Doodles...

I've been trying to make my doodling around a bit more substantial. I'm always impressed when other artist have sketchbooks with practically finished drawings. People like Eric Canete or Chris Samnee ho somehow manage to fit in these terrific sketches in between actual work. I've been posting these on twitter and hopefully it'll lead to more drawing which means better drawing in the end. Hopefully.

Monkey off my back...

With issue 3 of Graveyard off and done I feel much relieved. I feel bad it's taken as long as it has but I hope it's worth it to our readers.

On the other hand I've had some breathing room. Being that work has been coloring and other odds and ends I was doing, I spent my actual drawing time doing some sketches of the people that will inhabit my next projects. I'm relly excited about them. Especially, my own story that I will write and draw. I envy those artist that can be the full package in this industry. I hope to put out at least one of my own books a year (Starting in 2012). One book that's all me.

Thinking out loud...

I thought I'd post a quick I did when I was trying to figure out just what Graveyard of Empires would look like. It always helps me to sit down and just start drawing when I'm trying to come up with something. Rarely do I have something fully formed in my head before pen touches paper. This especially is true with covers.

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Back from the dead.....

So it's official that Graveyard of Empires is coming out in June. It's in the latest Previews catalogue and hopefully we can really get the word out. So feel free to to ask about it in your local store or pre-order a copy.

In the meantime, here are some rough sketches form some recent pages. I'm finally getting into the meat of the zombie fun. Nothing beats drawing Afghan zombies except maybe Afghan zombies getting blown up. We've set up the book so it gets progressively crazier and more action packed as it goes so I'm looking forward to drawing the hoards of undead.

Also, here's the final cover for issue one. I'm pretty pleased with it. I wanted each cover to be a simple graphic image and I think the first two really worked out.

Lastly, to make up for the lack of posts I threw in a life drawing I did recently that I thought came out pretty good. That's all for now. More soon...

EDIT: Just wanted to throw up the Diamond order code for those interested - APR110400

More Life...

Been a few days but I was caught up finishing a Captain America short for Marvel (see last post). Anyway, I've been making my way over to life drawing sessions and these are what came out of it. I've been trying to keep it all loose and have fun with them. I made a small pact with myself to try a different approach every time I go. Hopefully some of this finds it's way into my comic pages. I'm back to working on Graveyard of Empires and I'll have some updates soon (including when it'll be in stores).

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Drawing From Life

It's been quite a few years since I've been to a life drawing session and last night I made my way over to one. I didn't realize how much I missed it. It's been said before but there really is nothing that compares. The place was great and the model was terrific. I had alot of rust to knock off so I'm not sure it's great to look at but here are some of the results. They consist of 30 second, one minute, five minute and a couple of ten minutes poses. I actually brought along some ink and a brush for the longer poses. I can't wait to go again and I think I'm going to drag a couple of people with me next time.

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Mondongo for everyone!

I started a short job (12 pages) and I'll probably post some process stuff next. In the meantime, I thought I'd just throw up some bits from different things.

This is a quick I sketch I did while half-heartedly looking in my little mirror. So it half-heartedly looks like me. It actually gave me the idea for the new header up top so I guess it was useful after all.

Who doesn't love dog eating innards? I know I do. I haven't drawn many dogs so this one was fun in that "how the hell do I do this?" kind of way? When I get more into my book I may have to do a montage of things eating other things.

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