More boxer warm ups

If I've not mentioned it in an earlier post, the majority of these are taken from a great book, The Illustrated History of Boxing by Harry Mullan.

More sketchbook runoff

A couple more studies for the hyena painting.

Piece #5

22"x30" acrylic, pencil on BFK

Piece #4

48"x60" acrylic and copper wire on canvas

Piece #3

What do you get when you put a collection many years in the making of these...

with ideas from this...

and this...

and a dash of this...

into my brain? Why, my third piece of course.


30"x44.5" acrylic (and some plastic promo credit cards)on BFK

Translation #2

The second piece that derived from a sketchbook piece. It changed slightly compositionally and got a whole lot bigger but other than that it remains fairly faithful.

Sketch:

Another couple of quick shots of the full scale piece:

Sidetracked!

In a good way. Have to use my work hours for an upcoming GA grant contest I came across which has derailed work on the comic. Funny because the progress was finally happening. However, this is an opportunity not only for a good amount of money but to get my work in front of some really exciting folks. Plus it's a terrific reason to do some larger work again.

I love reusing imagery in my pieces and allowing it to be reinterpreted and sometimes change meaning. It makes me feel like I'm building a language of my own. There were a couple of images I've done in the sketchbooks that I've liked and wanted to do large this is one of them:

The current reworking of it (via hastily taken photo):

More to come...

More sketchbook wanderings

Will up the ante very soon but for now more sketches...

Copperhead Blues- Title page and intro

This short comic was supposed to make its rounds with me at SPX in 2007. The only wrinkle in that plan being that I wasn't able to attend. It remained on hold because it was tapped to be printed last year. However, the publication has had to battle the same financial dragons everyone else has. I've wanted to let this one see the light of day for some time especially since I'm twisting my arm to sit down and commit to new comics. The good people at the publication gave their blessing so here it is. With any luck, it will be a good lead in to the next piece I'm working on and allow feedback that could help the new piece before I get into the meat of the visuals. Constructive criticism anyone?

Copperhead Blues Part 1