snapshot 8

i'm having some color conversion issues saving these painter documents as anything but riff files .

snapshot 7

gonna do these with painter from now on.

converting the file from riff to tiff really did something to the colors and values, i tried to adjust it as best as i could but something got lost

snapshot 6

Snapshot 5

sailing

TMNT page process 2

snapshot 4

TMNTpage process

snapshot 3

snapshot 2

snapshots

i've been seeing a lot of oekaki lately and still don't quite get all that it entails but it seems similar to the colors! program that let me paint on my ds. i want to try the oekaki sometimes but they all involve signing up. anyhow i thought i'd try and do little snapshot doodles everday to warm up for work, the best oekaki I have seen seem to have that feel of loose snapshots, this one is not very loose though

six word tales

i'll be doing some spot illustrations for my pal Stiles White and his cool conceptual blog

LEO

I'm hoping that nick does some cool things with the beloved turtles

sketches

life scribbles

workshop models now once a month at drink and draw, it was crowded and i was a bit far away but it's fun to draw from life

DIETIES

man it's been awhile.

been really busy and the stuff I have been working on, one being a new book I can't really share yet much too early.

some friends have set up a cool blog design a diety

here's my contribution so far

the All

"the all" : he is so huge he can only be partially captured and with great effort to do just that. The image was taken with what is currently the most powerful telescope in existence, shielded by the darkest and largest sunglass lens ever created in order to block out the incredible light emitted from the eyes, which when opened fully have been known to completely fry several galaxies. Within the tendrils of The All, many a

star has lost its way.

Boney Thought

this was a longer drink and draw sketch , there should be some red marker in there which was bleed thru from the other pages, i accidently scanned my other sketches which had color in black and white so i'll put them up later

went to new york city for the first time over memorial day weekend that was a lot of fun Sushi of Gari was probably my most favorite meal, lombardi's pizza was pretty damn tasty ,pretty let down with cafe habana...gotta go back for more in depth food trip soho was a great area. Oh and thanks to my girlfriend I was able to see a Mazzuchelli exhibit with a lot of Batman Year one original art as well as Daredevil and Rubber blankets stuff, that was inspiring to see those pretty year one pages....ah they were so pretty.

Colors

so I've finally got some free time meaning i'm not trying to finish a comic or extra storyboards. But that free time won't last long as I've been wanting to get some new orginial graphic novels underway for awhile, the first being an adventure story. So as I try and find my full color voice I've done a few more finished color pieces. Right now as much as I love to ink and the line when I color I seem to want to obliterate all lines and work with value and lighting, but completely in color. It definitely depends on the type of story but right now i'm not sure exactly How I can get all the inks and colors to synchronize, maybe I will incorporate special black and white title pages or moments within the story that are inked? And the rest linework with full color doing most of the heavy lifting. We'll see. Here's a hulk spidey and the owlen man from Mora.

drink and draw sketches 5/7/09

Tales of TMNT 59

much of my absence is attributable to trying to get this book done which had a very tight deadline mainly because I squandered the lead time I had on the previous book, but I have yet to miss a deadline, though it totally kills most all my nights and weekends.

this book is available for pre-order in the april diamond "Previews" catalog and is out in june can't believe that's next month!!

Black Sun shines on The Undead!

lady of the black sun

and an undead warrior

drink and draw sketches boy did i poop at fast i was exhausted so i only stayed a bit

Hulk Study Drink and Draw

trying some rendering techniques on this hulk sketch

and a drink and draw sketch , the only good drawing i did for the special dave johnson birthday edition of drink and draw

Tales of TMNT 56 now or soon

not sure if its this weds or next

here are the pages mirage previewed

check out the issue if you see it out there in the wild

TMNT commission

I have been working on this commission little by little over a couple months because of my crazy schedule but finally finished.

