The Seer

And I thought coloring in the backgrounds flat black took a long time....

Kathoolu

The Monsoon

Lizardo

The Return

The Gift

The Lurk

This started as a pencil sketch last October and tonight I decided to give it some inks.

Hellboy

I've been drawing Hellboy a lot lately...he's definitely one of the most interpreted characters in recent comic memory...I guess 'cause he's just fun to draw and there's no really 'right' way to draw him; he's open to interpretation. Here are a few different takes on him, including a quick color version of one of the pencil drawings.

DESTRUCTOTRON!!

This was one of the last designs I worked on at my job before they closed down the men's division. Nothing was ever done with this artwork, which I think would have made a pretty cool pair of boxers. The final image had Japanese characters running down the side reading 'Giant Robot', made to look sort of like an old Japanese movie poster. Here are a couple of different takes on the concept, sans lettering and the final design as it would have looked.

Girls!

Something a bit different this time out...more stuff for Walmart, but for girls...these were fun to work on. The figures are for screens and I then incorporated them into repeats. One of these days I'm going to put up a more work related blog with samples of my repeats and stuff and I'll put those up there.

JOHNNY GALAXY

Another one of the prints done for men's boxer briefs that didn't get past the sample stage. There is the possibility, though, of some of this stuff making it to market, if all goes well. It's had a new lease on life, as my company is going to try and sell it again to Wal-mart. I doubt they'll be prescient enough to pick it up, but hey, one can hope. I've redesigned this to work as a single image for the blog as there were other robots that went on the back, but they didnt' work for this layout. Johnny Galaxy is my made-up space hero.

SUPER STRONG!

Something from the archives...hopefully I'll get something NEW up later this week...I've finally got some time freed up in my schedule, so I can sit back down at the 'ol drawing board and work something up...all kinds of bits of sketches and whatnot lying around, though...anyway, this was something done last year for men's underwear...the Japanese characters roughly translate to Super Strong and naturally were placed over the crotch area on boxer briefs....I was asked to do something with a Yu-Gi-Oh feel...kinda the same sorta face/hair with a beefed up body. I finished the legs on another paper somewhere, but only in pencil for myself....they weren't going to be on the briefs anyway. It was fun to do and the underwear came out really cool..unfortunately they weren't picked up by any of the major chains. A cryin' shame....I'll wear my pair with pride...

Lunch Time Special - new blog!

Hey folks - it's been a month almost since my last post - and it's gonna be a bit longer until you see some new art for this blog, but in the meantime, head on over to Lunch Time Special to check out a new blog, curated by myself, May-Day himself, Carlos Vega, and the caretaker of the Pencil Box Zoo, Rob Kramer! All the details can be found there!

More Monsters

Sketches and Scrawlings

Some more ...

Scratches and Scribblings

I've had some sketches and post it note drawings accumulating, so here's a few of some of the latest things.

SeekWence 2

Another page in the non-continuing, non-saga tale of Monsters, Robots and Creatures in an alternate dimension of Space-Time.

Kooky Mini Comics

The first half of the day was pretty trying, as my computer was working sooooo slllloowwwllly...finally after a few reboots, by the afternoon it was working decently. But up 'til then, I started penciling and writing a comic page, while waiting for my Mac to either save or export a file, or even to just close a window! Very frustrating. Add the heat in the office and my tired state to that and this is what you get. I inked it at home.

SeeKWence

Here's another exercise in putting a comic page together of unrelated images and characters. The third panel was a pain in the ass, the one you see here the result of eleven attempts. All the other panels were done with just the drawing you see, so I don't know what happened. Included here also, are the original pencils, where you can see the first panel I did that I wasn't happy with after it was inked. I did wind up with a melding of two of the rejects that I kinda like. Maybe I'll incorporate it in a future page.