mock up atom eve cover

Colored in Illustrator

Brush and ink vs Manga Studio 4

Heres a little behind the scenes at piece I worked on of Atom Eve. The last two images are a comparison of traditional inking versus digital inks. My crappy scanner was not quite capturing the quality I wanted of the traditional inks so I decided to pull out the ol manga studio to ink with. Ive had the program but hadn't messed with it since getting a cintiq. Suprisingly, I really liked inking with it. I treated it like traditional inking and ended up happy with the results.
I finished it up in Illustrator and actually changed the near hand which looked hella messed up on the ink versions.

Sketch Dump

Okay i could have picked a better post title. anyways, here is the warmup sketches (and one cool down sketch) for this week.

And a sketch from a while back that I forgot to post. Pencils by my artist friend Claire and inks by me. Its an inside joke stemming from the fact that i don't master the English  language. She's hilarious.

pinup girl on the beach

Working on pieces for the portfolio. Got inspired to fully render this one out. Now on to more pieces! It doesn't stop

A mecha self-portrait of the artist

Had time this morning to add colors to my self-portrait (kinda), which I then added to the new banner on this blog. Now to change my profile pic on all my social media outlets. As always, click image for larger view.

bday card

Again came the time to make my lil older sister a birthday card. This time, keeping with the tradition of calling back our childhood, I drew Rogue, her favorite X-Men character. The two of us with our little bro loved to watch the animated series. So here's to my sis, Happy Bday! Traditional inks cleaned up in the comp.

Life drawing sessions

This is actually a mix of the last two drawing sessions Ive been to over the last two weeks. Because of personal health issues, its been hard to get a good volume of drawings out of these sessions but at least ive been practicing the figure. Mixture of pencil, ink, and charcoal.

wall mural

Finally posting these pics even though this mural has already been painted over. RIP live/love mural. Now ima go pour some liquor for you on my driveway.

Life drawings

Went to life drawing last Thursday and sketched up some doodles. A lil rusty but hopefully that will go away with more practice.

Twitter Contest winner

I recently had my first twitter contest in celebration of having 500+ followers and I decided to send this little sketch to the winner. Quick archer sketch in my style. Blue pencil and Black ink. Shameless plug: check out Archer on FX!

Wolverine vs Blanka MVC

What up world! Hope everyone had a great end of the year. I'm kicking off 2011 with a sketch done for a sketchblog by floyd county artists. You may know us as the group that brings you all the FX animated show Archer (which premiers Jan 27 by the way. plug plug). I slept on getting this done because of all the festivities of the end of the year, so all I could do was a sketch. Hopefully ill get some time to finish it off. You can also check out the other amazing artists I work with and their contributions to the blog at http://dragonstreetdoublerage.blogspot.com/

In other news, Im finishing my new website re-design which will cause this blog to chance in appearance. So be in the look out for that. Many good things coming for 2011!

Ninja t-shirt

I got called out on not having posted in a while (yea you know who you are), so im posting up a tshirt idea that I came up with a while back. Now I just need to figure out my yudu machine.

lunchtime sketching

Done during my lunch breaks, sketching one character at a time (i mean, come on, my lunch breaks aren't THAT long). Not too happy with the lizard or mary jane but it was fun to sketch out while filling my inner fatty with food.

mural process

I don't really have anything new to show in the process but I thought it would be cool to see the wall before paint got on it. I laid out the grid and penciled in the image and also tweaked the drawing slightly. Now I can't wait to start painting!

Mural action

Somehow I'm trying to fit mural making into my schedule. I've done two murals before, but they were free-form and kinda spur of the moment. This time Im actually planning it out somewhat, which means sketching it BEFORE drawing on the wall. Here is the sketch as well as some quick photoshop mocks of what it might look like. The colors will probably be different, since I'm thinking of picking up "oops" paint at my local Home Depot. So whatever they got I'm taking. Leaving that to chance! I'm a wild man.
Oh and in case its hard to make out, the letters say Live/Love.

How to train your Husky

I recently became owner of an incredible puppy, Mia. Part husky, maybe part chow, I decided to make a Chris Sanders-style sketch of her. A little rough but you get the idea.