Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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Friday, October 24, 2008

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

ART FOR SALE

Space Chick Pin-up

This is a pin-up for a really cool sci-fi comic from creators Gigi Edgley and Brian Meredith titled "Blue Shift". It's a really cool book, so check it out an' stuff.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Abbath and Satyr commisions

I was commissioned by a couple in the UK to draw idealized versions of black metal icons Abbath and Satyr. Here they is. Thanks for your patience, Wynn.


Thursday, October 16, 2008

Website updated

I added some pages from Rex Mundi: Hill of Martyrs to the site. Access it by clicking here. Thanks for taking a look!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Pride's Greatest Knockouts (Warning: Graphic)

Three observations:

1: Pride refs = late stoppage.

2: Kicking a downed opponent seems a tad unsportsmanlike.

3: Hendo is a badass.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Jesus Camp

Why We Fight

The Fog of War

I found this film, one of Errol Morris' finest, online in its entirety. Enjoy.

Angels and Demons Revealed

Monday, October 6, 2008

Dr. Grave

Here's a pin-up I did recently for Ed Clay's Dr. Grave TPB coming soon from Antix Press!!! Had some fun with this one.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

ZOMBI ''Surface To Air'' Live In Detroit 4/29/07

Congrats, Seth

Seth Petruzelli throws the right hand that dropped Kimbo Slice
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Talk about seizing an opportunity. He was one of my favorite fighters from TUF season 2 (gotta love those spinning back kicks), and I am so happy for him today. I hear taps playing in the distance for Elite XC.

The Process

Well, I thought I'd explain my extremely tedious process of creating comic book pages. I really dig it when other folks do it. So, here goes. We'll take a look at a page from my recent Rex Mundi stint.

I do a my layouts with a fairly soft pencil. These run fairly small, only taking up a quarter, to half a sheet of letter-size paper. I take the comic page template I use (which is really just a scan of a Dark Horse comic board) and print it out really small. I do my layout on that, so the layout itself stays precisely proportionate to the finished page.



Then I scan it in and convert the file from greyscale to a light monotone blue. I drag the layout over to a template I use for pages (the same scan of a Dark Horse comic board, only, comic-page size (11" X 17")). I then size it appropriately using the free transform tool in PS, erase things I don't need, and sometimes add things freehand using the Wacom tablet. This is also a time to incorporate editor suggestions and/or changes.

I then use the line tool to plot all of the perspective, using the same light blue color for point A, and a light pink for point B.



I reduce this image to about 20% transparency and using my Epson 1400 jumbo inkjet printer, I print it out on a sheet of 11" X 17" Strathmore 400 bristol. The image itself prints super light, and after the page is inked, this "under drawing" is easily removed from the scan by tweaking the brightness/contrast. This whole process saves me time, believe it or not, eliminating hours of erasing and re-drawing and on average, saves me an hour or two per page.

From here I start penciling. I usually start out using a light blue erasable Prismacolor pencil, and later clean it up using a mechanical pencil with a 2H lead. Hey look, it's a penciled page:



Then, I get to work with my Scharff #3 sable and some Higgins black india ink. Oh, hey, what's that - it's an inked comic book page.



And there you have it. Thanks for taking a look. Feel free to comment, you dang lurkers. I know you're there.