SEE YA SOON!

Just did some flats up for fun. I wonder if its too early for me to show this, but whatever! The final will be watercolor.

See you in Baltimore! Look for me sitting with Mr. Richard Starkings at the Image Comics booth! Free sketches!

MATT ROCKS SUSHI NACHOS!




So this post is all about Sushi Nachos.

Matthew Taggart, recently married and swamped with his day job at being an all around awesome video guy, (is that your official title, Matt?) made time to put together a sweet video for Sushi Nachos 2. here - CHECK THIS OUT

He also made those little figures himself! You can see them animated in the clip. I'm so happy that Matt is writing this story. I'm hoping I can hold up my end and get the drawing finished before too long, but it will be the first of a lot of awesomeness to come from both of us.

The other thing I posted is a rough and kind of a color test (the final version will be watercolors) for the first page. This basically breaks down the back story a little before getting into the main plot.

Hope you enjoyed this little snippet and stay tuned for more!

WONDERCON STUFF


Forgive the crappyness of the shot. I took it with my phone's camera in a pinch. I am trying to do a bunch of these, which I will watercolor, to sell at Wondercon. I'll post more, as it gets done maybe. Moritat, who is drawing the Spirit, was nice enough to allow me to ink and color some of his art and put it up for sale. So come on by the Elephantmen section of the Image booth and check it out. I will try to get a bunch of these finished to sell, and I will also be doing some quick freebie con sketches at the table.

Lots more to come down the road. I have a couple Sushi Nachos pages penciled and some other art I have been holding off on posting. SO little time, so much to do!

VANITY AND SALLY
Drew a couple shots of Vanity from Elephantmen and one of Sally from Sushi Nachos, looking very nervous about something. See, this time, I drew my warm-ups AND had time to get the real work done. I'm a little slow, but I do learn!

Sent off some promos for the story I'm doing with Gabe and John Roshell that will start running in the back of Elephantmen 25. Getting more and more excited about it as the stages get done. Should be cool stuff. I'm sure I will post about it when it gets closer!

MORE BEATLES AND SALLY

This is bad. I always do this. I put time into doing warm-ups and leave very little time for the work I am actually warming up FOR. Well, that's just one of the lessons I have to learn. The Sally sketches are new, but the Beatles one I posted before without the washes. I actually kinda like the younger version. It reminds me of "Hard Day's Night" which has climbed its way into at least my top 20 favorite movies(thanks to finding out about it from Mike Allred's message board where he listed it as one of his faves)

I finished my Star Wars cards this weekend. They don't want people to post them yet. If anyone reading this is an artist and wants to contribute, please contact me about it soon. They still need more people.

I twittered about this a little, but I want to try to stop using the lightbox so much. Drawing without it comes out so much fresher and more full of energy. The main benefit just seems to be in the composition, but that is something I feel one could work out in time with experience. I guess also if you have to provide clean pencils for a professional inker, it would be really tough to go without.

SUSHI NACHOS PROMO AND SKETCHES

Wow its been a while! HI! Here are a few things. The first is a promo for the next Sushi Nachos. More of like a warm up since I wanted to get the characters in my system a little better after so long. This did not come out the way I wanted. The figures are so stiff and NOTHING is referenced. That Vespa and guitar are just like, sad. I'd go more into it, but it would get even more annoying.
The other is another warm up from the sketchbook and a quick lunch-time rough for one of the scenes.

Oh! And my good buddy, Matthew Taggart is going to make his comics debut with the script for this one. He wrote a REALLY fun story, if that one panel isn't indication enough. I'm really excited to have Tagg with me on this.

Its gonna go slow due to other comic obligations like working on stuff for Comicraft and helping color the Spirit for DC, but it will definitely get there as quick as I can possibly go. I'm so busy, but so much more excited than ever for all this stuff.

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?

READ ALL OF SUSHI NACHOSWHAT!? For free? They just put this up on the main page for Image Comic's Popgun 3, much to my surprise and delight. Pump the brakes on that!

I also just got in the copies of the Sushi Nachos full color comic I had printed up. I'm using it as a sample to give publishers, but I am also selling a few at my table at the New York Comic Con. If you really want one, pick it up early so I don't run out. Table L6. Go now! No, they are closed. Wait till Friday, then go.

DANNY IN WATERCOLORI've had this pencil drawing in my sketchbook for a while and just got to coloring it last night.

This may or may not happen by NYCC, but it is for the inside of a Sushi Nachos comic. I have 12 pages, but I almost feel like if I am going to put a full color comic together, then it should be more substantial. There is more to the story, so I wonder if I shouldn't just wait till I get 12-14 more pages done, and put it all together after that. That would take a while, but overall, I would be more happy about it.

SO much to do. I have a lot more to show off as I've been getting lots of crap done, so stick around!