Digital Roughs

I started a comic project today and this is a page layout I made in Photoshop. It's been forever since I've tried digital sketching. It's such a time saver, especially for quick value studies. Compositional tweaks and pencils come tomorrow...

PLOP Teaser

This is from the first issue of "PLOP", slated for release sometime this summer. It's a self-published comic zine that'll feature work from Gino Barzizza, John Lee, Alex "Warble" Harrison, and myself.

Monster City Blues

This is a short comic I finished up today.

A Bit More From "Tanuki"

I just finished another set of pages and figured it would be cool to share a few more before finishing the first chapter.

"Tanuki" Teaser

For the past few months, I've been steadily working on what will be the webcomic "Tanuki" whenever the free time surfaces. I'm having fun with this project and it's one of the few comics that have made it past my "at least five pages or else it's dead" mark. I'm still finishing the first chapter, but here are a handful of pages for now:

More to come soon.

Scrap Pieces!

This is a side project that I decided to take on as a way to entertain the ideas that I sometimes jot down but don't know what to do with.

This should give you the general tone of what you're in store for:

Check out more irreverent goodness; I'm kicking it off with not one, not two, but THREE STAGGERING INSTALLMENTS!

My 8-Hour Attempt at the 24 Hour Comic Challenge

I had no idea the challenge was even happening at MCA until a few hours prior, which is good- There's less temptation (or time for that matter) to preemptively plan out a comic. I couldn't stay for the entire thing because of work and other engagements, but here's what I have to show for my time.

This is the first page. I scanned it in color to show the non-photo blue pencilling done before the inking. I drew out and lettered all four pages before getting to the inks, which took about an hour per page.

Here are the finished pages, finished after four more red-eyed hours.

New Comics (finally!)

For the past few weeks I've been working on comic pages and if you've been around me during that period of time, it probably seems like that's the only thing going on with my spare time. Okay, it has eaten a lot of spare hours, but I'm stoked to be back on the sequentials again, and hopefully I'll have the first issue of "Red String Phoenix" (written by Donald Juengling) finished pretty soon. Some inks of the first five pages:











P.S.- I'm all about the feedback, so any suggestions or critiques are welcome from all comers.

Finished(?) Posters, Comics, and...Nien Numb?

I finished working out the designs for the travel posters, and at this point working on some anal-retentive fine tuning. I found a solution for the previously mentioned crappy font, and I made a few adjustments to the color scheme. By adjustments, I mean that there's another frickin' version. Here they are:





I've also finished working on the inking for my promotional mini-comic, and I'm working to get snazzy covers made for it.





While I was working on the last page, my friend Cody made the keen observation about the resemblance of my self-caricature and a creature from the Star Wars universe. After a quick Wikipedia search and a call to an "expert" on the subject, we found that the alien in question was part of a race called the Nien Numb. It was a little disconcerting how close the resembance was, but you can check it out for yourself: