I did this little wolf illustration for a tutorial about tips for drawing cute creatures in the May 2013 issue of ImagineFX’s Fantasy and Sci-Fi Digital Art magazine. You can also find him in IFX’s 2013 Digital Artist’s Survival Guide.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sea Kitten! A miniature comic I did about a tiny horned aquatic cat. For a tutorial about using comic panels to show action, in the June 2013 issue of ImagineFX’s Fantasy and Sci-Fi Digital Art magazine.
With its sleek, streamlined body, and long, muscular limbs, the cheetah is built for speed. Capable of running at an incredible 70 mph, the cheetah is faster than the rest of the big cats, or any other land mammal. As[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Polar bear art created for Wildlife Warriors, for use in the My Arctic Animal comic competition and “Creating a Comic” tutorial in Bare Essentials magazine, Issue 25, pgs 37-41. Original pencil drawing.
Recently, I did a cover illustration for the Fraggle Rock comic series. When I do large illustrations like this, I like to track my coloring progress through a series of iterative save files in Photoshop. This allows me to experiment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, I put together some Archie character drawings to try out for a penciling position. Finding the Look Working with pre-existing characters is different than designing your own. I first had to familiarize myself with nuances of the “house style”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A quick overview of how a page from Vol. 1 of my graphic novel series, Peach Fuzz, was made: Step 1: Storyboards – Working from the script, a small thumbnail sketch of the scene is drawn. Step 2: Pencils –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re drawing a comic or an illustration with an animal in it, it’s important to have some degree of familiarity with the animal. The more comfortable you are with drawing animals, the more natural it will be to draw[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There has been a lot of scrutiny over the lack of quality in the lettering of the Twilight manga adaption. I don’t disagree. The lettering is lackluster, difficult to read and feels like an afterthought– word balloons seem to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the page layout template I’m using to storyboard Last of the Polar Bears. You’re welcome to download and print it out for use in your own comics. The template is sized for printing on standard letter-sized paper. There’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…