Happy Birthday Superman

Originally I wanted to do a combo of Mike Allred’s Superman from the Superman/Madman Hullabloo and Frank Quitely’s All-Star Superman….. but instead I made Bruce Campbell.

Inked on paper, colored in Photoshop CS5; first time using CS5 for anything, my CS3 has started quitting unexpectedly on me and I don't know how to fix it....

Nuthin' But A Swamp Thang

This stupid pun came in my head, so I decided to make my own take on Dr. Dre's The Chronic...

I had to recreate all the framing from the original cover, and I just happened to have the right fonts, with some adjusting here and there.

As for the illustration, that was all Photoshop drawing, and just experimenting with drawing style.

It’s like this and like that and like this and uh….

Ulises Farinas' Batman

Just finished coloring this a couple hours ago; it's the first page in a 14-page Batman comic by Ulises Farinas for his to-be DC Anthology, which will feature the art of numerous artists (including Polly Guo and Nick Edwards, who I had previously featured with his entry to the anthology).

The one on the left was my first go at it, and the one the right was made after Ulises gave me some pointers on his preferred vision for the comic. Ultimately, however, I decided that the back and forth critiquing and the hours of work I dedicated to this page alone just wouldn't work with my current schedule and a September deadline for 14 pages in total, especially if we weren't exactly seeing eye to eye with the final vision. However, I definitely learned a lot from my time spent on this page and I thank Ulises for at least giving me a shot and hope everything works out for him and this anthology.

This last shot is just a detail look, because I happen to really like how this came out, and the small size doesn't do it justice. Do I wish I could have done more for this project? Of course, and had I had more time than just one month to do all this, I think things could have worked out in the end. But for what it's worth, I like what I've done and will use what I've learned on future projects.

... and I do coloring.

Forget logo design, now I'm doing coloring! This isn't anything that's going to be published, but the artist who drew and inked this, Nick Edwards, was recently published in Popgun, Volume 4.

When Mr. Edwards submitted his original line art last month, I commented on how rad it would look in color, and he responded with "you do it". So one month later, I finally decided to do it, asked for the .psd, and here is the result. The actual size I colored at was about 13" x 16", so if you want to see a bigger version than the 1000 x 1254 version below, just ask me.

I actually finished this on the 16th, but waited for Nick's approval via e-mail, which I finally received this morning before heading to work. I blame these five-hour time zone differences; not cool Earth, not cool.

I just really liked this piece and I'm glad Nick gave me the chance to do this, because I've never really done much Photoshop coloring with my tablet aside from edits for pieces I've drawn already in Flash. But at least I now know it's much better than the days last year and before where I colored my own work in Photoshop just using a mouse...

But yeah, if anyone out there that needs coloring done, and has a .psd file with line art, feel free to ask me. Amateur or commercial, no preference really, as long as I'm credited for coloring.