The Daily Dark

Lil Clockwork Devil

2011-06-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

Just a warm up today before work

In brightest day in really late nights

2011-06-22T00:27:00.000-07:00

Working late tonight. Did a doodle in 10 minutes I could spare.

I thought the GL movie was hilariously bad...but don't worry Hal, we still love ya.

Bettie Pages

2010-10-06T15:04:00.000-07:00

Just continue to rework into simpler more streamlined stuff. This is also a practice run for a freelance gig I'm working on right now involving Bettie.

Lobomance

2010-09-16T17:59:00.003-07:00

Something a little disturbing while I continue to try and refine both my style and my brush work.

The Fox and The Crow

2010-04-21T17:47:00.000-07:00

So the last couple of weeks I've been working on an assignment in Storyboarding class that is an adaptation of Aesop's Fable "The Fox and The Crow". This assignment nearly killed me because we had to take what is basically a 3 sentence fable and flesh it out into a full story including new dialogue and scenes. I LOVED this assignment because it pushed me harder than any previous, but I hate myself during this assignment because I re-wrote and re-drew it 3 times in a 3 week period.

Seriously. First time it was 200 panels. Hated what I had done. Second round was 160 panels and it completely missed the point of the assignment. Round 3 is around 120 something panels (the pics below are only the first few scenes) and by the time I got done with the 2nd act, I was rewriting again, but mostly fine tuning and redrawing panels and finally having to sketch out the last 30 panels or so because I didn't have time to do any clean work on those ones.

I am officially the worst director I've even worked for. haha. I need to work on focusing on moving ahead with a story and being a better editor before getting past the thumbnail stage into clean ups.

Granted not all boarding jobs require you to be a writer, but being able to think like one and self-edit to plus a script on the job will definitely make me a stronger board artist.

More HTTYD stuff

2010-04-14T21:36:00.000-07:00

Balloon Buffoon

2010-04-02T22:07:00.001-07:00

I posted the thumbnails to this assignment a while back. I just hadn't gotten around to uploading the full size boards. Some of these boards are still really rough. This is in part due to overlapping homework assignments as well as the clarification from our class that pointed out this assignment was about storytelling and flow rather than clean ups. So I ended up not doing cleanups after I think 5 boards. I made a few adjustments from thumbs to boards to help screen flow.

There's also a dire lack of sound effects added into certain boards. I hadn't gotten around to filling that stuff in. Maybe after the class is ended I'll go back to these boards and finish clean up and adding all the bells and whistles (literally), until then this is strictly an escalating sight gag to sit back and enjoy.

More How To Train Your Dragon

2010-04-02T21:52:00.000-07:00

Some more sketches based on Dreamworks How To Train Your Dragon. The last piece there was colored by am incredible artist you can find at this link

Toothless

2010-03-31T17:53:00.001-07:00

Another quick set of How To Train Your Dragon. I'll have to draw Toothless about 100 more times before I figure him out.

Constantine Boards

2010-03-31T09:44:00.000-07:00

We had an assignment in class a couple weeks ago where we had to take a film and breakdown a scene to boards. I chose Constantine and I'm okay with the results.

Snotlout

2010-03-30T17:27:00.001-07:00

I'm going to have to go to How To Train Your Dragon Rehab soon.

Fishlegs

2010-03-30T16:03:00.000-07:00

Damnit I just plain love this movie and Fishlegs is my girlfriend's favorite character from it.

The Nut Twins

2010-03-30T15:16:00.000-07:00

My favorite characters from How To Train Your Dragon. Ruffnut and Tuffnut.

Green Canary

2010-03-30T11:44:00.000-07:00

Project Rooftop's newest contest of redesigning Black Canary's costume. I basically went with the love of her life in his current Black Lantern dealio causing her to take up his colors and bow in honor of her 'late' hubby.

Wallpaper

2010-03-26T12:24:00.001-07:00

Batgirl Gazing

2010-03-26T12:09:00.001-07:00

New Batgirl piece I started last night and finished this morning. Trying a couple new things with my coloring. Well not really new, just refined.

