Bad Day

Dave and I are hard at work prepping for Heroes Con this year. We’ve been under the gun with some heavy deadlines all year, and we finally get to push towards a deadline for ourselves. Tonight I got to sketch for no reason a bit, I knew I wanted to draw a robot (duh)…but then every night when I’m working in the pitch black huddled over the Cintiq, my cat sits and watches me releasing these little curious meows that I only hear when the music in my headphones quiets for a second. Scares the crap out of me every time. That and I watched a documentary on trash pickers in Brazil tonight…I have very very little to complain about anymore. So here ya go…

Its all in the Cards! (Clubs)

Dave and I have been doing a lot of traditional work lately to get the kinks out of the system…if you know what I mean. One of our recent tests is being able to work in both mediums and get the results we want, so I set up a little challenge for myself. I roughed these digitally, inked them traditionally with a Pentel Brush Pen on Strathmore 300 and then digitally colored them. It was a bit more hassle between the steps, but nothing beats the traditional brush. Pretty fun…besides I’ve always wanted to do a set of playing cards.

I roughed out the other 3 suits as well. Diamonds is Robots, Hearts is Zombies (Ha!) and Spades is Space Rangers! I’ll post them up as I finish them. Should be a cool project.

Have a great week!

Gettin’ older…

2011 has come in fast with a brisk slap to the face, and it’s time to get back to the grind. No more lounging around reading comics in single sittings, watching horribly delightful 80′s action movies starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, or drawing random intergalactic space rangers hell-bent on defending the universe from the Salagrion blitz attack at Contrillion 5 after peace talks went sour when Princess Sotroy made a off-color remark about Ambassador Gillietrow’s infected coigal spout. Oh well. So I drew you all some random monsters to get the year going. Enjoy!

Sharpening up the Skills!

Dave and I have been having a blast getting off the Cintiqs and getting back to traditional media. Dave’s been posting tons of super cool ink sketches on Twitter lately, so if you haven’t seen them, go check ‘em out. As for me, I recently built a new desk and some animation discs for me an Dave. I’ve always wanted one, but I just couldn’t justify dropping the cash on a legit one if I was only gonna dabble in it. But its done, installed and I’m fresh out of excuses to try out some new things. In the mean time, I wanted to share a few outtakes from some of my Moleskins. I love using the Col-Erase pencils in them.

Happy Holidays to you all, hope you all get lots of pencils and paper!

StoryTellers: Episode 5

I know, I know, its a day late. Almost 2!! Sorry, life has a way of inserting its freaky little head and knocking you on your back. But you can’t keep us down! HAhaha….ugh.

StoryTellers: Episode 4

Things have been pretty hairy lately, but we’re on some cool projects and you can’t complain about that. Managed to get part 4 done…so far I’m still on schedule! Yippeee!