There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
Last weekend Sarah and I took an evening to spend a small fortune on a movie. There’s a new theater by our house, and we discovered that high ticket prices combined with lovely decor do not a winning movie-going experience make. The problem was that we elected to see the third [...]
Today will be spent and nigh upon wasted in the acidic belly of that coffee belching beast. Five hours that cut out the heart of my day, and tomorrow, four early morning sunless hours that cut the heart out of my mood. Normalcy will return on Thursday, I hope, as least much normalcy [...]
During conventions it’s either feast or famine with the commission work. Often during down times I’ll just work up something with the hopes that it’ll sell on Ebay, and at the very least pad-out my commission portfolio. This particular one was drawn while I was sitting around commission-less in Charlotte, but later sold [...]
I finally managed to finish the new lead to Old Joe Clark. I’m not sure exactly what took me so long to get around to it, other than the six months spent working on the graphic novel and a few other projects. On a whim this evening I decided I should just go [...]
I made the mistake recently of wearing my good shorts and a good t-shirt while helping Mike and Kari paint. As a result, a couple times a week I look like I work for a home maintenance business. Today, for example, I tucked a dark t-shirt and pair of shorts into my bag [...]
I’ve been working up some updated sample pages of my pencil work to send out to editors. After trying to find a good script, to no avail, I decided to do a simple action scene. It probably won’t be more than four pages or so, just enough to convey a sense of storytelling, [...]
Looking out the window of my 5th floor studio, I can spy a large Shoney’s Big Boy. Transplanted from his original locale, he sits atop a building, overlooking a terrace, and remains unseen by pedestrian traffic on the street below. The sun has faded his colors a bit, but he stands like the [...]
I do enjoy complaining. It’s a character flaw, I’ll admit. And one day you’ll see me rise above it, soaring to hitherto unknown heights of moral fortitude. In the meantime a good rant is probably never too far away, and the rising of a good rant is always good fuel for conversation. [...]
I’m in the middle of the next batch of cards for the third Marvel Masterpieces series. I’m trying to do more action shots and multiple-card images this time just to raise my own bar a little. After seeing what some other people are able to achieve in a 2.5 X 3.5 area, it [...]
There’s a show on the Noggin network (a station that unfortunately has my nephew in its heroine-like grasp) that featured its cast of anthropomorphized characters having their own Olympics. The tiger demonstrated the most athletic prowess (Hmmm…tigers are Asian. What are they trying to say?) The tiger however was very arrogant in [...]
I know I said I wasn’t going to post much art here. But as it’s becoming a full-time endeavor, I figure it’s unavoidable at this point.
This is a preliminary sketch for a commission based on the book “The Man Who Was Thursday” by G.K. Chesterton.
About a mile into the woods, a dry creek bed is revealing the secrets of its rock-strewn bottom. A snake slithers through the leaves, but remains unseen, while a lizard suns itself on the western side of a large oak. The sandy path glows an ambient green from the light peeking through thick [...]
Someone was complaining to me the other day about having to spend so much money on their kids. This person jokingly advised me to never have kids because they cost so much. What costs so much, you might ask? In this case it was the combination of summer camps, video games and [...]
This year I was unable to attend Comic-con due to a large number of circumstances that came together in a perfect storm that left me at home. Sadly, the 20th anniversary panel for MST3K featuring the entire cast was there, leaving me a bitter, bitter man for having missed it.
All I can do [...]