Telepath Generation

OH, what's this? Could it be a newly unveiled comic project with Spera creator Josh Tierney and company? WHY YES, I BELIEVE IT IS. Will the first issue be printed some time late this summer? WHY YES, I BELIEVE IT WILL BE.

hoh hoh hoh!

BORFDAEEE

Birthday card for the boss man's lady. It's 3am, there's no food in my house, and the smell of maple syrup is being carried around on the wind. :(

EDIT:
A secondary version which is less cute and more badass. In other news I still have no food, but now my house just smells like cat pee. :( :( :(

Akira is so awesome

I'm in kind of a slump tonight. I drew all weekend and didn't really get enough work done as I would have liked. I am pretty tired of working like a maniac and being really poor. Isn't there some kind of instant good luck slot machine I can play and win every time? Can it shower me with gold coins too?

I love Akira. I love it so much. I'm using that movie to attempt to kickstart my brain again. Drawing Banzai!

madatoms article sampler

Some recent samples of work for a few madatoms.com articles. A couple of these are already up, so check out the website to see them in their full glory, accompanied by humorous articles!

fantasy movie night

I wish I had...

I wish I had the time and equipment to pursue animated project ideas. :(
I think I know what to ask Santa for next Christmas.

sketching, postcards & process, oh my!

half done projects have a really good way of stacking up on my desktop. From time to time, I get to dig through them and figure out which ones I still have an invested interest in, and which ones I can just trash. Recently, though, I've been having a nearly impossible time of it trashing anything! So all my for fun projects, in the exception of the rare three or so things, remain the same and yet go for the most part untouched. One day, I will get to these fun diamonds.



On the work side of things, I designed a postcard for Yours Truly. There is another one in the set done by someone else, but they share the same back. I've decided that I love pink. I used to be afraid of it, I think. Now all I want to do is mash my face into giant swathes of magenta and fuchsia.
I went for a similar feel to the ad I drew for us recently for RVA magazine in an attempt to give the people in our tiny city some sort of familiar visual cues. Pink. leaves. feathers. Greens and blues. decorative texture.




Here, I think is probably as close to a tutorial as I'm going to ever get. My coloring process takes much longer than the initial inking process. I try many different color combos before I get to something I like. From every version I create that appeals to me, I take maybe one color, or one piece of contrast, and bring it to the next level. Thus I obnoxiously birth art. But I think coloring is the most enjoyable part of the process for me, who feels a bit like a wizard putting together a complicated jigsaw puzzle.




until next time!

RVAnthology site launch!

Yes, it's true. Now you are free to purchase your copy of the RVAnthology online! For a mere pittance, you get five excellent and beautiful stories about love, fear, homelessness, death, sex, and cats! What more could you ask for? Check it out immediately! RVANTHOLOGY.COM

I want to go to there!

The RVAnthology release party...

... was a complete success!




Thanks to everyone who came to the Whitley Gallery December 10th for the release party for the RVAnthology! I'm pleased to say that these photos are some low-key action shots, because at one point the gallery became so full that the windows fogged up and it was impossible to walk around! Neato! (Unless one finds oneself carrying a glass of red wine. yikes!) The turnout was much better than I expected, and we are well on our way to meeting our financial goals. It's been a weird, long road up to this point, but I hope to do it again soon!

For those of you interested in picking up one of these bad boys for yourself, if you live in Richmond you can swing on down to The Whitley Gallery on 17th and Main across from the old farmer's market and purchase your copy there. All 200 first editions are autographed by everyone involved, and are selling for $25 each. Select original works from all the artists are also on display, and available at very reasonable prices. When the show comes down in January, the book will be made available at your local Virginia comic book store (including the very badass Velocity Comics, who always show up full force in support, as well as mine own shop, Stories Comics) and on the internet.

Thanks again, to everyone else involved! Y'all know how to make a girl feel special.

Kill Bill: Curse of the 31st

Wraparound for my most recent client. The album is still en process, but when you can pick it up I'll make an edit to this post.

Curse of the 31st

Doing the whole CD package for this handsome guy!
Watch out for Kill Bill, Curse of the 31st, coming in January!

More when there's more.

RVAnthology promo video teaser

Rvanthology, Yours Truly, misc.

Hey guys! Happy almost thanksgiving!

Finally, after much adieu, my pages for Sink Slow Down got finished, and the RVAnthology is now officially off to the printers! Boom Boom Burgers as just come forward as a sponsor for our opening, so fortunately we can now afford to buy better booze and get a better DJ! Neat! (I wonder if there will be complimentary burgers? ah-hee- hee :d )

Now what is left to me is to assemble some few personal works of my choice for the show which is happening simultaneously. I'm bored with the prints I have now, and have been making a concentrated effort to try and whip together some new stuff. Mostly I've only managed to lamely photoshop some blown out reference pix together, but here and there a glimmer of something cool is showing. Moo.com can turn around postcard prints so fast, I won't really have to make any ultimate decisions until probably the end of the week or a little later. Also I've been separating some original line from the comic for prints as well, so we'll see how people like those.







Additionally to the seeming future success of the anthology, I've also gotten a second job! Cool! I am now the only illustrator at my friend's fledgling graphic design company, Yours Truly LLC. Here's a spot ad we're running in Richmond Mag and RVA mag:



Drawing is so fun.

Remember friends, The RVAnthology is on facebook! Watch for updates about the release.

RVAnthology progress

Holy Toledo! Progress! Tonight was a good inking night. Sometimes I feel like I'm reaching down and grabbing my inspiration and dragging it out like yanking up a stubborn tree root. But it's on nights like these that I remember why this is so hard for me, and furthermore, why it's so important I tell my story right.

I also cannot get this song out of my head for the life of me:

RVAnthology Promo Poster

Gave my script a facelift, and honestly, I couldn't be happier. You'll see.

a'commin December 2010. SO WATCH OUT , because it's gonna rule the school.