Ten thousand maniacs

It's been a while since I've posted anything. I took some time off from posting any work online. Some internet bullying and some unfounded legal accusations from a bat-shit insane, off-his-meds, wanna-be writer.

So here we are some time later not really used to posting any work online anymore. I missed a milestone while I was gone, a few months back my deviantArt page went over 10,235 Pageviews. Woohoo!
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Here's a new banner I made for my Linked-in page...

Also, here is a sketch from part of a logo I'm working on, more to come soon...

Dork Knight

I've been working on a magazine illustration. I had an art director ask me to pitch him an idea for a spot illustration, for a single page article titled "Bipolar Batman."

Click on the images for a closer look!

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! 

Rough sketch

Warm-up sketch. Starting limited myself to 20 minutes. 

Neo-galactic Raygun Association:

Sign me up!

Dragon dentistry

These are some rough ideas for some dragon tooth extraction tools, keep in mind they would all be roughly the size of a standard shovel or garden rake. I'm developing a whole bunch of dragonslayer tools for a larger series of book illustrations. Click on the image for a closer look!

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!

Sketchosaurus

More warm-up sketches. Dinosaurs Click on the images for a closer look! 

Practice Pages

Just a few warm-up sketches. The theme was Betty Page. I was reading the Latest issue of the Rocketeer earlier, and thought I'd do some quick portraits sketches as a warm-up. Now to settle into work and listen to the election results.  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! 

Bat boy

Getting back to a regular studio routine, here is this mornings warm-up sketch. Starting off with some Halloween themes. Werewolves are cool were-bats are cooler. Click on the images for a closer look! 

More dragons...

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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!  

Year of the dragon

How fun. I just found out that 2012 is the Chinese "Year of the Dragon."
Here are more concept sketches for the book I'm illustrating. Click on the images for a closer look! 

Big guy

Another sketch from the dragon book. This one needed to be a bit less scary but be able to look huge. Click on the images for a closer look! 

Massive scales

Some more concept sketches for the dragon book I'm illustrating. Click on the images for a closer look!