Jeff Himes

ANOTHER CHARACTER DESIGN

Comics, Illustration

Fantom-Fury Costume Variations

So, I’m still toying around with this character design in my (all too little) free time. You may recall I posted some stuff a couple months back. I’ve been kicking this idea around for years and can’t seem to shake it. I think the previous versions were a bit too macabre for what I want to achieve — something more in the classic superhero vain. Not too gritty, not tortured or angst-ridden. I’d love to do something with this character a kin to a classic, full-color, full-page Sunday comic strip. You know, the kind of thing where the heroes are good, the villains are colorful and the kids can read it without fear of the material being overtly sexual or graphically violent. Those of you who have seen some of my previous work are thinking, “whu-HUH?” Anyway, who is this guy? What can he do? Why does he do it? I guess we’ll all have to wait and see… maybe when Reformation and Atomic Yeti are done…

THE ATOMIC YETI DEPUTS AT COMIC CON!

Comics, Illustration

I am pleased to announce that “The Atomic Yeti,” a book I have been working on for the past several months with creator/writer Dan Cooney, is about to make its official debut at Comic Con International in San Diego and on ComiXology this week. I have put up a link in the sidebar to the ComiXology page where you can purchase the first issue for a buck. That’s a pretty good deal! The 32-page comic will be available at Dan Cooney’s booth (#5530) at Comic-Con, as well as on Comixology.com, starting Wednesday, July 12 (that’s today!). You can check out the official press release here.

While you’re at it, don’t forget that the first chapter of my other project (with writer/colaborator Tim Andrick), “Reformation,” is still available to read for free at reformationcomic.com. I put a new link up for it in the sidebar as well. Chapter 2 is well into development but, as with any labor of love (and with work and kids), these things take time.

In the meantime, here are a couple of my favorite pages of artwork from “The Atomic Yeti.” I greatly enjoyed working on this and can’t wait to start the next installment. There was a lot of stylistic growth for me on this book and a lot of lessons learned in terms of working methods and lettering. Enjoy!

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"