American Goblin

Marvel has decided to change their superhero Black Panther to "American Panther". So far I have been reading mixed reviews on the change, and supposedly the switch may not be permanent. Even though the change is weird, I think the art by Francesco Francavilla will look great.

A group of us in Atlanta decided to respond to this news by Americanizing comic characters that have a color in their name. I chose Green Goblin for my redesign. To see what the other artists created go to The Temple of Cartoon Mojo.

Announcement!

OK, I wanted to kick off this revamped blog with an announcement.

I have been teamed up with Pinocchio Vampire Slayer's Van Jensen to work on an SLG comic set in the Snow White world! The only thing I will tell you (for now) is that the comic will pick up after where the fairy tale ends.

Right now I am on the thumbnail stage for the first issue. I wanted to give a teaser of what it will look like with a few pages that are completed.

Sorry, the word balloons and dialog are not in place.

Well back to work!

BLOG REVAMP!!!!!

My blog has been in neglect for some time. So, I am going through and giving it a face lift!

I will be adding more content as the week wears on. And get ready for me to start posting TWICE a week o_O

Crazy right?

From the Sketchbook

Snow White concept. Trying to get better with drawing the ladies. In hind sight i should have made her performing an action to figure out her personality than just looking like a porcelain doll. oh, well.

Medium: Blue Pencil / Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush

Just bought a Pentel pocket brush and I love it. I have to get used to the weight since it's heavier than my Winsor Newton brush. I also enjoy the thickness of the Pentel when gripping it (big hands), and not having to stop and get more ink. Sometimes I get into a groove when inking and having to stop for fill up the brush can ruin my flow.

As, for the sketch I decided to draw a old guy. I love elderly males because I can throw as many hatch marks as I want and it will look fine. As opposed to females where its the 'less is more' scenario.

Medium: Blue Pencil / Pentel Pocket Brush (yay!)

This is my inspired sketch from "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's Ged or Sparrowhawk at a young age just learning how to summon little critters.

Medium: Blue Pencil / Pentel Pocket Brush

FALL QUARTER 2010 ART DUMP

Well it's two quarters worth of work this time. I didn't post everything that I made over the summer. Sorry for not updating in a long time. I actually got MARRIED to my now wife Susan and kind of got side tracked. But here it is FALL QUARTER 2010 ART DUMP.....

A short Snow White comic about how the Queen acquired the Mirror.

India Ink and mostly Brush

A portrait of Sig Hansen from Deadliest Catch.

Painter 11 and Photoshop

A book cover redesign for the Count of Monte Cristo.

The Book Cover actually bound along with a foam airplane I made that I will pass out at conventions.

Little Red. Photoshop

A short story based on the folk character, Hiiaka in Hawaiian lore who goes around killing demons with her magic hula skirt that shoots fire and lightening.

A label redesign for a Trader Joe's product. Medium: Scanned Traditional Drawings and Illustrator CS3

BlackSad Pin-up.

India Ink and Brush

Nightmare

This was a lot of fun to make. The assignment for class was to illustrate a dream or nightmare. In my thumbs I had more cheerful ideas but the one idea that caught my eye was my experience of sleep paralysis several years back. People describe the experience as if someone is sitting on your chest and you can't move even though you want to. Its a weird inbetween of being awake and still dreaming. Thankfully I have only experienced it once so far (knock on wood). All I remember was trying to flip the light switch which took me a hour to do while I had bizarre images materializing and fading away into the shadows of the room. Once I did turn on the lights I realized that the reason for sleep paralysis was from lack of sleep and that I should go back to bed. So remember sleep is very important. A tired artist is a crappy artist.

As for the process I drew on Rives BFK mid-tone so I can put in shadows and highlights. I like drawing with FaberCastel's Polychromos series, and for this piece I used the Cobalt Blue. Highlights with white color pencil. Once done scanned the drawing and put it into Photoshop. I then made my flats, added some color, messed with layer adjustments, wiggled my fingers, and PRESTO I had a finished Illustration.

Line work

Flats

Color Block In

Final

Avatar the Last Airbender

Needed to update the blog with something so I created this Avatar piece. There is plenty of other work that I have done so far I just need to scan and post it. It will most likely be one big art dump at the end of the summer quarter, so be on the look out.