030: Since I Missed Out

029: White Blowing Snot

...aaaand White, the other main character from Tekkonkinkreet.
Sorry about the delays. I've been preoccupied getting set for the Stumptown Comics Fest.

028: Black Standing Watch

A quick one of Black, one of the main characters from Tekkonkinkreet.

027: Musical Peoples

Really my last Wrestling Theatre strip. I think panel four contains the best fist I've ever drawn.

026: One More Round

025: Party Punch

Might start this one over. I'm not really feeling happy with it at all.
That could be fatigue talking though. I'll sleep on it.

024: Spaaaaace Kitty!

Drawn for David Yoder's Space Kitty art-meme.

023: Tatsumi Saiga

Spent the night watching Speed Grapher instead of drawing. Shit, man.

022: The Batman Pillow

021: "Be safe," you say...

020: Tony Jaa vs. Rollerboys

A reinterpretation of this scene.
And yeah, I know the likeness of Mr. Jaa is pretty bad. grumblegrumble...

019: Have You Seen My Hamster?

018: Phoenix

A new post! Sorry about making the updates so sporadic lately. I've been feeling kind of crazy, and I didn't want to let that get in the way of my drawing routine, but... yeah.

I'm trying to rededicate myself to daily posting from here on. I'm crossing my fingers at least.

Anyway, this sketch is for my buddy Tyler. I know he's been wanting to see a drawing of Dark Phoenix, so here you are, pally:


Also, I've decided to remove the Suggestion Box from the sidebar for the time being. Nobody has been using it, so I figure why let it take up space? Maybe sometime I'll try to bring it back again in the future, but I'll be relying on my own braingears in the meantime.

017: Scatology to the XTREME!

Drawing based on a graphic novel concept I may never do. I dunno. At least I had a fun time drawing this image.

016: Basic Shapes

015: Landing

014: Alistair Cavendish

Alistair, a character from Kevin Cannon's Far Arden.

Slowly getting myself back on track...

013: Wrassler's Progress, The Sequel

As mentioned in the last post, here are my inks on marker paper laid over my pencils.

... and the scanned inks laid into the strip layout. The gray shape is a background element I drew in since it's not defined by any linework. It should look nicer when I'm done with the toning.

EDIT: Here's the finished strip.


Yeah... love. Bleh. Plus these "talky" scenes are harshing my action boner. I hope the next artist draws one of these dudes punching the other in the face.

012: Wrassler's Progress

I have another strip due at the Wrestling Theatre
jam. The odd size requirements of the strips has led me to develop a system of drawing that I rarely employ for my other comix work. I start off by creating a 720 x 300 pixel image in Photoshop, then enlarge it to 300 ppi. If it's a complicated layout (as I've chosen with this comic. hooray!), I'll work out text placement and draw a rough sketch of the characters and panels directly on the computer (img. 1). Once I'm satisfied, I print this out and do refined pencils over my layout (img. 2).

That's as far as I got tonight. The next step will be to put a transparent sheet of marker paper over the pencils and do my inks on that. Then I'll scan the inks and plop them on top of the layout I've already created. I'll finalize any word balloons and panel borders, and if I want to,
add some grayscale coloring. But all that will be for tomorrow. So stay tuned for more comix hijinx.