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! 

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 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!  

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! 

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.  

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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! 

Starducks?

Some character sketches from my upcoming comic strip project.  
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