NOVA

Here's my Nova redesign put through an Ancient Egyptian filter. Lots of fun experimenting with hand drawn layers of texture.
Side note: I need to quit making pieces that require large format scanning when I don't have a large format scanner.

Life Over AIDS Exhibition at Caritas Village

I recently submitted a piece for the "Life Over AIDS" show, hosted by Caritas Village. The exhibition is intended is to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. I drew the image above after reading this list of statistics from The Centers for Disease Control website, which states:

"At some point in their life, approximately one in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV..."

That's a pretty scary (and small) number, especially when dealing with HIV and AIDS. I'm part of the aforementioned demographic, so that stat also strikes a personal chord.

For info about Caritas Village and the show, follow this link.

"Daily" Doodles

I slipped a bit with the posting, but these are a few fun headshots I drew after finishing some less entertaining work.

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.