6 nibs.

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One of the most-used lines in my Art of the Comic Book class is "In the post-Google era, there's no excuse for not knowing what something looks like". Prior to the internet, visual reference was done in public libraries, personal interviews and taking our own photographs.

Doing the research for "Lucky Seven: The Dee Brown Incident" in May/June 2009 supported this view. The story, covering Boston's difficulty with class and race, takes place in 1990. Recreating the era's surface-level items was relatively easy, thanks to Google and Boston Globe articles. Building visual details, logistics and overall atmosphere was a lot tougher. What did Dee's fiancee look like? How did the characters express their words? Which version of the incident — Dee's or the officers' — was the most believable?

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SketchCrawl 23: Cambridge MA
Saturday July 11
Noon 12:00 PM
Middle East Restaurant
472 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139

http://www.illdave.com/sketchcrawl

A "pub crawl" with art supplies. Artists in cities throughout the world meet in one location, sketch whatever's around, then "crawl" to the next location. Local artist David Marshall leads the Cambridge crawl on Saturday July 11th 2009 from Central Square's The Middle East Restaurant. Please join us!

About SketchCrawl

Started by San Francisco artist Enrico Casarosa, SketchCrawl is a mobile drawing marathon. In his own words "a journal filled with details ranging from the all the coffee I drank to the different buses I took." Casarosa soon discovered it was even better with a group of artists. Now an international event, people from all over the world share their journals on an online forum. Lean more.

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