Twelve Foot Doom!

MF Doom, of course. That was part of what has been the coolest commission I think I've ever had. My friend Opie and I tag-teamed on some murals at Sneak Peek, a hip-hop apparel store at the end of the South Main arts district (515 S.Main). The owner was really cool about letting us cover the walls with large scale versions of the fan art that would normally occupy sketchbook pages.

Tons of fun. Lots of Red Bull. Life-sized Spike Lee caricature.

See? Told you.

Fresh Inks!

I've been a little slow on the posting, so it looks like I've been sitting on my butt for the past month. That's partially true, but I'm back on the inkslinging and I'm hauling ass to get work done by the middle of next month. Here is some recent work, most of them works in progress.

It Came from the Archives!

I was at the ol' alma mater making copies of some my recent work when I dug up this little animation. I posted an incomplete version earlier, and here's the rest of it.

New Work

The beginning of a new series.

More Digital Painting!

Photoshop Sketch

I don't really have anything earth-shattering to post at the moment, but it felt like the blog was collecting dust, so here's a quick Photoshop sketch that I made last night.

Selected Sketchbook Spreads (December 2008- present)

These are chronologically ordered from most recent to oldest... or at least as close as I could get.

Du Bois Fan Art

Since I've been in a state of residential limbo for a good minute, there hasn't been much time to focus on working on anything serious. That makes me really sad. The silver lining is that I've found some time to dust off some books that have been in my collection (aka shoved in a corner, waiting to be loved). Of those books, W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk" has been occupying my free time, and I'm definitely digging his brand of brain food.

More from 4/20...

...just because, really.

A snapshot from "Earth Day"...

...or at least the 4/20 celebration of said holiday in Overton Park.

Mashup in Progress

National Geographic, outside of having a wealth of eye candy, is also good for pulling random subject matter when the mind occasionally goes blank. I've been toiling away at this gouache painting for a couple of sittings, and it's getting close to "finished" status. It's hard to say because the painting is completely improv, but I have some other stuff to get to, so it may have to come to a close soon.

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.

Art Jumble Week 131: Lord of The Rings

This is the piece that I contributed to Art Jumble for the weekly topic "Lord of The Rings". I'll admit that I'm not really familiar with Tolkien's literature, so I went for one of my favorite characters from Peter Jackson's movie adaptation, which I still think is good in its own right. It's always fun to draw a big ugly monster every so often.

Yep. Still truckin'.

I think I'm a blogaholic...

Seriously, there has to be a succinct and institutionally-approved prefix and suffix combination that creates the word to adequately describe such a disorder. If not, then blogaholic will do. I've noticed while going through some older posts, that there some things, while being fun to share, should probably have another home. Preferably one in which they're not rooming with my attempts at being an illustrator. Plus, with a supplement blog, I'll have more freedom to blab on about things that make me look more like a well-rounded human being with emotions and opinions and such. Getting on with things, I give you my latest fix.

Collaboration with Billy Welch

My friend Billy Welch recently offered one of his drawings to the general public as a challenge to see who could give it the best color treatment this side of the Mason-Dixon. Since I had recently bought a new Wacom, it seemed like it was time to go digital all over that drawing's candy ass.





I made two versions because I wasn't sure which one worked better. I'm trying to work with colored line work in Photoshop, but sometimes you can't beat the visual "oomph!" of black line art. Feel free to offer feedback.

Since I feel all show-and-tell-y, here's the painting in progress that I mentioned a few posts back that started as a drunken impulse. I'm doing well to develop it with more consideration and less Pabst.

Never mind...

...Blogger can be quirky sometimes.

WTF?

Why is my blog blank? WHAT THE HELL?!