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bug bomb 19

2012-01-27T22:07:00.002-05:00

inks for another page of bugbomb.

The Aesop Prize

2012-01-26T12:01:00.002-05:00

Just saw on Matt Dembicki's blog that Trickster won the Aesop prize from the American Folklore Society! Wowee!!

Insurrection Squad inks

2012-01-25T07:54:00.001-05:00

Insurrection Squad pencils

2012-01-22T22:46:00.001-05:00

insurrection squad

2012-01-22T00:57:00.002-05:00

CAPTAIN HARDING

2012-01-16T19:40:00.001-05:00

color style feebly bitten off Paul Pope.

Bug Bomb: Street Race

2011-12-26T13:16:00.001-05:00

9.5 x 22" pencil on Strathmore illustration board. I've been working on this since the summer off and on. mostly as a warmup I'd add a little bit here and there.

page 18 bug bomb

2011-12-19T12:59:00.001-05:00

Captive ch4 page 2-3

2011-12-16T15:03:00.003-05:00

Here's the thumbnail:

And the final pencils:

page 3 redo

2011-12-14T23:11:00.001-05:00

original:

Wanted to open this page up a bit so we removed the third tier of panels. I also wanted a little more room in the bottom tier. So i used my light-table to get the basic placement of everything and then filled in the details.first pass using the light-table and a little cleanup...

final pencils:

character sketch

2011-12-13T17:09:00.000-05:00

chapter 4 pencils

2011-11-17T14:57:00.001-05:00

Some thumbnails for ch 4

2011-10-30T10:31:00.001-04:00

Captive ch3 page 7

2011-10-10T19:06:00.001-04:00

captive ch3 pp5-6

2011-10-02T22:05:00.001-04:00

Captive ch3 pencils

2011-09-25T11:43:00.002-04:00

Pages 3 and 4 of ch3

Captive ch 3 pencils

2011-09-17T20:54:00.000-04:00

Pages 1 and 2 of ch3

Also a redo on the intro splash pages.

bomb 21 washed

2011-09-03T16:12:00.001-04:00

bug bomb1p20 lines

2011-09-03T10:20:00.001-04:00

lines and erasing is done. washes tonight. I really like this page.

2011-08-30T15:38:00.011-04:00

Warlords and FFMC

2011-08-23T20:55:00.004-04:00

Jackie and the Warlords

2011-08-23T16:27:00.001-04:00

Bugbomb pq 20

2011-08-18T00:13:00.002-04:00

Captive ch2 pages 10-11 - rough letters.

2011-08-15T11:10:00.003-04:00

Harding On Trial - lettered and toned

2011-08-14T10:28:00.005-04:00

Just got this back from Kevin. He added the lettering and zipatones to the line work I did. I think it looks great!

makin t shirts

2011-08-11T23:52:00.001-04:00

t shirt for my fantasy football team.

Captive ch2 page 10

2011-08-09T00:18:00.001-04:00

Sketch

2011-08-05T15:43:00.001-04:00

Playing around with MSPAINT at work

IS:HoT Inks

2011-08-04T14:28:00.000-04:00

IS:HOT

2011-08-03T20:52:00.001-04:00

sketch

2011-08-02T00:40:00.001-04:00

Captive ch2 page 9

2011-08-02T00:29:00.001-04:00

bug bomb page 17

2011-08-01T20:25:00.000-04:00

bug bomb page 16

2011-08-01T13:55:00.002-04:00

bug bomb page 15

2011-07-31T13:14:00.002-04:00

bug bomb page 14

2011-07-29T22:03:00.002-04:00

Captive page 6, 7, 8

2011-07-27T23:05:00.002-04:00

Captive page 5

2011-07-01T21:13:00.000-04:00

bugs big fight 4

2011-06-24T21:06:00.001-04:00

The final page in the 4 page fight between the warlords and the ffmc.

