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As I was working today, I thought I’d start taking a screen-cap each week of something exciting that I’m working on.

Right now I’m coloring page 3 of my 8 page space story, “Tales of the Red Planet.” This is part of a collaborative effort by a bunch of great artists and storytellers to create a space themed anthology. You can go to the comunity forums to see all of the works in progress!

Aside from trying to finish up my bigfoot in space story, I’ve been taking on all sorts of freelance illustration projects. One recent project that I’ve been working on involves illustrations for a game in production for the Sony Minis program.

You can find some recently released images of the project at Twisted Dragon Media!

Vote for your favorite tee! Preferable my design, “Then I saw the darkness.” If you don’t vote for me, I guess we can still be friends, but no more Christmas cards…

I’ve submitted my first design to www.threadless.com for their “Threadless Loves Drawing II” Competition. The design is still pending approval by the Threadless staff, so you can’t vote on it yet. However, you can check the design out by clicking on the image above.

The design is based on one of the paintings from my Gallery show, and is titled “Then I saw the darkness.” You can find the full gallery show in the dropdown menu of the ‘Portfolio’ tab under ‘Light and Darkness.’

I’m getting closer to illustrating the finished pages for my new space story. I just finished up the thumbnails, and thought I’d share them with you. Thumbnails are an important step in creating comics. This is the part of the process where the artist reads through the script and figures out the layout of each page. It’s where the pacing of the story is set in place, and any kinks in the flow are worked out. Click the image for a larger version.

In January of 2012, Bluewater Productions will release the Jack Kirby biography comic written by Jon Judy, and illustrated by yours truly! Read the press release here.

I’ve finished the script, and moved on to character designs. Here are designs of the cast of my new 8 page Mars story. Coming up later, I’ll be posting the thumbnails and then some finished inked pages so you can get a look at my process of making a comic.

Enjoy!

New illustration based on the word, “Invasion.”

I am currently working on a story that will be published in an anthology along with a bunch of other artists from The Illopond. The project is called “8: A Space Anthology,” and will feature 8 stories by 8 different artists, each being 8 pages long.

The title of my story is called “Tales of the Red Planet,” and will follow a man on his journey to Mars in order to find out if there truly is life on the planet. His fascination with Mars comes from beeing immersed Martian literature such as C.S. Lewis’ “Out of the Silent Planet,” and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars,” “The Gods of Mars,” and “Warlord of Mars.”

Upon his arrival to Mars, he is greeted by some familiar faces. See for yourself in the sketches below. If you’re interested in finding out more, you can follow along over at my page on The Illopond!

I’ve beens starting to go in a new direction with my drawing style lately. I’m finding that drawing in a more animated style is a little more natural for me than what I’ve been doing for the past couple years. Here are a couple sketches from this week that showcase this new direction.