Storyboarding 'Balloon' Thumbnails

2010-03-22T19:29:00.001-07:00

Giving you a heads up of why I haven't been posting anything but random quick crappy pieces of art lately.

56 of 90 panels thumbnailed out for my new storyboarding assignment due this week in my class.

Oy. The Ducktropolis one has taken back burner right now because I still have tons of time to finish that one. But this one we only have 2 weeks to do and that included character design, background design and writing and boarding. This class does it all. ouch. haha.

Anyhow. The theme for this boarding assignment was 'Gags'.

We're to do 90 panels/30 boarding pages of someone who gives a balloon to a baby and gets nothing out of it.

I ended up writing a gag based script of a baby who has a balloon. A thief running from the cops accidentally slips on a skateboard and as he rolls by the baby he accidentally trades a balloon for his money bag. Then goes down a hill and gags ensue from there. He ends up back where he started from. The balloon falls back into the baby's grip and the thief goes to jail.

Not a clever story or anything like that. It's mostly trying to link gags together so it doesn't break up the flow.

Anyhow. These are thumbnails that are literally about 1in x 2inches in size. I'm going to work my ass off to finish the thumbs and story then blow them up to clean up for class.

In other words...personal art is taking a severe backseat these days.

Boy Band

2010-01-15T19:46:00.000-08:00

Beast Boy, Superboy and the Boy Wonder.

Superboy's current 'costume from the comics. Beast Boy's costume from Teen Titans Cartoon/Teen Titans Go comics, and Robin's look is a more special ops look I designed for him just cuz.

Jump City heroes

2010-01-14T18:11:00.001-08:00

Expressions practice.

More portfolio stuff

2009-12-16T15:05:00.001-08:00

Some animals

2009-12-16T15:03:00.001-08:00

Rose Street Fighter 4

2009-11-12T10:50:00.000-08:00

Adding to the street fighter headshot collection with Rose

Street Fighter 4 headshots

2009-11-09T12:06:00.000-08:00

doing these about 45 minutes each.

Pup Pup Walk Walk

2009-09-18T16:20:00.000-07:00

11 frame quick animation again. This time I did my very very very first quad walk cycle. It's got issues still and there's zero secondary animation, but hey...it's a first for me, so nyah nyah.

Pup Pup

2009-09-17T16:40:00.000-07:00

Another real quick looped animation I did on a break at work. Including a couple of tweaks total time is about 20 minutes. 11 Frames.

dance dance dance

2009-09-02T17:28:00.000-07:00

I haven't animated people in a VERY long time and I did this as an hour piece to try and shake the cobwebs loose.

Just a blondie doing a looped dance.

It has many issues, but for an hour I'm okay with it.

Look but don't touch

2009-08-14T11:30:00.000-07:00

Quick flash piece today with a touch of photoshop.

Shark Week Day 07 and 08

2009-08-10T11:34:00.001-07:00

Shark week comes to a close this year and I had a great time teaching myself to digi-paint while hammering out these sharks every day.

Day 07. Prickly Shark

Day 08. Frilled Shark

Shark Week 06

2009-08-07T11:41:00.000-07:00

Day 06. Elephant Shark

Shark Week Day 05

2009-08-06T10:44:00.000-07:00

Day 05. Hammerhead Shark.

Shark Week Day 04

2009-08-05T14:47:00.001-07:00

Day 04. Longfin Mako Shark.

Shark Week Day 03

2009-08-04T12:19:00.001-07:00

Day 03. Goblin Shark.

Shark Week Day 02

2009-08-03T18:54:00.000-07:00

Day 02. White Tip Shark

Shark Week Day 01

2009-08-03T18:52:00.000-07:00

Doing a weeklong jam with my best friend Shane and his wifey Kristen for Shark Week on discovery channel.

Kristen picks a shark each day and we do one up.

