Sunday, June 27, 2010

95%


i have an idea for a batman one-shot, so i was playing around. the title is a play off of a sherlock holmes story. although mine is not a reference to cocaine. oh, holmes...

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

war is hell


stuck at the auto repair shop today. bored and working 2 experiments into 1 pic. (the white line is to suggest that it is a wraparound cover.)

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

long live the queen!

experimenting with digital inking. i've tried it before without much satisfaction, but this time i was trying to be much less prissy and exact. it was a lot of fun! it also gives a VERY different look from the original pencils.



this is queen hippolyta back in the day, the "writing" up top is amazonian (yes it actually says something). the composition is overwhelmingly (if indirectly) influenced by woodblock artists like kunioshi and sharaku and this guy:


i particularly wanted something that felt massive and overwhelmed the page. it's actually something, compositionally, i've been wanting to play with for two years, and i'd love to follow up when i have time. ha ha the joke, it is on me!