MEGAWEAPON.

Joel asked me to make some art for his hot new album drop (I need a link right here, Joel, where's your music on the internets?). For inspiration I was given this:


"Machines, mechanical schematics, Downtown LA skyline floating on a "world is flat" kind of island, Robots in lowriders, fake cyborgs trying to sell products on billboards, Black holes are always awesome"


Joel, your album art is in the works. No kidding. I'm really doing it. But it's been a lot slower than I'd envisioned. Let me know what you think. I'm not sure where Robot Jesus came from...

Andrew Wyeth...

Andrew Wyeth, son of N.C. Wyeth and father of Jamie Wyeth, has passed away. He was 91. The Wyeth dynasty has inspired generations of artists, and I'm thankful that we had Mr. Wyeth for as long as we did.

Cautiously Optimistic Towards Technology.

This little piece musical adventure was written by Joel McWilliams and was put together in about one week. Thats one week for the scripting, pacing breakdowns, thumbnails, layout roughs, completed final pages (each one is standard comic page size 10"x 15") - which were pencilled and inked, followed by ink washes to add some value (I didn't have any experience with watercolors yet), and then scanned, copied, coallated, folded, stapled and paid for. All of which left no time for a cover to be made or any digital cleanup whatsoever. The final printing fell a little short of my personal expectations, especially considering the exorbitant amout of money spent, but I was reasonably pleased with our work considering the short amount of time given.

I submitted these to Isotope Comics' Excellence in Mini-Comics Competition. I handed them to Mr. James Simes himself, at 9pm on the last day of submissions (deadline was midnight), at a bar in the Castro. He read one over quick and seemed pretty stoked about it. He knew how hard we'd been working on this and bought me a mojito to celebrate our completion. While it didn't win, it did make it into the final cut (of 80+ entries) and drew a little bit of positive exposure from the judges (fellow indie comic creators). Not bad for around 90 hours of total effort. And our first foray into the Indie Comics Arena. To compare: the winner this year took 4 years to complete his entry.

I Hate Technology.

I have all my mini-comic pages scanned and ready to post, but they're trapped inside my PC that won't boot. It never boots. It just sits there, taunting me relentlessly. Bellshaw just fixed it, too. It worked all right for, like, 2 weeks. Then it stopped recognizing my Wacom tablet, and then it refused to start up at all. I swear to God (any of them) that I'm buying a Mac desktop this year. 

Late Christmas Present.

E.K. Friis commissioned this piece for his girlfriend (both pictured) as a Christmas gift. I'm going to have to get another picture of it, since the lights in my studio turn everything yellow on camera. It's oil on cardboard, and about 10"x16". She looks even angrier in the source photo.

There you go. Proof to all my friends that I will eventually make you something to "decorate" your homes with. Note: I'd like to paint some more angry girlfriends.

I also was able to scan in all the pages from the mini-comic that Joel McWilliams and I put together for the Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics competition last October. I'll post that all up as soon as I can get everything touched up.

BEARD #3

it was cold outside.

BEARD #2

BEARD-O-CYCLE!

BEARDMONTH 2009!

Happy BEARDMONTH! its during these next 25 days of January that we celebrate the joy that is facial hair. you can join, too. all you have to do is abstain from clippin' your stubble until February 1st. wear your budding beard with pride!

while i'm working steadily on this year's own BEARDMONTH art, enjoy a sampling of last year's "Beards: A Hall of Fame". remember some of the great bearded men from our past and present. honor them. pay homage to their memories with a bearded salute of your own.