tales of tmnt 56 comes out soon

there's a few reviews here and here

also tales 59 will be available for pre-order in a week or so, so if your interested in picking it up please think about pre-ordering since very few comic shops will actually order tmnt books unless someone specifically does so. barnes and noble had pre-orders for 56 so I assume they will do the same for 59 so you could pre-order online

drink and draw sketches

fox in colors

did this a little while ago and just don't really have time to do much more with it but experimenting with different color techniques i'd like to do more coloring that shows the "strokes" of the color like paint

Bloody Night

TMNT Pinup

actually it's a commission I'm finally getting around to inking the Gentleman that commissioned this piece has been very patient as my schedule has been rather insane lately.

bloody

needed to draw a werewolf its been too long

lady fighter

i started drawing this and it just went nowhere so i stopped

FOX

haven't done much non work related drawing
something like her has been running around my head lately

DRink and Draw round 2

pieces I did at the most recent drink and draw

Micachu and the Shapes: punky dark avant-grime pop

Micachu aka Mica Levi is a pretty brilliant little youngster from the uk
just doing some awesome music, noisy dark grime like stuff by way of punkish like elements including the short energetic songs.
check out her debut album She /her band is called Micachu and the Shapes, they just released "jewellery" i really love turn me well , curly teeth, golden ,phone do some gogling you can find full songs streaming to listen to then check out how she remixes sometimes mediocre songs and makes them great, check out the "vuitton blues" then listen to the micachu remix
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=38999757

check out we she did with this we have band single, again might be interesting to check out the original before you hear micachu's dark reinterpretation
http://hypem.com/track/737400/We+Have+Band-Oh!+(Micachu+Remix)

TMNT STUFF

tales of tmnt 56 and tales of tmnt 59 have kept me VERY busy there's a complete walthrough from rough to color comp on the cover for tales 59 and a sneak peek at some of 56 which will be out in a couple months

My First Animation

I had so much fun doing this for the titmouse studio 5 sec animation day. I REALLY love animation , and seeing the drawings come to life. I used pencil homebrew, then timed it in flash and my multi-disciplined talented buddy Keith Yan http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowedlab/ put the sound together

bottom pieces: dave johnson did some cool cardboard illustrations so i gave it a shot awhile back
piece is troo big too scan and the lighting was horrible so crappy photo
when i take it home someday i'll take a better pic i have a better detail coming
sharpie on card
the top piece :last drink and draw i think i ended up doing most of my sketches for the nice hosts
but i like the idea of having a big sheet to try and fill up i'll fill it up next time and maybe start another one

Drink and Draw

finally went to the drink and draw
fun and merriment

1000 color

messing around with some different color techniques

1000 Renewal

 i did this sketch of an old character i created, her name is 1000

warming up before getting into the storyboards

YEA.

both in one week who could ask for anything more?

Rider

i had this simple idea after seeing this motor cyclist with a silver helmet

the look is a very typical Japanese hero type of thing but I was surprised when I watched red baron, an old Japanese giant robot show (live action) to see the villains were almost identical to this black suits, silver gloves and boots but they had a cooler more alien robot head

Digital Brushes

i like this even though it's kind of creepy

just toying around with making some photoshop brushes, looking to replicate that painterly look and texture of colors scrubbed into and onto other colors

Nibs Pens and The Big Brush

this weekend while battling a cold just strong enough to keep me fairly foggy headed i went to the graphaids 40% off everything sale and spent too much money. those awesome nibs looked so cool with the old timey graphics I bought a whole bunch, for a dollar a box it was a steal, and they are awesome. Craig Nelson one of my painting instructors in school would always insist on using brushes you think are too big for the job, i've been using that approach with my inking and i like it.

the big piece was my scratch pad underneath my pages that ink, usually testing the line of the different nibs as well as wiping off excess ink before brushing. I tested out a fairly big Japanese calligraphy brush and this was the resulting sketch...painting with ink is very fun

