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This is me at the drawing table sometime in the 1980s (note
the Back to the Future poster!) This was just after college
and I was sharing a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate in
West Los Angeles.
One corner of my bedroom was my drawing area.
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This is the most recent photograph of my office studio. My
wife and I rent a 3-bedroom house in West L.A. which gave me
the opportunity to convert one of the rooms into a studio. Over
the years, I have accumulated quite a bit of reference material.
On the other side of the room is a desktop computer.
And, yes, that is the same drafting table as seen in the photo
above. The taboret and art pen holder in the right foreground
also date back as far.
I have since rearranged the office and hope to add more photos
showing the set-up in the future. My major addition was a heavy-duty
four-drawer file cabinet which allowed me to archive materials,
including business documents, reference materials, old scripts,
correspondence, etc.
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At left is my office space, on the other side of the room
from my drafting table.
The computer was purchased in 1998. I now color my own covers
(using Photoshop 5.5), and produce all the lettering and text
pages for my comic-book (using PageMaker 6.5) on this PC compatible.
Since this photo was taken, I have since added an 11"x17"
scanner (for scanning my art full-size) and a color printer for
proofing my color work. Much of my webwork and internet activity
is conducted on this computer as well.
At far right, you can see the new file cabinet. On the walls
are large blow-ups of cover art. These are the same pieces that
are displayed at my booth at comic-book conventions.
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Here's another shot of my studio. At left in the background
you can see the new file cabinet. Next to the drafting table
is my taboret of art supplies.
I can see that on the drawing board, in the lower right hand
corner of the photo, is the original black-and-white art for
the spash page to Rob Hanes Adventures #2. To the left
of it is an issue of National Geographic -- no doubt for reference.
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Here's another
shot of me hard at work in my Palms office. As an indicaton of
how old this photo is (aside from the Back to the Future
poster seen earlier), there was actually a Commodore 64 computer
sitting just out of view of the desk at left. This was just before
the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution, so the Commodore
64 really didn't have any real practical applications for my
comics work -- but I did use it for scripts, etc. |
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A night shot of the '80s studio. You can just make out the
Commodore 64.
(I must have cleaned up before I took these photos -- I'm
really not that neat!)
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Here is a black-and-white
shot showing me hard at work in the evening hours. As my wife
goes to bed much earlier than me, this is the time when I am
most productive! |
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