Rose Quarter Comic Book Show

I sneaked out of work today for a couple hours to head over to the Comic book show at the Rose Quarter, and walked out with some good stuff to study. I'm sure I probably ended up being a bit of a nuisance, as I found a few artists that I really like and picked their brains as long as they would have me. They were all very helpful and very nice. Not to mention, patient. :)

Special thanks to Mathew Clark, Steve Lieber, Gene Ha and Jason Metcalf for the time and advice. Tomorrow, I plan on picking up the pens they all suggested. The only artist who varied from the recommended pens was Metcalf, who apparently uses an ink well. Then again, he's brilliant.

I also brought home a few comic books that I am very excited about. :) I think the first read will be Enemies Among Us, but I have a soft spot for Batman.

Moreover, I left inspired and couldn't wait to get back to work. Here are a few of my inking sketches. My favorite right now is this drawing, which I inked today and was originally a quick streetcar sketch of a woman that looks like she is in desperate need of a few more hours sleep and a day off.



It's all very messy, but right now, I'm trying to work out where I'm actually most comfortable with my pens so I can see the flow the comic will have. Until I'm done with these tests, all my pages are still just in pencil.

An Angry Man

Need I say more?






From my sketch book.

Ed Pen Test

I apparently feel bloggy today.

Quick concept sketch of Ed in pen.

Zombie Ed

This is Ed. He has recently had a major life change. You can see tell tale signs that he is ever-so-slightly less human than before. He doesn't have the same passion for personal hygiene as he used to, his conversational skills have dwindled to that of a neanderthal (though he didn't have far to fall to get there), and his table manners are just atrocious.

Can his marriage take the pressures of his new lifestyle? echem...

Ah yes, I finished Ed's introductory pages today. :) This is a rough character sketch of him.

By the way, I had not mentioned it before, but the comic book I'm working on is called "A Teenager's Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse" by Rachel Mohr

Zombies

I have recently been hired to draw a comic book, which excites me to no end, and which I probably will be talking your ear off about for the rest of the time I'm working on it... and possibly later too.

I love comic books, even though I've been horrible and am back on pretty much every comic I'd like to be reading, and should by all accounts be whipping myself for still having not read Batman RIP. There really is no excuse. Anyway, I love a good graphic novel, and have spent many a time devoting countless hours gobbling up a new story. Some top faves: Kingdom Come (Favorite), Transmetropolitan, Infinite Crisis, Year One, Walking Dead, Dawn (guilty Pleasure),Astonishing X Men, Lex Luthor Man of Steel (amazing work of art, telling the story from the side of the villain. If you haven't read it, you should. This is what Superman Returns was missing). Wait, I'm rambling.. back to why I'm writing this.


I also love zombies. Zombie comics, zombie movies and zombie paraphernalia. Hell, who doesn't? You get to see people managing at their best when everyone is at their worst. Not to mention all the zombie fodder and general mayhem. (Side note: 28 Weeks Later has the best cinematic kiss of all time. Hands down. You know the scene). Each story has a different mode of transmission and different level of zombie effects, which is the fun part, and I have to say, I'm really really excited about how the zombie outbreak is spread in this comic. If I weren't working on this, and had heard about just how it is transmitted, I'd be on the freaking newsletter.

So what this is all leading up to is that, Yes, I've been hired by Rachel Mohr (as in someone is actually paying me to do this) to draw a comic book about Zombies. Needles to say, I am beyond happy about this.. possibly even giddy.

And for now on, I will be uploading sketches from my work on the comic

Meet Max. This past week, I've been drawing character sketches for the main characters of the comic. Below are some of the drawing stages for Max and his mother Soli Miracle.
I will be posting more sketches as I go along, and soon there will be a site where you can see the pages as they come as well.