MINOTAUR

a work in progress cardboard sketch. I usually paint these cardboard drawings but maybe not with this one, I'd totally lose all the detail not much room to paint the form

some old sketchbook stuff and a wurmler of the west title illustration for the follow up I never got to for flight anthology

Life Drawing

Titmouse my current workplace had a great workshop last night , Sylvain directed it. We had several short poses where we focused on continuous line never lifting the the pen(i was using pen) and finding where lines meet on the body for instance the arm meeting the torso. I hadn't done it in a while but it was a lot of fun from bottom to top is the general progression of the night the title of each piece indicates time and excercise

Forest Walker

it doesn't seem that original but i still like the idea, it was a character in a dream she had a white head with branches like bleached driftwood and a cloak like rolled soil with flowers and exotic plants covering the cloak and giving the character it's color and texture
i'm gonna try and paint it..

Painting Studies

Really trying to force myself to paint more and treat it just like I approach sketching. Get a lot of small thoughts and ideas out down quickly and work out some themes and techniques. these are acrylic on cardboard. Just bought some holbein acylic polymer gaouche which i'm interested in using trying to achieve a more lush painterly look without ever using oils haha

Tales of TMNT 56 color guide

This is the color guide I created for 56 since I'm not coloring the covers I wanted to do something that would work well in flat colors with very little rendering, it took awhile to get the color scheme right

New Pens and Paper

so i'm working on a really cool project doing boards, dave johnson is the character/concept artist doing some pretty damn sweet designs, sylvan who is a film board artist is art director. i'm really getting to do some fun stuff on boards..anyhow i've been getting some good inking tips from dave this paper and these very cool brush pens, japanese of course, are really nice. the ben can do some really nice dry brush especially on textured paper and stay sharp, i cant slather on the ink like my aquash pens but they will definitely work well together

Pieces of History

I was gonna talk primarily about these amazing maurice noble pieces I just bought , which are very important parts of animation history. These pieces some of which are from the Chuck Jones / Michael Maltese/ Maurice Noble masterpiece "boyhood daze", but how could I not mention the Historic election of nov 4 of which my girlfriend smartly bought a copy of the LA times ,most of the other papers thoroughly snatched up. I've never seen so much positivity and uplifted folks that seem to truly feel proud and connected to their country, possibly for the first time...I've came across some of the most amazing conversations in the past few days and they have al put a smile on my face.
Back to Noble. My love and adoration for the Chuck Jones masterpieces really made me take notice of the brillaint acompanyment that Noble was to Chuck. Chucks work just did not have the same impact without Noble's layouts. Together they are pure magic! Their work remains one of the most influential works of art on me to this day. Also just picked up the Noel Sickles scortchy smith book which showcase the comic strip and sickles simply amazing illustration work. You can see his influence on the amazing alex toth. Also picked up Chipp Kidd's Batmanga! the paperback has one of the coolest covers ever! what a great book.

Cintiq Doodles

some spare time work doodles

Tales of TMNT 56...inked

just finished the inks incorporating pens and brush
i'm really loving using the pens, the holbein drawing ink is amazing for the nibs

TMNT ink test

trying out the new ink nibs
a lt of excess ink scribbles

Waiting

On a walk last night looking into dark living room I got this idea. Tis' the season to enjoy cold weather (fingers crossed in los angeles) and to look carefully into the dark corners from within the safety of the light.

New Weapons New Scale

So after seeing one of my favorite artists new work jpleon (johnpaulleon.com) I was inspired, and got some good tips about the nibs he uses. So I am once again trying to see if I can implement quill,nibs and brush together. Falling Oaks yes that's new stuff in that picture will be my new ink testing ground. It also is a really fun exercise in storytelling and coloring, I'll talk more about that later. Anyhow I've loaded up on inks and supplies I'm working on a new technique for the next tales of tmnt(56) and as you can see I'm trying to get a new sense of scale and physique between the different turtles. Hopefully you can see the little nuances in in muscle definition and size as I really thought about their weapons and combat methods and personalities. Can you tell who is who? If your a turtle fan and participate in turtle communities feel free to post it where appropriate, i'd like to see if turtle fans in the know can guess which turtle is which. and i kind of like the samurai sash en lieu of the belt.
p.s. that deleter pen holder is the ultimate! I just figured out it can hold any and all nibs as some of the other simple wooden and plastic holder are specific to one sizeand it has a more ergonomic grip to boot!

