Chimera Pen

pg 3 panel 3

2012-01-08T19:37:00.000-08:00

Ha ha ha!

The siblings share a laugh. I decided to post this panel ‘cause its cute. :)

Single panel from page 3. Yes I have three real pages of the first issue all done!…………………21 to go. Comics are hard

Aviary pg 1

2011-12-26T22:22:00.000-08:00

The thing I've been working on all this time....

This is just a preview, but its the first 'finished' page, although i'm still fussing with fonts. When I finish the the first 24 pgs, I'll launch it formally on its proper internet home. Launch date still TBD, but sometime around MoCCA fest.

Rinzler

2011-10-02T21:24:00.000-07:00

Fanart time! Rinzler from Tron Legacy. Saw this movie a couple weeks ago with my buddies Niki and Amelia. Lots of fun and pretty lights.

OCTOBER IS FOR ZOMBIES!

2011-10-01T12:11:00.000-07:00

OCTOBER IS ZOMBIE SEASON!
I am running a month long event over on Tumblr. Calling all artists, please contribute your undead art! Lets build the biggest Horde ever! ALL ZOMBIES WELCOME!

http://octoberisforzombies.tumblr.com/

Terry; 'the raven'

2011-09-17T20:11:00.000-07:00

Bronx Zoo Sketches

2011-08-30T18:11:00.000-07:00

Trying to make the most of my Labor Day 'stay-cation' week, so I went to the zoo! Went by myself since everyone else is at work i assume, and since its a weekday it wasn't too crowded! Rather peaceful. Lovely day for sketching! I tried using my ipad for some color. Worked out pretty well! Got a bit of attention, a little embarrassing. I still feel like some kinda 'Ms fancy pants' sketching on an ipad instead of paper like a normal human being. All sketchbook Pro.

Some ipad sketches

2011-08-21T18:29:00.000-07:00

sketching on my Ipad a lot lately. This is done with
ASketch.

And in honor of Deathly Hallows here is some Severus Snape. Also done in ASketch

some more progress

2011-08-07T14:08:00.000-07:00

A line up of some of the important characters in Aviary so i can remember their scale to each other.

in order left to right: Gavin, Jae, Klyden, Mo, Cynder, Simon, Big Scary Banshee, Smaller less scary Banshee

I'm not 100% happy with Simon, and I think the actual comic will be in a slightly looser style, but it's still in planning. There's a handful of other important characters I'd like to add to this line up eventually as well.

And this is Terry and James, two other characters from Aviary. They are pretty in a sort of J-rocker way. I feel a little guilty designing characters this pretty. o_O

Did this on my ipad using the sketchbook pro app. One of my first finished ipad drawings. Played with brushes a lot, result is a little tacky, what with all the half-tone but meh, all fun.

Kusangai

2011-06-11T23:18:00.000-07:00

Watched Ghost in the Shell today while i was working. One of my all time favorite films, pure classic cyber punk anime, very smart, touches on a lot of themes i find myself thinking about a lot. So I felt inspired to paint this in my down time. I enjoy the movie a lot more than the TV series or the manga, and i like her look in the movie best too. She's a strange mix of very strong, sort of androgynous, yet still definitively female. And she's really spooky looking with those cold blue eyes.

The World's Forgotten Boy

2011-05-08T20:16:00.000-07:00

Character design sheet for Gavin. (Gav's hair has absolutely no rhyme or reason.)

Urban decay character: Mo

2011-05-01T22:19:00.000-07:00

Mo, one of my original characters from my hopefully one day comic. Mo is not as creepy as he/she looks. (Mo isn't exactly human, and doesn't really have a gender, but to make things easy Mo's referred to as a 'he'.) He's nervous, shy, and only bites on occasion. He's really just misunderstood. ;)

Morning Tea

2011-03-28T21:12:00.000-07:00

Urban Decay character. The cafe owner; Klyden Laskaris.

