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Hello! Been a few months. The day is here, GUARDING THE GLOBE #1 hits stands today.

Please feel free to go check it out! That'd be awesome. Hope you like it and a big thanks to Robert Benito, Sina, Ron, Rus, Cliff, Thomas, FCO, Cory and Ryan.

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Did this page a long time ago. Here is the first page I sat down and did for the book. Gotta love Brit's jet boots/gloves.

To check out some more pages, check out the solicit( http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26352 ) and take a look at the June issue of Previews which will be on stands this week!
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Talked to William Marshall, and we came up with this asset to humanity. The Stache. He is a nudist quadriplegic crime fighter who uses his opposable facial hair to do his every wish.

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After seeing Cory Walker, and Nate Bellegarde's recent awesome sketches, of awesome characters. I decided to do up a character that's been in my head for a while.

Soviet super-spy Oleg Rusakova was moments away from diffusing a nuclear device at the local aquarium when leaking radiation caused him to bond with a nearby Lobster. The event granted him all the powers of a Lobster aside from the large claws.
He is now, the Red Lobster.

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Ostrichard. The best character eva. This doesnt do him justice.
Go here for the real goodness: http://corenthal.blogspot.com/

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This is the only preview I'll be posting of the Guardians stuff. Enjoy!

Vote in the poll to the left if you so desire, also.
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Wanna know what a drawing rut is? Taking 4 hours to draw 1/2 a panel that already had a nice layout ready. Sheesh. 7:30, time for a nap.

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Various Invincible characters done for fun.

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Guardians of the Globe!

The new miniseries I will be drawing has been announced. Really excited to be working with Benito and Robert on this, and hope you guys enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying working on it. It comes out in August, and feel more than welcome to get multiple copies. Seriously, it's okay.

Today I sat down trying to do a 90 minute sketch of the Guardians. I ran a little long I think, I honestly don't know how long I spent on this. I planned on adding more characters but I needed to get to real work, so these fools will have to do. Working on drawing smaller characters, although, I should have spent more time on the tiny ones. Oh well.

Yes I realize that the background is a joke, as are some of the characters. eh.

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Mockingbird

Probably will throw up some WIP of this as I ink, and finish the whole thing up. It's actually on orange paper.

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Been away for a bit... but... here's another sketch.

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Day 3. Little bit better.

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Day 2. A tad weak. eesh... oh well.

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Doodle from Monday night.

Breaking in the new sketchbook. Going to try to put it to good use. I'm going to try to see how often I can post here for a bit. Check back..... or don't.
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Here's the cover to What If Astonishing X-Men, that I did a couple pages for. Comes out today!

Here is half a panel that appears in the issue!

Also, the Skrull Kill Krew trade of our run comes out today as well. Pick it up if you missed it.
Happy Holidays.
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More small sketches.

Now with scale.
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Trying to do something with 2 tones, but more realistic than my comical book style.

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More trying stuff out. Didn't really plan the color usage out very well. And the gal on the couch, is apparently colored as Marge Simpson would be. ha.

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Just doing some lighting exercises! On faces.

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Black Widow
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I'm still alive (barely)! Warm up doodles!

Check back for more.
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So, I've been pretty bad at posting lately. I've been busy so I apologize. As some of ya'll may know, I've been doing my first work for Marvel the past couple of months. Issues 1 and 2 of Skrull Kill Krew (inked by yours truly, pencils by Mark A Robinson) have come out, along with Amazing Spider-man Family 7 (pencils Val Semeiks). I have been having a really good time working on those projects, and thats good because they are some long houred days! I'm finishing up some inking on the rest of SKK and already have my next two projects lined up that I'm SUPER excited about. One is penciling, one is pencils and inks. It's going to be fun because I'll get to be drawing some of my favorite characters from each of the companies. Needless to say, I'm psyched.

Even though I'm just starting up in the industry, I want to thank everyone who has helped me along the way, and there have been A LOT. Whether you gave encouraging critiques or harsh criticism, to just saying hi, I've appreciated it. So thanks to Scot, Claudette, Jay, Cliff, Mark, Chris, Steve, Tom, Justin, Robert, MikeyO, Mike, Neal, TomBomb, JLowe, Shawn, Dale, Julian, Sam, Andy, Jarrett, Evan, Tyson, Mom and Dad, and everyone else who've helped me so far. I owe a lot of people drinks.

Now, after some sleep, I have to go get a hell of a lot better at this whole art thing!

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Finished Issue 3 of Skrull Kill Krew this weekend. Been nice having the first part of the week off. Trying to get back to some drawing. I found these 25 Essential Expressions Challenge worksheets that are awesome. When I'm finished and put up the finals, I'll post links to the template. Since I'm a little rusty, these tend to go from cartoony to more refined but oh well. Here are the first 8.

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