Big Blowout Moving Sale!!!

OK, not really a sale, but I'm starting a new blog. Why? Don't really know; just felt that I wanted/needed a new start. I've been out of the game for a bit, so starting again warrants a fresh start. In my mind at least. Please feel free to come by and visit. I like writing to the crickets but I still welcome any human visitors who happen to find their way around.

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Happy drawing!

Holy Toledo!

Yes, it's been more than a year and a quarter since I last posted. For what it's worth i didn't really draw much during that period (let's just say I was distracted), but I'm back in the saddle and hoping to actually get a little serious about this whole drawing thing.

When you draw for a living you do whatever pays the bills for a large portion of that time and believe you me, I'm no exception. I am going to try, however, to move the work that I do more towards the things that I'm actually interested in. Don't get me wrong, if I'm getting paid to draw it, I'm interested. The truth, however, is that some things are more fun to draw than others. So here's to the fun stuff...

Meanwhile, here are a couple of sketches to sort of get my dormant drawing brain back into gear.

Volleyball Recovery

I did these drawings for work the other day and thought I'd stick them up here. I had to do a quick sequence of a guy running into frame to recover a volleyball, then realize it's cold and exit.





Then I had to repeat the performance but with a female character. Simple, but I thought it was fun to get two different performances out of the same action.

more Simon, slow but steady

Here's a couple more Simon Brizdale pages, coming along slowly but surely. I've got all of these pages lettered already but I'm waiting to get the whole story done to reveal all of that (and colors, which I have yet to start). Oh yeah, and there's a cover sketch there as well; almost forgot...

Gett 'er done, one bit at a time

Just a little more pencilling stuff to add to the other day's stuff.

Another new year!

Still busy but determined to find time for Simon. That being said, here's some various panels of upcoming pages in their penciled form. This is what they look like before I ink them. I draw them with blue col-erase pencils on marker paper, reworking it til it's what I like (sometimes redrawing on several sheets), then lay another sheet on top and ink with Pitt brush pens.

I used to be so against anything but an old fashioned brush and india ink, but boy are the pens convenient. I like the Pitt pens because they actually use india ink, so I don't have to worry about how they will age. I've seen with other pens/brush pens that don't use india ink how they will bleed and turn red or other various things as they age, often leaving stains on any and all things touching them.

If you go to a comic book convention and look around at the original art for sale you will see what I mean, and it's really sad to see some great art destroyed because of inferior quality tools being used. Oh well.

Happy New Year to all. Here's to a great year...

The light at the end of the tunnel...

I say that but I'm probably jinxing myself. Busy is good though, so no complaining from me.

The movie I've been working on is finally filming, and I'm still doing storyboards for it. I will share some of those at some point - maybe once the movie is released. Meanwhile I got to design and draw a tattoo that will play an important roll in the film. No harm in sharing that much at least:



Before things got so busy for me I was beginning work on a new Simon Brizdale story. I got the first 4 pages pencilled. I was going to use pencils as the finished art but have since changed my mind. I like my work better inked, which also just happens to make some of the things I like to do when coloring in Photoshop a lot easier, so I'm trying to scratch time for that nowadays. Anyway, here are the pencils for the first 4 pages. Nothing exciting going on yet, but the fun begins soon enough. Hopefully I'll be able to make some good progress over the holiday season. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...






Meanwhile I hope everyone has a great holiday season. Cheers.