Here's a SpongeBob comic book story which I wrote and drew for Nickelodeon Magazine in 2002 -- during the break between the series' 3rd Season and the Movie: "Hiccup and Away!"
Click on any image to read the full-size comic page
Cartoon historian Tom Heintjes is sharing the results of his wonderful new project; a comprehensive oral history of the SpongeBob SquarePants show. Tom interviewed many many key players who were with the show from the very beginning. The best part of this HUGE article is that the discussions dig down into the nitty gritty of the way the show was put together.
Interviewees include Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob), Creative Director Derek Drymon, Supervising Director Alan Smart, Storyboard Artist/Writers Paul Tibbitt, Erik Wiese, Jay Lender, Mark O'Hare, Kent Osbourne, Sam Henderson, Kaz, myself, background designer Kenny Pittinger, and many other talented people where were part of the creative process that turned a silly little sponge into a timeless cartoon series and unexpected pop-culture phenomenon.
There are a bunch of rare visuals scattered throughout, including rare pre-production sketches and pics of in-the-trenches day-to-day life on the SpongeBob crew. Check it all out at:
http://cartoonician.com/2012/09/the-oral-history-of-spongebob-squarepants/
Last year I had the pleasure of drawing and painting the cover for the first issue of SpongeBob Comics (see above).
Being the first issue, there was a LOT of behind-the-scenes work – we all wanted to give this cover a lot of impact! Here’s a look at some of the various sketches that I drew in the process of developing the cover…
Click on the images above to get a bigger look at all those little sketches.
Here’s a look at the finished pencil art (below)…
…and in the next few days I’ll be going into more detail with a lot more raw sketches from the SpongeBob Comics cover project. Check back soon for more 
It’s finally here! Today is the release date for the very first issue of SpongeBob Comics! I’m very proud to say that I drew and painted the cover art for this baby!
Here is the original pencil version…
Here’s the inked version below:
…and finally the fully-painted artwork below. Completely logo-free,
but still with the crop marks and bleed lines and all that jazz.
In the next few days I’m also gonna be posting the TON of rejected preliminary drawings from this project. There’s a lot of drawings that I really like a lot, but for one reason or another they were all passed over for the version you see above. So come back soon and check ‘em out!
And meanwhile, I hope you’ll all go out to your
local comics shop and pick up a copy of
SpongeBob Comics #1
As much as I hate sketching in sketchbooks, I LOVE doing doodles on oddly-shaped pieces of stuff. Anything with a writing surface. Newspapers are good. I also have an old "Voter Information" publication with a lotta sketches inside. I like doodling on newsprint with a roller-ball pen. My current fave rollerball is the Bic 730R. You can get 'em at Staples. Oh, and I'm also doodling in a copy of the expired TAG union contract. So? I dunno.
I prolly drew this during the third or fourth season of SpongeBob. I've always liked drawing SpongeBob...he really makes me happy ^_^ Sketched with a PITT artists Pen - brush tip. One of my favorite drawing tools.
Hope you like it!
This is the original Inked art (I didn't work in color back then)
which was considered too busy:
…I guess it WAS a little too busy.
- Storyboarding Commentary series:
- #1 - Storyboard Scans and Overview
- #2 - The Establishing Shot
- #3 – The Pan Shot
- #4 – When to Cut
- #5 - Staging and Design
- #6 - The Close-Up
- #7 – The Three-Shot
but I liked the way the colors looked on these, so I scanned 'em in color.
Here’s a SpongeBob comic book story I did for Nickelodeon Magazine back in ought-two. This was done during the break between the end of SpongeBob’s 3rd season and before production started on the Movie.
inked by Vince Deporter, coloring by Digital Chameleon.
I’m always fond of bookending the opening and closing panels
(or scenes in a cartoon)
into book form: Comic Crazy!
Click HERE to see more on the book
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Wanna see more of these SpongeBob comics stories? I’ll post some more if you let me know in the comments. Talk to you soon! --Sherm
It's been a while since I did storyboards on the SpongeBob
TV series, but I still get to keep my hand in it a bit when I do comics and illustrations for Nickelodeon Magazine. A couple months ago I got a call from them about drawing another cover, and I'm glad I jumped at it 'cause it was a lot of fun (Ok, it was a lot of work, too...but more on that later).The three sketches below are my first attempts to draw SpongeBob
blowing funny bubble shapes. I was trying really hard to get that bubble away from his face...
This took quite a bit of pencil wrangling, but by the time I drew the two sketches below, I thought it was working OK. The sketch on the left is the one went with, but I kept drawing. Even after I think I've nailed it, I try to do more drawings to see if something unexpected happens. In this case, the next drawing I did wasn't as good, so I decided to take the good one and scan it in so I could play around with the composition.
has been having a great time amusing himself with his boundless bubble creativity. His bubbles were supposed to reflect his hopes, dreams, wishes and obsessions. I used TV Paint 8.5 tough up the sketch and cobble all the bubble drawings together into this pretty-much-finished pencil drawing below:
were done with the eyedropper and paint bucket tools. I sample the colors off of SpongeBob stock model sheets to make sure they're 100% accurate.
tutorial videos:
Keep checking this list of tutorial videos for more!
