danny husk round 2

i was looking through some old sketches, and i thought this would be a better treatment for my original Danny Husk sketch...

12192010 otb:more horse

yep. I'm having a lot of fun on this book - I've been using the pen tool a lot in Photoshop - a tool I generally reserved for Illustrator work, and felt was superfluous in Photoshop while graphic designing... I find it very useful for long sweeping lines that should be continuous and smooth - I mostly use it for my contour lines. Pictured above are some pages from Metal Locus.

on the table: 11292010 - i no heart motorcycles!

Pictured above is a screenshot of my photoshop document window. I would consider these my "pencils" - I've been working on this book completely digital, either on my modbook or cintiq. I've been approaching the same way I would a traditional page... i pencil things out using a 3-5 pixel brush set @ around 40% opacity - keep working it up until I like where things are going.
Eventually I'll save a jpg and send it over to my editor - if things look good, I'll get the OK to "ink" them - Pictured below is a crop of one of the pages I'm currently building up "ink" wise.

When I was drawing westerns, I would grumble about the horses... All the horses... Now that I'm working on Metal Locus... I have had to do a ton of motorcycles. Things like motorcycles, cars and guns slow me down a bit cause of they must be consistent- all those sharp and straight lines, mechanical parts, their construction, etc... for me organic shapes and objects are easier for me to envision... err... except for horses...

I suppose thats why they say it's important to draw EVERYTHING and then when you're done, do it again. Cause eventually... sooner than later... you'll probably come across it in a script. I, unfortunately, haven't drawn everything there is. I do however have google images and a friend with a neat motorcycle.

on the table 11272010

I'm doing some digital inking today. This is one of my favorite panels from page 16 - I'm not quite done with it, but I wanted to post something, illuminate the process a little bit. One of the things I really love about working on a cintiq is having your original pencils available on a seperate layer... and being able to undo... but there are times when you can just undo and undo all night -

SDCC 2010

I'm superthrilled to be going to San Diego Comic-Con 2010 this year with Frozen Beach Studios.
Our location # is 2107- So please do come by and say hi! We've got a ton of books and swag. I have a limited run of prints for the Brand new Metal Locus pin up shown above, as well as T shirts, sketchbooks, and assorted prints and other goods. We've got a lot of exciting announcements planned for SDCC 2010 as well- movies, tv shows, new books, and more!!! I'm so excited I might pee myself.

so... it's been a while since I updated my blog.
I've been through two close friends passing away, and a car accident recently. It took me a little time to get back into the swing of things... I had a hard time drawing for a few weeks because of minor injuries. I was also superbummed. I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been supportive during the last month or so, and I can't wait to get back working steady again.

On to more positive matters.

Just got back from Supercon in Miami. I had a wonderful time. I was in attendance at both the What the Flux Booth and the Frozen Beach studios Booth. I got the hang out with Jeramy Hobs(wtfc), Larry Jarrell(wtfc), and Stephan Nilson (FBS) for most of the weekend. These guys are all super talented and just overall great people, you know that Queen song "keep good company"? thats what we do.

I finally met Aris, from millarworld's boards. I used to post there pretty regularly, and he has always been supportive and a good honest source for critique, so meeting him in person was awesome.

Got a copy of Assassin's Guild #4
- Written by Randy Taylor, pencils by Dustin Weaver & Larry Jarrell, inks by Joe Fauvel & Zach Basset. The guys needed a quick lettering job- so I turned those around for them. I also printed up some shirts for their long awaited finale.

Just finished a 5 pager for an anthology. Some Action Figure designs for Frozen Beach Studios,
as well as a 3 page story for their title " Metal Locus".

Printed Extinction shirts printed up for the release of the "Extinction" TPB - written by Stephan Nilson art by Kyle Stokes- who by the way is an ultra chill dude and fun to hang out with.

I attended a few portfolio reviews as well. One of which was a personal victory was
finally getting a favorable and positive review as well as follow up info from a company that pretty much told me to get bent a few years ago. Bo Hampton did a group review as well during the con, which I attended, he was incredibly insightful, and it was great to see what everyone else has brewing up in their portfolios, I predict great things coming out of florida very soon.

I ran into Bo later at the hotel bar and he introduced me to a few people, it was a great evening listening to the pros share stories from their careers. I also ran into Derek Donovan, he was supercool and a blast to hang out with.

So yeah! A lot of bad stuff, followed up with a great weekend. I'll be heading off to SDCC in a few weeks with Frozen Beach Studios, let's hope the good energy is still flowing