Here is day 1. Great White

My what big eyes you have

2009-06-08T16:17:00.001-07:00

10 minute break doodle

legend of zelda

2009-06-03T16:24:00.000-07:00

So recently I had some art theft done to me. okay so a little backstory on this one. I was thinking about the art thieving going on and I got introspective. I've run across people who ref'd my work and drew their own thing generally using the lines I threw down. And all I ask there is for a link back to the original piece. But the out and out theft of a piece I'm not cool with.

So I thought back to my own days of tracing...I was 7 years old. It was 1986 and Legend of Zelda just came out. I was in love with the artwork in the game booklet and traced the characters from it and transpose it onto lined paper and made a comic out of it. Despite looking very similar to Link, 'my' guy Zin was pinker with white hair and a purple tunic. I giggled thinking back to how I traced back then and somehow it led me back to my old comic where Zin was a rogue hero who was out to save Zelda and in a way competing with link.

well it's 2009 now and Zin won

Cutey Honey Doodle bug

2009-06-02T14:35:00.000-07:00

More doodling buggin at lunch today

Doodle Bug

2009-05-29T13:23:00.001-07:00

After wrapping up my portfolio I haven't had much time to really draw other than work stuff. So I've been managing to get out some doodle stuff real fast. These are all mostly 15 minute sketches.

Black Widow

2009-05-15T14:19:00.001-07:00

Nightwing TAS part three

2009-05-13T12:23:00.001-07:00

Inspector Dudley Soames and a revision to the Double Dare girls.

Nightwing TAS : Double Dare

2009-05-05T18:50:00.000-07:00

Another design sheet done. Unfortunately I'm not happy with how this one turned out. It's a little too 'on model' comic wise and a little bland in the end for what I'm intending for this series. So I'll be posting up a totally different direction for these girls later.

Nightwing The Animated Series

2009-04-30T15:17:00.000-07:00

Okay so not really. It's just a series of character designs I did up for updating my portfolio.

(Edit, Added Alfred)

Abigail

2009-04-23T17:32:00.001-07:00

The first gal in my A,B,C's of girls book that I'm currently putting together.

Wolverine Redeux

2009-04-21T17:13:00.000-07:00

This needed to be redone haha. On the left is today. On the right is 2002.

7 years makes a difference.

2009 Sketchbook sneak peek

2009-04-10T17:23:00.001-07:00

This will be a full color book. Each page will be a girl named after a letter of the alphabet...that didn't make sense...

Anyhow this is Abigail, Beatriz and Cora. The first three gals of the book in their current WIP form.

These will first be available for sale at Anime Expo 2009. I may send some with friends to SDCC pre-signed since I won't be there. It'll depend on who's available to do some selling for me.

Also instead of leaving a page to draw in like I did the past couple years *since paper can be flimsy and there always ends up with bleedthrough, I'll be bringing with me some blank index cards for free sketches to go into the sketchbook with each sale.

ALSO (whew) I'll be having some postcard prints made up of a few of the girls from the book as well as some larger prints. Prices to follow...

New Girls

2009-04-06T17:12:00.000-07:00

Tug Tug

2009-03-30T21:31:00.000-07:00

Darkstalkers Tribute

2009-03-02T11:26:00.000-08:00

Well I sent in my tribute submission a few days back. Just waiting to hear back now.

I won't be posting the full piece on the off chance it gets into the book. But for now here's a lil preview piece of it.

Wolverine and the X-men

2009-02-09T00:40:00.000-08:00

Really excited to know that the only animated show I've worked on so far is doing really well.

*Stole this info from Khary Randolph's blog

“Wolverine and the X-Men” was a ratings hit for Nicktoons, as the debut episode was the network’s highest-ever premiere with kids and boys. The premiere drew 436,000 viewers, up 808% from last year, according to a news release.

