Two tiers

Bug Bomb top tier page 1

here's the first three panels of page 1 of "Bug Bomb" (written by Kevin Panetta). Kind of a bad scan - bluryness in the second panel. But overall I like how this is coming out.

roachy heads and whatnot

sketch book

Trickster is Available

Reposted from Matt Dembicki's blog:

Trickster is now available at Amazon.com. You can order here.
It will very soon be on the shelves of major bookstores and indie stories.
Thanks for your support!

Greg Rodgers and I have a story in there called, "Giddy Up Wolfie" (Page 111) Check it out!

sketch book

Reading a little manga got me geeked to draw. so I did a version of Monster fight's Cassie with my watercolors.

old tttfomb page

here's an old page from an old unfinished project.

doodles and scanner hate

is there anything worse then dropping a couple hundred on new hardware and it's a piece of shit? I hate my new scanner. SO I went to plug in my 10 year old canon even though it only worked in spurts....well too bad for me, there are no cano scan drivers for mac so it's too bad for me. Whatever. sticking with the crap for now but god it sucks.

Anyway, for your enjoyment, here is a crappy scan of a mediocre sketch.

sketch: dirty dishes

back to work: colors for Monster fights 1

Been a while since I had a working computer, tablet and photoshop all working but I finally got it all last back together again so I can get back to coloring. Here is the latest page of monster fights one that I drew last year but still haven't finished coloring. more soon.

into the black : more bits and pieces

OD Carved out

OD Rocky

Touched up drawing

into the black inks

sketch: into the black 2

another perspective

Sketch: Into the Black

a design I am working on.

sketch again

Fixed my scanner I think...the first image is the old image with the crap scan; it just looks really harsh. The second is after the fix and is much tamer. Not exactly sure what was wrong with it but it looks better now.

Papa Roach

Got a new scanner and it sux so far....regardless here is a sketch I did last night of a roach pops. brush and ink washes.

page 18 - backgrounds and scorpions

Page 18 colors - more work

Made some good progress.

page 18 color

No heat in my house tonight so I'm coloring in the cold. Here are the flats for page 18. This took me a looooong time. My fingers are getting really cold. dang.

Sketch

Got some new brushes I wanted to try out only to realize I don't have any ink left. dug out a bottle of Higgins Eternal and remembered why I stopped using it. Here's the sketch.


Now off to dick blick to order some decent ink.

John McNamee at the Daily Cross Hatch

Funny dude and fellow Super Wrestle cartoonist John McNamee was featured a couple days ago over at the Daily Cross Hatch. Also checkout his strip, "Pie Comics".

Oregon Ridge Nature Center

The folks from the Oregon Ridge Nature Center used a drawing of mine in their newsletter this month

sketch

random painting

roach racers

Sketch: Greaser Roaches

Reference: roaches

Some good sites
http://webs.lander.edu/rsfox/invertebrates/periplaneta.html

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul05/wdparasite2.html

Reference: "american greasers"

Post about American Greasers from the Secret Forts Blog.

LINK: POSES

http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/

and page4

leviathan pp1-3

still working on this for now. cleaned up page 2 and details of page 3.

some quick cuts

more wacom work

Worked a little on trying to draw a little better using the wacom. Took a pic from yesterday and drew on top of it. doing this all electronically allows you to move objects around to improve the composition. Here I moved the dingy in the foreground over to the left to improve the balance of the drawing.

wacom sketching

practice with my new markers

got some fine line markers and started doodling. I've been doing a lot more work with the markers and pens without pencils to try and loosen up and I am starting to get some pretty nice results. the lines look ok but I can't resist adding some color.

A couple sketches from the weekend.

Took my sketchbook along with me on a weekend trip to Emerald isle with some friends.

colors for chapter 2 of Monster fights

Spent too much time wrestling with the palette for this page (by "wrestling" I really mean avoiding it hoping inspiration would hit me). Finally I followed the advice of my economics professor who said, "the hardest thing about economics is getting your ass in the chair!" Turns out this is true about comics too and so I got my ass in the chair last night and finally past this page. Here is an excerpt:



The final, with words, will be posted at Superwrestle HQ after the current installment of Legends is done.

Open Life drawing in Lorton

At the Workhouse. Thursday evenings 7-10. http://www.workhousearts.org/classes.php

Monster Fights 2 - Rean-i-Nate vs the Roly Poly

Link: My new baby niece's blog

Gwen's blog

Mini Legends

had an itch to draw mini manga dudes. apologies for the crappy scan. I drew it about 2 inches by 3 so it looks a little rough all blown up. Anyway, here's Cassie, Nate and Kid Comet from Legends of Superwrestle!

sketch

Monster Fights 1

some ink and watercolor practice

Link - Dan Zettwoch's screen printing step by step

it looks hard and easy at the same time. Im inspired:

http://www.danzettwoch.com/prints/silkscreen.html

Page 23

This is the last page!

Cheers and see you at SPX!

page 22

Page 21

Page 20 inks

Page 19 inks

Fists pumped! Teeth Bared! Let's get it on!

Chapter 2 INKS -- pages 16,17,18

So my PC crashed again. I spent last night rebuilding it and so I am back online for now. In the meantime I did three more pages of inks but couldn't scan till now. so here they are...

Page 16


Page 17


Page 18


5 more pages.