Jubilee

Gonna try to get a few more in here before the close of January! Whew! They say January usually feels like the slowest month of the year, and if that's the case, I'm kind of scared another year is going to slip by and I'm still writing 2006 on all my checks.

Anyway, had some fun drawing Jubilee, gleefully rollerblading down the San Francisco Embarcadero (apologies for the uber-fudged background). I've always liked Jubilee and her 90's "whatever" attitude, and I think I'll do a few more of her to try and capture her spirit. I'd also like to draw her with her best bud Wolverine. They will not be rollerblading.

Enjoy!

Character Sketches

I'm currently working on two comics projects for different publishers. The first is a four issue mini-series titled "Murmurs of Madness," being published by Chimaera Studios. It's a WWII science fiction/horror tale very much in the vein of HP Lovecraft. I am penciling and inking this series, which is scary since I've never inked a thing in my life. What better time than now to learn, right?

The second is a mini-series called "Dragonlance Chronicles: Tale of the Twins." This is coming out from Devil's Due Publishing and even though there are only three issues, each issue is a whopping 40 pages! I'll be posting some character designs and whatnot from that series as well in the near future.

The image being posted today is a study of some German soldiers and their weapons. I'll be doing studies like this for the American forces as well. I find it's important to do character sketches not only for your lead roles, but also for background characters. This way, when you're in the middle of working on a page and need to draw a crowd, fight scene, etc., you have a piece of reference instead of making up faces on the spot, which for me, always results in characters that look too similar to one another.

Spoiler Alert!

About to get prowlin in a foggy Gotham.

Happy New Year

Happy 2008, everyone.

I'm starting this year off with some characters that were suggested by friends last year. I figured this will be a good way for me to get loosened up and back to work after a week or so of not doing anything creative.

I've got a lot on my plate this year already with work stuff. However, I'm still committed (don't call it a resolution) to doing a fair amount of personal, non-comics related work for fun and to exercise some techniques and processes that i don't get to use too often in my work for clients.

Looking forward to a year of growth and creativity.

Cheers