Back Cover all drawned and inked up.

After the wife lends her lettering skill I'll be dropping some color on this mutha and dropping it for the show. You can almost smell the sense of accomplishment...

Halfway there...

Lettering done by my lovely wife as my handwriting is for @#$%!

Only have to knock out the back cover now. Hopefully tonight, if not, tomorrow.

Getting closer...

Will be dropping some text and markerification all up on this mutha today and/or tonight. Stay tuned, True Believer...

Zombiker Colorfied!

And speaking of zombies...how about the season finale of The Walking Dead last night? Shit hit the fan and I'm one happy fan! (A poet, too.) Michonne FTW!

Deadhead

The fine folks at Velocity Comics are holding a benefit art show to help out a local illustrator/professor from VCU deal with medical bills after overcoming a brain tumor. I've done a gouache painting so far, but Velocity is also handing out blank cover Marvel comics for us comic-minded illustrators to sketch up and donate. I pulled a DEADPOOL issue, mainly because I've never drawn him, but also because I'm quite fond of his zombie head Bizarro-version that's been floating around for a couple years. That said here's a preliminary sketch from last night to get me in the mood.


Now with marker colorification!

Zombiker

Drawing is finito for a screenprint I'm working on for the good folks at Screen 'N' Scuds MS 150 Bike Ride. Hoping to ink it in the next couple days and then tweak the colors and type this weekend. Then get it approved by the Powers That Be and then ship it off to Itty Bitty Press for 30 or 40 prints. Haven't decided yet on what I'll want as I'm donating 20 for the cause. Still on the fence on as to how many colors I'll be going with, too. Probably two, but I'd really like to do three. We'll see how things shake out, won't we?

Updated with finished inks:

Happy trails, Mr. Severin.

I was introduced to John Severin's work through CRACKED Magazine and The Talking Blob, which lead me to hunt down his other endeavors. (Love me his old HULK stuff and you can't go wrong with any of his westerns.) Saddened that he's gone, but damn glad he was with us.

Labeling oneself...

Still working on top secret 'Haps stuff, but realize it's been over a month since I last updated anything...

As you may or may not know I'm a bit of a homebrewer. Turns out I've got a knack for it and am able to brew decent beers consistently. So much so that I figured it'd be time to start the marketing ball rolling (delusions of grandeur? damn right!) and get 'em some labels. I'll probably be trinkering with the look for a while, but might as well share what I've come up with so far. Wanna keep 'em simple, yet bold enough to stand out. Without further ado, here's round one:

Quick update

Yes, I am still alive and kicking. Mafus' pages have been officially inked and passed off for scanning. Now I'm starting inks on Eric Henson's 10 page story for the 'Haps as well. Busy! Busy! Busy!

Also, it's Movember! Get yo' 'stache on and join up with Brimley's Lip Rangers for a good cause! I'll be humiliating myself all month and you should, too.

Vacation has come and gone...

Refreshed and recharged to say the least. Putting KNOW IT ALL on hold for a couple weeks while I hammer out the inks on Mafus' pencils for our Perhapanauts back-up story. We've had the luxury of time on this back-up tale, but I'd much rather not procrastinate on it any longer. Clean the slate so I can fully delve into my own project.

That said, updates will probably be few and far for the foreseeable month since I won't be posting any of the 'Haps inks. (You'll just have to wait for publication, which will hopefully be sometime this year.) There may be a painting or two popping up soon, but other than that consider me on sabbatical. See ya soon!

A very skullish Father's Day

I received a copy of SKULLS by local artist Noah Scalin (co-curator of the International Skull Appreciation Day show I took part in) for Father's Day. As sketching Page 14 wasn't going anywhere, I decided to do a little Pop and Kid skull duo. Hell, it was Father's Day, so why not? Probably spent 30 minutes on it total and I think it turned out okay. The only real problem was the wood was super soft and didn't really appreciate having eye-hooks bored into its back. Get the feeling that we'll hear a crash one night as the hooks give up...

As an added bonus, here's Page 13:

Slack

I forgot to post Page 11 last Friday, so to make up for that oversight here's the pencils for both 11 and 12. Thumbnails for 13 tomorrow night and look for full pencils in a day or two. Peace!

Back to Know It All...

Nice to start hanging with the characters again. Page 11 has already been sketched, so I just have to lightbox that mutha and —BAM!—halfway through pencilling the book.

Also, sorry for the arty-farty image. Been playing around with different apps on my phone.

And it's done!

Dropping this puppy off in a couple hours. Shoooooooooooo.

Getting closer...

...which is good because this puppy is due Friday.

Back from the beach

Our regularly scheduled art posts will continue shortly...

Skull progress

With the Flyers finally eliminated from the playoffs I've found a lot more time to work on the skull. It's getting close, but still probably have another 6-8 hours left before I'll be happy.

Hopefully everyone got out for FCBD. Lilah had a blast and raked in a nice little haul from our two store visits. I think my fave book of FCBD was the Cap/Thor book. Great art, fun story and FREE!

Bonehead

I've obviously taken a break from the comic at moment and have been working on a skull (wait for it...) for SKULLS, the first International Skull Appreciation Day Exhibit. Kinda cool to be one of a hundred or so local artists selected to take part and while the deadline is still a month away I wanted to get cracking on it sooner rather than later. Cuz knowing my procrastinating arse I'd start the night before the deadline.

Sketched it out the other night after priming the skull (paper mache) and then took a Pitt brush pen to it last night. Of course, the Pitt pen doesn't really stick to the gesso the way I'd hoped and started smearing. Will be wearing gloves until I can get the underpainting on. Expect a lot of greens with some splashes of red.





As you can see, I've got a little helper on this project...

Pages eight and nine...check!

One from page eight:

And one from page nine:

Can you guess which one was lightboxed?

Page Seven is finito

At least pencil-wise. Also started the first oil painting of the year: a landscape, which is a first for me, surprisingly. A bit rusty with the oils, so it's taking a little longer than I'd hoped. (Read: I keep mucking up and have to do damage control.) Giving the painting a few days to set, so I'll be jumping back into Page Eight this evening.