Pencils: Bug Bomb #1 pg1

Got a new script from Kevin and I'm jumping in. Lots of bugs bikes and brawls!! Can't wait to draw some of these pages! Just wish I could draw faster....ah well. Hopefully I will have a bunch of regular updates here over the next few months and more. Also I think I figured out a work around for my scanner so things are looking up! Anyway here is the first cut at page 1 pencils.

sketch: demon warrior and dogs

Ungetum Sketches

monstres2

Not really inspired tonight so I just played around with a black lagoon monster in watercolor.

Monsters

Working on some more drawings for a band my cousin works with. Here's an old monster drawing I did that I really liked. I think I will start in this direction and branch out from there.

some more ideas

barcode generator. cool idea i stole from my buddy matt's blog.

skull mask logo 2

did some quick sketches of a logo I'm working on while the kids are getting cleaned up:


Here's the same idea but a little more refined. I think is a pretty cool image.

here's a variation:

logo 1

lady warlord sketch

here's another design for the lady warlords

sketch: Warlords MC

Playing around with colored pencils today doing some more designs for the Warlords Motorcycle Club members. Reminds me of drawings I used to do in school. I've been going back and forth with the idea of giving the female bugs human female characteristics ("boobs" or "no-boobs"). Right now I am leaning toward "boobs", mainly because I think it looks cooler. Also, I think this design for the female roach racer is ok but the leathers are too modern for the gang. I'll be rolling the clock back for her in the next design.

sketch: Charlie

Another Card

Marker on bristol, 2.5" x 3.5 "

Trickster Cards

Tonight I worked on a couple trading cards for Trickster. I'll do a couple more tomorrow.

Interview City Paper

There's an interview with me from the City Paper Arts Desk.

Kitchen Race

The last paper I am trying out is the 500 Series Illustration board for Wet Media. It's nice and big, 15x22. and the drawing came out pretty nice. I put a lot of water on this and it held up great. I doubt I'll use it again because it is large and pretty stiff making it a pain to scan with my pathetic scanner.

Sketch: More Wasp Gang

Not my best drawing but it's ok and was fun to draw. These drawings im just trying to get a sense of what the different characters in Bug Bomb will look like. The Wasp gang is patterned after Capsule gang - the lads from Akira. I like the preppy look too.

The Wasp Gang

Working on some wasp characters for Bug Bomb. Here's a sketch:

Roach Rider

Doing some sketching since my kid's baseball game got rained out. I drew this on Strathmore 500 Series Bristol with a Vellum surface. Really nice. Not nearly as toothy as the watercolor paper I used in the last post. Plus this comes in 11 x 17 sheets. Pretty cool. i have one more paper to try out but it hasn't come in the mail yet.
The 500 series Bristol did warp a bit more than the watercolor paper but not as much as the 400 series bristol. So I like this one the best.

New paper - Strathmore 400 series cold press watercolor pad

I've been working 'wet' lately, doing ink washes with gobs of water and the bristol board I've used was getting all warped. So to combat this I am trying out some new paper. First is the Strathmore 400 series Cold press Watercolor paper. Really heavy duty, comes in a 12x17 spiral pad.



I did this sketch of some roach dudes with brushes, Rosemary and Co Series 33 size 2 for the lines and size 4 for the wash.



The paper held up great to the washes. It's pretty toothy and seemed to soak up a lot more water then the bristol so I had to mix more washes and dip my brush more. Pretty nice though and held up better for this type of work then the bristol.