Game of Thrones?

Had this idea a little while ago, and did some searching...and was surprised to find nothing! The closest I've found is someone replacing the Iron Throne with a dirty toilet.

So..here.. a quick Game of Thrones.

Fallout!

This was my entry for the Fallout 4 / NVidia "Thumbs Up!" contest.
Can you correctly guess which thumb is the real thumb?

Breakin' Through

Struggling with a panel? An idea? How to best represent a character on a page?
Or maybe you're just down about something. Maybe it feels like there's just something.. like a weird kind of pressure building up, blocking you from something..
Keep at it. Keep going. Eventually you'll break through to the other side.
Don't give up!

More Gijinkas

Some spaces opened up, so I got to do 2 more. Randomly picked by Rinnychu, because I like a challenge sometimes.

Onix

and

Hippowdon

Mad Hatter

Life will only pile so much on before your inherent crazy starts to shine through.

Or something like that.

Wild Psience Chapter 1

So, it's all available here: And I'd love for you to log in, like, share rate and otherwise vote.
What have you go to lose, other than some time finding other awesome comics to read for free??

The first few pages of Wild Psience, Chapter One for your reading pleasure:

And that's just the first few pages.
Chapter 2 is already starting over on Webtoons.

Wild Psience! painting

Weekend painting for a comic I've got going in the Webtoons / Line comic competition over HERE

Please check it out [they've got lots of webcomics up to read, not just in the competition], and it's easy to make an account.. to vote you have be logged in - and I'd love for you to vote for my comic. As much as the 30K USD would come in handy, more importantly, I'm getting a comic done!!

Normally I hate anything that has to do with `popularity contest` type stuff, but this actually makes sense - a company that needs readership would  naturally want to hire someone who's making stuff people like.
Doesn't mean I like it, but at least it makes logical, business sense.

Pokemon Art Collab. Pt.2

Here's the second part - a superhero variety of Mantine

Pokemon Gajinka collab pt.1

Not knowing much beyond the general pop-culture references to Pokemon, I'm glad the person who put this collaboration together made a giant list.

So, based off the Gible, here's my first one.

Not bad for concept-to-painted in about 4 hours, I think.

Random words = Random picture

I put out a tweet that I would mix the first three responses into ...something.
So with "Snuffleupagus", "Zombie Alien Pirate" and "Australian Tallywhacker" to work with, I painted up the following critter:

Sneak Peak

These characters and stories have been percolating, formulating and coagulating in my head for years and are finally ready to see the light of day. In a very rough form before being polished up, of course. Don't want to let too many cats out of the bag, but yes, those are anthropomorphic veggies.

My aim is to have 100 pages of 2 different stories set before I get them out there, but we live in a world where everything is teased and trailered and leaked to death, so here's some roughs that are not indicative of the final product, as things may change for better fit, story-telling purposes, and the rest of that stuff.

Probably set it up as a webcomic, though I'd love to print it at some point when it's all done.

Lucky for me, I think in cartoons and action-sequences, so most of this is easy, it's the slow, talk-y parts [like the diner] that are gonna have me scratching my head.

Yoda Painting

Here's a digitally-painted Yoda.

Painting metal is always a bit of a task - all metal is reflective, catching and disbursing light and shadow and distorting images and such, and the circular lightsaber handle is an interesting exercise in painting polished metal.

If not for Scott Johnson's Intro to Digital Painting course, I would have wound up doing this a lot differently - and it wouldn't have looked this good. If you're looking to learn how to paint - digitally or on a physical canvas, his course over at Comic Experience is worth every penny.

Some older and newer stuff

Working on some personal projects, haven't posted in too long, and figured I'd share some things, 'cause why not, right?

A character I tend to doodle when I'm either having some fun for myself or trying to figure something out.

A very rough version of what was going to be the cover for one storyline, but I decided to go with something else.

A single page made up from a bit of a story a friend sent me - the first couple of paragraphs, anyhow. Apparently I got right into my friend's head of what they were thinking of when they were writing.. which, to me, is a good sign.  I tend to think in cartoons / animation, so I guess it helped for once!

New Tools

I had bought these a few months ago and am only now getting to play with them, see what they can do.

Koh-I-Noor watercolour pencilcrayons.
They weren't my first [or second or third] choice, but given that everything else was out of stock at the time and I was on a time constraint, I figured I'd trust what the lady was telling me and add them to my bundle of goodies I was ordering.
That was back just before Christmas and now I'm finally breaking them open to see what the deal is.

I tried something different for Harley's gun.. instead of a typical pop-gun, I figured, why not a circus air-cannon, but with a wick?

So, this is a simply Harley Quinn on watercolour postcard paper.
To start, I coloured with the pencilcrayons normally- and it showed the grainy surface of the postcard. Then I dipped the tip into a shotglass of water and "painted" with it - it came off the tip like paint, smooth and rich, but didn't go very far. Then I put some colour down, dipped the eraser-end [it's just rounded, no eraser or exposed end] and blended/smoothed the colour around, which produced a very watercolour-esque style, but with much less control or precision than a brush would give. Most noticeable on the mallet and Harley's arm where the black is a lighter gray.

Speaking of precision - these are soft-lead pencil crayons but they withstand a good deal of pressure. However, "painting" with them, they blunt very quickly. I used a Copic red marker for Harley's lips.
I foresee some fun abstract art with these things.

I bought them from Curry's Art Store [online] and it's the 24-pencil set. So far, I'm pleased with them!

Flatting

I'm not educated in the lingo of publishing, illustration or arts.
I know what I know because I've had to learn it. If you'd've asked me what a flatter was years ago, my answer would've had more to do with laying carpet than comics.

Personally, I find flatting takes the most time, and shading, blending, low-light and highlighting things are what I'm quicker at.

Below are some examples of flats, and then the finished colours.
the Kings Watch pages were provided by Nate Cosby for one of his Colourist Hunts,
the X-men pages were provided for the Chris Sotomayor course - Intro to Colouring,
and the Halloween lineart was provided by Lar de Souza of the webcomics Least I Could Do and Looking For Group..and of course, his cartooning / caricaturing.

Kings Watch flats

Kings Watch colours

Lar's line art flat

Lar's line art coloured