More RDR

2011-03-17T22:53:00.000-07:00

*sigh* I really do mean to keep my blog fanart light,.. I have DA for fanart, but...I really liked the way this one came out, so i couldn't resist. More Red Dead Redemption. Srs bsns cowboy video game fanart. I am such a geek.

pile of drawings

2011-03-16T22:20:00.000-07:00

More Urban Decay...

More figure drawings...

Some Harry Potter fanart...

compass

2011-02-15T21:59:00.000-08:00

"And now I know the only compass that I need is the one that leads back to you."

Some Red Dead Redemption fanart. Gosh, that was a good game.

Jae Lynn Winters

2011-02-05T22:10:00.000-08:00

The other main character in Urban Decay, Gavin's older sister Jae. She has silver hair for the same reason he has giant irises and and no color in his skin. It's a mutation. blah blah blah nerdy sci-fi :)

Sketching at The American Museum of Natural History

2011-01-30T18:40:00.000-08:00

Gavin Winters

2011-01-22T21:03:00.000-08:00

Original character, Gavin Winters, in the snow...appropriately.

New Characters

2011-01-09T21:41:00.000-08:00

Kicking around a story. Working title is Urban Decay, but the more I brainstorm and flesh out plot ideas the less that title works. This is associated with the landscape of the same name a few posts down.

These guys don't have names yet for the most part. I won't get into rambley story details yet, but all of them aren't quite human. There is a new species of hominid emerging and they're all somewhat mutated, except for the sorry looking Gollum-esque character who is not human at all.

At the moment I'm considering working in a 'graphic light novel' format. Like a picture book sort of. This ain't for kiddies though. The story I'm envisioning so far are would get a pretty solid R rating I think. I don't know. Still early, and only time will tell if I abandon this like almost every other personal project of mine, but so far I'm pretty consumed and inspired in a way I haven't been in a long time. I'm not getting any younger. It's about time I tried to create a publish something of my own.

Pear!

2011-01-09T21:07:00.000-08:00

For Floating Pear's new studio!

Hippie guy with Ferret

2010-12-05T13:40:00.000-08:00

Urban Decay

2010-11-14T14:30:00.000-08:00

Evil Ex. Number 3

2010-09-11T13:38:00.000-07:00

I try to keep the blog light on fanart, but I haven't posted any on here in a while so I thought I'd put this one up. It's Todd Ingram, Ramona's 3rd evil ex-boyfriend! I really liked the Scott Pilgrim movie, I need to get the comics now. Todd's my favorite evil-ex. He's an asshole, but he's hilarious.

cinder man

2010-09-09T21:31:00.000-07:00

violet

2010-08-22T08:25:00.000-07:00

decorative watercolor thing

twigs

2010-08-15T22:13:00.001-07:00

cityscape

2010-08-15T22:12:00.001-07:00

sinking

2010-06-27T12:09:00.000-07:00

a water nymph or something like that...

more digital painting

2010-06-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

Summer Girl

2010-06-20T21:48:00.000-07:00

First day of summer, have a bikini gal.

Couple in the Rain

2010-06-13T18:20:00.000-07:00

Trying to produce at least one drawing a week that is not for work so I have lots of new work for NYCC in October. When I'm under stress my drawings get progressively sexier I think...

Oh you pretty things...

2010-06-06T15:32:00.000-07:00

Decorative pretty drawings are better than no drawings at all.
Original character of mine; 'Elena Faustis'.

Mind if I 'lift your luggage'?

2010-05-19T22:26:00.000-07:00

Its no secret that I: a. have a pretty good sense of humor, b. am a liberal and a big supporter of gay rights, and c. listen to tons of podcasts. So when this story: link was brought to my attention by the always witty Dan Savage, I had no choice but to do a spur of the moment quick and dirty little doodle of a happy, healthy gay couple popularizing the hottest new euphemism.

basketball player

2010-03-31T20:00:00.000-07:00

Quick drawing in open canvas, effects done in photoshop. Wanted to draw something energetic and 'summerish'.

another hipster girl

2010-03-29T01:02:00.000-07:00

I love drawing hipster girls.

She is cranky, the used record store does not have the vinyl she was looking for.

