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Cthulhu on a Bicycle

I will be doing shirts of this one. Stay tuned.

Medusa Con-sketchin'

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. In my blog-posting absence I have been drawing topless medusa.
See?

Ackbar print

This is my exclusive Admiral Ackbar lithograph for San Diego Comic Con coming up next week. I will only be printing 25 of these.

Original Art and Prints for sale!!

In attempt to generate some extra cash for San Diego Comic Con I have posted lots of original art and prints on my Etsy site. Check it out here.

Frost Giant sketch

Here's a sketch I did for someone at Comicpalooza last year. He was nice enough to see me at this year's Comicpalooza and give me a CD with the scans of it. Thanks dude!

Ackbar sketch

I have an idea for a series of prints and this is some of the pre-lim work as I start putting some mental notes on paper.

Phrenk - the first 8

Here's a preview of one of the characters I've been working on - Phrenk the troll alchemist - from Slugfest Games' Red Dragon Inn 3, the newest installment of that game due out this Spring/Summer. (click to see it biggie sized)

Shape Challenge #1

I did this as warm up today. It's a weekly exercise for a group I joined on DeviantArt called Design-A-Character. Each month there will be a different challenge that goes throughout the month, with variants every week. This month's is "Shape Challenge"- every Monday a new set of shapes are put up and the exercise is to create characters with them.
This is very similar to a game I played with my friends as a kid. It's pretty fun to get back to it.

O/RB Character Design

A character sheet for a personal project I'm working on.

Trolling - part 2

So here's the troll Phrenk in his final revised version. Blue, not green and laden with various potions to prey upon unsuspecting imbibers.

Trolling

So one of the first things I've been working on this year is a new character for Slugfest Games' Red Dragon Inn 3. His name is Phrenk, a troll alchemist. These are the first two waves of roughs, the first being quick pencil roughs to wrap my head around the character, the second being a tighter concept based on the art director's suggestions (basically B with D's nose) and a little color to show the AD what I was thinking as far as color-scheme. Originally being green in my rough, Phrenk is now a light blue. Stay tuned for more.

Happy New Year from the guys.

As always you can check out all the Mohagen strips here.

Merry Xmas everyone.

Scuz

Here's an illustration I recently completed for Rage of the Stage theater production company.

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a good Turkey Day everyone.

Skinny

Although abnormally skinny and frail in atmosphere,
Cobbler Franklin was surprisingly strong and earnest
in his resurrection work.

Another resurrection man for Illustration Friday's topic: Skinny. Resurrection men was another name for grave robbers, which was a lucrative career at one time. Pretty creepy...

Happy Halloween everyone.

Mohagen - 020 The Haunted Fishbowl

Just in time for Halloween, Grady and Mo get into the act. As usual, you can see all the strips here. Happy Halloween everyone.

Freeze

While going about his nightly resurrection work,
Lycurgus heard ghastly voices upon the air,
and his blood turned to freeze...

I haven't done an illustration for Illustration Friday for a LONG time and was inspired to do one today. Just something for fun.

Mohagen 016 - Shining Again

Mo enjoys scary movies.

As always, you can read the rest here.

Mohagen - 015 Physics of Revenge

Mo started something he didn't want to see finished.

You may have to read the previous few weeks to see how the guys got to this point HERE.

Mohagen - 011 Destiny

The first double-sized, full color, "Sunday" edition strip. I really think Loren and I are catching out stride. We're discussing speeding the frequency of the strips up. Maybe two a week, we shall see.

And, as always, you can see all the Mohagen strips HERE.

Softball logo

Sometime I whipped up for a buddy of mine's daughter's little league softball team.

Dragons & Corporate Superheroes

So here are the final inks for the dragon image I finished up this week along with some superhero illustrations I have been doing for Solarwinds, a network management software company. Just some random stuff that pays the bills.

Dragon sketchin'

So now for something completely different (I see this a lot it seems).
Dragons and fantasy shit are what got me into this whole art thing in the first place and it's refreshing to actually get a gig where I get to draw actual DRAGONS.

This is the second round of pencil roughs for the "dragon" card for a card game now in development for Slugfest Games.

Fun stuff.

Mohagen Begins

What a week huh? Besides all the drama and death, this week will also be marked by the launch of a personal project of mine and my good buddy, Loren Hoskins.
Long story short, it's a cartoon about a goldfish and you can check it out here. We'll be updating it every Monday for now with plans to increase the frequency of updates as we catch our stride. Check it out, tell us what you think, and if you like it, tell your friends. You can add Mohagen as a friend on Facebook here or follow him on Twitter here.
Mohagen (and Loren and myself) thank you very, very much for your support.

Live Art - Warrior Chick

I found this file while cleaning up my hard drive and realized I had forgotten to post it after the show. I drew this at the Staple! after party/liveart jam. I had just drawn a warrior in the same armor and the same pose earlier that same week so I just cheated and re-drew it big. And with a woman. While drawing it Stan Sakai (!) came up and gave me props ("That's really good!") which made my night (year).
Thanks again Mr. Sakai.

Brain Bass

Handsome, ain't he?

Mohagen

Okay, here he is. The main character for a webstrip my buddy Loren and I have been cooking up. His name is Mohagen and he's a goldfish. More details will be revealed soon.

The launch date for the strip is July. Stay tuned!

Palindrome 1 - QB BBQ

One of the freelance jobs I have worked on recently was a set of palindromes (A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.). This was the first - QB BBQ. Fun stuff.

Card art characters

Here are three card-art character illustrations I completed recently for Slugfest Games. These are my three favorites. Bard, warrior, & merchant respectably.

First page in my new sketchbook.

So this is how most of my fish start off. As tiny thumbnails, almost just silhouettes just get a general outline and shape. Then I scan the page, blow them up individually, drop the opacity in photoshop, print them out and do the originals right on top of the print out.

Like I said, I am making a concerted effort to start posting regularly here again. I thank those of you who are still with me.

Triceratops Fish

A little known prehistoric fish.