Kirby Hulk

I really love the very simplistic, Frankenstein-like monster of Kirby's early Hulk renditions and other artists take on that hulk. That kind of inspired this quick sketch

Tales of TMNT 56...

i'm really excited about this issue...the one with the logo was the clean rough the top guy finished pencils

Tales of TMNT #50 pages

Since Mirage posted these on the site I will post them here too.

Tales of TMNT #50 out today

here's some sort of static "trailer" for the book...at the very least some panels i liked
p

sketchbook raw

cafe doodles while i write and drink coffee in the cafe
looking at so many people i would love to do a book on profiles and or women's hair. The different styles textures and graphic shapes of women's hair makes it really fun to draw
one thing i've noticed about drawing various people, it sucks whether the drawing came out "well" or not if you didn't really capture the character of that person, i need to work on that

Cold Night

blue man

a painter sketch

The Hunter, The Parents

a color version of the demon hunter
a sketch of the giant parents of the "hideous" baby giant
I'm a little mad I had a sketch hat had exactly the feel i wanted for the parents and i just can't find it, i'll toy around with this for awhile i would like to do a series of illustrations

Demon Hunter

wanted to draw the character from my 24 hour comic

Blanka Street Fighter Tribute

pinup done for the udon street fighter tribute book

The Dark Knight

Thanks to some friends at WB animation I was able to see the employee screening of the Dark Knight Tuesday. I have followed this movie for it's entire gestation period and my expectations and hopes were sky, having loved Nolan's interpretation and imagination applied to Batman's legendary mythos. After seeing this film I felt like it was the first time in far too long to finally see a great film. If nothing else this film has made my turn and reflect with even greater scrutiny what passes for a movie these past years. This film is on a whole other level. To simply compare this to other super-hero movies or any other comic films is a huge disservice, but if you must there's absolutley no question which one stands head and shoulders above the rest. The movie reached a level of intensity and emotion that seemed so foreign, I can scarcely remember having those feelings in a movie theater. To me this is the definitive Batman, obviously owing a great deal to the greatest of batman tales, Miller responsible for most, but here I see the Batman and now the joker and the gotham and the world that lied just beyond the comic and ,possibly because the safer nature of it, the animation's grasp. It's an amazing feat the Nolan's and everyone involved have achieved, a brilliant work that shows the depth and maturity fantasy is capable of. The next crop of comic films, action dramas, crime stories, hell even horror are really gonna have to step up their game. This is how it's done folks.
Oh yeah, you've never seen anything like Heath Ledgers Joker, what a performance!

Those Arms Become You

A short horror story I started years ago, never quite finished. The story was about a young orphaned girl, born without arms, that has the arms of an adult woman grafted on . The girl grows into the arms but becomes someone new.

Hulk Smash mediocre remake!

i know people are super touchy about super hero movies, almost as bad as game console loyalty but i just feel like talking about them for a moment. my super hero movie taste is a bit specific and I tend to not like ones many seem to enjoy. my biggest issue with super-hero movies is lack of cinematography and any sort of aesthetic. for that very reason and some others the original superman and batman begins are pretty much the only films I have any warm feelings for. The spiderman movies make me sick to my stomach. iron man was entertaining but felt cheap, predictable, and claustrophobic... set wise...one more scene in starks basement and i would have shot myself. and iron man itself doesn't even have any character. whatever, anyhow this new hulk was surprisingly much uglier cg then the first and hulk did way less interesting stuff then he did in the first movie... it's sad. What you saw in the commercials is exactly what you got, no surprises no curveballs. It's almost how i felt when i saw superman...here you have a character physically capable of anything and you come up with the most hum drum action scenes. Hancock had better action then either of those. marvel would have been better served redoing daredevil, which of course i didn't even bother to watch...ben affleck! give me a break. what you guys look for in super hero movies? I'm perfectly willing to let films stray from the source material if they understand the essence and approach with some imagination, that's what i look for, that and a good director of photography.

