TAG Victims.

We had a great turnout at TAG this month. SO many awesome people showed, and had fantastic sketches. I can't wait to see you all again next time.

A Couple of TAG Drawings.

Pyroghast!

Here is the new image I did for my band Pyroghast. If you are into metal, or want to be highly annoyed, head over here to the Pyroghast MySpace page and get a dose. There is also a Pyroghast YouTube page for you to 'watch' the songs in HD, which really means staring at a demon face for five minutes. The songs might take a while to show up in HD.

I think I was channeling Druillet, Mike Mignola, and Guy Davis. Somehow a bit of nouveau got in there.

If you want some wall paper type images, you can grab from here or if you want one with the band logo, head over to the Pyroghast MySpace page and grab one from the pics section.

A New Post From My New Home in Seattle.

Here are some pages from my last days with the guys at PlayFirst(much respect), my flight to Seattle to find a house, my buddy Cory's hockey game, and TAG. TAG is a drawing night held at PopCap for industry folks to come by, hang out, and draw. Sometimes there is a subject to riff on, but I love just sketching everyone.

Materials: home made sketch book with animation paper, a ballpoint pen, brush pen, and some white out every now and again.

Please note: if you are using Firefox, and looking at the large version of an image, click on it just to make sure the magnification is at maximum. If it's just a few pixels off, the images look really blurry.

A Big Pile of Sketches

These were done in my usual places like Emeryville Food Court (probably has an official name), The Westfield in SF, Bodega Festival, and a good figure drawing session in a studio in the Mission.

My materials are a home made sketch book with animation paper, a ballpoint pen, brush pen, and some white out every now and again.

Please note: if you are using Firefox, and looking at the large version of an image, click on it just to make sure the magnification is at maximum. If it's just a few pixels off, the images look really blurry.

Fan Art

Here's an image I did as a piece of fan art for Kowloon Walled City. They have a new record coming out soon. You should get it. Really.

The rest of the images are all the roughs carried through to final inking. The roughs were done in pencil, and then scanned. I put in a font, recomposed the image, and printed it out. Then I light boxed pencils on top of the sketch, scanned it, and messed around with it some more in Photoshop. Next, I turned the pencils blue, and printed them out on Blue Line Pro comic book paper. The inks were done with a Pilot Precision V5 ballpoint, my trusty Pilot .25 ballpoint, Pitt Brush Marker, and a real brush and ink. Finally, after scanning that in and playing with the levels, I used a bit of Photoshop magic to get the rest done.

I like the way the red pops on the 'final', but I think I actually prefer the black and white.

I'm getting ready to start a short comic, and this is probably the style I'll be using. It was a lot of fun.

Time Line Reversal

Here are some sketches from the last couple of pages of the sketchbook I just finished. I left the book at work and didn't get a chance to scan a few in until now.