9/18/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 5 & 6

Got side-tracked yesterday and couldn't post anything.  Making it up today!

9/16/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 4

Getting better with economizing my space.  I'm going to try buying some new inks and use some of the new pen nibs I bought a few months ago.

I find myself getting a bit stuck in trying to create far back grounds.  Once I draw an interior, I find myself not allotting enough time into thinking about what's happening beyond windows.  I know how I would deal with these problems if I were painting, but pen and ink being so unforgiving...

Anyway, the journey continues!

9/15/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 3

My family is staying with me for the week!  I had to hide away for a couple hours just to get this done! 

9/14/2013 30 Day Challenge: Day 2

This will be my post for Day 2 of the challenge! (the previous post was something I drew last night)

9/14/2013 30 Day Inking Challenge!

I've decided to tackle a 30 day challenge!

My good friend and co-worker Vince has convinced me to do a 30 day challenge (He'll be posting a 30 day challenge of his own here). Our goals are a bit different, I'll be trying to draw and ink characters and include backgrounds or at the least characters interacting with their environments.  I'm a bit rusty on having characters blend into the space they occupy, so this should be a good exercise!  I'm going to try to make sure to practice onomatopoeias and effects.  If you're a fan of 30 day challenges, stay tuned!

(This is actually last night's entry, so I shall be posting again later tonight!)

9/12/2013 More Inking Studies

captain of the merman swim team

Now with the comic all finished up, I find myself free to do more of these inking studies.  I'm glad I get to do these, because I'm finding out a lot about inking just by experimenting with different tools again.  I've been married to the idea of using dip pens and brushes, but I find i get much more predictable and cleaner results from using felt tips and microns.  This allows me to think less about the tools and just concentrate on creating interesting forms, shapes and lines. 

More of these to come, hopefully.

9/11/2013 Quick Inking Study

I had some time before going to sleep tonight, so I thought I'd so some inking studies.  trying out new tools and being a bit more aggressive with my lines and blacks.

9/9/2013 a little something

Had a chance to do a little bit of painting tonight!

It's been another long hiatus, but I promise it was worth the wait!  I've finished my comic, and I'm just trying to think of a way for me to show this thing to the world!  Just wait a little bit more, you guys!

Summer Girls 3.0

Here's my third installment of my annual Summer Girls themed paintings!

This painting took forever, but it was a BLAST painting this one.  A did a lot of experimenting with color on this one, and it was totally worth it.  A lot of the colors came out better than I had expected!

7/28/2013 WIP

It's that time of the year again! Summer time is here, and it's time to do another Summer Girl themed painting!

Update on the comic:

I just got my pages scanned on Saturday.  I just need a little bit more time to do clean up and screen toning!  Wait just a little longer, people!

7/22/2013 Long Hiatus, and Swaaaaag

This has probably been the longest hiatus I've been on so far.  But good news!  I finally finished inking my comic!  All that's left is to get the pages scanned, and some screen toning on the computer.  Just a little longer guys!

I got some fun ideas for the near future, so stay tuned!  In the mean time, enjoy a painting I did for my friend!

4/24/2013 Loooong Hiatus!

This was probably the longest hiatus I've taken off of this blog.  And the reason is I've been concentrating on the comic!

I'm at page 30!  I'm at the 2/3 point, so be patient guys!  This is happening!!!

I'll try to post more often, but finishing the comics is my highest priority now, so I probably won't be blogging 3 times a week like I want to.

2/24/2013 Double Page Spreads

Here's a shot of the double page spread I'm working on.  I'm doing my best not to show you every page I work on, because I want there to be the element of surprise when you finally get to read it.  But this page is a bit of an exception because I worked on it for so long and I was just too psyched not to show people! 

Been also messing around on my sketchbook.  Red and blue pencil lead sure makes everything prettier!

I should probably get a scanner for some of this shit.

2/14/2012 Valentines Day Fun

Well, it's that time of year.  This one's for all you forever alones out there!  Worry not, because I am one of you!

Close friends know, but now my dear readers will know that today, to me, is known as; Happy Renew My Xbox Live Annual Subscription Day!!!  Rip out the party poppers, cuz this is a day of celebration!!!

I try to make a nice little ritual of chattin with friends, renewing my annual subscriptions, and my favorite part of the day; draw something sexy!  And you guys get to reap the rewards of my annual tradition! Enjoy, friends!

2/4/2013 Shit that's goin

I'm going to post a few desk shots as well, but just to shake it up a bit, I'm posting some FAN ART!!!

Seems like I'm in a bit of a marvel kick these days.  I thought it'd be cool to do some Spiral fan art over the weekend.

Dance, you sweet lady, dance!

I'll be honest, I first fell in love with Spiral from watching people play her in Marvel Vs Capcom 2.  She has a bizarre dance for an idle animation, and she has really weird looking moves.

Readers who have good memory will remember I talked about my attraction towards weird fighting game characters.  I wondered for a while why she was so weird in MvC2, and one day I ended up on her Wikipedia page.  Apparently she has to do these elaborate hand gestures and dances to conjure up her cosmic powers, allowing her to teleport, skip dimensions, summon swords, etc.  WHICH IS TOTALLY AWESOME.  And that's pretty much when i fell in love with this character.

Last week I was passing by my co-worker's desk and saw this.  Pretty old news at this point, but I haven't been paying too much attention to what's going on in comics these days.  Spiral's part of the Uncanny X-Force!  I was stoked to see her again!  Seems like she's some sort of raver in the series, which is kind of a cool/silly re-imagining of her cosmic dances, but either way I'm actually interested in reading an American comic!

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As promised, here are some more desk shots.  I'm finally done with the "build-up."  NOW IT'S TIME FOR ACTION!!! I still have a ton more pages to finish before this chapter is done.  But hold on to your horses, it'll all be worth it in the end!

Close followers of this blog will have seen this page develop over the past few posts

Also, I'm working on another drawing project (doing the spiral fan-art has inspired me to do an ink painting.  More on this in the future.)  I dug up one of my old sketchbooks.  Finding it still had a few blank pages, I started to sketch in it.  But while I was flipping through it, I found a drawing I haven't shown anyone!  This is a really old drawing, but I was so psyched to see it.  I remember this drawing took me almost a week to finish, and I had to look at a TON of reference for it, too.

I'M DEFINITELY DOING MORE DRAWINGS LIKE THIS!!!