Behold the beauty and the terror. I dissect my first two commissions.
Read MoreThe finest in 18th century technology…
Read MoreHow ORCS! helped me love painting again, a brief retrospective.
Read MoreI’ve been asked enough times over the years for suggestions on various inking materials. So I think it’s finally time I sit down and do a blog post on them. I’m going to start with brushes, which have the widest range of marks and applications when it comes to ink…
Read MoreThe good, the bad, and the weird from my sketchbook.
Read MoreSketches, clean drawing and final painting for my issue #2 variant cover of Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea. Out with Dark Horse.
Read MoreThe good, the bad, and the weird from my sketchbook.
Read MoreAfter finishing ORCS! The Curse, I promised myself I would take some classes. I’ve been feeling the itch to change things up, and the desire to move my work into n even more analog space than it already occupies. So, I decided to take a Continuing Education Editorial Illustration Class…
Read MoreThe good, the bad and the scribbly.
Read MoreI’m please to say that I have finally completed all of the issue art for ORCS! The Curse. That’s 200 pages written, laid out, inked, and colored since March. In addition to painting four issue covers. It was a lot of work in a short time. Unfortunately, it kept me away from posting issue previews like I did for Volume 1.
So, for the uninitiated, and everyone else wondering What the heck is ORCS!? I wanted to do a post with all if the issue summaries and a small preview.
Read MoreThere’s a good sized community out there for any kind of zine you can think of, not to mention numerous local and national zine fests where zinesters can gather to trade their books. They have long served the comics community as a way to tell a story that is short and unfettered. Some zines are akin to tiny works of art: riso printed, screen printed, hand bound, and full of fancy papers. Others are quick and dirty fold-ups that serve the purpose of any ephemera, a quick relay of information…
Read MoreHow a cover goes from thumb to sketch to finished painting. Here is a walkthrough of my painting for the ORCS! trade cover.
Read MoreIt’s time for another installment of Sketchbook Corner, where I post up the best and mediocre of my sketchbook from the past fortnight.
Read MoreA fortnight’s worth of sketchbook highlights. Some images NSFW
Read MoreDOOM TEMPLE!!! DOOM TEMPLE!!! DOOM TEMPLE!!!
Read MoreThe Orcs hatch a plan to get back home, except that Pez and Zep aren't sure it's even worth trying to go back. But the debate may be moot as they are literally swept away and brought face-to-face with... destiny?!
Issue 5 hits shelves on June 9th! Here’s a 13 page preview…
Read MoreFree from trolls and gnomes, the gang hooks up with Bog’s dwarf friend Arnheld. Meanwhile, back home, the Wise Woman continues her fight against an ancient evil. Assisted by an old friend, she sends our intrepid crew to meet their destiny.
Issue 4 out May 19th!
Read MoreOrcs! Issue 2 15 page preview
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