Scuz

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

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.

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.

When technology sucks...

One of the many negative experiences I had at a show Friday night inspired me.
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Football Head

Just something for fun. While I was watching 24 last night I was doing some sketching and this guy came out. I realized his head looked like a football (unintentionally) so I colored him accordingly.

I was playing with a different palette and used different brushes than I normally use. A little outside-of-the-box thinking.

My groovy new banner.

My spiffy new banner with Gantry providing scale reference.

All-Con Chick

So I hardly ever get a chance to draw hot chicks. It always seems I'm drawing creepy stuff and/or cartoony stuff so when I saw that All-Con (a show I'll be tabling at in Dallas next month) was asking contributing artists to submit designs for the 2010 All-Con Girl I jumped at the chance to come up with something.

I wanted to use the red, white and blue for her uniform in a way to not make her look like Supergirl as much as I could (ie: stay away from a red cape) Also All-Con takes place in my home state of Texas so I wanted to incorporate the Texas flag elements in her uni, thus the single star. Not a very creative costume I know but whatever.

You can see the linework here.

Knights of the Dinner Table - cover

A fun job I did a month or two ago, a cover for the Knights of the Dinner table RPG magazine.

One of my fish has found a good home.

It seems one of my fish has found a good, safe home. This makes me happy.

Thanks for sharing Kimberly.

Creepy Dude

30 minute warm-up sketch.

Gen Con was awesome, we had a great time. It was good to go and not have to worry about a table and just play all weekend. I'm still recovering. Pictures forthcoming.

Big Beautiful Wonder Woman

Here's a collaborative effort between myself and Jeremy Mohler. I did the linework and he threw down some awesome colors. It was for the BBWW Wonder Woman blog and thanks go out to Jamar, who runs the blog, for the kind words.

Also we've started sketching again and have tried to get a somewhat weekly thing going with some of the artists around town. We met at Flightpath last Thursday night and I doodled this page. It was cool to get out and do some drawing.

So Gen Con is this weekend and I'm looking forward to some R&R. I don't have a table this year so some buddies and I are just going to play (Starcraft 2 here I come!). Should be a fun weekend.

Branching out.

A little watercolor sketch I did last weekend that seemed to fit the post's title.

So I have been wanting to get a bit more exposure to some other communities and genres so I have gotten up a DeviantArt page here and also subscribed to Picture Book here (you can also click on the banner to the right). We'll see how those go. Thanks go out to Jeremy and Andi for the subtle and not-so-subtle nudges. Thanks guys.

On another note, it's been a month since my buddy Jeremy rented out my extra room and it's been going really well. It's really cool to have another artist around and we have been bouncing ideas and critiques off one another all month. Good times.

Suh-weet! I won an award.

What this means can be seen here. Thanks so much Andi!
So in other news I've been busy with a lot of work that I can't post, NDA's and all that. So not a lot of art to post unfortunately. I'm ready for this week to be behind me because I'm really bummed I'm not going to San Diego Comic Con this year and I'm sick of every artist but me it seems posting "I'm about to get on a plane to San Diego, see everyone there!" or "Man I'm stoked to get to San Diego this year!" etc... It really sucks for those of us not going. Next year!
So that being said, I'll be attending a "We're not going to San Diego, let's all hang out and commiserate together" party at Austin Books this Friday and will be doing a live art show on Sunday to benefit KOOP

So if you're in the Austin area this week, come on out and say howdy (and say how much fun you're having even though we're not in San Diego).

Fish Tank

Hope everyone had a great 4th weekend! I had way too much fun and am still recovering.
I have been super busy with work and have been doing tons of concept work. Unfortunatley most is under NDA's so, consequently, nothing I can post. I felt like my blog has been sadly neglected. Lately I've been in a complete funk and haven't felt very artistic and not very inspired. I tried working on a new sculpture but lost my impetus quickly. I hoped the weekend off with friends would recharge the batteries. I just got some new art supplies I ordered in the mail so I'm excited to try those out. I have had a hankering to get away from the computer a bit and actually put paint to paper... I also REALLY miss reading (I have been reading a lot of historical stuff lately but no fiction) and after catching one of the movies in the hotel room over the weekend I decided to read all the Harry Potter books from beginning to end. I started the first one yesterday.

*Update: Those of you who ordered fish books, they're out the door and you should be getting those soon along with your original art. Because of a complete snafu with the printer, I was only able to fill pre-orders and I'm not sure if I'll be printing more. So those who got books may have gotten the only ones. The printer really dropped the ball and I am more than disappointed that the whole process didn't happen as I had hoped and expected. I have looked into other options to get them printed but right now it looks unlikely. Bummer.

Wee Cowboy.

What a weekend.

I jumped out of a plane on Friday. I went and saw The Incredible Hulk that night. Saturday I went rafting down the Guadalupe. Went to Pluckers and had wings and beer that night. Became an uncle on my birthday (!). Sunday I recovered. All in all, a perfect weekend. Thanks go out to Matt, Mel and Steven for hanging and to Dwayne and Shawn for the invite for the skydive. And a big congrats to my brother Dylan for becoming a dad. You guys rock.

Effing busy.

Well my blog has been sadly neglected these past few weeks so I'll try to remedy that a bit. The workload is full and I am officially not taking on any more work for awhile. I'm working on finishing up work for WEGS Pirate book, Captain Bogg and Salty's Frogg Island, a few more concepts for Dragonblood Miniatures and working fulltime on concepts for a super secret computer game project (of which I wish I could show work from as it's been a lot of fun). I'm also slated to be in a group gallery show here in Austin of which I'm going to try and do some new sculptures for and I was also asked if I'd be interested in doing a whole book (!) for TMNT next Fall/Winter. Whew. Just typing that wore me out.

*Also those of you that ordered Fish Books, I was told that they'd be in the mail this week. Thanks for your patience and the pre-orders. And I still haven't gotten 25 pre-orders so if you want some original art AND a book feel free to get your order on.

This Saturday's my birthday and I'm hitting the river. I'm pretty stoked. I'm also slated to jump out of a plane on Friday but I'm not sure if it will happen with my current workload.... We shall see....

In the meantime, have some random art.





This last image is for a personal project and I can't decide on her hair color. What color do you like?

Waffles, sweet, sweet, waffles.

It seems our* Atland guest strip is up for the week over at www.realmofatland.com. Check it out.

*Written by John Kipling, drawn by me.

Nazi Hunter

A little concept work. Just a little inspired by Mr. Jones. Yes, I'll be seeing it today. My fingers are crossed...

*edit: Saw the new Indy movie. One word: CRAP.