References

Finally got some drawing done this week after a week in Orlando. Here are some references/sketches and models for the Friendly Cove story

Fly Ride sketch

ComicsComics

FOund this somehow and it's really interesting. Frank Santoro's ComicsComics Blog

bug bomb 13

Here's page 13. I drew and redrew this page 3 times before I settled on this layout. for some reason this page just did not want to be drawn. But It did so there. Some details to add but I'll do that tomorrow.

Friendly Cove 2

Bug Bomb page 12

Sketchbook: new junk

I got a new sketch book and a Pentel refillable brush pen in the mail today so I wanted to play with it. Did this sketch while the kids were taking a bath.

page 11 pencils

Ok. Here's page 11. Moving on to page 12 tomorrow.

Bug Bomb Page 11 progress

Bug Bomb page10: pencils

Some rough spots here but I'll clean it up under the brush. Pretty happy with a lot of this,

New Project

Here's a page from a new project I may be working on.

sailors and such

some sketches sailors. I may be working on a new story with Matt Dembicki set in the early 19th Century. This is a first sketch to get a feel for the fashion of the time.

pages 8 9 pencils

page 7 pencils

Moving right along! Here are the pencils for page 7. Im really happy with this page but I absolutely can't wait to draw pages 8 and 9!

Page 6 pencils

Got some work done on page 6 tonight not a great scan but I think it's looking pretty good. Page 7 should be quick. Maybe tomorrow or Wednesday night.

page 5 pencils

still needs background but here's page 5 so far

Friday night

Wedding weekend! My son is the ring bearer in a wedding this weekend so we had the rehearsal dinner tonight. Lots of fun and plenty of beer. Got home and everyone fell asleep except me. So I poured some rum in a cup and did some drawing. Did the layout for page 5 and got started on the pencils. Happy and buzzed. Nighty night~

Baltimore Comic Con

Sunday I went up to the Baltimore Comic Convention and sat at Matt Dembicki's table for a couple hours with Evan Keeling. Here's Evan and I at the table:



It was my first time at that con and it was a lot of fun. There seemed to be a pretty good interest around the book and we sold 10 or 11 in the 2 hours I was sat there. Here's a sketch I did for Nan Roberts. (She was asking artists to draw either a cat, an owl or a hippo.)



I bummed Evan's brush pen to do the sketch. Really nice pen. (I believe it was a, "Pocket Brush Pen", by Pentel):

page 4 pencils

page 4 layout