FMP - Research: Doug TenNapel

Research - Doug TenNapel (Artist: Comics, video games and TV/Movies.)

Doug TenNapel is a comic, video game and TV/Movie artist and one of my idols and inspirations.
He created Earthworm Jim, The Neverhood, and more recently Armikrog.He is one of my idols for the way he see's his work. His catchphrase and reason for his career is "I like to Draw.", and personally, I agree that could be the only thing that can explain someones art.
He always carries a sketchbook around with him that he fills with ideas, and he's filled hundreds of sketchbooks over the years.  Whilst not every idea is used, some of his most famous creations, such as Earthworm Jim and The Neverhood started as small sketches in his books, and eventually he would develop further ideas for these creations in these sketchbooks.

One of Dougs most famous creations, Earthworm Jim.
He started out as a simple doodle in one of Doug's sketchbooks, and would go on to be one of the most iconic gaming, TV show and action figure characters of the 1990s.
(This image isn't his first sketch, it's one of his more recent images, created with sumi ink.)

His favored medium is either black sumi ink, which he uses in almost every comic and piece he creates, or clay, as he used in The Neverhood and more recently, Armikrog.
He's said to like using sumi ink as it's both controlled and crisp, but can also be really erratic, but not to the point of being bad. (He once used digital as a way of inking his comics, but said he 'felt like he was cheating on a lover', and quickly returned to sumi ink.)
When inking a comic, if the brush had excess ink on it, he'd use it to fill in the frame of the comic, making thick, black lines, and when the ink had ran thin, he'd return to the finer parts of the image.

The Neverhood, arguably Doug TenNapel's second most popular series.
The characters and world were made entirely of clay.