The Last Board Room

When I was looking through some of my old work I came across this piece. I feel like this was a turning point in my style. I still really like how it turned out, but it wasn't living up to the standards of now. So, instead of redrawing the whole thing, or even just doing a version with cleaner lines (which I will do at some point), I opted to just change up the color scheme a bit. I think it gives it new life. I like looking at it a lot more now. The thumbnail version holds up better than the close up since you cant see my unrefined line work but again... i think its got something.

currently reading: "Gray Horses" by Hope Larson

currently listening to: Jason Lytle- "Yours Truly, The Commuter"

awww

This was a little something I drew up for my girlfriend. I'm slowly but surely putting together a collection of one off illustrations from our years together. This one was the first night I spent at her place, and the "songs from under the covers" was the name of the mix cd I had made her. The mix is a lost art but I must admit, I'm pretty awesome at it.

In other news I'm still hard at work on "Alice." I reworked some colors, and made huge progress on the water, and I'm a few more working hours away from finishing up the four characters from the "pool of tears" section, the dodo, lory, eaglet and duck (who are all metaphors for the four people on the boat trip where Dodgson first told the tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

currently reading: "Mesmo Delivery" by Rafael Grampa

currently listening to: Rocky Votalato- "True Devotion"

quick update

I'm back from my ski trip to Colorado and I'm still in one piece. I'm eager to get back to finishing up Alice but I recently I've been flowing with ideas for my graphic novel. So I'm taking a few days to do some research and writing and character doodles. Alice is taking a quick breather but I'm hoping to get some work done on her this weekend and if not 100% getting stuff done next week.

2/5 update: earlier this week I managed to get myself some tennis elbow sans the tennis part. I think I got it from a plethora of jui jitsu classes, so.... jui jitsu elbow? Either way for a few days it was kinda difficult to hold a pencil for a prolonged period of time. So this has hindered my drawing progress to say the least. But today it feels pretty ok and I'm hoping by tomorrow I can get some work done. Weird injury, I don't recommend it.

Alice teaser

I'm heading off to Colorado for about two weeks for some amazing skiing, but before I left I wanted to leave everyone with a little teaser image for my magnum opus of my 11ft Alice in Wonderland image I've been working on and not working on forever.

I didn't want to give too much away, but you can definitely make out some hints of characters. The Mock Turtle was the most recently completed character so i thought I'd make an "in progress" version of him front and center for everyone to get excited about.

I promise this will be done soon. Although I did once again scrap my Cheshire Cat. Take four on him. The only other characters left to finalize are from the pool of tears scene and then the big kicker finale scene to bring it all home. Now that I'm typing this it seems like I have more work to do than I thought, but its coming along quickly these days. Shouldn't be much longer now.

currently reading: "Essex County" by Jeff Lemire

currently listening to: Spoon- "Transference"

Introducing...

Above is the first piece I've done of my children's book characters Peanut Butter and Ellie. I felt i needed something solid before the idea would start coming along at a faster rate than it is.

I've had this title and a basic idea of a plot floating around in my head for a while, I had the moral, i had Ellie's character in mind and even a rougher version drawn up, but it wasnt until i sat down recently and drew up a design for Peanut Butter title that the story started to solidify in my mind.

I've been taking notes, and making thumbnails trying to let the story grow out of the sketches in a natural way. I'm letting the drawings tell me what they want. I'm really excited about this project. It's going to be a long term thing, but I couldn't wait to introduce everyone to the pups.

currently reading: "Paradiso" by Marcus Sanders & Sandow Birk

currently listening to: Built to Spill- "There is No Enemy"

Merry Winter

It's Santa's birthday! merry christmas everyone.

I hope everyone is having a happy holiday season. Here is my little gift to everyone. Enjoy!

currently reading: "Punisher Max" by Garth Ennis

currently listening to: Eels- "End Times"

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