Ghetto Fist

I did a sketch a while back of Luke Cage and Steve suggested that I do one of Iron Fist. I tend to sit on these things till I have an idea of where I want to go with them. In this case as I was wrapping up that Velma piece I had a sudden inspiration. "What if all those years of hanging around Luke Cage made Iron Fist Ghetto?" Which, immediately became; "What if Eminem was Iron Fist?" The idea had me laughing my ass off. He was supposed to have a microphone and sneakers to go with his hoodie. As I sat down to sketching, I started listening to "Triumph" and "Iron Flag" over and over. It didn't take long before the Wu tang albums started influencing my decisions. I eventually wound up changing the concept a final time to reflect The Wu tang Clan angle. After all that, I still kept the hood.

Velma

Yeah, I know. You took one look and you knew she was a genius. Ha! I'd been planning on doing this sketch for a couple weeks but I didn't have the time to sit down and work on it. I'll admit that I liked Velma back when she was built like a brick house. The only problem was that she was a little to butch. When she got redesigned in What's new Scooby doo they made her mousy and petite. I got no hate on it, I just missed how big she was. All in all, she fit the kind of character that I would like to add some unnecessary pounds too.

Hell on Ice

It feels really good to get another commission done. I just hope Brian likes it. This is an Illustration I did for a friend of the Studio that stopped by the booth at Dragon Con. He wanted me to make up an art piece of his hero Martin Brodeur. Once I found out the guy played for the Jersey Devils, it was on. Honestly, I like the teams color scheme. If your a video game nerd like me you may catch the reference to Johnny Maximum.

Stacey

I finally decided to pass the coloring of Anvil Chorus of to another artist. Dragon con convinced me to get back to what I enjoyed doing. Someone came to me and said that he had seen my work online and asked me for a commission. It was be cause of a contact from studio revolver. All he said was "No Blondes!", and told me it was a long story but I suspect that it may have something to do with an Ex. I started on this piece this afternoon and managed to wrap it up before dinner. It felt good to put the comic down and move on to something else. I hope that the new colorist works out. I honestly couldn't put as much effort into coloring the comic pages as I thought I would.

Anvil chorus pg 1

This projects been eating up a lot of my sketching time. Its a 6 page preview comic for Anvil chorus. I got all the pages inked and lettered. All I got left now is to color it. Its been put on hold a few times for other projects and I finally got the inks wrapped up a couple days ago. I had originally planned to have it all done for Dragon con but its becoming clear to me that its just not going to happen. Tom Fiester is a member of Studio Revolver that I know. He has a serious hard on to do everything himself. After all the time its taken to put this together, I can applaud his efforts but sadly I can't do it myself. Of course, Toms' work is usually late and thats part of the problem.

In space. No one can here you crying.

Another one of those pieces I was commissioned to do a couple months ago. This one was Robotech inspired. I was told to do a shot of two pilots in the middle of a chase and the one in pursuit was letting loose one of those trademark Macross barrage of missiles. Also they wanted one of those comic cut in reaction panels for each of the pilots.

That's My Pokemon!

This is another one of the Illustrations I had to put together for the Mecha and Manga book for Green ronin. If I'm correct It should be released in September. It was a fun project a lot of it was recreating Tv and Comic archetypes to give the reader a sense of the themes of manga. I liked doing these cause I enjoy throwing in goofy references to other shows and cartoons. This one is one of my favorites cause I'm pulling reference form 4 different anime.

Super Hero Student

Happy 4th of July weekend everybody. Who would have thought I would have the chance to grill twice in one weekend. Now thats a party! I was feeling pretty good today. Got lots to do and ground to cover. I got the go ahead to use another one of the Illustrations for portfolio purposes. So why not post another before I head out the door today.

The student body

I have been working on this Manga and Mecha project for over a month now. Its finished and I got permission to use some of the characters and Illustrations as portfolio pieces till the book gets released in September. It all started as what was supposed to be 12 pieces of artwork. The end turned out to be more like 20. It was a fun project. Now I have to get back to hunting down more commissions and Illustration gigs. Not sure what these are going to be used for in the end I was just given a loose description of the character. I know there's some people who also worked on Exalted on this book.

Graphic Sorceress

I hadn't posted in a while because I got a new gig for green ronin this time. Its been fun work but I've been busting my head against the wall worrying about the deadline. I needed to take a brake from the stuff so I dug up an ink that I had been planning on finishing. At first this was supposed to be my attempt to not make something so cartoony. In the end, I didn't like the direction it was going so I made a graphic out of it. It felt better. I'll see if I can manage some other Illustration with less cartooned influence another time.