ASIFA life drawing, winter/spring

2010-03-28T00:07:00.000-07:00

Superheroes galore

2010-02-27T23:51:00.000-08:00

And the commissions continue, next up: Nightcrawler!

another commission

2010-02-21T19:18:00.000-08:00

Another commissioned work. 11x14 watercolor of 'Sophie X', original character of the commissioner. I'm pretty pleased with how she turned out. Latex or whatever her costume is made out of is fun to paint. Shiny.

Psylocke Commission

2010-01-27T21:11:00.000-08:00

Watercolor commission of the British version of Psylocke.

SMILE!!!

2009-12-29T18:37:00.000-08:00

Joker sketch that I decided to slap some color on.

Zombie

2009-12-16T13:16:00.000-08:00

Myself as a zombie. Need I say more?

The Fantastic Purple Pixie

2009-12-07T17:07:00.000-08:00

This is an entry for a contest over on DeviantArt. The theme is 'Dreams' as in the goals and aspirations sort. When I was a little kid I, like many other kids, wanted to be a superhero. As an adult, I still kind of want to be a superhero, but I'd settle for professional comic book illustrator too. Wish me luck. :)

Owls and Squirrels

2009-11-18T16:39:00.000-08:00

I've taken to going over to the park, perching in my favorite spot along the side of the railroad bridge where I won't be bothered, and doodling in my sketchbook. The park is currently over run with squirrels getting ready for winter, so I sketched a few. I didn't see any owls but I drew some for fun anyway. They look like they want to eat the squirrels.

2009-11-15T20:45:00.000-08:00

Figure drawings from the ASIFA life drawing nights at SVA.

sepia self portrait

2009-11-13T23:56:00.000-08:00

Self portrait, should do more of these, they are a good exercise. Done in Photoshop with a mirror on my desk for reference. Weird for me to do something like this digital but I thought I'd give it a shot.

strung up

2009-11-09T22:33:00.001-08:00

I felt that I needed to do some original work. That bug in my head telling me I could be better than I am was screaming today. So, I picked up my brushes and... this happened. I am being entirely honest when I say I did not set out to paint something this morbid. It just sort of evolved out of my ever present love of all things figure drawing and some referencing of my gestures. My mind is going to strange places lately. I suppose this is just a manifestation.

Some figure drawings

2009-09-29T21:20:00.001-07:00

Some drawings from the ASIFA gesture sessions at SVA. Top were from last night, bottom were from a few weeks ago. I was messing around with a little abstraction, trying to achieve greater fluidity.

Encylcopedia Humania entry 01: The Hipster (female)

2009-08-29T15:36:00.001-07:00

The beginning of a personal project. I want to make a humorous 'scientific journal' of various 'species' humans. This is a hipster female. Native to Williamsburg brooklyn. Diet consists of wheat grass, expensive vegan muffins, cigarettes, and organic fair trade coffee served by a person with a facial piercing and asymmetrical haircut.

stuff I've done over the past months

2009-08-29T15:26:00.001-07:00

sketch from the met

some girls

girl that looks suspiciously like me putting her socks on

watercolor commission

fan arts and general geekery

2009-08-29T15:06:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter: Lupin and Tonks

Batman: Harley Quinn

Batman: Joker sketch dump

Batman

Watchmen: The Comedian and Silk Spectre I (aka super controversial flamer bait on deviantart... whatever :P)

Watchmen: Rorschach & pretzel

Watchmen: Walter J. Kovacs

Welcome to my new professional blog

2008-12-15T20:41:00.000-08:00

Well, I've finally joined the blogs! I started by posting a sampling of my favorite pieces from the last 3 years. I may add a few more old works, but from here on its going to be mostly new stuff on the blog and just things I feel pretty good about. I have a few pieces of fan-art in the collection I've posted so far, but for the most part its original characters and designs. I'd like to try to keep it that way for this blog.

still more pics....

2008-12-15T20:33:00.000-08:00

more of my favorite pics

2008-12-15T19:49:00.000-08:00

Introduction

2008-12-15T17:00:00.000-08:00