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My word, she’s from Germany!

What an exciting election year this is turning out to be! In the spirit of the season, I thought I’d show off a couple character heads I designed for a job. These guys were to be turned into 3d models for production company that makes educational videos.

A panel from a comic that I’m working on with a guy named Phil Amara. Mmmm, tasty.

I’m tired.

Just a bird for today.

Also, I’ll be in NH and VT for the next few days, so no updates until next week! But don’t worry, I’ll be back!

Courtesy of the Sexy People website.

I thought I’d show a little bit of the process that goes into creating my illsutrations. Here’s what went into creating the Zombie Derby piece. You can click on any of the images to see a larger version.

Here’s the initial sketch. Just a quick layout of the characters, setting and shape.

The second stage consists of me tightening everything up. Fixing a angles, anatomy, and perspective.

In the next part, I start laying out tones and shadows.

And here I start inking the piece. This part of the process probably takes up the most time. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and I tend to redo parts many times over (You might notice that I adjusted the lead girl’s foot a bit).

And once the inking is done I start on the coloring process. I’m really bad about doing color mockups before I get to this point, but luckily modern technology allows me to experiment with various color treatments relatively easily.

And after a few more hours of tweaking and re-drawing, it’s done!

I have a new website! Word Press is awesome. Thanks to Ian for helping me get started. This is so much easier than coding everything by myself!

To commemorate the event, here is a sketch of Nick Cave.

Click to embiggen!