Here's all 4 pages:

bugs big fight 3

2011-06-22T23:23:00.003-04:00

Page 4

2011-06-22T00:55:00.001-04:00

Captive page 4 a little more work

2011-06-17T15:22:00.001-04:00

Captive - page 3 done and page 4 start

2011-06-17T10:02:00.002-04:00

captive ch2 page 3 more work

2011-06-14T08:15:00.000-04:00

captive ch2 page 3

2011-06-10T21:02:00.002-04:00

some progress

big fight page 2 of 4

2011-06-09T23:14:00.001-04:00

big fight page 1 of 4

2011-06-08T23:30:00.003-04:00

I made some good progress on this page tonight. Added some word balloons for the hell of it. Tomorrow I'll make some changes -Frankie;s bike needs to be a little bigger in panel 3...

hopperz 2

2011-06-06T22:21:00.002-04:00

psycho sketch

2011-06-05T23:28:00.000-04:00

FC pp1-2

2011-06-05T18:39:00.001-04:00

captive ch 2 page 2

2011-06-02T19:47:00.000-04:00

panel one with lens flare....

2011-05-29T19:27:00.001-04:00

need to figure out how to do a lens flare with inks....

captive ch2 page 1

2011-05-29T19:20:00.000-04:00

mcflynn

2011-05-27T14:21:00.000-04:00

kiariosaurusrex

2011-05-24T21:33:00.002-04:00

bug bomb 12 - 13

2011-05-24T20:57:00.001-04:00

bug bomb pages 10-11

2011-05-15T11:22:00.003-04:00

jedi

2011-05-09T10:34:00.001-04:00

Thumbs -Captive Chapter 2 - pps 1-6

2011-05-04T22:09:00.003-04:00

Bug bomb pp8-9

2011-05-04T00:50:00.000-04:00

sketch

2011-05-02T17:55:00.000-04:00

Bug Bomb 7-8

2011-04-28T22:20:00.001-04:00

This is a cool page. Lines done.. washes tomorrow.

captive intro

2011-04-24T22:01:00.001-04:00

BUG BOMB PAGE 7

2011-04-21T23:22:00.000-04:00

buginks page 7

2011-04-21T09:53:00.002-04:00

I like this page for the most part. The lettering in the big balloon is weak. Also maybe there are too many skritchy-skratchy lines in general. no biggie though - those will be lost in the washing process. Letter can be redone in photoshop if we don't like em. washes tonight.

more work- Captive intro

2011-04-17T16:40:00.001-04:00

page 0 -1 redo

2011-04-16T19:00:00.001-04:00

page 0 bugz

2011-04-16T12:38:00.000-04:00

captive - intro - progress

2011-04-14T22:41:00.005-04:00

I took the day off to take care of my sick dog and made some good progress on the intro pages the captive story. spent the morning looking at movies to get a feel for fashion of 1817 then started filling in the seats at the philadelphia theater. This is 22 x 17 so its a lot of drawing but its nice to not have to fit the drawing in to a teeny little panel. I must say I am happy my drawing tonight. now I need some sleep.

I also did a little experiment on the "waterproofness" of my pens. turns out it's really waterproof but you need to wait about an hour.

page 6 bugbomb

2011-04-13T22:11:00.002-04:00

I really like this page. The compositions and the washes look nice and the page looks good as a whole i think. 9 panels, 9 drawings. The drawings themselves are ok and suck in some spots but it's still one of my favorite pages so far.

bug bomb p 6

2011-04-13T00:48:00.002-04:00

more work to do tomorrow. Also wanted to redraw the last panel. the proportions were off quite a bit.

drawing board - thumbnails for Captive intro

2011-04-12T14:29:00.002-04:00

did some more work trying to get the pose correct for the opening scene.

Eisner nomination!

2011-04-12T10:23:00.002-04:00

Trickster got nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Anthology! Im a little stunned by this. Thanks to Greg Rodgers for letting me draw his story and big propos to Matt Dembicki for pulling this together and working really hard on promotion. Awesome job everyone.

