Boxing Nazi Gorillas

Here's the finish...a mix bag of everything and hopefully the best things.

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What's Cooking?

On the board now is some marketing collateral for the Jet City Comic Show 2011. Going through an iterative process helps me hit all the angles that bring about the best picture. Yet it does overwhelm the senses after I have to narrow down the choices. At some point all the psychological symbolism that I've put in place now hangs on a narrow thread of aesthetic choice where it seems no one direction is right or wrong.

Luckily I have friends who are willing to share their opinions and also point out things structurally that might be missed moving toward the final pass.

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Character Work

I was waiting on feedback yesterday and started to do an all digital character design for a project that is on the very backest of burners. Below is a traditional version. Not sure I've settled on the costume yet but I like the results of possibly doing an all-digital comic. The speed alone is quite tempting.


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There are those moments...

...when science freaks you out. And that's pretty cool!

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Over-Under

More overworked sketches and under-developed ideas from awhile back. Again, fun stuff to do but not sure where they were going or why I started down these random paths.

Though the above watercolor piece was just a sketch for a comic book character design. Not sure where that project is headed as I'm not the writer.

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Breaking Good

I took a few sketches that I did in Portland for a comic store signing and decided to "play" a little bit. I had fun. That's really what's missing in my day-to-day mission of work. HAVE MORE FUN WITH ART...will hopefully be my focus this year. I've read that creative playing has been known to facilitate much more interesting ideas than anything else. Some companies set aside time on Fridays for their employees to do just that. If a company can afford to do it, then why not an individual?

Time to start breaking stuff! :)
Here's a link to an article about the event.

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Launching This Year

I've been in the trenches with this one for some time. But I think I'm closer to launching this now more than I ever was. Stay tuned...

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Re: Invention

In the last few years facial hair has become a trend that I could only stand for a period of 3 months. I grew it specifically for the 2009 ALTERNATIVE PRESS EXPO thinking that I needed more "Indy" street cred. I even wore knitted fashions for most of it too. Even though the Northwest ladies seemed to pay more attention to me it was quite painful to bear. My acute timing worked two-fold for my Halloween/reference files. Unfortunately I was pressed for time and didn't get enough photos of it. I was soooo sick and tired of wearing the weasel that I shaved immediately after I returned home that night.

Like many people I enjoy the art of reinvention and play, even if it's for a little while. I think it works well with my brand of art and my love of entertaining. I'm not always successful or convincing but it's heck of a lot of fun. In there somewhere beneath the beard and costume, behind the technique and style there is some semblance of who I am. Maybe you'll see patterns, maybe you'll see consistency; some weak while others are strong.

Hopefully it resembles integrity and truth, something that can never be reinvented but always improved upon. Here's to keeping things interesting in the coming year...but not too interesting.


I hope 2011 brings everyone what they've worked for most.
Happy New Year.


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