Now presenting my latest digital doodle... The Munsters! I literally just finished up this piece (just in time too) for the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society's latest show; Creature Double Feature. The show will be opening this coming Friday (Nov. 6th) at Brave New Worlds Comic Shop, 45 N. 2nd Street (Olde City). So if your in town for Frist Friday go check it out... there will be plenty of sweet Halloween theme pieces of art! Ya' dig?
My 3rd and final piece for the Cave Drawing Ink 10 Most Underrated Villains. The Fratelli's from The Goonies! Man, they could have made the perfect villains if they just didn't talk so much. You always catch 'dem Fratelli's monologueing! Or they simply could have just been nice to Sloth and he wouldn't have turned on them... oh well. Dig those suspenders!
A little while back I did a commission for my friend Ben in his sketchbook. I loved the way it came out so much that i decided to make it into a digital piece. And here is the finished piece! Still one of my absolute all time favorite movies. Man this movie never gets old and will never be topped. I honestly don't care all to much for them to do another as it will sully the movies even more so then the 2nd one did (which isn't THAT bad...). And remember, if someone asks you if your a god, you say YES!
Here is my second contribution for the Cave Drawing Ink's Most Underrated Villains. This time around I got The Penguin; of the Batman persuasion. I like to picture the Penguin as a totally old school casino owner in this piece. 'Cause it says I want to be formal, but I'm here to party. Or not... What do you guys think?
Just in time for the horror season... Mr. Patrick Bateman. One of my all time favorites... American Psycho; it's so weird but i love it! Plus, it's chock full of rockin' 80's tunes like my man Phil Collins and Huey (Dewey & Louie)Lewis and the News. This is actually going to be part of a horror collection over at Cave Drawing Ink all leading up to Halloween counting down the Top 10 Underrated Villians . I'll be doing a couple more in the series so keep an eye out. On a similar side note, I have been asked to do a piece for another Halloween themed show. It's call the "Creature Double Feature" and its being presented by the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society. More than a dozen artists interpret the definition of 'creature' with original works in GOREgeous detail and SPOOKtactular colors! The show is opening First Friday on November 6th from 6 to 9pm at Brave New Worlds Comic Shop, 45 N. 2nd St. (Olde City). I'll be posting my piece on my site as well if you can't make it to the show. I'm very excited for it! 'Til then, go watch Halloween themed movies!
Well friends, it seems another convention is upon us. And this one is quite good if I must say. I've been going to the Baltimore Comic-Con for a while and I really love it. It's a shorty but a goody. Only Saturday and Sunday but just enough time to get in all that Inner Harbor love. I will be in artist's alley at booth number #98. I will be doing sketches and moving merch so come on down! I (think) I will be premiering a brand new print at that show that i know you kids will just love.
My latest for the Cave Drawing Ink sketch contest. The theme this time around was Marvel and Disney. 2 subjects that are very near and dear to my heart. Nothing really more to say then that... except if you love me you'll go vote for me in the sketch contest here. Well you don't have to vote for me, but at least go to the site and vote for whichever one you really like. You can win an original sketch / print just for voting! The contest starts on Friday morning-ish so check back then!
Just got back from Pittsburgh Comicon late last night with Kim and all i have to say is that Pennsylvania as a state is far to large. It takes way to long to drive across it... The con over all was a happenin' time. A little smaller then expected and still fun. Thanks to everyone for coming out and saying high and spending their hard earned cash. One of the highlights was doing sketches for charity with a whole bunch of really talented artists, specifically Adam Hughes. He is one of my absolute favorites and all around nice guy and i got to sit right next to him, hoping if i bumped elbows with him some of his talent would rub off... but no such luck. Check out some of the pics below as well as a link to the full gallery. See you in Baltimore, true believers!
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"Thanks for remembering, Pittsburgh, we've got a great show for you today, a big show, a king-sized show!"
My latest for the on-going sketch contest over at Cave Drawing Ink. This time around the theme was 'Westerns'. It could've been from cartoons, comics, movies, books, etc. I went with one my favorite westerns and the man who was in my opinion, 'The' cowboy. Shout out to Russ for suggesting a muted color scheme. Don't know if this is what he had in mind but it works for me. So go mosey on over to the Cave Drawing saloon and vote for me! Just for entering, you get a shot at winning the original sketch and autographed print of this piece.
