Dramatic hamster

Here are last weeks warm-up sketches. HammStarr's facial expressions ended up being way tougher than I thought. I didn't like any of the sketches that went too far from the worried look, but he can't be worried all they time or can he?  Click on the images for a closer look!

Fish eye lens

Today's warm-up sketch was Pleco the fish. The duck was tough. But not a lot to work with there either. I think the fish and the duck will be fun to draw in some situations, trying to figure out just the right way to convey certain emotions with fins and beaks, and very little human features to use other than their eyes. At least with the lead character, a Hamster there's a mouth in the equation.

Duck seasoning...

It was a pretty busy summer, and I'm just now getting back to a daily warm-up sketch, for the next while, the morning warm-ups will all be all characters and incidental elements from a comic strip I'm working on.

Today was some facial expressions for Quark the Space Duck...

coveralls

More warm-up sketches. Working out the look for an All-terrain Robot Scout Vehicle that gets converted into a prosthetic body for a fish. For tomorrow I'm thinkin' more Dinosaurs! Click on the images for a closer look! 

Extraction guaranteed

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Now that's a knife

Today's warm-up sketch. Quark the space duck's boss, Hammstarr, also armed with Intergalactic Veterinarian Transport standard issue survival knife. Click on the image for a closer look! 

 

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry

In a weird mood today as I sat down to draw today's warm-up sketch. Quark the space duck in an homage to Howard the Duck, fas seen on Marvel Treasury Edition #12. Click on the images for a closer look!

Decomposed captaining

Happy Halloween! Today's warm-up sketch is a character design I'm doing for a horror anthology in the works. Click on the images for a closer look! 

Mugging

That's right! Screw Puke Crywalker, the heck with Captain James T. Jerk. They're woosies! There's a new space hero in town, and/or space even! Show everybody you know better, without being too subtle, with a Hamm Starr mug!

Seriously, click here and buy this mug, proceeds go towards publishing the Hamm Starr comic!

Beach party

Here are the finished pencils for the three page piece about the battle of Marathon, written by Hunter, and based on a poem by Alex Ness. Click on the images for a closer look!  

Beach boy

Some more art for the 3 page Marathon Beach piece. This is a pencil sketch for the title panel, and below are some rough thumbnail layouts for all three pages. Click on the images for a closer look!  

Buy this book! I'm in it!

I am officially an emerging indie creator whose name is sure to become a mainstay in the comic industry in the years to come, WOOHOO! So order a copy at the below link,  it has a story written and drawn by me! BUT, it's also a charitable anthology to benefit a great cause, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. So I'm very proud to be a part of this project, even if in only a small way.

Here is the publisher's description, (Where I am actually referred to as one of many, "emerging indie creators whose names are sure to become mainstays in the comic industry in the years to come." Very cool)...

"One and Done" is a clever anthology containing single-page tales of death and demise, with 100% of profits going to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Top creators in the comic book industry have contributed their amusing, scary, and twisted one pagers including Mark McKenna, Duncan Eagleson, Rob Jones, Peter Palmiotti, Stefano Cardoselli, Gary T. Becks, and many more. "One and Done" also includes the works of emerging indie creators whose names are sure to become mainstays in the comic industry in the years to come. In addition to nearly 50 single-page tales, "One and Done" also includes "Killer Extras" featuring new material, pinup art, and "undiscovered" reprint material.
 

Order a copy, or many copies, click here!!!
 

Interview with a Hamster

The comicbook website "Outhouse" is doing a multi-part interview with me and a bunch of other artists as part of their "31 days of Halloween" feature. They are featuring some of my creature concept art that I'm doing for Hamm*Starr.

Here is part two.












One of the other artists featured wrote a nice comment, "...the depth of development you're applying to your characters' visuals is practically Disneyesque. If this were to be adapted to animation, you'd already have their 'looks' down cold. I don't know how many times I've forgotten whether a character is right or left handed and so have to change a figure's position only to discover I have left out the scabbard to the sword he's brandishing in the last four pages too. Character sheets! Gotta' do them."

And for anyone who may have missed it, part one.

Starducks?

Some character sketches from my upcoming comic strip project.  
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