Castle

I've had this sitting around and I've been working on it off and on for months. After finishing Issue 1 of my comic, I realized I needed to brush up big time on working digitally. There's still a ton of things I would change on this, but at the same time, I'm happy with it. I don't think much of my future digital pieces are going to look at all like this, but that's fine by me. Makes this a little more unique.

Positivity

Tried using an ebony pencil instead of a black color pencil to get a deeper black. The scan makes it look much brighter than it really is. If you're not sure, yes those are flowers growing out of the bottom.

New Arrival

I'm getting a bit more comfortable combining color pencil and pastels intentionally to finish a piece now instead of looking to pastels to get me out of a bind quickly. There's a lot of nice details on the wooden coffin doors that I don't think translates too great through the monitor. Still, I like it.

Already have my next two pieces lined up to fit in between the comic work I've been doing. It's gonna be a busy winter.

Gargoyles

Four individual pieces put together to make the image as intended.

Wizard World Chicago 2011

This weekend I will be in the Artists Alley at Wizard World in Chicago, Table 3600! I'll be sharing the table with my friend and fellow artist Rod De Jesus. He'll be doing watercolor sketches and I will be selling prints of most of the work I have posted here on my blog (including the one just to the left of all this text) and copies of my comic book Redemption. If you're at the convention, stop by and say hi!

Nightwing

Last year I started reading back issues of Nightwing comics and the character quickly became one of my favorites. The main thing I like about the character is that in the comic book medium, where characters are only allowed to develop and mature to a certain point, Nightwing was born out of Dick Grayson "outgrowing" his persona as Robin. To go from a teenage sidekick to becoming an independent adult hero isn't something that really happens in comics, or taken seriously. Instead of it just being a ploy to sell a few more issues, then revert back (like 'deaths' in comics), this was a change that has stuck for over 20 years.

Transition

This is the first traditional illustration I've been able to work on for a while. It is 100% colored pencil. I tried a little more blending with this than I have in the past.

The reason I've not had much to post here lately is because I've been working on my comic book, which I will be selling at Wizard World Chicago in August. For a very, very small glimpse of what that will be like, head over to www.redemptioncomicbook.blogspot.com to check out the cover image.