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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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Sketches I did for fun, I took a break from inking. Recognize any of them?

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Hola, here's a sketch for you. My first Marvel work came out last wednesday. Inking Skrull Kill Krew. If you picked it up, let me know what you think! Thanks and goodnight!

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He's a Rooobit. I'm tired.

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Mullets rock.

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Whew! It's been a while. I've been working some long hours on something I'm excited about. Here is a sneak preview of my inking over someone else. I'll explain more later! cheers.

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Fan of the show House. Here is a caricature version of Dr. "13"

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I just Watched the Watchmen, so I decided to do the new version of Silk Spectre kicking down her old costume. This is a little rougher because I tried to ink straight over some loose pencil layouts as opposed to finishing the pencils. Trying to work at getting quicker. Though unsuccessful in my mind, hopefully this will start clicking more.

About a 90 min sketch.
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EDIT: This was a little too rough in places so I fixed the face a bit and added quick colors for fun!

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Hawkeye!

Barton, not Bullseye...
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Aaaart.
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Allen the Alien of Invincible.

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Here is some digital changes which should give you an idea of where I'm going with this. This is also much different from how I set out to finish this. Their wasn't going to be any outlines or that designy background originally... we'll see how it comes out.

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So this is part one of my process. My new process. Trying my hand at painting on a canvas with some acrylics I had lying around. Picture based off a photo. This is probably, and hopefully, about 25% of where this will end up being. I'll post some more as I go.

Wanted to be done with this today, as it's only 8"x10", but I haven't been able to work long sessions as of late. More soon.
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Whew! Its been a WHILE. I'll probably chat about that later sometime, as for now, here is a dude who lost his clothes, then, after I made them up, found them. And that, was a run on sentence!
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Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Happy End Year
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Had some fun inking this for practice. Pencils by Leinil Yu, inks by me.

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More of this image to come!

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I haven't posted any recent pages I've done. Hereeeee!

If you missed it, you can catch the Xtacles again tonight at Midnight on Cartoon Network. Please let me know what you think! and Tune In!
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Well! It has been a while hasn't it? Long breaks deserve long posts so here we go!

First, URGENT business!

Tonight, November 9th, at Midnight, marks the premiere of the AdultSwim show The Xtacles! I was lucky enough to do a little spot illustration work for the second episode and think this show turned out great! The first two episodes will be debuted tonight so I would really appreciate all ya'lls staying up late and watching this show. Cartoon Network, Sunday night, midnight. If you liked Frisky Dingo, or Sealabs 2021, you will love this show. More on that at a later time!

Secondly,

If any of you picked up issue 53 of Invincible, you may have noticed that the pinup I posted earlier found its way into the book! I was super excited to see my work in probably my favorite comic. I've liked that series since first picking it up. So thanks to Kirkman and the whole crew for doing that for me! On a comical side note, I did think it was funny how the compositions were humorously similar when comparing Invincible on the cover and my pinup. To again clear things up, I was doing a recreation of Herp Trimpe's Incredible Hulk # 181.

Thirdly,

I was playing around with some concept work ideas and techniques. Trying to continue to develop some sense of how to color. So, for some reason this monster sketch came out.

Fourthly,
Since I last posted, we had an election thingy! This marked the first year I voted in the Presidential election and I felt it was a good year to start. Without getting too preachy, I was happy to see Senator Obama come out on top, though I do like Senator McCain. Though he may have his work cut out for himself, I wish President-elect Obama all the best. Good stuff. Nice to see people voting FOR a candidate as opposed to voting AGAINST another.

Well, I think that was long enough kids. I will be back again with more soon, I'll try to sit down and do more stuff that can be posted. So thanks for still stopping by! And if there are any misspellings or errors in all of this, I apologize, but I'm not going to reread it all and correct things. It's Late.
XTACLES NOV. 9TH MIDNIGHT CARTOON NETWORK ADULT SWIM! BOOSH
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Batman!
Digital colors with Black watercolor.

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I'll get a better scan up here as soon as possible, but for now here you go.

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More to come when I finish it up.

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Early Rock and Roll show poster design concept.
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Wash and some photoshop colorz.

from a photo.
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UPDate:
Here is the original pre photoshop

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Colorized version of a drurin. That, I drew.

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