Wolverine

The big news in my life is that I - after almost fifteen years - have quit my fire alarm sales job. I'm going to draw full time for as long as I can. Hopefully that will be for the rest of it, but we will see. I'm sure I will post more about that soon, but for now, here is a drawing of Wolverine I did today.

I'm trying to get in the habit of drawing and sketching before I begin the "real" artwork for the day. I will do my best to keep up with it, but I'm sure there will be days were time restraints keep me from following through.

Luigi as Green Arrow

I had the pleasure of setting up a table last weekend here in my hometown of Fargo, ND.  One of the commissions requested of me was of Luigi cosplaying as Green Arrow.  Fun idea.  Instead of trying to fit a character of such a traditional "cartoony" appearance into my own style I took this as an opportunity to try something different.  The folks who commissioned the piece seemed genuinely pleased so that's the important thing but I am quite happy myself.  In hindsight there are some things that I would have done differently but, that's common.

Jean Grey Phoenix

The "good" version of Jean Grey's Phoenix.  That explains why she doesn't look pissed off.  There probably wouldn't be much more a difference than that.  I think I'm going to put some digital inks on this too.

Hands again

More hands.  More digital drawing.  More reference.

Hands!

Working on a few different things at the moment and haven't had a lot of time to work on nice finished artwork (stuff that I can post at least).  Still trying to work on figure work when I have time, though.  So, here are some hand drawings.  All from photo reference.

Heads part 2

More heads.  This time I'm drawin' the fellas.

Heads

Lady's heads to be more precise.  More practice.  Heads and faces have always been a challenge. Hopefully some exercises like this will go a long way.

Convention sketches

I've had the pleasure of attending a couple of local shows/cons in my home state of North Dakota recently.  I'll post a few of my commissions here but I unfortunately forgot to take photos of all of them.  Oh well, I'll just remember to have more beers next time.  That will help, right?!

Captain Marvel digital inks

I recently purchased a Yiynova MVP20U+FE tablet monitor.  I've worked mostly "traditionally" to this point but have recently been feeling an increased desire to branch out and start doing more digitally.  I considered purchasing a Cintiq but, given the price, felt that a less expensive alternative would be a better starting point.  If this digitally thing doesn't take it's probably easier to be out a few hundred bucks than $1000+.  The Yiynova products were getting some very good reviews so I thought I'd give it shot.

Doctor Fate pencils

I finished this a few weeks ago.  I know I probably seem like an overly-critical broken record at times but this one just doesn't make me happy.  It's pretty common for me to have mixed feelings about a piece, whether it's a pin-up type like this or an actual interior page, immediately after finishing.  Most of the time, if I set it aside for awhile I'll have a new appreciation for it when I look at it again.  This one still isn't giving me the feels.  That probably won't change but here it is anyway.  While I work on some things that I can't post yet I feel I should at least keep posting as much as I can.

Hellboy pencils

Trying to keep up with sketch type drawings when I can.  I've been working on Young Gladiators again recently and I can't show any of that work yet.  Found sometime to work on Hellboy.  I haven't read much Hellboy so hopefully I've represented him at least fairly well.

Anatomy work

I recently attended C2E2 in Chicago.  I didn't set up a table but, as usual, brought some samples with to get feedback on and leave behind with some publishers.  I felt about as confident in the pages as I ever have.  Overall things went fairly well.  However, I got called out on a lot of anatomy issues.  It was a bit frustrating as I have been working on my anatomy drawing and construction and thought I was a little further along than I suppose I actually am.  However, I ultimately feel pretty good as it seems this is really the only glaring weakness I believe I have.  Not that there isn't a lot of other things I can work on but I now know what I have to focus on.

Swamp Thing stages

I've been a bad blogger.  Bad, bad blogger.  I've enjoyed posting art and providing some information or backstory about said artwork but, once I missed a few pieces I had planned on posting about, things got out of hand and here we are.  Anyway, I'm trying to get back on the horse here and thought I'd start with a Swamp Thing drawing I finished recently.  Like I usually do I'll start with genesis of the idea and keep providing information up to the final piece.