Metal Gear Solid 4

I think we should all just refer to Metal Gear Solid 4 as an experience...an amazing experience. It's too much to get into and I don't want to spoil one thing about it, but it has raised the bar an all forms of entertainment. It has achieved such a high level of artistry and storytelling that I can't imagine not being influenced or inspired by it for years to come. I'm still playing through and eager for a second helping. If at all possible try and experience this masterpiece. Depending on your gaming and or Metal Gear familiarity there may be a bit of a learning curve, but this game is much more accessible then the previous ones and there's many ways too approach the gameplay and controls. It is pure awesomeness.

Dragonball Z Son Goku

I drew the super saiyan goku from memory awhile back just to see if i still remembered, i was obsessed in high school part of my early exposure to anime...several years before it finally made its way to the usa. so i also drew goku yesterday to accompany him

Cosmos

i'd like to do some sci fi stuff soon, would be a lot of fun

Strawberry

very old found this in some old folder, but possibly one of my favorite drawings ever, she's kind of monstrous and creepy but i still love whoever this strawberry girl is

All in Your Head 24 hour comic

I did this awhile ago but I'm really proud of it the story really worked out well, it's 24 pages i believe and all done working 24 hours straight as part of 24 hour comic day, I may have doodled a rough layout or two but for the most part i just drew the story panel by panel it was so much fun. the first page i started refitting to actual comic format and that's why the lettering is typed. I want to definitely polish this up and publish it as a one shot

Thundarr! The Barbarian Ookla

does anyone not like this show? i loved it! such great designs by toth/kirby something like that

Falling Oaks strips

Thanks for the folks out there who have been keeping up with my blog and have taken the time to let me know your out there! Most of the time I feel like I'm just doing this for myself, but I will also try to be a little more interactive. There deosnt seem to be a way to reply directly to comments so you know I've replied...is there? These are from my hiatusified strip Welcome to Falling Oaks. http://fallingoaks.com I really had fun doing it and it was a great way to learn and experiment with storytelling, mood pacing color lighting and stuff I hope to bring into my own graphic novels later on. Very soon I'm gonna sit down and write some new episodes, i think it has a very interesting overall story. I'll talk about it more but i think theres some info about it out there at least there used to be

Make photoshop act like painter

I'm getting nowhere trying to get the hang of painter, I'll keep trying but for now i just waint to make photoshop feel more painterly and am being more deliberate in creating the feel of brush strokes

Mora cover wip

another phase in the coloring stage

Casshan in color

Mora Monsters wip

Mora cover colors

playing with some colors on this mora piece still wip

My favorite hero: Casshan (Casshern)

one of my favorite super-heroes Casshan,
I'm really looking forward to the new madhouse series and the tatsunoko vs capcom game!
Casshan's design is deceptively simple very elegant and quite powerful, i like him lots

Transformers Sideswipe

it's been a million years at least since i've drawn a transformer. the middle one is like a jazz remix color

Alice in Wonderland

The ink version of the painting I did awhile back. I used nylon pentel aquash pens which are refillable Japanese calligraphy pens. I still really like the technique I was inking a lot back then

Akuma revisited

another akuma, didn't go to far with this

Dark and Stormy

cant get enough of wewolves

Underwater

i added some color to this sketch though it doesnt really feel like it's underwater anymore

