MAN, I love sketchin'!

I actually love it more than working on my website!
So I better get THAT finished up now...

Rediscovered!

After cleaning up my apartment a bit, I found my old black sketchbook!




I also revisited the Drawing Club after a five month hiatus. This week's theme was "The Gangster's Girlfriend"






In the meantime, the B-Movie Starlets script continues to gestate. More art next week!

The Post-Con post

First of all, this is a detour for my website, which is undergoing a major overhaul. Thanks for your patience, it'll be back up mid-August.

I'll start with (most of) the Hard 8 guys. Proudly displayed are the movie posters for each of our volume 2 stories.


As usual, the exhibits were amazing. I love being surprised by what shows up.






I sold a bunch of B-Movie Starlets teaser books. Now I'm REALLY cracking the whip to get volume one out by next year. Thanks to everybody who bought a copy!
Here's a Starlets sketch I did in the car on the way to San Diego.



On a side note, I saw 'Wicked' on Tuesday. It was AMAZING!

The Pantages is amazing, too. The intricate architecture had me captivated. I was able to take some pictures outside and in the lobby, but there's no photographs allowed in the house (which was the best part).



So I had to rely on my cafe sketching skills. This is an extremely poor reproduction of the chandelier.


Maybe I can find some pictures somewhere else. I'm SURE I'll need the reference later.
I try to use reference whenever I need it, and magazines can be GREAT sources. Like this Pharaoh bust I used for the Mummy on the Starlets cover.

But there's a problem with magazines: those STUPID little inserts. Diagnose me with OCD, but I have to go through an entire magazine and rip them all out before I can relax and read. This time, I catalogued:

TEN of the little buggers. I ask you: do trees really need to die for THIS?


And lastly, an Audrey sketch from wednesday night.

Now I'm gonna work on the website!

Better Coverage

This little number came into the world at 3:30 am pacific standard time.

Just a couple days to assemble...

Oh, get your copy at the San Diego Comic Con! I'll be at the Hard 8 Booth, #1034.

Coverage

This is the pencil work for the cover. It's already inked and waiting for tone and color. I'll be done with THAT tonight. :)

Generation gap

So I bought a new monitor on Saturday to replace my 17'' boat anchor that fizzled out months ago.
The new monitor is an 18'' LCD flatscreen, and it's NICE. What ISN'T nice is the power strip (circa 1993) and super loud clackety-clack keyboard that it now has to associate with. They just don't mix.



If I get a Mac later, I guess I won't have to bother with clashing components.
It's so nice to have others make coordination choices for me. :P
But here's how I put the new toy to work:



This is a 24x36 movie poster that'll be on display at the Con to promote Hard 8 volume 2's release in January.

More Starlets (colored on an 18'' flatscreen) in a week!

Ruff! Ruff!

Here's some rough pages of the B-Movie Starlets teaser!
3 weeks 'till the con!












And inbetween those, I put together some Audrey sketches:






More rough stuff in a week or so!

Drop & Go

Busy busy! -huff, huff-
B-movie Starlets,
Grinn & Berrett,
portfolio,
-huff, huff-

Here's 2 sketches rolled into one!



See you in a week!

1 month later...

I've been REAL busy scribing the B-Movie Starlets book, so there.
But Hard 8's done so here's page one:



And here's a couple Audrey sketches followed by explorations of Amber and Frankenstein's Monster.

Dreddful days

I spend my work day in terror as this grim lawman stares into my soul:



Maybe some sketches will cheer him up!









Well, it was worth a shot.

Gleeful anticipation

It's a B-Movie Starlets update! I'll be selling the B-Movie Starlets teaser book at the Comic-Con this summer! It's just a slice of the volume to be released next year. The script is now done, so here are a few pre-turnaround sketches.