HEADS AND STUFF


Here is a head turn around thing I did in my sketchbook, done at a point where I didn't feel my faces were looking too sharp. The sad thing is, they still don't haha. I also just love drawing Madman if you haven't guessed by now.

The watercolor is from a little further back. I hinted at this image in a previous post, but now you can see the full painty goodness. Shannon Wheeler, of Too Much Coffee Man fame, did this in a B/W wash for Elephantmen and I did a watercolor wash over his wash. That does sound confusing, doesn't it?

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You can learn all about a new project JG Roshell, Gabe Bautista and myself are working on for a backup in the next bunch of issues of Elephantmen.

Other than that, recent activities have included drawing(really?), playing soccer in the summer weather and getting weepy while listening to soundtracks to LOST.

LETS MAKE COMICS

A Madman fan art and a King City fan art comic. Brandon put the comic up on his livejournal, which was very nice of him to do.

Been getting the bug to make comics really bad lately (my own comics, I mean). They are getting made, (Sushi Nachos) but it doesn't seem to be happening quickly enough. This feeling only seems to happen when such a thing is impossible, however (Spirit deadlines). That's the way this crazy universe works though.

One other thing I forgot to post up here was the interview I did with Mike Allred (creator of Madman, Red Rocket 7 and lots of other stuff). So, courtesy of One Shots Presents, here is me interviewing him at San Diego 09.

MADMAN CREEM MAGAZINE
I was thinking about how many pieces of fanart I have done of this guy since I read my first Madman comic back in like '95. Its a lot, trust me! One of these days I might collage them all together or something.

This is sort of an homage to a Creem Magazine cover I saw posted on the Mike Allred message boards. I just got inspired by it.

Watercolor paintings all wrapped up for a bit, now on to some hard core drawing and comics!!

MADMEN MADMANI just started watching AMC's Madmen. Not to be confused with Mike Allred's Madman.

But now I bet you might be confused.

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.

MADMAN IIThis is the other Madman (created by Mike Allred) piece I was saying I would do previously. Before he was Madman, Frank was kind of a hitman. Now he is given a fresh start and a new life to begin.
Notice I was able to utilize the John Cusack drawing in this in a way, but this for this piece, I did it entirely out of my head. Thats what I like to do after I draw something realistic, see if I can draw it again using my own style. Hope you like it!