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.

Comic art

I FIGURE IT’S HIGH TIME I POST SOME SEQUINTAL ART UP HERE INSTEAD AS COMING OFF AS JUST A PIN UP ARTIST. These where for a story I was trying to write about two robots watching the last few humans on earth killing each other in a war. The problem with me is I’m not much of a writer. I think I have some good ideas I just can’t string them together. If I can find an ending I may still finish it since it was only intended to be a short story anyway.

Just a quick one today. A month or so ago I saw the Wolverine movie and though it totally made up for X-Men 3. One of my favorite stories growing up was the Weapon X episodes in the old Marvel Comics Presents with art by Barry Wisner Smith. They even mad a toy of it in the 90’s. Thinking about it now I wish I drew that cool helmet… Yeah, now you see why I draw instead of write. Off to bed.

Leech Guy

Just a quick one. This week has been hell. The company I worked for filed for bankruptcy and so I am totally out of a job. A friend of mine and his coworker spent some down time coming up with these extreme over the top killer characters. He asked me to draw a few. This is the leech guy. Not my top of the line but fun. Post more soon between job hunting. Gosh It would be great if I broke into comics soon. If I had one of those story's where things turned around at just the right time. I know there's a ton of people who have it much worse off than me but it would be nice.