NRD - a short comic book story

I've announced on twitter that I'm working on a short story for a Comic book anthology that should come out later this year. I've written out a draft of the script and have done the layouts for all the pages. Im currently working on getting the dialogue of the script finalized and starting on the actual pages. Above is the cast of my story, which is based off of a submission story to a non-profit organization that helps kids deal with bullying. Nothing better than doing comics for a good cause. The story is tentatively titled NRD.

Captain America color study

Quick color of a previous sketch to test out some textured brushes. Also, I need to get the dvd.

David Silva of Manchester City

Back again with what appears to be a recurring theme on this blog, soccer players (aka futbol/football players). This time it's David Silva from ManCity. One of my favorite players to watch on the pitch.

Archer a la Bernet

Sketched up a quick Archer in the same composition as the great Jordi Bernet. Done for the Floyd County sketchblog. Inks on vellum with a background fill in PS

quick sketch

Digital sketch I did a while back for a game software company that I forgot to post.

Radamel Falcao

I've been wanting to post this since sunday when he scored both goals in the win against Bolivia in the Copa America but the first sketch I did lacked a little bit of motion and spirit. So I attacked it again last night and was happier with the results. Our current goal scorer, Radamel Falcao. Hope he gets into true form like he does at Porto.

Zuñiga

After watching yesterday's performance of Colombia in the copa america vs argentina, I realized something. That even though im not the biggest fan of our current coach, we do have some very noteworthy players that get overshadowed by our as of late, poor track record. So i got inspired to sketch one of those players Juan Camilo Zuñiga, currently playing club football at Napoli. His style of game reminds me a lot of Roberto Carlos. Very capable defender that can cause serious damage to the offense when running down the flank. So here's a nod to Los Cafeteros and to Zuñiga

Gesture with ink

Flash of color

Quick color of a warmup sketch of flash.

Monkey boy sequentials- Page 02 & 03

As promised here is page 2 and 3 of a three page, short sequential story.

Monkey boy sequentials- Page 01

The story board project from last post is going strong. I started laying out thumbnails to the first part of the story. Since it will be a while until I have something worth posting on it, i thought it would be a good time to finally post a lil 3 page sequential story i did a little while ago (ive been lazy to scan 11x17s on my small little scanner). Here is page one. The other two will be here shortly.

storyboard concepts

Sketched on the cintiq

Concept sketches for a storyboard piece im doing. Im almost done with the story and then itll be on to the actual boards. The project is untitled as of now.

Daily Sketchin': Wolverine

Been working on a bunch of different projects and hopefully I will have stuff to show soon. In the meantime, here's a little sketch of wolverine in action.

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.