I was just crusin' round the interwebs when i should have been working and i stumbled on to this cool article about the House of the Future on this blog i read called Disney and More. If you aren't familiar with the House of the Future, it was an attraction that opened in 1957 that eventually closed and then recently reopened. This attraction was an actual house that displayed possile new technology that people would have in their homes in the future. Some really unbelievable artwork in it as well as some 'far out' concepts. What is really strange is how some of their far out concepts are actually pretty on par with the technology of today. As you know, i absolutely love this style artwork and the idea of a future that never was. I actually think theres a term for that; Retrology. I just felt like sharing one of the truly awesome pieces of artwork they had, so go check it out if you got some time. But wait... there's more! Last night i was watching some documentary on VH1; The Beatles Anthology 1. So i felt like drawing...
Just wanted to give everyone a head's up that my Captain America piece; The Glory Days will featured on Kirby Vision, the blog for the Jack Kirby Museum website. It will be up this coming Tuesday, August 25th so go show some love! We now return to our regularly scheduled programming...
One of the things that I am always fascinated by is logo design. And i think that sports teams have some of the best logos out there. Some of them are so memorable and that is something i tried to emulate in these designs. These logos are actually for my roller hockey team; The Samurai. We are now down to the final color / design choices. My personal favorite is F, how ' bout you? Let me know what you guys think... there is a poll over there in the right hand side so go vote! Below is also the jerseys we are going to use once we pick a logo. My favorite is F again, but unfortunately since the league isn't that professional; we basically want to choose a jersey color based on what other teams have and there are already a lot of teams with red. So we may end up going with a white jersey for practical purposes. Some teams in my league don't even have matching jerseys, let alone multiple jerseys... oh well.
Here is my latest entry for the Cave Drawing Ink sketch contest. Since I won the last one, I got to choose the theme this time around. And out of all of the choices there were, this was my favorite. However after I picked this topic I realized that even though I absolutely LOVED G.I.Joe toys when I was a wee one, I didn't really know much about them. I mean they were basically my favorite toys. I would have these huge battles with that took over my entire living room floor and fireplace area. Building forts and bases out of all of the VHS tapes we had... oh sweet childhood memories. But back to it, I based my favorites solely on who looked the coolest. I even (dare i say it?!) mixed and matched Joes and Cobras! But I realized I never really watched the cartoon or paid much attention to their names except for a few here and there; Snake Eyes! Seriously though, why would a Special Ops Team really need a ninja?! (besides the fact that ninjas are just cool...) And furthermore, why would their nemesis need one to counter act him? Why wouldn't someone just blow these guys up with a cannon or something?! Well anyways, I took this opportunity to make a cool cartoony WW2 recruiting poster and a side of sexual innuendo (in-your-endo). Well anyways... it's going to be up for voting again along side some other neato pieces in the contest so go vote for me here! You even have a chance to win the original sketch it's based on and a signed finished print! Wooooooooooooooooooooo!
Did this for a sketch jam over at Cave Drawing Ink. I guess I got a little carried away with the idea of 'sketch' but I was told it could be as sketchy to finished as I wanted. Well, the theme was 'Retired Superheros' and I did not want to waste the opportunity for such a cool topic. As the post says above; this piece is titled "The Glory Days". I took a lot of inspiration from The Incredibles here if you hadn't noticed. Man the movie rules... This piece will also be posted over at Cave Drawing Ink as well in competition with a couple of other piece of the same theme... so go vote for me in the contest! I believe you have a chance to win something just for voting... wooo! 
I was looking at all those 'hip' t-shirts and gig posters that everyone makes now-a-days. So I thought I'd toss my 'hip' designers hat into the ring. And viola! Oh, by the way... I love Back to the Future. 
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On August 7th, be prepared to witness the Autumn Society's Video Game Show ( 8-bit & beyond) at Brave New Worlds Comics!
Another piece done for Russell has a Beard in skeleton-o-vision. Love those boots...
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