Curse of the Eel, chapter 2 pencils 1-5

Guess who's back and with a bunch of pages to share?! No, it's me. I've been working hard this quarter, my last quarter at SCAD. Partly I'm sad to go, but mainly I'm ready to Shawshank Redemption it and tear my shirt off and stare up at the rain.

Back to comics though, I've been working hard to get chapter 2 of my thesis comic ready to go for Heroes Con. Also I think I've settled on a name: The Curse of the Eel. Sounds like fun I hope! Here's to more Lovecraft inspired fun with my favorite goth and her annoying friend Eel. These pages I made trying my best to top the first chapter and improving on all my weaknesses, one of which is texture. I had a great portfolio review with Mike Martz this quarter and he said the work is good, I just need to pay more attention to texture. So I accumulated my favorite texture artists and started studying their powers. I've been trying to Frank Quitely all over these pages and I hope it looks more refined than before. I plan to go back and add some to the first chapter of the book too. My goal is to have both chapters in black and white for Heroes Con in one 40 page book.

Oh yeah, I'll be at Heroes Con this June, sharing a table with one of my best friends and comic warriors, Crystal Jayme. Come by our tables for comics, prints, commissions, and dances if you purchase a lot. Seriously, I'll dance if you buy things. Try me!

Anyhow, I have one more page almost ready to go into my final project for class, so I'm gonna get to work on that. Have a great day, because the age of comics is almost upon us!

Instagram Sketchbook 1

Some of my favorite images from my Instagram. I thought I should share these for people who don't follow it, cuz I think they're kinda nice.

Wings of Irene

Here are the first five pages of Wings of Irene, a comic I drew 4 months ago. I was hiding it for an anthology, but they've stopped answering my emails so I guess they don't want it and I never signed a contract for Wings so it's mine to do what I will.

So I love Last Days of American Crime. So much so that my first copy has gone missing in the house somewhere and I bought another copy. I saw another one the other day and nearly bought it again as a back up. The art by Greg Tocchini has been a huuuuge inspiration to me since I first read this book almost 4 years ago. What I didn't realize then that I know now is that he inked the book beautifully in colored inks, or watercolors. I'm not sure of the media exactly but to me this blew my mind. So of course, I wanted to try it myself. This is the result and wow is it mixed. I love the colors, I inked with FW acrylic inks, but my thought process isn't used to color, and I went too big with this one. If I was going to do this I should have chosen a fixed place comic and not one with scene changes and fast vehicles and all that. But yeah. Wings of Irene.

I'll have this book for sale at FLUKE in Athens Georgia this weekend, and probably every convention after until I think it looks so bad that I sell them for a dollar. Books on that list right now are Calla of the Sea and the Trials of Nobody. Anyhow, story wise, Irene is a girl who wants to fly more than anything, but is unfairly kept from it by a sexist regent who wants to punish her for the deeds of her mother. This story shows Irene going head to head with a hydra of jerks who all think they're better than she is. You should see how that turns out!

Inks also from my unnamed Horror comic

Inked in the span of 2 weeks, I finished 20 pages and got the approval for them last night. So now I want to share the first 6 of them. I used a Raphael #3 brush on these and while it took some getting used to the larger size (I usually use a 2) it was a lot of fun. Although these aren't my favorites of the pages I've done for it, this was still a fun experiment with inking that I'm sure I'll use again.

The story to this one is a goth girl named Connie is bullied, and she accidentally summons forth a creature not unlike the ones in the stories she's read. That's the hook, but the story itself is more than that and I can't wait to share more of it. I've been reading a lot of H. P. Lovecraft myself and I'm really taken with the worlds and lore he creates and then pretty much just drops the mic on. My favorite was the Shunned House, and the conclusion made me very sad that this was the only story, presumably, in that world with that horror. Here is my take on his type of horror, with some of my own ideas mixed in. Well, back to work.

Pencils from my unnamed Horror Comic

I've been working, a LOT. My thesis comic is nearly done, I've inked a little over half of it and colors shouldn't take me too long. Here is a sample of my pencils, which I was really happy with. This is my ideal blend of loose movement with solid form, and if I ink myself it leaves me with plenty of room to draw with my brush. I can't wait to post up the completed comic, but for now, here is a nice 6 page bite of the 20 page first chapter. This is a story I came up with after being inspired to try out some horror from reading some really good H.P. Lovecraft short stories.

My Comics are on Sale!

Remember these titles? Well I finally set up a Big Cartel store so if you like you can pick up some of these books! The books are Pixie Punk, Riot Against My Happiness, KCNO (my best graphic novel), The Looming Deadline and Calla of the Sea. Thanks for all the views and for giving my art and stories a chance! Click on the link above or on the link in my page bar above.

Rest in Peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In memorial of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Inked on Stillman and Birn Zeta with Deleter G pen and Maru nib. I drew this from a photo on google images, I don't know the name of the photographer so I can't really credit them for the lovely photo. I don't really have a ton to say art wise, I do want to say that I'll miss Mr. Hoffman's work and I do hope he's at peace now.