Nicktoons Network’s Wolverine and X-Men Carves Niche as Net’s Highest-Rated Premiere Ever with Kids and Boys

Nicktoons Network’s back-to-back premiere episodes of Wolverine and the X-Men (Jan. 23 8 and 8:30 p.m. ET), the new action-packed animated series based on Marvel’s popular super hero series, was the network’s highest rated original series premiere ever with kids and boys. Each episode posted triple-digit gains with all kid and boy demos.

The hour-long block, elevated the network’s ratings by +233% with kids 6-11 and +180% with boys 6-11; and averaged 1.0/123,000 K6-11 and a 1.4/91,000 B6-11.

Highlights of Wolverine and the X-Men 8 p.m. (ET) episode include:

* The 8 p.m. telecast scored triple digit gains of +133% with kids 6-11 and averaged a .7/92,000 K6-11, and +175% with boys 6-11 with a 1.1/72,000 B6-11.

* With tweens 9-14 the episode earned a .6/70,000, up +500%; with boys 9-14, it was up +350% and averaged a .9/60,000 B9-14.

* With kids 2-11 the episode earned a .7/135,000 K2-11, up +250%; with boys 2-11, it was up +233% averaging a 1.0/105,000 B2-11.

* The premiere also drew 436,000 total viewers (P2+), up +808% over last year.

Highlights of Wolverine and the X-Men 8:30 p.m. (ET) episode include:

* The 8:30 p.m. (ET) telecast scored triple and quadruple-digit gains for Nicktoons with all kid and tween demos and total viewers.

* The half-hour episode earned a 1.2/154,000 with kids 6-11, up +200% and a 1.7/110,000 with boys 6-11, up +183%.

* With tweens 9-14 the episode earned a 1.1/134,000, up +1000%; with boys 9-14 it was up +367% and averaged a 1.4/89,000 B9-14.

* With kids 2-11 the episode earned a 1.1/228,000; up +450%; and with boys 2-11, it earned gains of 275% and averaged a 1.5/154,000 B2-11.

* The second episode also drew 589,000 total viewers (P2+), up +1055% over last year.

Makoto Sketchin

2009-02-05T13:50:00.000-08:00

Morning Warmup Sketch again.

More Sketchin

2009-02-03T17:00:00.000-08:00

Sketchdump

2009-01-30T18:02:00.000-08:00

Some really fast sketches done as warmups over the last week in the morning before work or after work before bed.

Buuuuurn Knuckle!

2009-01-22T11:24:00.000-08:00

Just a really quick warm up sketch this morning of Terry Bogard

Runaways Gift Art

2009-01-16T20:27:00.000-08:00

Gift for my lovely pal/sister/punching bag Christina.

Colors to follow soonish.

Get to lickin!

2009-01-15T16:02:00.000-08:00

It's the End of the World as we know it.

2009-01-15T11:26:00.001-08:00

Steve Trevor: "Diana, it's all happening! UFO's are attacking, giant Jack Kirbyesque Robots are attacking. Hell even the American version of Godzilla is attacking! What do we do? What do I do?!"

Diana : "It's the end of the world baby...get to licking!"

Gasp! This was originally intended to be a "Stay here, I'm going to go fight" thing, but her serious face turned into "bedroom eyes" face so I lol'd and then just ran with it.

Morning Sketch to warmup. About 30 minutes sketching.

Popsicle

2009-01-14T19:46:00.000-08:00

Quick sketch at lunchtime (about 5 minutes) and then 15 minutes in photoshop to drop fast cleanup on it.

Kat Von D and Kim Saigh

2009-01-14T15:47:00.000-08:00

Commission! I tried something new here with coloring. Not sure if I enjoy where the coloring is going or not but I gotta do something to start enjoying colors again.

Sketch Crawl Jan 2009

2009-01-12T10:54:00.000-08:00

I had the great pleasure of participating in my first Sketch Crawl. Sorta. This is the first 'named' sketch crawl I've been to. But I draw in large groups of folks pretty regularly.

Anyhow. I love this group, they're all really great people and there was much fun to be had.

Drawings done from life at the Americana in Glendale, Ca. It started off with general gesture stuff and then I started monkeying with life drawing with my style leaking into it. By the end of the day it was really turning out fun.

