Daily Doodles and Project Sketchbook Preview

I don't want to make any promises, but I think I'm starting to pick up a bit of a sketchbook bug, enough so to motivate more posting. The top two spreads are from today and the bottom three are from my contribution to Project Sketchbook.

More Sketchbook!

A couple more recent spreads.

Storm

This is my contribution to this week's Superhero Cocoa blog theme. Comments and feedback are always welcome :)

Sketchbook Scraps

Midnight Classic!

One of the biggest organized rides in Memphis is happening this weekend! If you've got a bike, and you're in Memphis, and you like, I don't know... FUN, you should totally participate in this year's event. Go to midnightclassicbiketour.org for more details!

Memphis Daily News/Project Sketchbook

(photo by Lance Murphy)

From this past Tuesday's edition of Memphis Daily News, which featured a story about Project Sketchbook. I normally try to keep my face out of the blog a much as possible, but I was pretty excited about the article. My credentials were apparently more impressive than I remembered- I had no idea that I held a MASTER' DEGREE! If only I could find some printed copies of the paper...

Red Dead Daredevil

This is my late 19th century Daredevil for the Superhero Cocoa blog.

Catwoman Reimagined

So, there's been a bit of a comic-character-redesign bug stirring about, and it's finally gotten to me. I chose to redesign Catwoman, but instead of a variant of her existing costume, I made a bit of a departure from the well known design.

Oh Yeah...

...an update on the Illustration Academy piece.

Using...NIBS??!

I was recently informed about a nib that would possibly convert me from brushes, or at least use something else besides them for my ink work. I was skeptical about it, since I've had some iffy experiences with nibs in my undergrad work. But sure enough, after giving the Mitchell Gillott #303 test run, I've come to this conclusion:

This thing owns harder than any tool that I used for ink thus far.

I'll be looking do some fresh stuff with ink in the near future, but in the meantime, here's some doodles I did at work with the nib and my dirty, inky fingers.

Illustration Academy Hopeful

This piece (still in progress) is slated to be my entry in a contest to win a scholarship to next year's Illustration Academy. It's a bit of a departure from my usual working methods. I've still got some noodling to do, so I'll be posting the finished piece, along with some more "Monster City" comics a bit later.

Even More Monsters

These were a bit overdue, but I finally got around to them.

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.

More Monsters

Monster City Residents

These were a lot of fun to draw, and I couldn't have done it without the help of a handful of awesome volunteers. I hope that more people offer their likenesses. I want a village of these guys.

Coming Soon...

This was done as a special request :)

Monster City Blues

This is a short comic I finished up today.

Whew!

It's been a good minute since I've posted anything, mainly because I've been working on some projects that are either beyond my liberties to post just yet or still in progress. Rest assured, I'm still making stuff. In due time...

Ptera

I've been busy working overtime hours, as well as on a cool project with Live From Memphis, but in the meantime, this is a follow-up to my previous dinosaur-related post.

Ted

This was a sketch I made during down time at work. It's based from a photo from the uber-talented Brigitte Lacombe.