Friday, March 16, 2012

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!  

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Marathon man

Here are some character design sketches I did for a three page comic I'm illustrating for an anthology collection. The piece is called Marathon's beach, and is based ona poem by Alex Ness. Click on the images for a closer look!  


Thursday, March 8, 2012

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! 



Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Do nerdy dragons play basements & geeks?

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

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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! 



Monday, February 20, 2012

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!!!
 

Friday, February 3, 2012

Massive scales

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




Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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! 





Friday, January 13, 2012

Dragon drop

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





Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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! 



Monday, October 24, 2011

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.