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Friday, April 27th, 2012

Please excuse the reposting of this from my web site, but I’d really like to see this book get printed.

The Kickstarter project to get Jet-Pack Jenny and the Factor of 01 printed has been launched! Go here to contribute at a level that gets you some nice incentives!

It took me five years to finish the story, but I’m very happy with it, and I feel like it’s actually worth asking people to contribute to see it happen. I just need $400 contributed in order to meet my printing goals, but if more is contributed, I’ll be able to print more copies. No money will go to waste.I will be printing these in July and shipping out as soon as I receive them from the printer.

So what will the printed collection contain? It will be 40 pages, containing all of the strips printed three to a page, with the book measuring  8″ x 7 1/4″, making every strip so much easier to read than if I tried to print this as a mini-comic and do two to a page. It also frees up lots of room for guest artwork, annotations giving you a behind the scenes peek at the making of the comic and sketches from the making of the comic.

Just in case you need more prompting to donate and make this book a reality, here are the donation incentives:

  • Donate $10 or more and get a copy of the book with a free head sketch of the lead character, Jet-Pack Jenny. This head sketch will be inserted on a separate 5″ x 8″ card.
  • Donate $25 or more and get a copy of the book and a free full body sketch w/background of Jet-Pack Jenny on 8 1/2″ x 11″ Bristol.
  • Donate $50 or more and get the $25 reward and a piece of original art from the story. All original art is in strip format. I don’t think I need to say that you’ll get your choice of which strip, provided it’s available. Two are no longer available.
  • Donate $100 or more and you get the $50 reward plus an original drawing of Jet-Pack Jenny done to your requested subject matter, hand colored, drawn on 11″ x 17″ Bristol. In case you’re counting that’ll be two drawings and a piece of original art!

Your help in getting this published would be greatly appreciated, and hoping to have to draw a lot to show how much I appreciate it.

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Teaser

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Here’s a teaser of my contribution to this year’s Sketch Charlotte Anthology! I started off not very enthused about my story, I felt better and better as more and more of it got done.

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Perspective is a Harsh Mistress

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

The advantage to re-drawing about half of the Factor of 01 to be consistent in print format means I get to completely rework things I have not been entirely happy with. Originally the first panel, while it worked, wasn’t entirely what I wanted. This is closer, and while I don’t think I’ve got the handle on 3 point perspective that it demands, I think it’s good enough to serve the purpose.

I also won’t be replacing this on the web site until the next strip is redrawn. I’ve completely changed the beat of the action. That’s the worst part of the original artwork. I really do not like staging fight scenes in my comics, so I do it badly. In the first Jet-Pack Jenny comic, there’s actually two strips that were all black as a cop-out, albeit done on a dare. That second panel is also the second part of my lesson in how harsh a mistress perspective can be. Never ever say you can fix perspective in Photoshop, it will still not look 100% right.

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Wonder Woman

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

I did this drawing of Wonder Woman in my spare time, just so I could work on that costume. I don’t hate it as much now, but I still feel like it’s more complicated than it needs to be. The trickiest part of this for me was retaining her femininity, but weird things happen to your drawing style when you watch a two day marathon of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I had to reference the hands so that Diana didn’t end up with man-hands.

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Ghost Rider

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Last night I saw a neat drawing Rico did of Ghost Rider in his sketchbook and felt inspired to do this drawing. I plan on working on it in Photoshop and practicing making flames.

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My Art Is On Exhibit

Thursday, January 5th, 2012
From Friday, Jan 6, 2012 – Friday, Jan 27, 2012, I’ll be part of an exhibit at the Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC.Lenoir is located in the foothills of North Carolina just about 20 miles south down US Hwy 321 from Boone, about an hour north of Gastonia, NC on the same Hwy 321. Lenoir is about 2 hours at the most from most parts of Charlotte, NC, and Winston-Salem, NC. Visit this link for more on the Caldwell Arts Council. They are open Tuesday-Friday from 9am – 5pm.

The Opening reception is on Friday, Jan 6 from 5pm-7:30 pm. I’ll be there schmoozing since I’m a part of the show, so if you can make it, I’ll be glad to see you.  Here’s a preview of some of the work you’ll see in the show.

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Charlotte Comicon sketches

Sunday, December 18th, 2011

I had a good time at Charlotte Comicon with Herc, Henry, Brandon and Jonathan. I got to draw a little for myself in addition to a couple of sketches I sold. We sold a few anthologies, and got the word out that we exist to some great fans. We did see the cutest little Deadpool to ever draw swords. One gal was dressed as Ms Marvel, which inspired me to work on this piece depicting the behind-the-scenes instance from Avengers Annual #10, where Rogue attacked Ms. Marvel, albeit, Carol Danvers was probably not in her costume for it.

Later in the day, when things calmed down, I was searching for something to draw, and across the way I saw a dealer selling a Black Cat action figure, which inspired this drawing of the best Catwoman rip-off Spider-Man ever had.

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Oz in color

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

It’s finally done! The last step was light-boxing the entire thing to include the shadows on the trees and the ground around them. Fir me, the most embarrassing part was my inadvertent omission of the ruby slippers, so I improvised in the coloring stage.

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Storm

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Last Thursday, I did this drawing after finishing the latest Jet-Pack Jenny strip.  I know everyone is drawing Alpha-Beasts, but I didn’t think I could meet the obligation, even though after seeing everyone’s great work has tempted me a couple of times.

So I drew Storm. I used to hate this outfit, but as I get nostalgic for some of the costume and character designs of the 1970s, I find I keep coming back to the work of Dave Cockrum. Some of the best Legion of Super-Heroes costumes came from Cockrum, and a few of the new X-Men that debuted back in the 1970s sported designs he had intended to use in the Legion, but hey DC didn’t want to give him some of his art back.

So we have Ororo Munroe who inevitably got fetishized in an era when being the new girl on the team meant showing up naked from time to time. Some artists have really done great work featuring Storm in her 80s punk days, but give me a Dave Cockrum 70s costume any day of the week.

Her outfit has been redesigned numerous times since thenincluding in ways that artists couldn’t consistently render. I imagine this as a shiny leather or vinyl fabric, and when a character can’t feel the weather extremes, it really doesn’t make sense for her to wear sleeves.

I do like the look on her face, and the weight in her stance. I need to work on the shadows a little bit more and I really don’t like those abdomen highlights the more I see them.

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Batgirl

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I drew this Batgirl, just to try out by old inking style, which I think has evolved since the last time I seriously tried to draw a member of the Bat-Family.

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