Well. Greetings, old AND new Internet. Thought I'd brush this old thing off, mend a few things, trim some fraying ends off and give it some wellie!
There's been a lot of art I've wanted to post on IG but the square format just won't work for it. I deleted FB years ago, abandoned Twitter last year, Devart is a dumpster fire of AI, I can't even get into my old LJ any more to gather anything I might have had worth keeping there and Tumblr is a bit too much of a reblog firehose for me these days, more like a digital hoard, where I share shiny things other people have made.

Kinda be nice to have a MACRO-blog again, with less emphasis on THE CAREER and more on everyday brainfarts that need more than 120 characters.

While I'm waiting for any of of the 3 big projects I'm working on to come through with material ANY DAY NOW, I've been trying to do some loosen-up doodling every day or so, looking up stock pose models and seeing what I can adapt them to. This is today's.
I'm not a HUGE Mermay person but it's never a bad time to draw a fishy redhead.

Cheers

Darn kids, get off my rink

Replace the skates with crutches and make me 30 years younger... and very very little has changed.

April 22

Playing with two new shiny programs: Above, Painter Sketch Pad
Below, Photoshop CS5 and a 1961 Bride & Home magazine.

Corel Painter Sketch Pad

This comes with the current range of Wacom Intuos tablets.
Holy crap, this is a truly beautiful, SIMPLE sketching program.
This belongs on the Ipad, if they can only get those styluses a LITTLE more pointy...

Let the Ruination of Health Begin!

It's that time of year, campers..

CON SEASON!
This year James Silvani and I are on an epic quest to see how many con tables we can snag at the last possible minute :)

First up - Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle.
I will be at table M12 with Cars artist Allen Gladfelter while James rocks the Boom! kids booth with custom Darkwing Duck sketch covers.

Two weeks later, James and I will be at table B5 at C2E2 in Chicago.
It's the con's second year and the growth is remarkable.

We'll be selling original art, sketch cards, prints, books and sketch covers :)

We're still waiting to hear from Wondercon and Heroescon, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, here's a pic of Boo in a panda suit.
Made for my smashing editor at IDW.

Winter cleaning

Nothing like digging through your HD for something else and finding a page of digital doodles you totally forgot you did!

Brown Book roundup

Mishmash of stuff. First batch is from Drink and Draw night in LA during Long Beach

And a Batgirl, because Silvani ordered me to:

Con roundup - 2010

It has been an amazing year. The work has been hard and very stressful sometimes, but on the other hand, I have got to meet some incredible people and make some new lifelong friends.

But enough of that, you want to see ART, right? Have a nice big backlog of CON SKETCH COVERS!

These are all a big mishmash from New York Comic Con, Toronto FanExpo and Long Beach Comic Con.

Awwwww

Ironically, Animal has a bigger vocabulary

Markers were running out by now!

Inspired by a rather slick pair of cosplayers

Holy crap! Presented for autographs, lovingly bagged and boarded.

Muppet/Who mashups NEVER get boring.

For Samad, webmaster of Pixar Times

This never stops being funny.

Coming up with new introductory threats was all part of the fun.

A fan at NYCC presented these magnificent works in progress. 

Ducktales SDCC variant by me.

Dashing!

Oh shush, it's awesome.

Couple of James Silvani's sketch covers. The man's versatility is astounding.

Two of the better Gonzo mashups I did.

Two of the WEIRDEST Muppet mashups I've ever done.

Another of James'. Some fans don't care if the cover sketch bears no relation to the actual comic ;)

Ha! Remembered to get a photo of it this time!

Normally I find Statler and Waldorf pretty boring to draw, but this fan suggestion was priceless.