HAPPY NEW YEAR!

(an image for my brother's band)

This, surely, is a year of heavy rocking and sweet flavours. My comic, Jan and Anders, looks like it'll be published in the summer, I'm cooking up a new project... things are looking pretty good. Swing on by my flickr account to check out what's up. 

I'm feeling pretty good about this whole thing, really.

homo neanderthalensis

homo neanderthalensis
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Peep the technique.

Al-Khattab and the Jinn

I just did this doodle today, which I ended up really liking. Islamic mythology has a bunch of little gems like the djinn, a race of ethereal beings god made from smokeless fire the same way he did with earth for mankind. There are all types of djinn, too, including the Ghul, which lures men into the desert to devour them (among other things - they like eating the dead as well). I just wanted to play with the visuals you could get from a race crafted from "smokeless fire".

Apparently, living in lamps and granting wishes isn't standard practice for the djinn, either. Just a few specific exceptions.

DO WORK!

A page in progress (below).

Almost done...

(Edit - All fourteen are up! Inking on the last six has begun!)

I've only got about six pages left to draw for "Jan and Anders", which I'm very excited about. Over the week, I'll be scanning in the next fourteen pages of the story (out of about fifty). 

UPDATE!

I put up a few more pages of "Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla" right here. Peep it.

PAINTING!

Man, until I came to ACAD and really had a chance to put my back into it, I never really knew how rewarding oil painting could be. Here's a few of the paintings I've been working on lately.

Forgive the picture quality, but all I have is my mac's camera.

Wishing You a Blessed Christmas...

I found this card looking for supplies for a sculpture project, and ended up finding PURE MAGIC!

Made by a company called "One Heart" and printed in china, this is a 3D card you will be amazed by.

First: "Wishing you a blessed Christmas." Look at the picture. What the fuck is going on in there?

Okay, The virgin mother and christ, some angels, and some people. Wait, though - who are those people down there? Just ordinary people? The tip off is this poor fucker right here:

That's RIGHT! Brian is feeling really down... because him and his friends are SINNERS BURNING IN HELL! Or they could be repentant sinners being taken up during the rapture as the world burns.  But those rocks look pretty hot and hellish. (I think it's hell).

And here's the final, beautiful touch: "Hope your holidays are packed with all the good times you can handle." Here's where I got suspicious. Either this card was made by the most clueless maniacs - or comic geniuses. I applaud you, One world. 

I applaud you.

MMMMMM! SLAVIC BREAKFAST!

In the interests of compartmentalizing things, I've set aside a piece of internet only for my russian-insanity related projects. I've started with a project from earlier in the year, so have a look. 

And another Dinosaur.

and yet more Dino-Saurs...

Peep game!

More madness where that came from here...

24-HOUR MADNESS!

So, a little while ago, I took part in the 24-hr comic book day, and made it to about twenty pages. In the process, I nearly became insane, but it was totally worth it. I've got the first seven pages up on flickr, for your pleasure. More will be up later, as will be the next ten pages of Jan and Anders.

I don't think I can stop...

dinosauroid - adult
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