I'll be back soon

I can 't believe it's been a month since I've posted. It's been a very busy month and I'l be back early next week to post some evidence. After I get some fishing in of course. Right now I'm off to Wondercon to buy some comics.

Thumb goes in, eye comes out.

Another KOTR study. An eye for an eye.

Long live the king.

This is a rough comp of the King Of The Road card game box. The game play is the same as Old Maid. There are three other games in the set, all based on simple traditional card games. The others are based on Crazy 8s, Slap Jack and Animal Rummy.

Scoot!

I know this is a crappy, gerneric, straight ahead angle on this, but it was really just to wrok out the design of the front of the scooter. I added the captain to provide some scale.

1313

I don't think I've ever posted this anywhere. It's a pin-up for 1313 magazine from last year.

Horace or Boris

I was going to clean these poses up a bit before I posted them, but decided they're fine the way they are. These are the kind of rough quick studies I'll do when hammering out a character. I don't worry about staying on model too much. I just want to how they move, behave and react.

Pimp Hand

A detail from a Kings Of The Road panorama.

Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

7 left, one returns.

DVDs I've watched this past month-
Most of these are favorites that I've seen many times, but a few were new to me.

The Russ Meyer Collection Volume 2

The Benny Hill Collection

Bullshit Season 2

Simpsons Season7

If you've seen some of these you may like the others-
If you have any suggestion let me know.

8 Diagram Pole Fighter
5 Deadly Venoms
Born Invincible
Iron Monkey
Zu Warriors
Legend Of Zu
Chinese Ghost Story
Buddhist Fist
Tom Yum Goong
Battle Royale
Master Of The Flying Guillotine
Magnificent Butcher
Old Boy
Tai Chi Master

3 To Get Ready

From the Phantomime show.

Process

I've hade some requests for more process posts. I don't usually save this stuff but made an exception in this case on Bob Self's suggestion. If I can find the original sketch I'll post that as well.
The composition for this came fairly easily, but I had problems with the details and colors.
I think the turmoil paid off in this case as this has become a favorite. It doesn't always work out that way I'm affraid. Often times I'll suffer justt as much anxiety and never achieve any gratification. But, in the end you just have to put it to bed and move on.

OH! FIVE WRAP UP.

NEWS-

I'll be conducting a one day class/lecture on character design at the Entertainment Art Academy on February 19th.
I'll have lots of prelim stuff and finished work done for various studio projects that I can't show here. I'll be deconstructing them and illustrating what works, what doesn't and why. I'm going to try to cram as much info into the day as I can without it becoming too incomprehensible.
Glen Murakami, Stephen Silver and Mike Mignola have done them in the past and I've heard great things about the classes. I'm really looking forward to it. You can get more details via the link over there on the right.

GALLERY SHOWS-
Maybe 2 next year, one in the spring and one in the fall. We have soft dates now, but we'll wait to firm them up before posting them here. One of the dates will likely be on the east coast.

GOT YOUR NOSE-
Final animation is wrapping now. Scoring, editing and revisions should go rather quickly. I think there's an air date in the early spring.

Book release schedule-

CHROMAPHILE 2-
Available summer 06. Same size and page count as CHROMAPHILE but with all new content. Some of which can be seen here on the blog.

KINGS OF THE ROAD-
This one is a wild card. It's basically complete but with nowhere to go. It's an odd book that doesn't easily fit into any category or genre. My guess is that it'll see print as a small run of 1,000. Hardcover- 96 pages- 5x7.

(WELCOME TO THE) BIG CITY-
Scheduled to debut at Comic Con in San Diego. Hardcover- 128 pages- 11x9.5

JACK AND RUSTLE, IT GREW THERE-
Maybe late 06, it depends on how the first half of the year goes.

OTHER STUFF-
New shirts, stickers, skate decks, toys and other merchandise starting in late spring.

I know why the cowboys cry.

I created these fonts for Kings Of The Road but they never quite worked as intended. I like them and think I'll finish the lower case and puctuation and use them for something eventually. Here I placed them in a context that complements them a little better.

Izzy outtakes

Izzy originally started out as a bookened to Got Your Nose but soon took a bit of a turn. These illustrate the visual changes of one of the spreads.

The year that wasn't

The month of July from the canceled 2006 Bad Apples calendar.

From red to green.

A few BC sketches of props and what not. Green this time.

The Seattle Kid

Where ya headin' wayward fella? Hop in I'll give ya a lift.

Go! PEE WEE, GO!

An unfinished shot of the squad runnin' and gunnin'.

Chopped and dropped

I was working on this really wide interior shot when something else came up. I chopped the piece up and moved some things around and came up with this composition. I may or may not finish the piece as originally intended.