irony

the doctor is in

hi all! insanely busy with WW... this may sound surprising, but drawing 50 panels per page is actually a lot of work. anyway, i'm very happy with everything so far, and i think the editor is too, so yay! here are a few glimpses of what the final art looks like:







now, a lot of people on message boards have fussed that WW isn't wearing her "real" costume in any of my sketches, so FYI, this is not her costume but her training gear from paradise island. her final costume is just like usual, although there will be transforming laser-swords!

howdy!

i haven't posted lately because all my work is WW-related, and i don't want to ruin ALL of the fun! although i will probably post a few snippets of final art eventually. anyhoo... it has occurred to me that the three people who actually look at this blog might not be members of the DB or my cartooning forum, so i though i'd repost some recent work from there, daily doodles:







i can't say that i like the WW one, but she looks nothing like that in my comic, so no worries...

acid wash

one of my goals is to destroy your senses. yes, all six of them.

...

and finally...






ps - the creepy bag ladies below are the graea, similar to the fates. you might remember them as "the stygian witches" (a made-up name) in "clash of the titans.

more more wonder woman...2

because i could only upload so much at once...

more more wonder woman...

it is now public:
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/030919-Wednesday-Comics.html

also, i had THOUGHT that i posted these before, but it looks like i didn't. which is why i'm not allowed to do brain surgery anymore. various development designs for wonder woman, some of which are VERY different from the final look. also, the story changed very radically from it's first inception, so i'm afraid all of the paradise island/ amazon history junk is out. (the series was originally mooted to be 52 issues, when it was downsized to 12, some inevitable trimming resulted.)

more wonder woman...

color tests

just some VERY rough color tests
for my upcoming wonder woman
story. the editor really likes my
st michel thumbnails (below), so
i'm working in that general vein.

also, since the stories take place
in a sort of dream-haze, i wanted
dreamlike colors.

i'll post some final art next week...




ps - the japanese lake is for story 2,
the city (gotham plaza, to be exact)
is from story 1

st michel

not exactly something new, but playing with the overall feel i want for a children's story. don't think i posted the wolf here before, but i did on my forum, so sorry for the repeat. ditto for the thumbs, but i like to keep certain things together. and of course, only two people actually visit my forum (which is my fault), so it's new for someone, right? right?




as always, click pics for larger versions

MERRY XMAS!

hi all!

to the three people who actually
read this, have a merry christmas!

blue redux part deux

more refined version of the face and other details. i'd like the final to feel like lithographs posters from the french belle epoch. right now, i have even less free time than usual, but this is always fun to come back to. i like the flavor of the colors, but not entirely sold on them...

slightly less-older friends

kalidah, monsters from "oz". i drew them up a while ago, but once again i returned to color them as portfolio pieces...
i really do love coloring up more of my work!

old friends

did these for the toybiz HP pitch a million years ago... always liked them, so i colored them up for my games portfolio. my record of zero responses from any game or animation studio remains intact. yay!

jinno

all done

sneaky peek

howdy!

it's funny how interesting things can look out of context. i'm often in the middle of moving layers or playing with levels on a file and i do something that is wrong and unusable, but still pretty. things that are never seen by anyone looking at the final art. so here are some bits from a digital painting that i like on their own...

yay me!

this is part of a bigger picture, but it's also
a bit from my civilization thing blah blah...



ALSO, i don't think the details have been made
public yet, but i have some exciting news! yay!
i will be working on a comic for DC, along the
lines of "batman: black and white" and "52". as
soon as it's okay, i will blab all.

yay! again.

hulk smash!

i THINK it is finished...

something munchier

for "oz". i painted several houses separately, now i'm doing the bkg. one trick with the oz scenes is that they obviously have to be vibrant, but i don't want them looking too candy-coated, especially since it will be hard enough to overcome the "cutesy" stigma of the movie.
something else i want to show is that oz is very much lived in. for example, the munchkins have been ruled by a wicked witch for years, and assuming their definition of "wicked witch" is more or less the same as mine, their lands must be in pretty roughe shape. so i wanted a balance between jewel-like beauty and a certain sense of neglect. the tinman's shack provides a similar opportunity, as does the logo on his jacket. these have little visual flourishes that both show how exotic oz is, and how comfortable its denizens have made themselves.

more later!

ps - each quarter of oz is associated with a certain race and color (and witch). hence, the eastern witch rules the munchkins in their blue houses, etc. oddly enough, the civilization in "the bones of kyres" has a cardinal-compass cosmology which is similar.

eustace the happy fun-time killbot

military mecha, for the imaginary civilization thingie:



being a nerd, i've actually put ridiculously huge amounts of time into working out structural and functional junk, trying to redesign the wheel, i suppose. in my foolish youth, i would just design whatever looked cool; unfortunately, over the years i've become obsessed with trying to think beyond that, into the core needs and functions of machines i design. (or more precisely, first i try to think of what RESULTS would be best called for in a given situation, then work backwards towards the basic design that could achieve those results, then what sort of technology would be necessary to make the design workable.) which is why it has such scrawny and uncool bug legs, for example. fortunately, i don't have the energy to type it all out, which means you don't have to waste your time reading it!

because i'm all about you.




ps - no, it's name is not "eustace". that was a trick.