July 23rd, 2009

Again, just messing around, gettin’ my digital fix. WIP.

bruce-lee-sketchwip1

I’ll give you three attempts to guess what I’ve been watching lately, and the first two don’t count.

Update:

bruce-lee-sketchwip2

Still need to fix that face.

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July 21st, 2009

Killing some time between inking panels.

hellboysketch

Meh.

Edit: Now, before the cancer. (Thanks Dave, I totally spaced on the hair XP)

hellboysketch1

Last update I promise: highlight punch-up. Sometimes you just can’t let these things die:

hellboysketch2

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July 20th, 2009

Found this sketch going through my old school files and I thought it’d be fun to paint. I think the assignment was to do a movie poster for a movie about ourselves. It’s “Coming Soon” because I don’t look like this… yet, lol.

moviemewip1

Still a work in progress, and I probably won’t finish it for a while. This, and Amanda Palmer, are on hold until I can finish the stuff I’m getting paid for :P.

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July 17th, 2009

Bill was a friend from high school and a fucking awesome kid.

He died last week and this is a tribute to him. He was wicked adventurous and totally unstoppable at anything he wanted to do. He was a huge Batman fan (the memorial was littered with Bat symbols) and a big barefoot enthusiast. The shoes are Vibram Five Fingers and once I showed them to him he hated to wear anything else :).

Bill was one of a kind, and I miss him a lot.

billbatmanwip1 billbatmanwip2 billbatmanwip3 billbatmanwip4 billbatmanwip5

billbatman

For anyone who might be interested, prints are available here.

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July 9th, 2009

Just a little side project, testing out my new desktop. My younger brother built himself a new machine and I bought his old one off him. He’s a pretty hardcore gamer/programmer so he builds INSANE machines. For instance, he built this one 3 years ago and it still runs any game coming out today on near maximum settings without fail. So I upgraded to Photoshop CS4 and I’m in love with how it integrates graphics acceleration (among other perks).

This is what I was up to yesterday testing it out. Still not finished, but I thought I’d show the process.

afpwipcomp

If you don’t know Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, you should probably check out her solo album Who Killed Amanda Palmer.

Ps. Windows 7 was temporarily the bane of my existence, and now I’m fully satisfied being back in XP. It owns.

Pps. As I’m typing this in Firefox, I’m also listening to iTunes, running Photoshop, and I’m about to return to my paused game of Mirror’s Edge, which can function at full speed with all the above still going.

I fucking love my brother.

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June 17th, 2009

Now that all the design work has been approved, I’ve moved on to working on the 5 page intro we’ll be using for the pitch. Working from Frank’s script, I’ve roughed out the pages to give him an idea of how I’ll handle the storytelling. I made several adjustments from his script to make it flow a little better visually, all of which have been approved. I’m pretty happy with how this sequence/story is fleshing out.

This is way beyond what I would do for thumbs/roughs if it was just for myself, but because I’m working closely with someone else it’s important to make sure I communicate my (and his) ideas across visually as best I can, and still leave room for some things to be changed if necessary.

thumbs

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June 15th, 2009

First environment concept I’ve ever done, and on top of that it’s a cityscape, so… be gentle.

city

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June 11th, 2009

pencil  ink  3flats

4color

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June 10th, 2009

I’m working on a 5 page pitch with Frank Barbiere and before I go to sequentials I’m doing a little concept work designing the main characters. So, without giving the plot away:

Our unwitting hero, once just another cog, he has greatness thrust upon him:

janus 

The mighty mentor:

 heimdall

ZOMG ALIENS!!!1!!

aliens

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June 9th, 2009

I’ll post some of the other stuff I’ve been working on for a pitch soon, but for now here’s the inks for the Spiderman cover commission. Colors to come shortly!

ink

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My bookshelf
The Little Prince
Origin of Species
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible & Why
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game
1984
Into the Wild
Animal Farm
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Letting Go of God
Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Secularism
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
A Briefer History of Time
Beyond Cosmic Dice: Moral Life in a Random World
Letter to a Christian Nation
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
The God Delusion
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
Brave New World
The War of the Worlds
Religion and Science
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
Why Evolution Is True
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Frankenstein
The Great Gatsby
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Dirty Job
I Am America: And So Can You!
59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
The Universe in a Nutshell
Lord of the Flies


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