Merry Xmas!

2008-12-19T13:52:00.000-08:00

Bat Family Reunion

2008-12-18T18:28:00.000-08:00

Finally done. Whew.

Elektra and Bat-family

2008-12-16T17:17:00.000-08:00

Marvel Dump

2008-12-10T18:07:00.000-08:00

You're a Devil In Disguise - Color

2008-12-03T15:31:00.000-08:00

Home Made Thundergod

2008-12-02T11:52:00.000-08:00

So I was thinking of a warmup to do today and I came upon an idea I had in passing last night while watching Iron Man on dvd.

I was sitting there thinking about Iron Man leading the Avengers which lead me to thinking about the Ultimates comic when Thor kinda went awol. I had the thought that Tony Stark would come up with his own answer to containing Thor or even replacing him if need be. So by using technology he creates his own Thunder God-like being whom he dubs Thunderstrike (The Ultimates version of Eric Masterson).

Anyhow. This is what I came up with this morning.

No one can hear you drool in space

2008-12-01T12:16:00.000-08:00

Warm up gone too far. Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix.

Gotcha Tiger!

2008-11-25T17:27:00.000-08:00

Lunchtime piece

Ororollin' Like Thunder

2008-11-24T15:28:00.000-08:00

One of these days I'm going to get to work on an X-title. Y'know...someday. haha

Wandatanna

2008-11-19T19:32:00.000-08:00

These two belong together. Fo sho.

Glamazon

2008-10-28T18:21:00.000-07:00

Been a while since I did up a Wonder Woman piece

Junk in the Trunk

2008-10-20T18:19:00.001-07:00

Another for this set of Beauties and the Beasts. Brandy from Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows.

I wanna do bad things with you

2008-10-14T16:56:00.000-07:00

Loving the books and the show of True Blood

oh SHIT! I need a happy thought!

2008-10-13T18:35:00.001-07:00

Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts Happy Thoughts

Lets Fly!

2008-10-10T18:05:00.001-07:00

Revision

2008-10-10T15:25:00.000-07:00

really didn't like the rushed background on the previous version.

More babes n beasts

2008-10-09T18:17:00.001-07:00

Fins n Skins

2008-10-06T17:01:00.001-07:00

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

2008-10-02T17:28:00.001-07:00

Couple new ones

2008-08-29T11:31:00.001-07:00

Just some linework I tested out inking in Flash. noooot gonna do that again. The linework is so jaggedy it's not even funny. Flash good for smaller pieces. Larger pieces not so much.

And a Spidey I threw down on break today at work.

Wild sketchin'

2008-08-20T18:33:00.000-07:00

I realized recently, I just plain don't sketch enough. I'm always trying to complete a piece and while that's good for productivity, it's killing the hell out of my spontaneity and we can't have that. So here's a rough sketch I did of Grifter today.

Seriously...I wish I didn't have to clean up work much...it always loses so much personality between the sketch and the final work. Meh.

Supergirl wrap up

2008-08-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

Flatted then colored.

Jungle Hero v02

2008-08-11T18:41:00.000-07:00

I felt that bg looked too sparse. Fillin' in some o'that ruffage thar.

Jungle Hero

2008-08-11T17:46:00.000-07:00

Decided to do up a supergirl sketch today...aaand somehow she ended up in the jungle.

It's another lineart piece I may color someday. Not sure when. Probably after I add more background elements and such.

La Jolla Kids

2008-08-06T14:10:00.001-07:00

Haven't drawn the Gen13 kids in forever and they still stand up as one of my favorite books of the 90's. And since they were in the 90's and I STILL love the books, that's gotta say a lot for those books.

SDCC Print

2008-07-09T20:26:00.000-07:00

Well I won't have a table to sell anything, but my dear pal Christina Strain (she who walks with awesomeness) is coloring this piece up as a Print. Until then this is my version of the colors.

