Waterlogged Memories

Some friends might remember the flood I had a few months ago, which I have yet to write about either here or on The Collection. A more detailed post about it is due. In brief, the cause was my hot water heater bursting open in the basement. All in all, what could have been a total disaster seemed to turn out relatively well, with only a couple of hundred dollars worth of damage to some not so rare or coveted books and magazines (and a small handful of comics). I got off relatively scott free it seemed.

Recently, I went to look though a large zipped vinyl student art portfolio that had been in the corner where much of the worst damage was done. To my horror and utter shock I discovered that ALL the art in the portfolio had pretty much become fused together, a pile of art around two dozen thick. Sitting for months, soaked through with water, the pages had been reduced to brown mildewy sops with torn stains making up for what was once art, with only slivers along sides remaining of untouched artwork. Thankfully, much of the original art in that portfolio existed in some sort of form, whether it be a stat or newspaper printing, slide or digital scan. Still, a good 5-10 pieces are gone to the winds of time forever. I'll write some more about it on my Collection website, along with photos of some of the beyond repair damaged artwork. It's not a pretty sight and I recommend the faint of heart to look away.

Some of the art that was lost were some of the first art showcaed on this blog back in 2005. Pieces like The Paradox Of Time and No-Meenin' Funnies. A few paintings done for Personality Comics and a science-fiction anthology were lost, along with three pages of an issue of Plasma Baby which I inked over Mitch Waxman's pencils. And then a whole bunch of student pieces, both large and small.

So here, as a last goodbye to this art, are just some of the pieces that were destroyed none of which have made it onto this blog before.




From the top:

The Return Of Captain Democracy-1987
Behind The Wall Of Sleep-1988
Marcos-1988
Salvation-1988
Spacer-1988
Carl-1989/90
Skull-1989/90
Giantess-1989/90
Bobbi-1990

Real Life Superheroes

mostly monsters

some friendly, some not so friendly.

Post Its

A bunch of recent post its and small head sketches...Some of these are done with a brush pen and a dry marker for shading.

More Sketches

Sketches

A few random drawings taking up space on my table here...

Because The World Demanded It - A New Blog!!

Yes, just what we've all been waiting for! A new blog. This one will feature, would you believe it? - life drawings. I and some friends attended a life drawing session this week and it got me excited about drawing from a live model. I'm hoping to attend more on some sort of regular or semi-regular basis. As William Stout, artist and illustrator extraordinarire has stated, all artists should figure draw at least 3 hours a week from life. Taking that into account, I'm about 6 million hours behind. Hopefully, I'll be able to do a little catching up in the months ahead. You can find the new blog here:
Figure It Out

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.