Punky Shoe-ster

This was done as a T-shirt design for my soon to be wife Margot and our friends Debbie and Lisa. The girls are gearing up for The Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. They have dubbed their little group the Punk Walkers. Here’s the link if you would like to donate.They have done a great job so far, but can still use all the help they can get. I’m very proud of all the hard work Margot has done for this cause.
http://www.the3day.org/site/TR/2010/BostonEvent2010?px=4336523&pg=personal&fr_id=1462

A few pages from my new comic!!!

In an effort to get more of my stuff out there, I’ve come to the realization that I can’t really write. I can do little three or four page strips or one offs, but anything beyond a few pages and I’m lost. So I started working with my friend Adam to produce a web comic. I've worked with Adam on a number of video projects he's written and I always admired his drive. Some people talk, some people do. Adam's a do'er. These are the first few pages. The finished product with the lettering will be up soon. Our friend Cory is even doing the color flats for me. This saves more time than you know and I’m happy that he’s kicking ass and taking to it like a fish to water.Plus Adam has enough exciting story with these characters to keep me drawing for years.I will be linking to the main sight as soon as we launch it.

Long time no post. The biggest reason for this has been my decision to go all digital with my art work. This piece is my first completely computer generated work. It was done for my friend Ali on her 30th birthday at the request of her loving husband Jon. As you may have guessed her party was Harry Potter themed. I’m really happy with the way it turned out and that my friend will have a bench mark her life while I have one for my art. More coming soon, I really want to make this a sound board for my stuff.

Battlestar's #6

Now with Dollhouse canceled I’m missing Battlestar more than ever. I haven’t done much color wise in the past few weeks. This started as a doodle in the sketch book while I was watching BSG: The Plan. I was just going to throw some color on it and that would be that but then I started playing with the colors and lighting and even went into the line work and tweaked and redrew. I haven’t played with the line art on these before. Usually the line art is pencil and/or pen on paper that gets scanned then the color goes behind it. Imagine a piece of glass; draw on it with a marker then on the other side color it in with paint. I like how the color helped give dimension to her face. It has a bit more of real painting feel. I’m glad I stuck through it even though it was just for fun and wanted to be in bed 3 hours ago. I had a great time with the Punk Walkers tonight and was just a bit wired when I got home.

Zombie Cows

My friends are taking part in National Novel Writing month. Since I’m not much of a writer I’ve opted to start a web comic. I’ve been planning it out in a Moleskine storyboard sketchbook for the past few weeks. I got the idea from a cow toy my niece has. I hope I’m able to follow through with it. It’s the first time I’m coloring and lettering something sequential. I keep hoping I’ll feel better if I just get something out there.

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No real purpose behind this one, just a figure study in Bic pen in my tiny tiny sketchbook. I’m hoping to get some freelance illustrator work so I guess I’m trying to branch out from the comic book stuff a bit. Now if only someone would write an article on the dangers of high heels.

I miss the 90's

Long time no post, so I’m going for a two for one. The New Fantastic Four was one of my favorite comic stories in the 90’s. You can’t beat the combo of Walter Simonson and Arthur Adams. I wish I put a better facial expression on the Hulk, but I’m pretty happy with the colors. The nice thing about coloring Ghost Rider is you don’t have to guess your light source. I like the dark shadow heavy Spider-man, not really how we’re used to seeing him. I hated the Wolverine but felt better after the colors.

The second drawing was from my pocket sketch book with some quick computer colors thrown in. I was unpacking and found my Tank Girl collection among some books. This is another book I loved in high school. It’s still amazing how much crazy was packed into each page. Fun all around.