Start your engines!

Script pages have started coming in for an upcoming book I will be working on for Image comics, hopefully the book will be out in early 2008, probably about March by now. Here is a random sample of 2 panels, I'm doing a new process with this book where I pencil the pages loosely on standard paper, scan them in , enlarge them to full size and I'll be inking digitally, hopefully this will speed up my production time, since I plan to work on this and a sequel to Villains at the same time. Wish me luck.



(x-posted from my 50 Foot Blog)

Mr. Graves

Here's a new character I've been drawing this week for a one shot noir book I've been thinking about doing.

Brent

sunday

new stuff from the last week or so

HULK! 10 Minute sketch

My second favorite character to draw.

I inked Ringo!

Not professionally but it was still fun and a great way to learn new skills. The original is here.

Ha!

CBR has posted all 100 covers to the "Ultimate 100" charity series for HERO Initiative. They credited me as Rich Cody. Oh well, I'm in good company. I'm in the sixth row up from the bottom. Thanks again to Mike Malve at Atomic Comics for inviting me to be a part of this.

Sketches

my all-time favorite for a thread on the Drawing Board...


and an Iron Man for Michael Cho's blog, after seeing Brent kick ass on it!

The Doji-Giri

Here is a page for my Legendary Anthology story, it's called the Doji-Giri and hopefully this anthology will be out later this year. I did 6 pages in it.

DOC OCK INKED!

Done all with a PITT brush pen, not too happy with it and I've taken some liberties with shading, etc. It was fun though.

some new stuff, all fluff and loose sketches, taken with a digital camera....

a couple

so i am still in the mood for yeah

more chipboard

Here is a look at my chipboard pencils, note how messy it all is, but this stuff cleans up so fast with a little stroke of the so called eraser

Thor & Hellboy

coloring fun!

here's a page from the Villains trade I just finished coloring.

Shroud Film

I was asked to give Shroud Film's company logo a re-design and this is the result. Visit the Shroud Film website and watch the excellent 'Ravenous' music video here.

Nightwatch

A unique film. I'm looking forward to the next two.

Brown Bagging it.....

So the last few weeks I've had my stash of comics I've bought stack up on my desk, along with the brown bags they put them in. Lately as I've been waiting for large files to save, or be uploaded to servers I've used them to doodle on and now I think I'm going to start doing this on a regular basis and see what develops. I think it'll be fun, so expect these to pop up more often from me. Sadly they don't scan for shit.

Brent

Beware the Creeper!

Did this for a thread on Clay Moore's Image board, and also a Ronin sketch I did over the weekend.

Sketchbook

The Oni I did on a plane ride down to Newport, CA from SF with a brush pen. The guy in the chair I've been working on here and there maybe 4 hours total so far it's been in my sketchbook and I've been trying to find the time to finish it up.

My Comic-Con schedule

Come and see my sexy ass @ Comic-Con. I'll be signing at the Viper Comics booth at the times listed below and probably hanging out around the Image pavilion and Markosia booth the other times. Hope to see everyone out there.

Viper Booth - #1947

Thursday 2-4
Friday 10-11:30 & 4-5:30
Saturday 1-3
Sunday Check the schedule at the booth.

New Here

Hi.
New here on SKETCHJAM!. My name is Marcelo, I´m a Ilustrator from Brazil. Ryan invited me to his blog, so I´m sharing with you my drawings, Hope you like it and forgive my poor english. Here´s a page I just finished for a french comic called Neo-Deus...I pencilled, inked and colored.

All the best,
Marcelo

Here is a random page and some random headshots from Villains #4 that I just finished (whew..) now onto post production, yippeee!

ehh

i have noticed how I suck at drawing and it made me want to quit today

pay to play

this is all i haver been doing for a little while, just short fun fast sketches nothing finished! super fast, i would say 2-5 mins per

this is a way i am trying to build up my speed since I am always SOOOO SLOW!

Elizabeth Hurley

ART DUMP

Lots of new stuff today.

- a little promo image for an anthology I'm working on.


- a couple panels from The Hurricane Kids #0 issue that I really liked.


- a page from Villains #3, colors by Russ Lowery - (out July 2006)


- a page from the back-up for Villains #3, pencils by Charlie Clark, inks by me and colors by Marlena Hall


- and a piece of vector art I created as a character design sample.

Have fun and learn something!

Villainous Villains

From issue 3. I love this page.

UPDATE!

New art + update - sorry for the delays.

For someone with umpteen blogs, I am the worst blogger. My creator owned series “Villains” should be in stores sometime this month, I have seen the first 2 issues and they look great. Issue #3 is being finished up right now and I’m working on issue #4 to be done hopefully in about a month. After Villains I plan to work on my sketchbook/Ronin comic for SDCC.

** On a side note, I’m still trying to raise money to attend my 2 cons this summer, so please, if you’re interested, pre-order The Ronin & The Island of Beralku, it’s $5 plus $1 s+h, and includes 24 pages of art and includes a free sketch, email me @ hurricanekids@gmail.com **

After I get back from San Diego I plan to dive headfirst into the initial Hurricane Kids mini-series which should see print the first half of 2007. This past weekend I participated in 2 signings for Free Comic Book Day. At Atomic Comics I was paired up with Daniel Way, Steve Dillon and Chris Giuarino. The crowds were pretty great overall, (mostly for Way and Dillon, they do the new Wolverine book for Marvel) and it was a great treat for me because I am a big fan of Preacher. I did a lot of sketches, turned some folks onto Villains and started early promotion of Hurricane Kids. The best sketch of the day was a little girl of about 4 who asked me to sketch her a cup. A cup with water in it. With a bendy straw. So I did and even dropped a little fairy in there for a bonus. She was great and the fans were very wonderful overall. The second store had very few people come by, which I expected as there was no big name talent to draw them in.

Later that night I wanted to go out to The Atomic Comics post FCBD dinner, mostly to have a pint with Mr. Dillon. The restaurant was about 45 minutes from my house. I drove all the way out there, got a call from my wife saying that boy #2 had to go to the ER because he hurt his back, so I flipped around drove back, never getting that pint. But overall it was a great day. Thanks to everyone who came by!

Free Comic Book Day

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