Marvel Nouveau (set 1)

Finally got around to finishing up a third Marvel Nouveau piece, which I think rounds out a nice set of starting three.

Cyclops, Gambit, and Wolverine are next on the list, but who knows when they'll come around.

FREE Custom Comic Dialog Balloons for Photoshop

Long time, no blog! (I swear I'll get the hang of this some day!)

But is a pack of dialog balloons I made in Photoshop. Scalable, with a more "natural" feel than the otherwise perfect ellipses and rectangles Photoshop can create by default. I've started growing weary of my comic dialog looking too "clinical" so I thought I'd make some strides to add a little vitality into the balloons.

Feel free to use these at your discretion—no credit necessary. I'd personally just like to know what projects you use them on at all, so do drop me a line if you use them for anything. I'd love to see it!

All I ask is that if you intend to share them, please just link back here or directly to the deviantART page they're hosted at. I'd just like to know how much traffic these things generate. I'll be making more as time and necessity permits.

Alright, enough jibber-jabber!
To get the custom shapes (which you'll have to unarchive and then import into Photoshop) CLICK HERE!

Happy comicking!

Time to dump some more illos up in here!

Personal Commission

Swat Kats fanart

Skullkickers fanart. Featured in issue #13

Slamfist Character Designs - Sketchdump

Here are some character designs I've been working on for Slamfist Media. These are part of the second wave of characters they've commissioned from me. I'll be sharing the finished turnaround sheets for each character after those guys upload them all.

Characters are properties of Slamfist Media.

Sketch of Korra done in Manga Studio. Worked at a 12.5% zoom level—let's you feel like you're hashing out a thumbnail sketch, but you're actually working on a full page. Obviously still a sketch, but it's fun!

Sky Pirates of Valendor #2.5
Published by Jolly Rogue Studios

Sky Pirates of Valendor #2.5, with a cover by me, was recently released over at Drive Thru Comics. For $1 you can get a digital download. Other issues in the volume are also only a dollar, so for $5 you can catch up on everything so far!

Crappin' around with Sculptris

So, I finally updated to Mac OS 10.6 this weekend opening me up to a bevy of new software to tinker with—one of which is Sculptris (which you can get legitimately free, by the way).

I've messed around with it before, but this is only my third attempt to actually sculpt something of merit, and my first at tackling a full-body anatomy. Truth be told, it's also one of the only organic constructs I've attempted in any 3D software.

Right now the idea is to turn this into Bonnie, but today was mostly just for getting more used to the program and handling it to make something fairly basic.

Pretty fun practice. Still need to figure out a more practical way to sculpt appendages and digits. You'll notice that I didn't bother individualizing the toes—the fingers were a bear! The hands started out pretty spiffy themselves, but I made the mistake of simplifying their geometry too much, and lost some of the detail.

Discretion for Miles

An homage to older bits from MBMBaM, wherein the brothers ruminate upon the "perfect" horse.

Uh… maybe I'll get around to updating this site like I did with the Bonnie Lass blog.

Sneak peek...

Here's an early look at something I've cooked up for My Brother, My Brother and Me. Tune in for Monday's podcast and catch the full comic!

Sure-You-Can!!!

I'm attempting to give this blog a much needed redesign and new priority.
Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll be back to updating with more consistency and keeping the images up-to-date with my other online exhibition venues.

To start things off, here's a piece of Street Fighter fanart I did for kicks. Had this idea for a while. The fact that it was not getting realized has been eating away at my productivity, so I figured I'd better jam it out to get it out of the way, ans whaddaya know it only took an hour.

Respeck Knuckles. Don't get hassled by clients like this...

Hello to my Void of a Readership:

This guy's being a clown.
http://kaitol.com/how-to-hire-an-artist/

Don't work for this guy, or anybody who shares pretty much any of his views on the client-artist "relationship." Trust me, they're easier to spot in initial contacts that you'd think; just keep an eye out.

Gold Digger Swimsuit #19

So two months later, I haven't drawn a whole lot that isn't either A) Bonnie Lass-related (and therefor available on one or more of the Bonnie Lass hubs I've got running online, if I decided to share it at all), or B) something I probably can't or shouldn't show off just yet for non-disclosure purposes.

So since most of what I've been drawing falls into those categories, I haven't had too much leisurely-creative time, and therefor, I've slumped on sharing the few www-ready works I have done recently.

Actually, I've apparently lied. Most of what I've taken the time to share online (that's not Bonnie-related) has been sketches not much more than polished sketches for the most part lately, but they're there. I'm too lazy to backtrack and put them all on here individually (at least right now) so for the time being you can just check 'em out on my deviantART gallery...

