NEWS AND STUFF
A quick sneak peak at one of the panels. I actually have to fix this and remove his shoes, but here you can see what it would have been like to see Ebony's argyle socks. I goofed and put shoes on him, unlike what Richard told me in the script, but I will secretly cry for those socks. Oh the magic.

And this my friends is what happens when you have been drawing Hippos and sexy girls and then watch a Miyazaki film. Man, I cant wait to watercolor this when I get a moment.

Oh and the last thing: This year is very special it seems, for a lot of reasons. The biggest is that I will have a new baby boy or girl in a couple months. The other reason is that I have multiple places to be at the San Diego Comic Con this year (yes, my wife is beyond awesome for letting me go). One will be the Image Booth at the PopGun table. Sushi Nachos!!!! Another place will be somewhere that I have been listed as a "mystery guest". Ooooo. I think you can solve the mystery though and track me down. Your reward will be a free sketch!

More on all that stuff in the very near future as I get more details.

See ya soon!!!

ROUGH FOR MADMAN FANARTSomething I hope I can get done before San Diego comes around so I can show it to one of my comic book heroes.
Still need to fix a bunch of stuff and pull some reference at this point, like the speakers, drums, lights, etc. I am definitely going to mess around with the composition, move some characters around, move the Atomics logo up. Should be fun though. Feels so good to something like this while working on something more serious like the Elephantmen. Although, gotta say, that has been really fun too.

TRAININGJust getting some training in. My buddy, Justin ran me through the octagon of sexy drawings to help get my women up to speed a little bit more. I'm learning slowly. Still not even close to matching said buddy's female fortitude, but maybe over time my chicks will stop looking like charmless blobs on paper.

Nothing much else to say. Just working on the Elephants and looking forward to San Diego. Peace!

ELEPHANTMEN 22Yay, just got permission to post this up. You saw the rough for this earlier. Took me a while. Its actually based off of a more head-on view of this scene that was drawn by Ladrönn. This will also be a bit more cropped to the restraints of the comic page size, but I drew everything out just to see what I liked and did not.
Also, I forget now if I mentioned it, but I am drawing issues 22 and 23 of Elephantmen. This would be from 22.

Sorry for not posting stuff on this blog as regularly. These comics are taking LOADS of time. I really want to get it right. Till then, see ya later! Hopefully sooner!

Oh RIONDid this last night as a warm up. I've been looking for an excuse to try to re-do from memory, a pose I saw Alex Niño draw on a youtube video. Its for a Jack Kirby character thread on Ivan Brandon's message board on the Image message boards.

ROUGHI feel bad not putting anything up here. This is a rough for one of the spreads in that book I am currently working on.

Otherwise, I do little updates in Twitter now from time to time throughout the day. Who knows how long this Twitter thing will last though. If we are all fortunate, not very long.

Things that have been sizzling through my brainwaves lately while I work have been about Groove Junction. I will more than likely reboot it when I get a chance. My drawing has changed so drastically since that first issue. Its like I will keep everything I've done, but drawn better and with extra stuff to fill it out. And next time, no waiting between issues. I want to get everything done and then release either all at once in a nice self-contained book, or as separate issues that people don't have to wait long for. You'll see, someday. I've been thinking about just putting what I have up online too. But not till I get some time to do it.

Peace out for now.

NOT TOO LEGIT TO TWITI guess I caved. I joined Twitter. I'm gonna try it, even if it does seem a bit silly in some way. Brandon and James are laughing at me, somewhere in Canada.

Follow me in the excitement of micro blogging HERE

MORE CRABSLittle more here with most of the inks done. Now to color!

LITTLE CRABBYThe scan came out horrible. Its tough to get your pencils to show up on bright white paper AND have the inks come out ok as well. I'm a little put off that I always notice silly drawing mistakes AFTER I have inked something that I intend to watercolor. The left arm, for instance, is way too long and should have gone back in space and towards the crab monster more.

What can you do?

MORE MCGINNISMore practice from some Robert McGinnis paintings. I turned one of the girls into Miki at the bottom right.

Been super busy lately on getting some Elephantmen pages done. It doesn't look like that will change for a while either which is cool. Just hoping I find a way to work faster!