Dino Sketch!

So, I've got this great idea for a new comic I want to create, and I think to myself "this sounds like a lot of fun" so I want to write, pencil and ink the book myself. Problem is, it's about dinosaurs and it occurs to me that I don't draw a lot of dinosaurs. As a matter of fact, I've never drawn a dinosaur. Seems weird to me that you can go to art school and graduate with a diploma without having ever drawn a single dinosaur. Sure, I've got sketchbooks of figure drawings from the floor to my shoulders, but not one dino drawing to be found.

So, what's a guy to do? I turn to my heroes. In this case it's Mark Schultz and Mitch Byrd, both are great illustrators, but more importantly they know their way around dinosaurs. So, I find a couple of drawings I like and copy them. These sketch studies took about 10 minutes each. Now my blood is pumped and ready to draw more dinos. My next stop is trying to find a good book for dinosaur reference. Any ideas?

The only dino illustrators I really know are from comics - Mark Schultz, Mitch Byrd, Frank Cho, and William Stout. Am I leaving anybody out? After that I'm probably headed to the Academy of Sciences to see what sort of dinosaur stuff, I can did up there. Also, any other good natural history museums in the Bay Area.

I have to add, dinosaurs are built much like humans. It's just a question of knowing your way around the bones - and then using your knowledge of "stretch and squeeze". I guess art school was good for something after all.

Capitano Maximum!

A hero is only as good as his villain. I guess that makes Italian Spiderman one of the best heroes ever! There can be little doubt that in 2008 one villain emerged as the new bad ass on the block. Sure, there are others to be sure- the Red Skull, Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, and of course the Joker. But, Capitano Maximum is now included in this top villains list, not only is he menacing and evil, but he even looks evil while surfing in a speedo! I'd like to see Dr. Doom try that.

Capitano Maximum

How embarassing, I almost forgot to post this thing (and after I'd done a poll and everything). Anyways, I sent it off to get colorized by the talented Alex Sollazzo. I'll post the colored version as soon as I get it in.



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A Horse of a different color

I'm trying to decide on a color scheme for a new character for a new series I'm working on and am having a tough time making up my mind. The drawing is by the ever talented Kevin Shriver. If anyone has any thoughts feel free to leave a comment or email me directly. Thanks, you guys are the best.



Just let me know which one you like best, as always click on the image for a larger version.

New Projekt Werwolf Page!

Another update for PW. Yeah! You can also check out this page at the Komikwerks website as well as Drunkduck. As always click on the image for the larger version, and yes the colors were once again done by the genius Alex Sollazzo with the pencils and inks done by Kevin Shriver.

New Page!

I know, I know it's been forever and a day. But, I finally have a new page of Projekt Werwolf up. I've been looking for a new colorist and along the way I found the amazing Alex Sollazzo. You can check out more of his beautiful work at www.alexsollazzo.com, in the meantime enjoy his colors over Kevin Shriver's art.

Battle of the Badges

I probably should have blogged about this before the event instead of after, but whatever. This is a drawing I did for an event in San Jose called "The Battle of the Badges". It was a cop vs cop fight night in everything from boxing and kickboxing to mixed martial arts. Departments from all over the Bay Area came to participate.

This was the design I did for the flyer and the t-shirt (of which many were sold), the proceeds from this event went to the California Narcotic Officers Association. I was thinking of this as kind of an homage to one of my idols (Frank Miller) and originally had done the whole thing in black and white, with the only color being red on one of the boxers gloves. But, the powers that be decided they needed more color in order to sell the t-shirts, so more color was added. The design was well received, the t-shirt popular and a good time had by all. What more could anyone ask for?