Sketch Challenges?

...it's been a while...
I'm waiting for a new script, so in the meantime I thought that I would attempt to try some of the Sketch Challenges issued by the Temple of Cartoon Mojo. I started with a standard pencil and ink drawing for Scott Pilgrim, then decided to take a stab at drawing with a wacom tablet for the Iron Man sketch. yikes.
Take a peek.

Halloween 2008

My daughter Ali was Supergirl, obviously, for Halloween this year. Pilar found a big kid's costume at a garage sale and my mom reworked it to Ali size. She had a blast all day, despite some initial tears.

When she got home from trick-or-treating the first thing she did was grab her Supergirl and Stargirl action figures and fly them around the living room...I've already apologized to her in advance of all the social damage that I'm causing her. ;)

Phantom Preview 2 - inks

Here are the inks for the Phantom project I previewed earlier. I used Itoya pens and a Pentel brush pen for these.

Preview 2 - Phantom

Here are some preview pencils for a special Phantom project from Moonstone. I don't think that I can say anything more than that...I'm not sure if they've announced it yet.

Yes, the woman in the third image will get hair.

These are originally penciled with a non-photo blue pencil and will be inked by me. That's why these are more loose than the pencils for the Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons book which will be a scanned pencil book - no inks involved.

Preview 1 - Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons #8

Here are some panels from the upcoming Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons #8 from DDP. I don't know the release date, so if you're interested, I recommend checking out their website.

Old Work - Memories of Solar Man of the Atom

I'm reading the news from SDCC and I see that Dark Horse is going to publish the Gold Key material, which is swell. It made me think back a few years ago...around 02 or 03...I drew what was supposed to be the re-launch of Solar. Had a great time working with Chris Sotomayor on that.

Clearly it didn't go anywhere and was well covered in Rich Johnston's column on ComicBookResources "Lying in the Gutters."

So here are those pages, hope you enjoy. (I always tell my students, "never show the old stuff"...maybe this will prove why that is a bad idea.)

Sadly, this wasn't my only shot at a re-launch, there was a brief period when Buddy Scalera and I were going to re-launch Bloodshot. That tanked too. No pages by me on that one, but lots of designs that are over on Anthony Koch's Bloodshot fan site. Anthony also has some Solar stuff too.

More covers

In other news, I penciled and inked this Phantom and Mandrake cover for Moonstone Books' Phantom annual...I have no idea when it ships. This one was colored by the multi-talented Nolan Woodard.

If you go to Wowio you can download copies of Phantom #1 and #2 by Ben Raab and me...I believe that they sold out a few years ago.

Recent Covers

Good evening gang, here are some covers that I've penciled recently:

Cryptopia #2 and #3 covers...that's right folks, Cryptopia still lives!

Cryptopia is a sci-fi/mystery that follows an intrepid group of scientist, lead by the main character, Dr. Shannon Palmer, to a recently discovered island where bizarre creatures roam free. Written by Ben Raab, drawn by me and inked by a talented variety of folks, colored by the incomparable Lee Loughridge, has lots of eye-candy, thrilling adventures and great inter-personal character pieces. You'll be able to grab it on Wowio soon.
After I penciled these, Ben sent 'em off to John Rauch for the finishing touch.

That's it for now! I hope that everyone going to San Diego has a blast!