Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Into the Labyrinth

A little bit of absence, a little bit of family, and a little bit of comics.


This one was not one that I had planned. It came as a result of thinking about turning a very bad guy from Greek myth into a semi reformed protagonist in Legendary, wanting to use more heavy inky black and a desire to rework one of my first comics, Exit.

Exit was an attempt to reassert my frame of mind. It was my way of reclaiming the wealth around me in my family in the face of failure.

I was proud of Exit but it fell short in retrospect. This is a new swipe at some of the ideas in the piece. The focus shifts less on the strength of my family and more onto my own worst enemy. I've been writing a lot of characters with missing pieces mostly because I've never quite found my own place. Hopefully, the stories will continue to be stronger as I work at this. However, if this and any other story I write just seems like more of the same, allow me a little bit of grace. I'm trying and I'm going to keep trying.









Friday, December 16, 2011

The end results

Dialog 1- 20.25" x 55"


Dialog 2 - 20.25" x 42"




Dialog 3 - 20.25"x 55.5"



Here is what came of those painting fragments previously posted. Fingers crossed.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Fragments

Two paintings I've banged out recently that are pieces of the puzzles I'm currently working on.





Monday, November 14, 2011

A family affair




I just took a gander at my daily inspiration stop, MeatHaus and saw that the brain trust, Chris McD, posted the doodles my whole family did in his book, Sasquatch's Big Hairy Drawing Book. Not only that but he is giving away free copies right now and it's easy to put your name in the hat by replying to this post.

I have to say that the whole family has really enjoyed working in this one. Including a little boy who is only an occasional drawer and a wife who took a little arm twisting to contribute. It's good times for all and when your done McD and Sasquatch will post your work on the flickr collective page like they did for us. Who wouldn't want that? So if you're a regular here or coming from somewhere else, go check it out. If you've found yourself here because of that post, take a look around and drop a comment if you like.


*Edit* Despite having a link to the Sasquatch flickr page and having some images in the MeatHaus link. I've been given a hard time by certain close relations of mine to post some samples here. Hope said parties are satisfied with these four.


One from my littlest one.


One from my son.


One my beautiful wife and I did together.



A single from me.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Goodbye Joe




After hearing about his passing, I realized out of all the sketches of boxers I've done that I never did one of Frazier. Remedied today.