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! 

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!!!
 

Massive scales

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

Some more dinosaur sketches...

I've got two sketch books full of sketches like these, so I'll try and post more often. I've been using them for research on a book I'm illustrating featuring nearly 100 dinosaurs. Click on the images for a closer look! 

Dragon drop

Here are some more dragon sketches.  Click on the images for a closer look! 

There be dragons...

Here are some sketches from the book I'm working on. It features a whole cast of characters including 101 dragons. I've been researching dinosaurs and bugs, among other things, trying to come up with 101 unique and distinctly different dragons. This one is based on a parasaurolophus.  

Click on the images for a closer look! 

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.

Yipee!

Just got word that "The Hunting Lesson," has been accepted for the One and Done anthology. This will be my first published work as both writer AND artist. Here is the finished pencil art, with and without the text. Click on the image for a closer look! 

Ahab

Another detail from, "The Hunting Lesson." Click on either of the images for a closer look! 

Build a bear...

Some more finished details from, "The Hunting Lesson." Click on either of the images for a closer look! 

The Hunting Lesson

Here are some rough layouts and sketches I just did for a piece called "the Hunting Lesson." It's a piece I am working on for a comic anthology.

I'm working on inking the final art right now. I like to ink on vellum over my pencils, it's a lot less stressful. I used blue pencil even though I'm not inking directly on them, I usually will start out with light lines in blue, and I switch to regular pencil as I'm doing tighter, cleaner detail. Sometimes even getting very dark, with markers or black prismacolor pencils. But this time I'm drawing the detail while I am inking. Doing a very light pencil drawing on the vellum, before inks. Click on either of the images for a closer look!