Character Designs

Here are some designs I drew up yesterday and colored with Copics. I've been beginning to plan out a sci fi story lately that's different from my last one, Uncanny Valley. The purple girl, Danica would be the protagonist and the redhead, Bellona, would be the antagonist. I'll add any more sketches as I do them!

Good Night Mrs. Goose Paintings

Here are two watercolor paintings of my characters Lady Grimm and Valerie Clark from my story Good Night Mrs. Goose.I took a lot of inspiration for the design scheme of the book from Alphonse Mucha, who is practically THE Art Nouveau artist. I'm not even a tenth as good as he is, but it's fun trying to incorporate those design ideas into illustrations. I need to work harder at it.

Pencil Portfolio 4 images

Comic pages for a pencil portfolio.

Marker Spread

Here's a spread I did for one of my original comics, Good Night Mrs. Goose. I'm really proud of this and I think the markers came out well on it.

Pencil Portfolio Image #1

I'm putting together a portfolio of strong pencils to see if I can get a gig drawing comics when I move to Atlanta. I honestly couldn't think of a story of my own that I wanted to do for this so I went with this idea for a Batman story I came up with a while ago.

I'll admit, when I draw my own comics I don't tend to be this detailed. Mostly because since I ink my own pages I know what I'm going to do in the inking stage that won't require me to render things 100% as I imagine them in pencil. This is probably one of the first pages I've pencilled thinking that I should include all I want in there for the inker. It's kinda fun!

My inspirations as far pencils go are Jerome Opeña, Sal Abbinanti, and Alex Ross.

Fun Times

Parents locked me out of the house again :P That's always fun, when you get home and you're tired and the door is locked so you can't get in the house you pay rent to stay in. Yeah.

Nothing much new to report, just assembling a portfolio of pencils for some possible freelance work. And no, I don't think I'll be missing much when I go to Atlanta.

Here's probably my favorite page from KCNO. I love this page because I feel like I really captured the feeling of Roxanne running and then slowing down as the camera continues forward. This was a really subtle page and I love how it came out. Sorry if this seems self-congratulatory but I don't often feel this good about my comics.

Fancy Parties

Just got off of work and I'm eating some ramen. Nothing really new to report. Other than fancy parties are kinda weird. Oh well, here's some art :P

KCNO is a book I finished in September of 2010. I think this is my best comic so far. It's a self contained one volume short story, and I think it's got my best efforts in sequential art in it. This cover was my first to use Copic markers on. I've gotten better with them now, I promise.