"Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla" up on Study Group!

The first part of a story re-drawn from a 24 Hour Comic I did back in 2008 - "Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla" - is up on the Study Group website after YEARS sitting on my hard drive! Enjoy!

Monday Morning Nudes

Quick paintings from life.

Do you want to play?

A futuristic take on the frankenstein monster.

Some cosmonaut roughs

Some brush-pen roughs for the cosmonaut project I posted recently. So often it seems the quickest pieces have the most life to them...

Strategic Defense Initiative

During the 1980s, one of the last and most ambitious military projects undertaken was the Strategic Defense Initiative, or, as it was creatively renamed by the press, 'Star Wars'. It was basically an attempt to take the Cold War to orbit - figuring out ways of using space-borne weapons to intercept and destroy ballistic nuclear missiles, enemy satellites, and everything in between. It was a fascinating (and potentially terrifying) undertaking, apparently employing as many science-fiction writers as it did scientists. But what would the Soviet reaction - or counterpoint, perhaps - have been had these plans actually made their way to fruition?

With all that in mind, I undertook my latest class project - design a 'forgotten world' of some sort.

What might a soviet orbital laser have actually looked like? And what if one had actually been secretly launched in the late eighties?



What fate might have befallen the crew of such a craft?


"In the event of a meteor strike or any other sort of collision, a variety of emergency fail-safes are in place to ensure long-term functionality. In the case of damage to the radiator system, emergency failsafes are in place to shut off the reactor and associated systems - ensuring
prevention of a critical reaction. "


"Similarly, in case of hull breach, emergency pressure-locks would isolate the compromised section to prevent atmospheric loss."


"In case of emergency situations, or serious incidents that prevent immediate escape, all
ALMAZ stations are fully equipped for contingencies."

Prophet #22...

Is out today! Go grab a copy!

A long-running love affair

Since finding out about the Liang Bua hominid way back in 2008 or so (when National Geographic put out their special on it), I've had a continual obsession with Homo Floresiensis - a tiny human who shared it's isolated island home with Komodo Dragons, dwarf stegodons, giant storks... an un-endingly bizarre and fascinating world! Like any good romance, my relationship with Flores Woman has it's moments of intense passion, but generally is a a slow burn of idle fascination.

This romance heated up recently for a school project, where I painted some pieces for a dummy magazine article. The opening spread: A band of Homo Floresiensis fend off a Giant Maribou Stork from their kill, a stegodon calf.


The inside spread is also an infographic, an attempt on my part to explore some of the fascinating anatomical weirdness of Homo Floresiensis.



If any of that tickled your fancy, I've included a link to a slideshow of all my homo floresiensis sketches and such from my photostream:

Drawing from Life (and other places)

This semester (my last) has yet another excellent class in store for me - a figure drawing class! The above image is based roughly off of 'the lady of the lake' from Arthurian legend, but recast as a barbarian chieftainess...

This is the painting from life I did based on the same theme...

...and also I painted some naked dudes...

Z-Brushin' It

One of my new favourite playthings is Z-brush - a very intuitive 3d sculpting/modeling program. For my first two forays into the program, I decided to attempt at modeling some of the creatures I designed for Prophet. Above are models of the Mold People of the Jell city - termite-like aliens who live in a caste-based hive society and see via smell with their antenna. The following was a concept sketch to nail down the castes of their society.


The following is a work in progress of an alien from a project I was working on last year.

A little creature drawing:



And last, but not least, the cover for the next issue of prophet, drawn by myself and again colored by Jason Wordie!

Homeward Bound

And, in other news, a short story of mine is up at the new Study Group 12 website - an online version of the print anthology! Some nice, light post-apocalyptic reading...

PROPHET 21!!!!

Oh lord, I am a neglectful blogger. But no longer! Yesterday, the first issue of the relaunched "Prophet" - and the first issue of my three-issue story arc - was released in North America! It's chock full of strange and interesting creatures engaged in all manners of circle-of-life-type activities (sex, murder, cannibalism) and features amazing colors by my friend Richard Ballermann. It was a blast to draw, and has been getting great reviews so far. Not only that, but it's sold out at the distributor level and MUST BE REPRINTED!

Also, here's the cover for an upcoming issue, drawn and inkwashed by me and colored by my pal Jason Wordie.

(plus the non-colored one)

More soon! I'll be a better bloggist!

Tiger Lung Returns

I'm slowly building up material for my paleolithic shaman adventure comic, "Dead Lands" (the previous iteration of which can be read here).
Pictured above is the cover for a self-contained 20-pager I'm putting together right now - and below, a test page from inside the story!


And lastly, an early-ish development drawing for the main character, Tiger Lung.