Yet another sketch dump!

Can't tell you about the character... its a secret ;)

Hellverine Vs The Kraken!

Commission for Zabalou @ DeviantArt.com



Merry X-MAS!!

Down Home Girl

Yeah.

Do yourselves a favor and go watch this video from Old Crow Medicine Show.

http://www.crowmedicine.com/media/video-downhomegirl.htm

It's absolutely fantastic.

Cold Blue Vein

A little color sketch dump for you...

Bullet to the head!

For some reason, I've been feeling just like this today. Minus the cup of tea.

More O'Shea!

Upgrades and FIST-A-CUFFS!

This last week has sucked a bit.

It has been since about 2003 since I upgraded my computer and so, for my birthday this year, I ordered a bunch of new parts for my computer. I wanted to upgrade my RAM (though I came to find out that Windows, being as retarded as it is, will only allow for about 3.5 gigs of RAM - idiots), which meant I needed a new motherboard, which meant I needed a new video card and a new processor. I also upgraded to a 500 gig hard drive rather than my 120. Should be a pretty slick machine, right?

Well, we got it all together last Sunday and it refused to work. Nothing can be easy, right? Ugh. My cousin thought it might be a bad motherboard or processor, so he took it home to work on it. Well, it turns out it was my power supply, of course. Something totally unrelated. And I had just bought the damn power supply last Christmas! Good grief. I'll never understand why things don't just work the way they are supposed to.

So, anyway. A week later and I've finally got my computer back. So far, so good. It absolutely flies! My cousin suggested to turn my old hard drive into a scratch disk for Photoshop and so I think I'll try that out, see how that works. Anyway, I'm really excited to put this new machine to the test.

And by God, I never want to go a week without my computer again.

That aside, Fist-a-Cuffs (http://fistacuffs.blogspot.com) just wrapped up. I teamed up with Kennon James (http://www.kennonjames.blogspot.com) and Melita Curphy (http://www.missmonster.com) to form the Blue Bloodz! We did pretty well. We won the East Division but lost the final against the Daughters of General Melee. Cool team, but I don't think they would have had even a slight chance of beating the Blue Bloodz in reality. But, it all depends on viewer votes, so congrats to them.

Anyway, here is my character - Six Gun O'Shea -

Well, hopefully there won't be such a long time between updates for a while since I have my computer back. I don't plan to go without it for some time and I'll be setting my old computer back up just to have a back up, heh.

Behave to be...

I am struggling with something... I want to make good living professional comic artist. Preferably doing my own graphic novel but I would be happy just making a good living... (maybe even just a living). Recently, I was given some advice by a successful artist. Some of it was very good. He said a saying someone else told him, "Write your goal in pen and your path in pencil". This made a lot of sense to me. I have the first part, but here is where I struggle... how do I get there? What do I need to get started AND what are the action steps to get the snowball rolling as well as keep it rolling/building?

Here's what I have so far...

1. Act like you are already a professional comic artist
- I changed my pricing scheme ( not there yet but its a start )
- Developed a better understanding of how a professional works

2. ?

If any of you have any advice/experience you could share with me it would be greatly appreciated!!

Tom - Page one

This is page one of the three page warm-up comic that I mentioned previously. It was written by Martin Tingle. Here is the script, Tom V3.0.

I think it came out all right. It is definitely not going to be the style I use in the "Young Henry" story. It takes too flippin long! Or maybe I'm just too slow. heh.

I was initially going to do all three pages of this. I still may. But I did have an idea this morning that I may simply try drawing this page again in a drastically different style of two. Oh, I can never really get away from the way I draw, but I may be able to make my life a lot easier if I can simplify and still have it look alright. Right? Looser anyway.

Anyhoo, here is the piece...

My Kinda Dwarf

Before this year, I had never drawn a Tolkienesque dwarf. It's weird, but I got several commissions for them in 2007. This was warm-up piece that I did to find out how I would like to make a dwarf's figure look. The commissioners were more interested in short muscular human physiques instead. Ah well.



So now I'm making these dwarves play a big part in this personal comic that I'm fiddling with. In fact, young Henry is the adopted human son of a dwarf couple, in the washed-up dwarven boomtown of Hillbarrow. The Hill for short. Young Henry of the Hill.

Young Henry of the Hill

I’m always playing around with a comic book story in my head. I’m sure that we Stone Gazers all are. The drawings below are a “dump” of me coming to realize my main character, Henry. Oh, I could travel back even further, when the character was a sexy woman, but this I think is torture enough.

This character has ended up resembling my six year old son. On the inside however, he’s a lot like me. Through his arc, he will become the type of man I’d like to become; A truly heroic man, perhaps even fatally so (yikes). A Howard Roark type, for those of you who have read The Fountainhead.

Though he wears a wild-west hard-rock miner’s clothes, the story will take place in a land of fantasy.

More to come eventually. At the moment, I'm illustrating a three page story for a friend as a warm up to doing pages again. Cheers!

Western Script

A while back I was approached by a friend of mine, John Schlim Jr. (http://www.fablewoodstudios.com), about working on a short eight page western for an anthology chock full of western stories. We had talked several years ago about doing a western together and he had this very cool half Native American character that I did a drawing of for the story.


Well, if you know me at all, you know that I love comics. But, they worry me endlessly when I do them. However, I felt it was time to suck it up and do some serious comic work. And I love westerns, so this felt like the right thing to do.


I'll probably update now and then with new work from this, though I won't be able to show the finals until the anthology comes out. I will be doing everything, though. All pencils and colors. John will be handling the lettering.

So, I've got pages to do. I had better get to it.

Hellverine

A little commission...