Painting WIP

These are some of the stages for a commission that I'm working on. I was given a lot of freedom as far as content and composition. The color scheme was pretty much the only thing that was specified. The client also said that she likes my afro chicks... so there you go.

The Real Thing

A graphite portrait of one of my favorite singers, Jill Scott.

Is there anything in my teeth?

Hulk ink sketch

Last sketches of 2007

Rumor Has It

This is Rumor, a character created by Melina aka akiraine. I got her in the Secret Santa pool over at deviantART and I had fun drawing her character. I think it's a pretty cool, classic design. She kinda looks like a modern day pulp hero.... like she's the shadow's grand daughter or something.

Unveiling

Veil is an original character that belongs to Angela Vale. This is my half of an art trade with her. The finished color piece is posted here.

lines for final piece


preliminary sketch (I was gonna do this one, but I thought the pose was a little too static and boring)

Green and Grey

I was up late playing with my Prismacolors. I love the color green so I just naturally ended up sketching one of my favorite characters. By the way, it's The Hulk in case you couldn't tell.

Bats In My Belfry

I've been feeling a little batty lately. I'm sure it has something to do with striffle 's Batman art jam over at deviantART.

33 Hours Later...

After survivng 24 hour Comics Day I do still have the urge to draw. As I relax for a bit and get my mind back into regular mode I decided to do some loose sketching with my Tombo brush markers. This is just a rough Batman from my sketchbook... nothing special.

I believe that the comics we worked on this year will be posted online at some point, and when I get that information I'll post a link.

Redd Rough

I know it's been a while since my last post. I have been sketching a lot and working on pages for Lost Rights. I will probably post some of that stuff soon. I have decided that I will mostly post sketches and rough work on here and the more finished pieces will be on my deviantART page.

This is just a quick sketch of my character Redd done with a red pen and a little bit o Sharpie. Um, yeah... the ghetto booty was not on purpose, but ah well, it stays. :D

Natural Soul

Loose Bat

Just a really rough doodle I did while working on pages for LOST RITES.

Kinetic

A recent drawing of my original character Kenetic in action.




Kinetic is ©2007 me, so hands off... that means you.

The Solution: JUNKMAN & SABRA

These are the lineart for two characters that I submitted into an "artjam" on deviantART. The details of the jam and all the posts including my full color versions of these two can be found here.

Disco Queen

Oliver again, but this time with a twist.

I was messing around and dedcided to finally color this Green Arrow. There are some problems but it was just a rough sketch and I'm satisfied with it.

Flower Power

This is the preliminary sketch for a painting that I have posted on my deviantART page. It is based on a photograph of model Vishani taken by my good friend Bazille

Leo

Here's a tattoo design that I did for my sister. Yeah, she's pretty brave I guess. It wasn't totally my idea. I basically took elements that she wanted and aranged and rendered them in what I thought was a tasteful design. I know they'll have to omit some of the detail.

I'll post the actual tat when she saves up enough and finds a good place to get it done.

Condiment Girl

This is Condiment Girl. She belongs to Volt-reborn my buddy over on deviantART. I did her as part of an art trade. He did the Redd in the previous post. His original deviantArt post is here.
My FULL COLOR deviantART Condi post is here.

Volt's Redd -Guest Artist Post

I don't usually post other people's work on my blog but I had to share this one. Volt-reborn on deviantART did this pin-up of my character Redd -everyone's favorite Rocket girl ;) as part of an art trade that we agreed upon. I'll post my contribution as soon as I do it. He's got some pretty cool stuff if you get a chance check him out over at deviantART