Sorry...

Do Over

OK - I'm feeling a bit better and want to get back to the little story I started before the holidays. I never really explained what I was doing, so I'm going to do that now as well as reposting all of the pages so far.

I drew the first page without any idea of what was going on or where the story was headed. I liked the idea of painting myself into a corner with each page and figuring my way out on the next. By the time I got to the third page I had a better idea of where the story was going, but still wanted to play it by ear day by day, page by page. It's a fun and challenging writing exercise and forces me to draw quickly. Each page has taken me about 3 hours from initial idea to scanned and lettered digital file.

The biggest hurdle I face in trying to work on comics in my free time is the amount of time it takes. It's very easy to lose momentum and interest when the work drags out over a long period of time. Not that I would consider these professional quality, but it feels a lot better to finish a full page a day as opposed to the 12 months it took me to draw a 5 page story I did with more traditional techniques a while back.

Enough with the talk - back to the drawing:

Sick

As usual, I got sick over the break and am still suffering from 'cotton head':

Home Stretch

Last post from the road - here's an experiment with ink wash from a long time ago:

Roy Batty

I may have to use some Christmas money to pick up the new Blade Runner final cut DVD's:

Hellboy

I can't believe I've had this blog for over a month and I haven't posted a Hellboy sketch yet:

Merry Christmas

Line art for a billboard design I did about 10 years ago:


I don't have the color version anymore - I probably colored it in Corel Draw and saved it to a long gone floppy disk.

Holiday Break

My wife & I are out of town for the holidays, so I won't be able to do much drawing or scanning until we get back. I threw some random stuff on a thumb drive and will be posting that while we're gone like this sketch for a story idea I had:


I'll continue my impromtu little comic story when I get back next week.

A Little More

Something Different

Look, Up in the Sky!

A quick Superman today:

Heads or Tails

I'm taking the Conan image from Friday further than I thought I would, so I'm going to post some other stuff in the mean time.

I liked the trailer for the new Batman movie, but I've always been more of a Two-Face fan than a Joker fan:

Conan Week Day 5

Trying something different today - this one was done in entirely Photoshop. It's not done, but I like the way it's going, so I'll finish it up for Monday:

Conan Week Day 4

Another new one:

Conan Week Day 3

I had time to work up a new sketch while waiting for my computer to process some renders today:

Conan Week Day 2

Conan Week

I'm trying to finish reading No Country for Old Men before I see it on Wednesday, so how about a week of Conan sketches from the vaults:

Alley Oop

Just a quick Daredevil today - I went out for sushi & comic books for lunch today:

Where do you want this?

Wonder Woman doing a little yard work...

Welcome to the End of the Future...

My friend Shane White has been working on a mini-series for Image Comics called The Overman. The first issue is out this week:


It looks amazing, and I can't wait to see what it's all about.

Shane, I apologize if I botched your design in this sketch:

More Venture Bros.

Two more quick Venture Bros. sketches today. Doc Venture as a head in a jar mounted on a walking eye (with monkey proof welding):


...and the Venture Bros. wearing their best action outfits:

You got a problem with Zep, little man?!

I was watching a little Venture Bros. today during lunch, so a quick Brock Samson sketch:

Ol' Shell Head

Very busy today at work, so here's a little Iron Man sketch from a little while ago:

Kung Fro

After listening to a podcast interview with comics writer B. Clay Moore, I looked at some of the preview art for his new book, '76. It's kind of a mix of Grindhouse & The Last Dragon with very cool expressive art by Ed Tadem. Just trying my hand at that sort of look:

Monsters of Rock

Just messing around with an idea...

Saboteur

Last week my wife & I went to an exhibit of production art from Alfred Hitchcock's films at Northwestern (info here). It was very cool seeing storyboards blown up & hung along side a monitor playing the final sequence from the film. My favorites were from the Statue of Liberty scene in Saboteur:

Indy

Just a quick Indiana Jones sketch today:

Super Friends

I was looking at some old cartoon art from the 30's & 40's on the Animation Archive when I drew these - just trying to get some of the line quality those artists had back then:

Little Green Men

Someday I'd love to do a 50's space age inspired adventure strip with pipe smoking scientists and pesky little green men. In the mean time, I'll just watch genius that is the Venture Bros.

It's Clobberin' Time

Here's something a little different - a small oil painting of the Thing I made this summer. It's about 6"x8":