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Here is my next poster for Terminal Press. I had fun with this one because for the first time I wanted to tone down the sexuality a degree and add a little mystery--even though in the original story she's easier to make than toast. :)

Every now and then I see something online and you gotta wonder, "what were they thinking?" Maybe this was cool in the '70s...who knows.

As I post the cover to an old adult comic, now might be a good time to bring up my blog's new age warning. Not much (if anything) is changing. I've just always been a little paranoid with minors coming to my blog (especially with my site not finished) and wondering why I never sketch women in clothes. So now I have a warning and all minors are...well...warned.

Here she is inked.

Me and Garrette are looking at doing some tattoo flash together and like when I draw most things, I have no idea what to do. So after some failed attempts I decided to try what I learned from another artist. I wish I remembered the artist's name but I do not. He basically just filled the page with clouds and swirlies and put shapes together until he made something work. I have never seen anything like that before. So I decided to try that technique here. ...I think that's also why her butt came out so round. :)

Every since I subscribed to FitTV, I've been watching a lot of cooking and exercise shows. Well tonight I saw a commercial for Mel B's new workout video. Holy crap! I swear I thought I was looking at porn. The few seconds of video they showed seemed to make stripper-aerobics classy. The only thing missing in that video was the pole! Here's my homage to Mel B.

Doodling while I could have been watching Yo Gabba Gabba or Handy Manny or something....

I scanned in something on the other side of this page. At first I was going to throw the paper away then I figured I may as well scan in these two heads too. I started to put color on them for the hell of it but I have no idea what I was doing.

I liked this prison sequence in the story. But I also barfed out this color scheme and was surprised it worked.

Ok....maybe I wasn't studying the motorcycle...

After my last blunder with the three girls, I decided to visit a tutorial by Ron Lemen I saw years ago that I still lean on today. I find whenever something isn't working for me (aside from color), it's usually value or composition. So after rereading Lemens notes again I decided to do a speed study of an Adriana Lima photo. ...man she's hot.

I did an analog sketch of the San Girls (whoever the hell they are...) and decided to color them. I also spent a couple of hours on this over a few days as opposed to my normal quicker studies. In the end I just kept slopping color around and aside from the fact that I painted the characterature out again, I can't stand the painting. I isolated the issue to not being loose enough and using small brushes too soon. I think I approached it like I would my already shabby painting process and it just didn't work. I think my next little excercise will have to be staying loose. Maybe I'll open painter and try palette knives or something. Maybe something like Zhuzhu, he's the friggin' man!

This was my first time working on a Wolverine title. I had to do this book more or less in three days so I broke a personal record with how fast I had to work. But I still managed to try a few things that I was happy with in the end.

This was probably the first Spiderman book of me starting to venture off in style again. I've always been hisitant to do something too radical on a MA title, but I've been approaching it like McFarlane did Amazing Spiderman, slow steps till one day they say, "WTF?" LOL

I woke up extra early and I thought I'd start off my morning by putting in at least an hour into a color study/painting--for once. And after an hour I ended up with something way too embarrassing to post. So to redeem myself I decided to do another quick study. To keep from getting too detailed I decided to do it extra small.

A color study from a photo.

A warm up sketch I did from a photo. I drew her pretty cartoony then I slowly made it too realistic and boring once I started painting too much. And then lost the likeness. She looks like Imogen twenty years later.

I've been so busy the last several weeks I haven't made any time for my warm up sketches. So to do something I decided to color a pic out of my sketchbook. I think I was looking at an ad for Apple Bottom or one of those urban brands that cater to women with...well you know. I saw Paul Richards do this toned paper kinda thing once so I decided to try something similar.

Usually before or after a book I try to think about what different elements I can bring to my coloring. My newest project is to add more color to my art. After looking at some of the other colorist's work out there, I decided to screw with a piece I colored around a year ago. The first one is well...the first one, and the second one is me playing around with it (a few characters anyway) this morning. I think this is the first time I've ever pulled out old art of mine, usually when it's done I just move on. ...mostly cause I can't stand looking at it again. LOL

After I finished those few issues of She-Hulk I moved over to MA Spiderman. These were from the first issue I worked on.

For my warm sketch (which I haven't done in a long time) I decided to do a sketch based on the variant cover of Marvel's Sky-Doll #1 variant reprint. Issue number one was sold out everywhere in town within days of the original and the reprint coming out. I FINALLY got my copy of number one a few days ago.