Natu

I forgot to put this up a couple months ago. Pat did a variant cover for GLC #53 and as usual I was around when he was drawing it. He of course knows my love for Natu and snuck in my intials in her ear. So if you look closely you can see "JE", neat huh?

Fixed

I finally went back and sized down all the ginormous pic files. So now you can click on a pic and not just see a close up of Deadpool's eyeball or something.

Preview

So here's a little preview of something that may be published next year. I'm not going to say much about it, as it's still in it's infancy, but it's my own story I'll be writing and penciling. I do need a solid inker and colorist, so if you know any one who wants to work for Image style payment, let me know.

Caricatures

Bored at Valleyfair...

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There tends to be a lot of down time when doing Caricatures at the park (though lately it has been busy). So here are some examples of crap I drew to pass the time. Most of it is stiff and boring, simply because I had no creative energy, but some of it is kinda fun. I do enjoy going to town with the airbrush on this stuff.

The Havok is my little re-design of his old black and white costume, which I love. I threw in a little of the new costume in there, as the lines down his legs and arms would light up blue when he powers up. My favorite, of course, is the Soranik Natu. There are more of these, but they're so static and lifeless I couldn't bring myself to post them.

Maybe I'll get back to drawing actual comic pages some time soon....

Published stuff!

If you like drawin' comics or you just like me, pick up a copy of "Incredible Comic Book Women with Tom Nguyen". I helped out on the book and some of my art is inside.........so help a brother out!

Here's the link to buy, or you can get it on Amazon:

http://www.northlightshop.com/product/incredible-comic-book-women-with-tom-nguyen/

SpringCon: day 1

All in all it was a good day. I made some decent cash and got to meet a lot of people. Here are some of the sketches I did for people, thank you and goodnight.

SpringCon print!

So here is my print for SprinCon. I decided to do X-force because I wanted to, that's about it. I've been wanting to do a big group shot of them for a while and this seemed like a good venue for it. The exciting things is, that the talented Tom Nguyen is inking it while I assist him during this busy week. Even with his tight schedule Tom was more than willing to help out, I've never seen him do this for anybody and especially not for free, thanks Tom. This makes him the second pro to ink my work, last con was Doug Mahnke and Pat Gleason has agreed to work with me on a print for next year, yay! I can't wait to see what it's going to look like.

We will also be selling the nude fairy (posted a few months back) we worked on together for his instructional book at the show.

Next up: I have no idea...

Etrigan and Zatanna

So here it is......Finally done after barely working on it for months. I really need to start cranking these out faster and not just work on them a little bit every other week. I'm definitely tired of looking at it, but I like it. Pat helped me with the initial layout and thank god he did because my first version was a constipated mess.

Next up: Archangel (Death) vs. Wolverine (Death)

Caricature

Tom has been helping me learn to draw caricatures, so I can hopefully get a job doing them. Here are the long awaited results.

Green Lantern #50 comic signing!

So I set up a signing at Hot Comics, a local comic book store. Originally it was just going to be Doug, but I convinced Pat and Tom to join in also. After a morning interview on Fox 9 with Meteorologist Keith Marler about Green Lantern, everyone showed up for the signing at one. It was a fun day and the guys and Hot Comics did a great job of setting up the store and making us feel welcome, with wall to wall Green Lantern and anything else the guys had worked on.

Somehow I got Pat to draw me a Natu sketch (although his isn't finished yet) and then Tom drew me one and then Doug said he'd draw me one, yay!

Sketches were done, comics signed, and then we went and ate steak.

I don't know why I do the pouty lipped, squishy faced thing either....

Deadpool & Siryn

Well it's done.....not much to say, I like, I'm tired of looking at it, glad it's done.

Next: Zatanna/Etrigan

The Mad Titan!

Yeah I've been draggin' ass on this one, but to be fair I was working on two at once. I've also been busy with a bunch of other stuff so :P This is my little homage to the George Perez (and every use of it after) Infinity Gauntlet #1 cover. I'm pretty happy with it, Death is probably my favorite part. If I had one little quibble, it would be Thanos seems a bit stiff for me, even though he just supposed to be standing there. So yay! another one done and it looks like it will make a nice print too.

Hopefully next week: Deadpool/Siryn

Comic signing in Iowa!

So I went with Tom to a comic signing he was doing at Limited Edition Comics in Cedar Falls Iowa yesterday. Nice store and Rob, the owner, was a great host. I was dead tired before we got there, but everyone there was really energetic and excited to see Tom, so that went away pretty fast. I was Tom's unofficial assistant for the day, but people also enjoyed some of the commissions I was working on and wanted sketches from me too, which was cool. I look forward to going there again (we were invited back). Hopefully by then the stuff Tom and I are going to be working on will be in print and I'll have something to sign myself.

Here are some pics (I might put up a few more later). First two are of Tom doing sketches and talking with the fans. The last one is him messing up our posed shot with the twenty pound steel Captain America shield.....

More nerd fun with Cap's shield added.

Fallcon- day 2

So here are some more pics from Fallcon. A few of the costumed attendees who were strolling by my table and a Domino sketch for a fan. I was busy doing sketches the whole time for both days and only got about 2o minutes to walk around towards the end of today. Which is good, cause I was making money, but sucked cause I barely lifted my head from my sketch pad. I'll be posting more photos I took with Tom's camera in a couple days.

For my first convention as a "creator" I had a great time. I made some good money, met some really cool people and enjoyed a lot of positive response to my work.

Some more photos- Keith Champagne, me, and Tom Nguyen. The other photo is of Keith, Tom, and Tom's model, Talia.

Added a couple more commissioned sketches...

Fallcon- day 1

So today was awesome! I sold a bunch of stuff and was packed with sketches all day. I got to use the bathroom once and spent the rest of the day drawing. I wasn't ready to be inundated with a bunch of sketch requests right off the bat, but that's what happened. Here are a few I took pics of. Not my best stuff, but I was trying to crank them out to get 'em all done.

I'll have more to say tomorrow...

Added some pics my good buddy Kurt took on the first day.

Doug Mahnke inks!

Here it is! Doug's inks on my pencils and it looks freakin' awesome! It's great to see how my stuff looks with a pro putting his spin on it. I changed Hal's hair from the previous drawing and tweaked some of the anatomy before Doug went to town. I'm framing the original and slapping it up on my wall. I'll be selling this as a print at Fallcon this weekend.

Sketch Cards...

Some examples of the sketch cards I'll be selling at Fallcon. They took longer than I expected, I thought I could just bang 'em out real quick, but I ended up getting to involved in them. I do like how they came out and they were kinda fun to do.

Print for Fallcon '09

My pencils for a print for Fallcon. So it looks like there are going to be two variations of this now, one with a different Hal (and Kilowog in the background), with those two drawn and inked by Anthony Hary. The 0ther print is of the pencils shown here, which will be inked by Doug Mahnke. Both will be available at Doug's table at Fallcon, Oct 10th and 11th.

Closest I'll ever get to Arisia....

So in issue 39 of Green Lantern Corp I make a cameo appearence. I'm the Daxamite next to Arisia with the poor taste in facial hair (she's totally checking out my comic self with a sideways glance!). As always, thank you Pat, Doug, and Tom.