Captive intro - thumbnails

2011-04-10T20:11:00.002-04:00

bug bomb p 5 - more inks mo rinks

2011-04-06T22:46:00.003-04:00

bugs page 5 inks

2011-04-06T00:25:00.002-04:00

Started on the inks for pg5.should finish tomorrow.

bug bomb page 4 - speed lines again

2011-04-04T00:10:00.001-04:00

bug bomb 4

2011-04-01T23:31:00.001-04:00

worked on comics tonight. off to bed.

sketch

2011-04-01T14:04:00.000-04:00

dragon cats or something....

bugzinks

2011-03-31T23:49:00.002-04:00

Inks on page 4. Some of this is pretty good. some of it is lame. especially the spillage on the first panel. washes tomorrow or saturday.

page 3 - with speed lines.

2011-03-31T20:15:00.001-04:00

looks better i think

Bug Bomb 3

2011-03-30T19:43:00.003-04:00

More inks. brush and g-pen for the most part. The other day I decided to chuck the nibs but I just don't like the ink in my current set of markers/pens. So whatever. Im not setting any rules on what tool I use.

Bug Bombs 2

2011-03-27T23:48:00.002-04:00

Spent most of the day working on the inks and washes for page 2. Pretty happy with this page. Especially the motion effect on Frankie's arm as he swings at jackie; the shot gun picture and the panel with all 5 Warlords with their hands up.

Page 1 - - Bug Bomb - - more inks

2011-03-23T23:20:00.005-04:00

Got into a groove doing inks tonight. I liked everything but ran into an issue doing "speed lines" in panel 2. eeesh. buckets of white out needed....revisit that tomorrow with a fresh head.
added the black gutters in photoshop

and here's the same page as a double pager. just messing around.

I also had an epiphany about inking. and that's that I need to get a good technical pen and shit box trying to use dips and brushes for little details.

inks finally

2011-03-20T23:27:00.002-04:00

friendly cove 10

2011-03-12T08:43:00.003-05:00

It's been a month since I posted anything but I have been drawing. Here's page 10 of the, "Captive at Friendly Cove" story.

Bug Bomb page 24

2011-01-27T23:49:00.003-05:00

last page of issue 1! Some touching up left to do tomorrow.

bug bomb 23

2011-01-25T00:09:00.002-05:00

Bug Bomb page 22

2011-01-20T23:26:00.000-05:00

page 21 more speed again

2011-01-20T13:32:00.002-05:00

bug bomb page 21

2011-01-19T22:24:00.000-05:00

I like some of this....

adding some speed

2011-01-14T15:20:00.006-05:00

Kevin encouraged me to add some more movement into the drawings today. It's something I admire in a lot of comic art but don't really do it in my own work. So I figured I'd give it a shot.

Detail of the big kick:

more details:

I like this so far - maybe a bit too subtle. I'll be pushing this a little more as I go along.

Bug Bomb Page 20

2011-01-13T23:59:00.003-05:00

this page sux a little but it's ok. Moving on. Attempting to do two more pages this weekend

page 19 - updated

2011-01-10T16:30:00.002-05:00

Bug Bomb -page 19

2011-01-09T22:22:00.001-05:00

page 18 ---again

2011-01-04T21:49:00.002-05:00

here's page 18 (with the final 4 panels included)

bug bomb page 18

2011-01-03T23:43:00.001-05:00

Did this page in one day except after I read the script to look for the next page I realized I left off three panels!!!! duh. back to the drawing board I gues.

page 4 friendly cove

2011-01-03T18:37:00.003-05:00

New page scanned on my new scanner! 11 x 17 works great. Im pretty happy right now. More drawing tonight while I watch the orange bowl.

Bug Bomb page 17

2010-12-28T16:51:00.001-05:00

layout page 17

2010-12-24T00:07:00.001-05:00

layout for the next page...still mulling this one over. more tomorrow.