FANTOM-FURY FRIDAY!

Comics, Illustration

You didn’t ask for it and no one demanded it but back by personal demand, its Fantom-Fury Friday! You may recall this character from previous posts, there spelled “Phantom-Fury.” I went with “Fantom-Fury” for this week’s post for alliteration.

I recall this illustration having been pretty well received. The assignment was to emulate a favorite artist’s style. You may recall my attempt at Shane Glines awhile back. For this assignment I chose a long time favorite, Mike Mignola. What makes this piece so gratifying to me was that, according to legend (or, the professor, if you prefer) the prof showed this to her friend, wait for it… MIKE MIGNOLA! And he liked it. My inquiry as to whether Mr. Mignola might have a Hellboy project for an asspiring artist, such as myself, to work on went unanswered. Oh well, the compliment was enough to put me on cloud nine for a week.

Phantom-Fury, After Mignola

NEW STUFF!

Comics, Illustration

So, I’ve been away for a little while. Not really away so much as “moved away” to a new house and studio, etc. I now have an entire floor of the house to call my own, a basement actually… so it’s a lot like when I was in high school. I’m not sure if that’s something I should be proud of or not.

Anyway, I recently completed my graduate degree and have an entire backlog of stuff that I wanted to share here but, because I was insanely busy, did not have the time to do so. So, we’ll kick things off with a final project I did for my character design class back in December.

The character is one I’ve had bouncing around in my head for quite some time, “The Phantom-Fury.” I have included a complete turn and a page of facial expressions for your edification. The thing to note, and something that will become apparent through subsequent posts, is that it took an entire semester for me to realize that the entire point of the class was “simplify, simplify, simplify!”

Enjoy.

Phantom-Fury Character Turns

Phantom-Fury Character Facial Expressions

Shane Glines Is My Hero

Comics, Illustration

Some of you may be aware, others might not, most probably don’t care but I am about to be finished with graduate school in about another month. I could not be happier! That said, I am currently taking a character design class at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco (online) and this week’s assignment was to choose one of the artistic styles covered in the reading module and emulate it. One of the styles we covered was none other that of Shane Glines. You may be familiar with Shane’s character design work on Batman: The Animated Series. I’m a huge fan of his work, namely, because so much of what he does is so stylistically divergent from what I’m normally comfortable doing myself. It also has a very kitschy-cool 60’s feel to it that just screams sexy. So, here is my homage to Mr. Glines and his awesome work.

"Ecto-Man and the Witchy Woman"

I’m going to Mid-Ohio Con!

Comics, Illustration

That’s right – I’m going to be at Mid-Ohio Comic Con this weekend!

My long-time friend and co-colaborator Tim and I will be debuting our comic project REFORMATION at Mid-Ohio and we couldn’t be more excited. If you’re going to be at the con this weekend stop by artist alley, booth 1219, and see us. We’ll have some cool stuff at the table and it’ll be the only place to get the entire first issue of REFORMATION in advance of the online release– that alone is a good enough reason to come out!

Hope to see some friendly faces and make some new friends – Can’t wait!

Character Designs

Comics, Illustration

Sure, you start a website, but then you gotta keep posting stuff on it regularly or people stop caring!

So, I’m posting stuff.

Come to think of it, I’ve been posting so infrequently lately that I suspect that if I go back through all my post s back to June they all start this way… yep. Damn.

Anyway, here’s some stuff. These are character designs for a book I’m currently working on. I can’t tell you who these characters are yet or even the name of the book… or what its about… cause then I’d have to kill you. The entire inter-webber-nets!

So, please just look at the pretty and don’t ask too many questions. Details will be forth-coming, hopefully, after NYCC. Stay tuned.