WHAT IF...

What if Tigra and Black Widow were part of an elite squad of Marvel Femme Fatales put together by the last person you'd ever imagine running a hit-and-run, hardcore action team?

What if the last member of the team was always rotating adding a new female character from the Marvel U to it?

What if the first person the team encounters is Frank Castle but he's not quite the Punisher we've all come to know and love?

Yeah...I love what ifs...

IRON SIRENS PENCILS

Here's a peek at the mess I make with a pencil when I'm trying to ink my own stuff to save some time.

For more info on the IRON SIRENS book please visit the links on the finished piece posted up over at my deviantART page here:

IRON SIRENS FINISHED COVER


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Mandy!

Got to draw up Dean Yeagle's Mandy just recently. If you don't know who Dean Yeagle is that's what Google's for.

It's da Pitz!

I first met Joseph Naftali back when we were kicking ass and taking names on the KISS4K book (Hell, if it wasn't for this badass working his mojo I wouldn't have gotten the honor of desigining three of the four core KISS members at all!) While things didn't quite pan out as we would've liked Joseph went on to the wonderful world of burlesque and all that entails.

Now before anyone tries to picture this dude prancing about onstage in a pair of fishnets and garters you need to get to know him and what he does in the world of burlesque by visiting his MySpace page Karkarodon along with the lovely Cherry Pitz' MySpace page Cyndi Freeman.

I've done some work with Joe in the past for different productions and it's been a blast and a half not to mention a nice break from the regular gigs. So here are some peeks at some of the sketchwork that goes into a Naftali piece. He's very specific on what he likes to see and this makes my job so much easier by taking all the guesswork out of things.

NO TALKING JUST HEAD...

Or HEADS as the case may be, not to mention a chunk of space rock.



Just a little insight into what I do on the margins and backs of pages that I don't use. I usually start these out just as doodles to figure out lightsources or proportions or just to get a feel for characters before I draw them and they end up like this.



The space rock is me trying to ape something I saw Adam Hughes do in one of his pieces. I really liked the tonal quality he got with his use of grey tones by going light then medium then throwing the strongest shadow smack dab in the middle. Definitely something to think about and maybe adapting to other things and see how it works for me.

G.I. Joe Resolute. Love it.

YO JOE!

Doing some Jams over at the 3rd Rail Design forum and one of them was to gender-bend a character. Now the norm is to take your Punishers or your Wolverines and give 'em breasteseses...


Always the traveller of the path that is of the most resistance, I opted to take an established female character and man her up.

Without further ado (what the fudge is an "ado" anyway?) I present to you Rogue the...uh...rogue who not only charms the pants off of the ladies but also steals their lifeforce and powers thus dooming him to a rather lonely existence.

QUARANTINE!

Netflix is a wonderful thing. Got done watching Quarantine and I have to say that along with Day of the Living Dead it's now one of my top fave zombiesque flicks. The idea was just original enough (well for an American adaptation anyway) and the shocks kept me jumping. The tension was massive and I was on the edge of my sofa cushion the whole time. This is what I think alot of the zombie wanna-be/re-makes are trying to achieve and Quarantine pulled it off with flying colors.

If you like being scared s#!tless then I highly recommend this flick but don't expect a happy ending because if a zombie-type apocalypse was to really happen it would probably start like this!

LOOKOUT!!! HERE COMES...Susan?!?

Saw Monsters vs Aliens a few days ago and this got sketched up. Fun flick, not one of the better CGI films but definitely not one of the worst. I just kept wondering where Jet Jaguar was the whole time.

Lobster Johnson Lines

I've never had lobster. Never.