"Life, uh... finds a way."

 

Hey you guys!  There is a charity movie screening-slash-art-auction going on this weekend called "Hey You Guys!" wherein a bunch of people congregate at the Rialto Theater in Pasadena, watch Ghostbusters and bid on some sick artwork.  The theme of the art is "movies that inspired you."  I've read Jurassic Park like five times between grades 5 through 7 and the spine of my copy has more creases in it than a raisin, lodged in a pug's forehead.  The movie was basically on loop whenever I was home alone, and I learned how to draw people from the storyboards in the back of the "Making of Jurassic Park" book.  So yeah, I guess Jurassic Park played a big part in my upbringing. Here is my piece for the auction!

 

 

I wish I could find a way to print it like this:

 

Info about the event:

Ghostbusters Screening &
Charity Art Auction

 Saturday December 5th, 2009
Rialto Theater
1023 Fair Oaks Avenue · South Pasadena, CA 91030

 Doors at 6pm
Film at 7pm

 

Mayhaps the Next'un

Some ideas for the next "Kid Revolver" story.

Hula Cycle

Click for enlargement.

O Man, Comic Gods...

 

...give me the power to finish my 'zine for APE, pls.

 

The Best Job Ever

 

 

See It's An Engine But Also A Heart

 

Kind of cheesy, eh?  It's part of a larger thing I wanna do.

 

BOOM!

 

 

 

Terrible Yellow Eyes

So last week I finished my pieces for Gallery Nucleus's Terrible Yellow Eyes show, as inspired by Cory Godbey's amazing art-conspiracy.  I made one painting and one pen/ink.  Hope you like, and much thanks to Cory and Nucleus!

Click to enlarge.

AMULET II

 

Hello everybody on the internet!  So, almost a year ago I started working under Kazu to help him color his comic book Amulet II: The Stonekeeper's Curse.

 

 

 

 

It's a bombastic kid's-adventure story with things like magic, parkour, sword-fights, giant robots, and evil elves.  What I like about the story is the horrible, nerve-wracking danger the protagonist-kids and their mother are put through.  Kazu's bit of art-direction that dictated the look and feel throughout the book: "I want you to preserve the cartoony-ness of the world, but also make it feel like the apocalypse."

 

I'm pretty sure that baby animal on the above page survives.  Pretty sure.  Here's some stuff I colored, below:

 

I learned a bit about digital-painting over the past year.  The main thing that blew my mind was approaching Photoshop like a gaffer instead of a painter - drawing a scene and "lighting" it with dodge- and shadow-brushes instead of mixing colors by hand.  Here's some commemorative fanart I did:

The talented peeps on the Amulet crew : Amy, Jason, Kean, Stuart, Denver, Ryan Hoffmann, Michael, Tim, Catherine, Alan, Patrick Race, Cayleigh Allen, and Felix Lim.  It was awesome working with you guys!

 

The Concept of Cars

 

 

Whut Wild Things

 

 

The Pi Life

 

Yeah.

 

Whilst Watching the Roommate Play Dead Space

 

My roommate!

Alien Lands in Bath, Likes Bluegrass, Starts a Band

Kill it Kid.

Private Session.

Live.

 1st single.

Pretty. (Mp3 at bottom the of the page.)

Origins.

 

Flash Kick

 

Come to the Street Fighter show!!!

 

FOighT!

Street Fighter show at Gallery Nucleus this Saturday, April 25th from 7 to 11pm!

 

Click to view whole painting.

Nuclear Figures

 Figre Drawing sessions every Wednesday night at Gallery Nucleus.

 

 

Instead of "in bed," say "in space."

Gods-dammit I meant to post this a while ago, but I never got around to it:

Come to our comic book signing TODAY at the Grove from 7 to 9 pm!!!

Here's the blurb:

Barnes & Noble at the Grove
189 The Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90036

 

 A sci-fi double threat! Creators for the all-new Battlestar Galactica: Echoes of New Caprica  and Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as from the just-released Star Trek Ultimate Edition will be answering questions and signing copies of their books.

Don't miss your chance to meet these wonderful artists and writers! Richard Hatch, David Gerrold (the writer for the original "Trouble with Tribbles Episode"), Christine Boylan, Don Hudson, Mike Wellman, Anthony Wu, and Emily Salzfass!  Here's some more commemorative art from the manga development (click for full size).

A sketch of someone smoking future-crack in Dogsville.

 

 

A"remix" of some of my comics panels to read like a prom story:

 

The Sweet Science Fiction

 

Coming at you April 14, 2009

 

In trying out for a story in the Galactica Manga, I chose to do a few sketches of Admiral Adama.  The BSG ensemble is pretty well cast with iconic faces, but Eduardo James Olmos's mug stands out the most. Such a fierce, weathered gaze!  He evokes the wisdom of Jaime Escalante with the deadliness of a T1000.

Hm. Time to grow up.

Darkstalkers

Boost Boots...