I Don't Feel...

...Good

A little something I did just for me - not for my comic portfolio.
I have not been in the best of spirits lately.
However I digress. This is a basic line drawing that took all of about 40 minutes to an hour to both pencil and ink. I accentuated it in photoshop with a woodgrain texture for the background for which I pushed the contrast to the highest level. I adjusted the curve to flatten it (removing all the gray scale pixels that appear when its scale is changed) and added the red.
Then I just filled the white of the face with another texture (a photograph of my brothers hair) and adjusted the opacity.
All in all I spent about two hours tops on this little deal, but it turned out nice...
When I was done with it I sat back and looked at it and was reminded of the great Bernie Wrightson - one of the best horror illustrators out there. If you have the time I highly recommend looking up his stuff.

Splash Page

Just another splash page for my comic portfolio. Wolverine is one of my favorite X-Men of all time. He and Colossus actually.
Hes always so fun to draw because he's so nutty. Basically you can put him in almost any situation and it fits.
Loads of fun...

Stargate SG-1

Another storyboard page for my comic book portfolio.
This one is based on the Stargate franchise owned by (I believe...) MGM.
I've always really liked the show and decided to do some original storyboards for my portfolio.
This is page one of a three page spread.
The basic story is that Te'alc and Col. Mitchell are trapped and unarmed (save for one grenade) on an enemy planet and the stargate is guarded by a a group of Jaffa soldiers.
Here in panel one our two heros are hiding in the ruins of an ancient temple. The have just realized their path of egress is cut off by the enemy and are currently trying to figure out how to get out of this particular jam...
Just as a point of interest I'm surprised how few people notice our two heros peeking thru the ruins of the wall at the Jaffa soldier in the bottom frame...
Do you see them?
Click on the image for a larger, higher res. look...

Circles in the Field

This is one page of a two page storyboard about a farmer and his UFO experience.
When I did this I was listening to a song called Circles in the Field by The Galactic Cowboys.
Tho I must admit there are no references in the song of cows being blow to smithereens by UFOs.
This was fun to do and I enjoy how sarcastic it is to the whole cattle mutilation phenomena. Something I totally do not believe in.

Spidey and Bats

This is a splash page I did for my comic book portfolio.
I had had an idea for quite a while now where there two teamed up to solve a mystery outside of either ones home territory.