Daniel Goffin » Sketches

Sketches of Random People

Daniel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:03:57 +0000

I was forced to waste my day yesterday with a lot of waiting and walking but at least I managed some sketches of the people around me.

Doodles Of Robots

Daniel — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:58:08 +0000

So, I’ve finally turned in the application papers for my graduation which means that around the beginning of the next year I will be looking for jobs and other opportunities. My graduation project will consist of designing four or more characters that will be modeled into toy figurines, packaging art and a short comic story for each of these characters. I will be documenting all of this as closely as possible. Here are my first few doodles for the robot character (excuse the bad scans):

9 Panels About Love

Daniel — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:46:18 +0000

Currently I am working on a painted nine panel comic strip. Following are the first few character studies for the protagonist.

Fat Flickr People Reference Sketches

Daniel — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:30:32 +0000

Uhm,… yeah. I guess the title says it all. I had some fun with fat people on flickr and my new nib pen. I actually enjoy the composition on this spread so I decided to post it as a whole as well.

Random Sketches Made In Bars In Lucerne

Daniel — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:37:34 +0000

It’s been a while since my last update. One of the reasons has been a little vacation I enjoyed while visiting this years Fumetto International Comix Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. It has been very inspirational and I got to know great people such as Tom Gauld, Ben Katchor and Matthew Thurber. Fun. Here are two sketches I made while sitting in the official Fumetto Bar…

Hunter Woman In Skirt With Hat Studies

Daniel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:02:58 +0000

Some sketches plus I’ve been having fun with photos on flickr lately.

Space Age Skirt Girl Sketches

Daniel — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:15:12 +0000

Sketches. Some of these I found on flickr. Some of them with the help of posemaniac.

NDS Sketches On The Train To Kobe

Daniel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:37:05 +0000

Here is a colorful series of quick sketches of different people on the train to Kobe. I had planned to visit the Kobe City Museum to see an exhibition of masterpieces of ukiyo-e but I had forgotten that the museum is closed on mondays so I ended up shopping out of frustration…

Charles and Stephane – Sketches

Daniel — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:52:02 +0000

Finally I found some time to scan a few of my most recent sketchbook pages. As you can see I am still enjoying using tea bags and coffee as inspiration for these weird creatures. This also marks the milestone of having filled another book. Now I have to find a new one. I plan to get something bigger this time around.

Ice Comic WIP 2

Daniel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:53:57 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve shown you anything regarding the comic I am currently working on. As hinted in the comments and elsewhere I’ve spent some considerable time on reworking the story. At the moment I am focusing on the inking and hopefully I can progress to the coloring stage soon. Here is a peek into page 3 of the current state of the story. Inked but not colored and the dialogue is not present either, yet.

Man To Osaka – NDS sketches 2

Daniel — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:59:25 +0000

Another someone sleeping on the train from Kyoto to Osaka Umeda.

Sleeping Slacks – NDS sketches 1

Daniel — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:43:09 +0000

Some sketches of people whilst being on the train. I am still trying to figure out the right way to work with my DS.

Ice Comic WIP

Daniel — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:06:00 +0000

I am currently working on a four page short story comic. It is a true story and revolves losly around the subject of climate and the melting of ice. So far I am done with the storyboard and I am going to start with the finalization in the next days. I forgot to translate it in this version but I will do so for the next update. Until then you’ll have to make do with my little synopsis below.

The story starts with me and a friend sitting in a café during summertime. It is very hot and I express that I can not understand why my friend would drink a hot chocolate during a time like this. I continue with describing how the ice in my glass melts so fast that I can almost watch the process. While saying this I am reminded of a winter about 20 years ago that was so cold that the Baltic Sea almost completely. My parents, my brother and me made a trip out to the sea and were astonished to see big chunks of ice sticking out. Almost like the famous painting by Caspar David Friedrich. Of course my brother and me get very excited about all the ice and we come back to our parents with big pieces of ice that we want to take home as a souvenir. All efforts of our parents trying to tell us that ice won’t hold out for long are in vain and so we go back home. The story ends with me being surprised of seeing the ice turn into water…

If you have any questions or criticism to contribute I would love to hear it.