I just love this couple as does Christina. Which I find odd because Rogue and Gambit are complete opposites who have such a hard time getting together, but Christina and her Fiance are an amazing couple who you couldn't separate with Wolverine's claws.

Couple of Kittens

2008-06-11T12:40:00.000-07:00

I dunno why, other than online fun but I've been drawing Tigra (Avengers) a lot lately.

Break Time Sketchin

2008-06-02T17:09:00.001-07:00

Saw the new trailer for the Clone Wars animated and y'know I'm still a bit hesitant about it, but still might be fun. It did manage to tickle my Star Wars giddiness so here's a 20 minute break time sketch of Obiwan being his badass self.

Flash CS3 - 20 min

Moment of Silence - Harvey Korman

2008-05-30T09:42:00.000-07:00

One of the most brilliant comedians AND actors that ever lived passed away yesterday. Harvey Korman brought us some of the great villainies in Mel Brooks' films as well as helped birth sketch comedy in its modern incarnation via the Carol Burnett show. He will be missed.

So I found out about Dynamo 5

2008-05-14T18:38:00.000-07:00

Well after going back over what I could have done to screw up Dynamo 5 so much I finally looked at my e-mails to Jay Faerber and my big screwup...I totally sent him the wrong files and dear lord I feel dumb. I sent him RGB JPG's and anyone who's worked in printed medium knows that pretty much anything JPG is a dumb idea and RGB is just a flat out no no.

So anyone who bought the Dynamo 5 Annual, please don't judge the whole book by my 8 pages of Oops. Here's a couple pages to satiate the concept of what the colors SHOULD have looked like if I wasn't a dimwit.

Another Not Art Post. OMG...

2008-05-08T11:12:00.000-07:00

I really need to cut back on projects. What kills me the most is that I've been incredibly busy since early 2007. Almost non-stop. Yet the projects I keep taking on are small little things that I'm probably not getting paid for. Which is fine I guess since I do have my animation day job which I love.

It's just...I look out and I see that I have one book on shelves this week. Another one next month. Two the following month, and one more in August.

And so far, none of it is stuff I'm really proud of. Why you ask? Because My dayjob has semi-flexible hours. I work at least 8 hours a day doing my animation/web job in an office environment.

Then I come home to work on the comic but also work on little things here and there that are projects just piled up. A company here wants 6 concepts done for a project they don't tell me about. Don't care, I'm getting paid. Right? Ugh. But those 6 concepts are matched by other commissioned work on top of the day job. On top of the comic, on top of the anthology, on top of the annual, on top of the trading cards...and in the end...

you wind up with half assed work and I HATE THAT! I hate that all this work I've done over the last year really doesn't reflect what I can do. It reflects what I can do under pressure, but not really the quality I want to deliver.

So I keep telling people that I'm not taking any more freelance work, but I think that's overstating. I'm just not taking on lil projects. If it's a writer I know and respect or a publisher I know and respect I'll work something out. But these little cards, concepts, covers, pinups and whatnot...I gotta step away from it and just keep saying I dun' have zee time.

Cuz my brain is turning into mush.

I wonder if this ever happens to Travis Charest...

2008-05-06T13:52:00.000-07:00

You know...I'm beginning to question if anyone will ever know who I am in the comics world. lol it's a silly thing I know, but in pretty much every promotional piece done where my name is included, I get misspelled.

Mathew Humphries is pretty much the most common spelling I come across.

My name is Matthew Humphreys. Two T's and an EYS on the end. It'll be hilarious one day when some kid is going to look back and wonder "Hmmm who was that guy that drew that thing one time." And they'll look it up based on my name on the cover Matthew Humphreys, but they won't find anything because all materials relating to me will be with an IES...guh.

Sorry...ranting.

WHOOPS!

2008-04-29T13:34:00.000-07:00

Here's a random thing I came by today. I had come across some Brian Stelfreeze art the other day and I wanted to look at more of his recent stuff since I hadn't heard about him in years. So I check out Comicartcommunity.com to see if he has a gallery. Voila he does and what do I find there, some hilarity in accidental 'tracing' done I'm guessing on my part.

