Comics Comics Comics

as my comic project is drawing closer to an end, im happy to upload a few pics i took this morning of my space, while offering a VERY sneak peak at just what it is im drawing... Things are pretty tumultuous right now, figuring things out, making stupid mistakes, learning from them quickly... i guess what it boils down to is the sheer determination to actually do it right. Doing something new feels awkward, especially when you put yourself out there... all you can do is hope that your efforts are received well. You cant win 'em all, right? Right. But you can damned sure try. *toasts to the double entendre.*

bye bye San Francisco, again

Spent the weekend visiting old friends in San Francisco, and had some time to take in the sights, and the crazy fog... i wish i could have stayed longer, but it was good to see my old home again... ill definitely have to go back and collect some more memories! i didnt even get to go to the museum ! what was i thinking! next time sf, next time....

Black and white studies

Got some new inks and brushes, via advice from Francis Vallejo , and hopped right in to practice some inking techniques. all i can say is... its a LOT tougher than it looks! Converting it to pure black and white may have gone smoother if i hadnt started them on yellow paper to begin with. LOL!

But man, controlling that linework is a tough, tough situation! ( i really dont think i got it right...)

Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.

Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.

ok so totally awesome. I bumped into this on a friend's website, but felt the need to repost it! its currently blowing my mind, by being able to pick colors from the right side, and come up with a ton of examples of whichever color scheme that ive chosen... woah. give it a try!

Experimenting with my comic process

So i went to the store today, only to realize that im dead broke after buying my ticket to San Francisco... meaning i couldnt buy paints to do my streetfighter piece, and i refuse to paint it digitally!! So what to do..what to do... I spent the day instead, trying my hand at a quiiiick little comic, in hopes of figuring out some questions to ask my comic book illustrating friends. Afterall, you cant ask the teacher questions if you havent done the homework, right? All in all, i think my dialogue is a bit too wordy, and my lines arent clean enough, but in my defense, i did this on very small paper, and not comic size paper :) Just a sketch , but i hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed doing it!

Here comes a new challenger

So ive been seeing all of the pieces everywhere that seemed to commemorate the coming of the last streetfighter game, a game that took a decade to make... and i started wondering... "wtf i love this game.. wheres MY piece?!" so, at long last, late last night, around about 2am, i decided to start on one. Here are the pencils so far. im headed to the supply store to pick up...get this... some acrylic paint. itll be my first actual painted piece in over 4 years...scary

insomnia

sunday morning coffee

Value study, a zombie fighting stripper,and some gangster dude...

"Deep".. a fun value study started with Naomi looking over my shoulder. :)

"Blowpop"... one of the 6 girls from my new story

Crackjaw, a cyborg mob leader, done for the boys over at Windstorm Studios

quicky

WMD's

quick psylocke sketch (and yes... i purposefully made her boobs look like warheads.)
fun :)

Sunday Bike Shop

w.i.p

#Fruition

Had the privilege of doing a CD cover for my good friend "Leon the Professional"

check him out here http://www.get2knowpro.com/

Sum new sketches

So... its been a while since ive posted anything, and these are quite underwhelming... literally just some sketches from the coffee store... airplane ride..(which is completely difficult by the way due to turbulence)... anyway. some tighter studies later.
enjoy, nonetheless!

new couch!

woo hoo... the new couch came in this weekend, and im completely loving it.

I only post art here, but this morning i figured, "meh, what the hell, why not"
so here is my couch! lol

new sketchbook

making a new sketchbook....number 7...this one will be done entirely in blue pen...crazy

World War Robot Werewolf?

product of me and Bart's ( http://www.riceandeggs.blogspot.com/ ) sketch session.

Feature Spread in Advanced Photoshop issue 63

Just got my copy of Advanced Photoshop, issue 63 where i was asked to go over a little bit of my process for creating a cool character from start to finish. hope you guys pick it up, or have a chance to see it and enjoy!

tonights speedpaint

two hours of painting on the livestream...had a great time. started this one in color, trying to get away from having to start everythign in black and white..

thanks to Africa Harris for the beautiful pose :)

Imagine FX magazine

Sup guys! long time no post! guess thats the nature of the beast ey?

well, i was alerted by some friends of mine that i was in this months issue of IFX and i didnt even know it!! Kudos!

Testing myself

This is for a certain project that ive been told to do in my spare time, and as it progresses, maybe ill post my progress here for myself to refer back to, and see how it came along.

Man ive got ...

a lot of older art that i havent posted yet...maybe i should drop a couple pieces just so they dont fall through the cracks!

heres a handfull of characters i did for the Vampire series, Ancient Bloodlines. Enjoy!

heres a couple closeups on the ones that i liked the most