Okay, haven't updated in FOREVER, but this summer has been intense/insane/amazing and things are really just starting to pick up again here at school. What does this mean? It means I'm working with an awesome thesis advisor from First Second Books and beginning the first real chapter of City of Cards ( Read more... )

So, uhh, go to my blog: HEREThis week is a definite must see if people are curious about City of Cards because I'm posting early concept art, Ace's latest character design, AND a sample finished inked page from my upcoming comic ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm just going to keep cross-posting to my blog-spot for the most part during this next while as I work on my pre-thesis so if you're interested in seeing the cover work for my upcoming comic go HEREIt's the beginning of what will be about 20 pages of comic presented as a traditional format b/w comic and the beginning of what may be years of ( Read more... )

Diary comic this week was an experiment in many things including inking, light and shadow, screen-tone and lastly just an experiment for page 1 of City of Cards, my long-term project:

ClickSo yeah, a few things I'll definitely change but I'm going to wait till next semester and just consider this more prep. I'm still psyched about this comic and ( Read more... )

Nope, not doing the traditional Diary Comic this week, but instead you get what is essentially my mid-term assignment. This is just a very rough posting, literally scanned from the book/copy pages. Two weeks, eight pages (6 minimum) of comic plus cover front, back, and inside:

BBB Front BBB page 0 BBB page 1 BBB page 2 BBB page 3

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Nyugh, tired.

Comic here

*insert grunting sounds about lack of sleep and flu season*

This weeks comic had a theme I had to follow about my relationship to "the mountain". Most of the images I used were taken directly from the trip we made to said mountain so I figure that follows pretty closely:

Click to viewKeeping up with prompts and personal projects is going to be interesting but so far I'm managing. I'd like to have stuff ( Read more... )

As part of my homework I'm required to draw a weekly comic on top of my other work. It's meant as way that I can experiment without too many requirements and play around with media, story, and styles. It doesn't give a lot of time to create anything amazing, but it's good practice. I'll be posting my diary comics here to help motivate myself so if ( Read more... )

Next stop, Vermont! I finally heard back from CCS and it looks like the next two years are going to be me freezing my butt off while I work my butt off. I'm very excited by that notion and not feeling too verbose ( Read more... )