One Pound Fire

Porco Rosso

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:52:06 +0000

Hayao Miyazaki’s style has been a big influence on my work. I thought I might do a drawing of Porco Rosso, my favorite movie of his. Enjoy!

Dispatches From my Sketchbook 7

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:07:28 +0000

It’s been a while since I uploaded some pages from my sketchbook. No better time than now. I draw heads A LOT. I think I probably got the idea from Alex Toth, but if I’m bored, or more often when I’m doing warm ups, I’ll draw heads in my sketchbook. Here’s a couple of pages that are composite pages of some that I had scanned.

Heads 01

Heads 02

Here’s another composite of multiple pages in my sketchbook that I jammed together

After drawing this I thought the guy looked like Will Dinski. Granted, I haven’t seen Will in a couple of years, so I might be off, but I’m going to consider this a portrait of Will unless he tells me different.

This drawing took a really long time, and I think I burned out at least half of a Micron Pen while I was doing it.

This is the drawing I used for my various icons, and as my portrait over there on the top right hand side of the page.

This last drawing I did at the Tampa Con on Sunday. I kinda like it; some Spaceman guy.

Schmap Portland Twelfth Edition: Photo Inclusion

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:49:29 +0000

The good people at Schmap found one of my photos of the Portland Japanese Garden so enticing, they added it to their online travelguide, which is kinda cool, I ‘spose.

If you are interested in seeing more, by all means check out my flickr gallery. And if you live in, or are visiting the Portland area, I highly recommend checking the gardens out.

Reginald Crabapple Takes Prince Leon to Scarborough

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:14:51 +0000

Earlier this year, J Chris Campbell from Wide Awake Press invited me to participate in his Anthology Jabberwacky. He suggested I use Reggie in my contribution, and I thought that was a pretty good idea. I folded it into the Reggie story (such as it is), so here is Chapter 3, Reginald Crabapple Takes Prince Leon to Scarborough (Part 1). Like usual, I did them in one hour apiece, stream-of-consciousness-style.

Here’s the first bunch I did, they’ll get you up to speed:
Prologue: Reggie Crabapple’s Big Day
Chapter One: Reginald Crabapple Goes to the Stillwater Swap Meet
Chapter Two: Reginald Crabapple’s New Assignment

Crogan’s March

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:07:50 +0000

I picked up Crogan’s March this year at Fluke! from the super nice guy Chris Schweizer. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and thought I’d do a drawing of the main character.

You can find Chris at his Curious Old Library.

Orphan

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:34:36 +0000

For the last little bit I’ve been working a concept that started out in my sketchbook a couple of years ago of a bird riding character who I was going to do as a webcomic. I did a handful of pages, thinking I’d do twenty or so before I would start posting. It didn’t take that many for me to realize that it wasn’t going to work. The main guy is close to another character that I ran across; and the more I thought about the story, the more I realized I didn’t have much to say with the characters, so I decided to scrap it and move on to something else.

The following are the pages that I completed:

Study of Grant Wood’s The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:39:13 +0000

I’m a big fan of Grant Wood’s landscapes. I thought it would be fun to do a study of The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover. I gotta do more landscapes, and more color stuff. It took me forever to color this thing.

Layered Jacket

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:30:28 +0000

When I was at the Stumptown Show in April one of the minis I picked up that I really enjoyed was Corey Lewis’ Layered Jacket. Here’s my version of the title character.

Cleopatra in Spaaace! Pinup

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:31:52 +0000

Good buddy Mike Maihack asked me to do a pinup for his comic Cleopatra in Spaaace!

If you aren’t reading Cleo on a regular basis, you are really missing out. It’s one of the best webcomics around.

Drawings From Natchez Trace State Park

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:22:44 +0000

Last weekend I went to Natchez Trace State Park in Tennessee for the lovely wife’s family reunion. I did a couple of drawings in my sketchbook while I was there. As usual they were done in Micron Pigma pen in my Piccadilly sketchbook.

Footbridge Across Cub Lake (6/12/10)

Cub Lake Lodge (6/13/10)