As for the title of the post, I apparently made it into the pages of Antarctic Press' Gold Digger Swimsuit #19! Only found out today when two copies of the book showed up in the mail. That's got to be the most official way to inform somebody they've been published. Just show 'em.

On a related note, I'm working on a project for Bluewater Productions right now. Just got character designs approved, so over the next couple of months I'll be doing my best to crank out 32 pages from pencil to digital colors! It's two of their existing properties, and that's all I'll say for now. Pretty cool that they're giving me as much freedom with them as they are, though! I'll see if I can post a preview sometime further along in the production...!

That's all for now!

Commissions are open.

Hey, all!
Just refined my commission rubric!

Click here to read my commission information!

Commercial work takes priority over personal commissions. And commissions are dealt with on a first come, first served basis.

Just check out that page for the details on how to get lined up for a commission!

And I'm running a special on Pencil Sketches! $5 for a waist-up sketch, $10 for a full body sketch! That's half off! Only doing that for an undetermined, limited time, so get in a request now if you want one! (And while the deal is running, I'll happily oblige to $5 single orders; normally you'd have to commission $10 worth of work for an order.)

Please drop me a line! I'd love to work on something for you!

Legend of Zelda does Raiders of the Lost Ark, part 1

So, Anime Punch wasn't quite as profitable as I'd hoped. Actually, wasn't profitable at all.

What did I learn? Despite how confident I may be in the quality of my artwork, the throngs of potential buyers prefer to spend money on characters that have been popular within the last five minutes. Yoko and Simon sold the most of the "recent" characters, with Vegeta tying with them as the contender for "nostalgic" character. And I think Vegeta only sold because of the 'under 9000' pun.

Which leads me to my second lesson... People like the funny. Or ironic. Which is where I'm going with this current work-in-progress Zelda picture.

Everybody likes a Zelda game. So I'm going with a LoZ themed piece, obviously. Also, for the funny/ironic/awesome, I'm basing the whole piece off of the poster for Raiders of the Lost Ark. The biggest compositional difference will be that Link's pose is flipped from Indy's original, since Link is traditionally left-handed.

When it's done, this'll be something I can sell larger prints of at later conventions. Being more ornate in nature and combining the Zelda motif with a silly homage to Indiana Jones, formulaicly it makes sense that this would sell pretty well. Now I just make it worthwhile by having fun with the whole thing. For the record, mimicing the style and composition is already a blast! Can't wait to start getting other elements in there!

(I'm also disappointed that my FMP? Fumoffu! piece didn't sell at all. Not because it didn't make money; merely because apparently there was no love for FMP... L 2 watch more than Naruto, One Piece, Bleach and Inuyasha, folks...)

Fumo!

Got another piece ready for Anime Punch. This time it's Full Metal Panic fanart...! Kaname's shoes were the trickiest part of the whole thing. They were the last part of the foreground that I drew, just because I'm always leery of feet in general—and in this case they're not just standing firmly on the ground. But I think I handled it rather well!

May try and get one more full piece done to get printed, but I should probably go to Office Max tomorrow for sure and print off what I've got ready, in case I run out of time Thursday night...

Drawn on Chatroulette

So I decided in order to do my part to make Chatroulette a little less creepy, I'd start asking people if they'd want me to draw them.



OK. So... that in and of itself still sounds creepy.

But it's not. Most people that stay connected with your cam long enough for you to run the idea by them say yes.

Well that was two nights ago. I started another blog, Drawn On Chatroulette, and I've been archiving the cartoons I draw of people. Like this one:
Then, earlier today, I just started having people prompt me on what to draw. One such result was this:
i.e. the world's best interpretation of Spongebob Squarepants ever. I find Spongebob annoying and thus boring. German girl wanted me to draw Spongebob. I obliged and made it more entertaining for myself by making him slightly mortifying. I want to clean it up and color it at some point.

So yeah, anyway. Got another blog running. Again, it's Drawn on Chatroulette. Be on the lookout for me if you venture on Chatroulette itself!

Moar Gurren-Lagann

Now with more curves...!
More stuff for Anime Punch.

Spin on!

Did some Gurren Lagann fanart last weekend. Just now getting around to posting them. More work for Anime Punch in a couple of weeks. Planning on doing pics of Yoko and Nia in the same vein.

His Power Level is was...

More fanart to sell at Anime Punch.
Too bad I'm not a bandwagoner and thus have no interest in whatever series the otaku masses are eating up right now.
I'm just going to have to appeal to nostalgia, I guess.

Obey the Palmtop Tiger.

Something else I worked up for Anime Punch. Haven't done a Toradora fanart before. Now I have. The sans lineart version came about by accident. The way I ended up coloring this one made for very defined shapes on the coloring layer. When I nonchalantly hid the lineart layer at one point, I saw how clear the colors stood on their own.

Yay for Taiga.