This picture has been a bit of a personal failure of mine. It has sat dormant on my drafting table for far longer than I'd care to admit. The problem I believe is that it represents the truest example of the style I've always strived to achieve, and completing it was downright intimidating.

The pencils for this picture I've posted here before, and while I did enjoy those, I always intended this piece to be inked. Another challenge with this was that it was the first picture I tried inking with a light table. I chose all the wrong paper, so that seeing the underlying pencil was a muddied mess. There was a lot of flipping back to the original pencil to see just what I was trying to ink.

All of that aside, I've walked away from this picture with quite a few lessons learned, and hope to stay prolific in the coming months. Next on my plate will be coloring this piece, and cursing out each and every little twig and branch along the way. Enjoy!

Labels: brush pen, giant monsters, pen and ink, Tree Spirit

Stepping way out of the comfort zone here. Never really spent a lot of time on super heroes. Personally I find anatomy to be one of my biggest weaknesses.

Also tried to walk a finer line between quality and time spent. Unfortunately I think this one suffered a bit, but I've got to keep at it and see if I can't come up with a speedier workflow.

Labels: Batman, pen and ink, Photoshop

I'm not saying I'd ever write a vampire comic, but if I did, it would look something like this. I would also say it should go without saying that under no uncertain terms would this vampire ever sparkle in daylight.

Labels: pen and ink, robots, Vampire

...does whatever a spider can! Not my usual thing, but a fun departure. Broke out some of the stronger crayons in the color palette as well for this one. Just trying new things all around. This was for Drawer Geeks.

Labels: comics, Drawer Geeks, pen and ink, Photoshop, Spider-Man

This is a character design I did for the "Design A Deity" blog. The idea is to throw a bunch of deities at each other, and see who would be left standing. Mine is named Akamushi, which means blood worm in Japanese. Here's my description: There's some great talents with more deities on the way, so check it out!

Labels: character design, Deity, pen and ink, Photoshop

Man oh man, I have had a roller coaster of a time these past weeks! I've been working on art, just not anything I can show. So what can I show? Well, for you technophiles out there, you'll now be able to hit this site on your phones and get a nifty little mobile version. It relies on some fancy javascript though, so for now it will probably only work on iPhones, or any other webkit enabled smart phone. I'll have to address that in the future, but it'll do for now.

Here's some art while I'm at it. These were all Drawer Geeks entries, some of which I didn't even get a chance to finish and submit on time. Thems the breaks as they say.

Labels: 8-Bit, Drawer Geeks, Pac-man, pen and ink, Photoshop, Troll

Here are some of the things I've been working on. Character designs for a short story:





And a very quick color test for that same short story:


The last two Drawer Geeks, "Lone Ranger" and "Dinosaurs":

Labels: character design, colour, comics, Dinosaurs, Drawer Geeks, goat, Illustrator, Lone Ranger, pen and ink, Photoshop

I've been very busy in my spare time (still got that day job), so I haven't had a chance to post much. I've got a few different things on the go right now, but the biggest one is a book called "Don't Get Sucked Under the Escalator" with Mark Smith (Amazing Joy Buzzards, Aqua Leung). Pretty exciting, and a great story. Here are some promo pieces I put together recently to sort of introduce the story.





Here is my entry for this week over at Drawer Geeks. The topic was "Triplets".

Labels: comics, Escalator, Illustrator, pen and ink, Photoshop, Triplets

This week at Drawer Geeks, the theme is Elves. In particular Christmas Elves. I was a little out of my element here, but since I couldn't think of a way to wrangle giant robots into a Christmas illustration, this is what I ended up with.

Labels: Christmas, colour, Drawer Geeks, elves, pen and ink

Here's a little colour experiment on this one. Just trying to get a little more prolific in my coloring techniques. Trying not to be such a perfectionist. Comments welcome!

Labels: character design, colour, pen and ink

Not exactly sure where this one came from. Just trying out a few things. Done in pen and ink. I'll try to add some colour to this later on if I have time.

Labels: character design, pen and ink, sketch