Gothic Alice in Wonderland

Hello everyone!

A while back I posted a couple commissions I did for a client of River Tam from Firefly/Serenity. Well, my buddy wrote me again asking for another cool character- This time Josh Middleton's gothic version of Alice in Wonderland. He sent me a few sketches from Josh's site and asked me to do a couple in my style. Here is the first complete one- I am posting this while taking a break from working on the second so that one should be up in the next couple days...

Wonder Woman day!

Frankenstein's Monster

Today I felt like a drawing of Frankenstein's Monster, so...

Mr. Freeze

Lately I've been feelin' a Mr. Freeze, so I decided to sketch it out. Wasn't worried about applying a style to this one, just trying to get the feeling down. I had started a different sketch but it wasn't what I had in mind so I scrapped it, and this one is closer to what I was feeling- Still not "right", but it's a start...

9 x 12 on marker paper, done with a Faber-Castell brush pen and Copics.

Catwoman

Here is a Catwoman illustration I just put up on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260477298661&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123#ht_500wt_1182

Check it out and bid!!!

Mini-MegaCon

Hello Everyone! Finally recovered from our weekend away at Mini-MegaCon. It was a nice show- Got to see some old friends, meet some new people, and got some good feedback on both Perfect Storm and artwork from some other projects I am working on... As soon as I am clear to post samples from those I will-

While I was there I also did 3 sketches- Here are pics of 2 of them. The other, a Black Canary piece, was done for a friend who promised to send a scan. When it arrives I will post that one as well.

Elizabeth Taylor

My friend Matt came over today and asked me about working with watercolors. I had seen this picture of Liz Taylor and wanted to paint it for some time so I decided to do it today as a li'l demo. Everything I know about watercolors I've learned from Brian Stelfreeze, so check out his blog or just google his name to see how to do it right!

Rush jobs... Complete!

Yesterday I not only met my deadline but CRUSHED IT when I sent in the last page of the rush job I mentioned in the last post! I had a few corrections along the way but I have to say I am really happy with how it turned out, especially in the amount of time I had to do it. I'm going to try and keep that pace from now on which should get me way ahead on Perfect Storm and finally allow me to work on a project from my friend David King called "Gifted"...

I've also just completed a pin-up for the Concrete Dove Swimsuit calendar... It was also due by the end of the month, but thankfully I had started on it long ago and just needed to color it today.

Rush jobs...

Hey Everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts lately- We've had a few conventions to attend and a big project for DC we're working on which has taken up most of my time, but I did want to write and tell you about 3 very cool things going on:

The first was a workshop held at the Art Institute here in Jacksonville about comic art. I went in a did a li'l presentation about the process of producing a comic, as well as getting into the importance of storytelling and leading the eye around the page. The students had a good time and I had a blast doing it so hopefully it will lead to doing it again, or maybe an expanded version where we can get into the meat and potatoes of actually producing a comic.

The second is a friend of mine, Paul Monsky, publisher of VaVaVaVoom, emailed and asked if I could do a 16 page story for him. The catch: The first 9 pages need to be done by the end of the month. 9 pages in 11 days, which is more then I had ever done before... The cool thing is I've got 4 pages done already, including finishing 2 from start to finish in one day, and I've never had more fun working!!! It's amazing what you can do when you NEED to do it- I'm so jazzed about this that I am going to try and keep up this pace with Perfect Storm and my other projects once this one is complete.

Here's a little preview:



Lastly, the 4th issue of our book, Unleashed, is complete and off to the printer!!! We will be debuting it at Mini-MegaCon this August in Orlando so if your near by come to the show and check it out! Here's the cover, done by Matthew Kirkland:

As always I want to thank everyone for checking out the blog and the site, www.perfectstormpublishing.com I promise more updates soon!

HeroesCon 09!

Got back from HeroesCon late Sunday- As always it was an awesome show! Got to hang out with a lot of friends and meet some new ones, not to mention sell some books and do some sketches! I had the honor of being asked to do a Dejah Thoris in the sketchbook of Rob Ledford. It is an amazing sketchbook with a huge Brian Stelfreeze piece across the front 2 pages so I was nervous as hell to do it. After thinking it over for most of the day I drew the picture below- I hope you like it!

I also had a good meeting with Mark Waid about Perfect Storm. He said it's not necessarily what Boom! Studios publishes but he offered to help me find a publisher- He's really going above and beyond on that so if you ever see him at a show go up and thank him!!!

