happy birthday Jake!

Jake Rosenblum is a friend of mine who decided recently to start a weblog. Since he turned 22 today, I decided to do the setup work for him, including a custom template, and host it on my domain. This is the banner I whipped up for it, in Adobe Illustrator.



Click the banner to check out Jake's writings, although it won't work for at least a few hours from the time of this posting, since the subname hasn't propagated yet.

more tribute art.

I guess I'm just feeling appreciative these days. I made this one after reading the original Weapon X comics and deciding that a Cyclops origin story told in an underground-comics style would be a fun thing to read.



I mean, the character has always, as far as I know, been written as a total whitebread loser, or at best as a loverboy. But if you think about it, he really has a lot of visual and literary potential.

Colbert Report tribute GIF

I blew off drawing hour in favor of some compositing practice in Adobe ImageReady. Never know when that might come in handy.



Anyway, I'm enjoying this show immensely, and you should too. It's on Comedy Central Mondays through Thursdays at 11:30, after the Daily show, and it's now the third show that I actually watch every single time it airs. I like to think of it as a remake of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, where Pee-Wee is replaced by Bill O'Reilly.

whispered apology draft 2

Added colors, but the backgrounds look like crap. I suppose I will have to draw in the actual scene, which is good practice anyway. Anyone with ideas to make it look better, speak up.

another ongoing entry

Nothing interesting is happening to me so I am spending my blogging hour on a comic strip for Whispered Apologies. Colors tomorrow, plus maybe I'll do some more background practice depending on how my morning sketches go.

pervert santa, complete



Did kind of a rush job on the colors, since the money offered really really isn't worth much effort. I like it well enough, though, and it gets the point across. Hopefully there will be some kind of text toward the top, to balance out the composition.

pervert santa draft 2

Latest draft of this little evening project of mine... inked for clarification although obviously it's still pretty sloppy. I modified the chimney, added the other stocking and the ornaments, and decided to redo some of the bricks digitally. Now to trace in Flash and plunk in some colors for a sweet twenty bucks which I plan to blow on library fines and grain alcohol.

pervert santa

Using a quick spec job as a way of practicing my perspective and as a chance to loosen up on my interior spaces. As a bonus, I will hopefully be able to say that I am a professional in the field of "Drawing Santa Claus Engaged in Intimate Relations with a Christmas Stocking."



It will, of course, be cleaned up and colored before it becomes a cheery greeting card -- and I will, of course, post the final draft here when it's done. For now, though, I'm calling it a night.

fast ink drawing

it doesn't look like Clifton but it's kind of cute anyway.

there goes my good sleep schedule...



My excuse was to study the game's fantastic, energetic, hand-painted environments for inspiration. It actually worked pretty well, I have some good concepts going now... but was it worth losing track of time and staying up until 4 again? Oh, well... alarm clock set for 10.

okay, cold's pretty much gone now.

Got out of the house, put some air in my lungs, felt much better. Of course, that doesn't mean I have any ideas for comics, so I just made a bit of fanart dedicated to Ross, who has recently lost a dear friend. KEEP ON LIVING, BUDDY!