so now I got a bit of a store on the website now. Check it

Skankin out the art!

Because I need money and am too old to gigolo anymore, I put some original art for sale. Check out the buy some artwork! link to view page 3 and 4 of the "Ascension story I just completed. Go nuts!

Killer puppies and fuzzy bunnies

I finally figured out that people will look at my stuff if I update more than 3 times a decade. So, here's some new stormchaser stuff, with some working method goodness.

When I get a script, I start making little visual notes of as I read it, mostly just basic panel composition and the camera angle (that's what the little arrows are for)...



then I get the photo reference, either taking it myself or google-ing the crap out of it. So I don't try to get caught up in replicating the photo, I do little studies from the photo and try to keep them as gestural as possible without loosing any clarity..



















then I do the pencils but they change and are patched up so much that I don't really save the final version. But here's how the inks turned out...



and there you have it. More next week I promise.

WEBSITE ALL UP IN YA!

So, I polished up the website a bit(and by "I polished " I mean me watching Lindsay Durbing fiddle with the keyboard while I drool like an ape and while trying to find the "caps" button). So go give it a whirl at www.theredarmystudio.com

and here's the latest Stormchaser stuff

So here's the whole John Coltrane story in all of its screaming white-hot glory... sorry, I couldn't get some new-fangled slide show going, this'll have to do.

more Coltrane goodness..

Here's some more from the John Coltrane story... dig...

for mom...

I did a little experiment and colored some of the Stormchaser pages I've been doing (mostly because Axel Alonso over at Marvel wanted to see them colored)... My cute-as-a-button mom appears in the first page, awwwww.....