Again I don't know how far each of you are from HeroesCon but I can not recommend making the trip enough! The analogy I use is that it's like a family reunion but a family you actually want to hang out with and this trip again proves that to be true.

Rob

Colors

Just got the OK from Larry on the colors so here is the complete cover!

Long time, no post...

Hello everyone! Very sorry that it's been so long since my last post. I had a trip down to Miami for a convention last weekend so the week before and the week since involved a lot of "trying" to get ahead of deadlines. I did alright on that end but all my other projects, such as the blog here, suffered.

Anywho, one of those projects is called the Concrete Dove. I'm inking the interiors and providing the cover to an upcoming issue. Larry Jarrell, penciler and creator of the series, penciled a cover that he wasn't too please with so he asked me to do my version of it. I did a rough sketch, changing the camera angle from his original, and emailed it to him. He approved it so I had my model-friend Daniela come over for some reference shots then penciled the cover. I finished the figures but was not happy with the background, so I brought it down to the studio to show Dick. He made a suggestion about the angle of the side of the building which tied the whole piece together! Funny how he will pick that out right away while I will stare at the thing for hours/days without figuring it out...

Here is the inked piece- I will be coloring it early next week once my friend David King (Creator of the Oscar and Sid comic strip) does the flats for me... No pressure on him now that I've told the world I'm waiting on his flats...

Serenity

The other day I got a commission request to do a couple of sketches of River from Serenity. I loved the show and the movie so I said yes right away and he sent me the reference pictures he wanted me to work from. Here are the results...

Now I am off to finish up tomorrow's Perfect Storm page...  I'll post it here too when it's finished.

PerfectStormPublishing.Com update!

Hope everyone is having a good Memorial Day. I've just uploaded this week's Perfect Storm page to the site- Click over there to check it out!!!

Chelsea

It's been a few days so I thought I should do a li'l update, and since I just finished this drawing of my friend Chelsea it seems like good timing...  Done in pen and ink then colored in PhotoShop.  I was originally going to do the background pastels in Painter, but I had a set of pastels sitting on my desk so I did it on a board and uploaded a picture instead.

Unleashed Book 3

Busy weekend- Yesterday was the deadline for issue 3 of Unleashed from ChalkLine Studios so the group of us had an all night drawing marathon to get it done. It was hard work, with a couple of us working from 10 am Saturday till 1:30 this morning, but it's done and on it's way to the printer, and we will have them back in time for HeroesCon in June!!!

Today, well, not much work got done. Unless you count returning emails as work. And "networking" (i.e. facebook and myspace)? If you count those then yes, some work was accomplished today too...

Finally I got to see Star Trek tonight too- Wow, what an awesome movie!

Tomorrow I get back to the grind, including uploading page 23 of Perfect Storm to the site (www.perfectstormpublishing.com). What, you don't want to click all the way over there?... Fine, here it is- If you want to read the story from the beginning though you'll have to go to the site!

Finally...

Well it had to happen. I knew eventually I would wind up working on one of these "blogs" but kind of fought it till now. See, I grew up at the very tail end of Gen X, which is the last generation of kids who didn't grow up with a computer in the house. Sure, some of my friends had them, but they weren't the cornerstone of existence as they've become now.

So, I tend to be a little behind on these things. Didn't have a cell phone till a few years ago, never texted till recently, still don't twitter, but I do have an iPod. Doesn't play movies or games or anything, just music, mostly Gen X stuff with a whole lot of Beatles and blues thrown in... Maybe games, or video games, is a good barometer for how far behind I am in technology. I had a ColecoVision when I was very young, then a Sega Master System, which we replaced with a Genesis around '91/92, just before it came with Sonic the Hedgehog. Really not much to speak of since, but I am considering a Wii because you can buy old Genesis and Master System games on it...

And of course just as I got used to Myspace everyone switched over to Facebook. I'm telling you whatever comes next is going to have to do without me. There's a lot of time to invest in getting these things up and running which I just don't have the heart to do.

So then why the blog you ask? Well, this has come about for the same reason why I bought a computer in the first place- For work. I'm going to be promoting upcoming projects here, posting artwork and sketches, networking, and hopefully talking to other artists and comic fans here- If in the upcoming posts you see something you want to comment about please do- I hope this becomes one of your regular stops on the information superhighway...

Wow, I'm probably the last person to call it that, huh? Told you I was behind...

Rob