I KNOW Stelfreeze doesn't know who the hell I am and I had never seen his piece before today so I thought it was just a funny quirk of the cosmos at how similar our two pieces were.

His from a series called Gun Candy (makes sense with the items in his piece) and mine was a piece called 'Happy Holidays All' featuring Lara Croft as a holiday post on my Deviantart Gallery this past Xmas.

Weirdness and hilarity in the world.

Marvel Masterpiece Cards

2008-04-29T02:14:00.000-07:00

Huge file! Sorry.

Anyhow, here's my cards for the Marvel Masterpiece sketch card set. Honestly, I really didn't get my groove until about the 2nd half of cards. Serves me right for not drawing on paper for a long long time. Anyhow, this was a lot of fun.

Black Cat, Scarlet Witch, Gertrude/Arsenic
Storm, Gwen Stacy, She-Hulk
Rogue, Mystique, Emma Frost
Tigra, Nico Minoru, Black Widow (had to do at least one card in that style)
Tempest, Thor Girl, Titania
Turbo, Thundra, Tarantula
Iron Man, X-23, Puck
Daredevil, Cyclops, Colossus
Dr Strange, Spidey, Vulture
Nick Fury, Beast, J.Jonah Jameson
Sabertooth, Namor, Red Hulk
US Agent, Captain America, Rhino
Gambit, Magneto, Thing
Chamber, Ghost Rider, Man-Thing
Iron Fist, Dagger, Cloak
Dirk Anger, The Captain, Deadpool
The Spot, Abomination

Stray Cat Strut

2008-04-23T15:25:00.000-07:00

So I'm not an animator by definition. I do animation at my work which tend to be fairly simplified flash animations. But still they take forever to do because I A)Never went to school for animation like...at all. and B)I'm still learning flash every day of work.

So out of a need to self-improve I've been monkeying with animation on my own time trying to see how much I can do without any training in animation.

Here's my first major outing which is still in a very rough draft. This may turn into a lot more depending on how enthused I am once cleanup is done on this scene. I may possibly extend this into several scenes strung together in what some could call a short film or what I'll call brain vomit.

Anyhow, here's my favorite lil minx, Catwoman doing what she does.

the file is kinda on the huge side...

Nother Commission

2008-04-18T21:23:00.001-07:00

The client's original character whom I believe was a dancer turned magically into a marionnette.

Commission - Fathom

2008-04-18T15:02:00.000-07:00

Never drew this gal before. Aspen Matthews from Fathom. I apologize for the watermark, but since commissions are obviously paid for, I only allow the owner to have a printable version.

You dropped yo iiiice cream...

2008-03-07T01:37:00.000-08:00

Did up tonight as a quicky for a thread on http://www.drawingboard.org and as for the light palette and lack of shading, my friend Bob Strang has this amazing style that utilizes these deceptively simple colors that just breathe so much life into his work that I was hoping to pull it off.

I've also been reading a shitload of art books from classic animated films as well as newer films. There's just something to behold in animation that has no shading and still looks alive.

Love'em To Death

2008-02-18T20:49:00.000-08:00

My gesture towards suggesting that the only way to stop huge talents like Chamba or Von Toten is to kill them. But I'm a nice guy so I left them some company by their graves.

Stars and Stripes

2008-02-10T21:58:00.000-08:00

Had a few extra hours to muck around drawing tonight between work stuff. Soooo ended up with a catgirl in space. Still trying to figure out my background painting stuff. I really want it to end up looking like the old Disney movies with heavily rendered bgs...I may have to try a different program than photoshop for my bg's since for the last umpteen million years I just can never figure out the digipainting in photoshop. Maybe Open Canvas will do something for me.

Chel Dorado

2008-02-09T02:42:00.001-08:00

Homage to one of the sexiest gals ever to grace animation. Chel from Dreamworks' Road to El Dorado