Wurmler of the West

this was a character for a short story i did for flight 3
I was really dissappointed in how little of the life in these sketches made it into the final I drew my own character SO off model! I'm gonna do a new story for him someday
he's a young warrior with a rare sword called the dragons tongue which is forked like a reptile tongue and is very flexible and becomes hot from constant motion, hence the dragon aspect of it. the worm creature is actually a wurm type legless dragon that wurmler (the little boy) fights with doing acrobatic things

A tale of two Hulks

I'm always looking for the proper physique and balance for the hulks proportions. He is not simply a buff green guy. I did these attempts for my portfolio

Mora's Monsters

I sketch I did one bored day at work
Mora 2 conceptual stuff I guess

Spidey

The movies really put me off Spiderman, but I used to draw him more than just about anyone
Even though I'm on the Spectacular Spiderman i still dont draw him much so heres a quick sketch I did

old space thingy

a really old character of mine

rat cook

I'm increasingly dissappointed with the concepts of Pixar. From the upcoming movie list it doesn't look like I'll need to see anything from them for awhile. Ive proclaimed my distaste for the rat cook concept and look for awhile but I finally sat and watched it. I looked at it from the point of how well did they make the concept and story they chose work. How do they engage the audience and get them into the story. Being a cook myself I actually found very little interesting in the cooking elements. But anyway the whole opening was very slow and throughout the movie I found many elements hard to believe, I thought they betrayed the characters they set up and often there were odd choices simply moving story from point A to B. The old woman shooting the hell out of her home was neither amusing or believable. The strange choice to make the rats need for food and natural instinct for survival into petty theft was really stupid. The whole film was really unamusing, and full of cartoony cliche antics and slapstick. The pseudo french ,characters most of which were merely providing background noise or awaiting to serve their brief plot point. Sorry these thoughts are everywhere I'm clumsily iPhone typing. The characters seemed merely for moving the plot along. The strange relationship with the female character that becomes even more obscurely vague ,after she and the main human character kiss, to the point of a nearly non existant relationship. I found it odd that even though the rat was the star cook, the other chefs were absolutely useless to the point of
not even learning any of the rats recipes, what were the others doing all those nights of cooking the rats recipes?!. I also didnt understand the chefs simply walking out once they find out a rat is the cook, was there no friendship amongst them? At the very least one of them would be willing to stick with it given the restaurants new found success. Anyway even the girlfriend walks out until she sees the ubiquitous "anyone can cook" a theme bludgeoned across the audiences head. Once again I felt the chefs reactions served the plot as opposed to being natural to the characters and scenario. The little spats between the rat and human were equally implausible. The rat mad after a fight with the unappreciative human,sends the rat family to " steal" food. They get caught by the human who owes all his success to this rat and instead of being level headed and appreciative of the rat that's brought him everything, he calls them all thieves and tells them to get out even though this is the most important night for the restaurant. There's plenty more that bothered me mostly along the same lines of thinly veiled plot devices unnatural character reactions and long unamusing cartoony monologues but typing on this phone is slow
I know story is claimed to be pixars focus but its sort of taken a back seat to character animation and overly rendered environments
p.s. Why does the garbage boy with apparently no inclination to cook proceed to go and ruin a soup right off the bat?! And a soup that induces vomiting isn't gonna become exquisite with a little bay leaf and cream

BOOM!

Here is some fun cover stuff I did for Boom comics.

Joker now in color

Dark Knight and Joker

some quick sketches done at work

Poster Sketch

A sketch I did awhile ago that somehow turned out to be a futuristic dracula thing of some sort.

Tales of TMNT 50 tones

The cover is done! At least my part off to the color and down to the nitty gritty--layouts. It's a hefty script and there's plenty of design work to be done so I want to really get a good grasp on the whole thing asap. It's gonna be very fun!

Some missed art

some stuff I came across, I thought I posted the beta color but guess not. The wolf type guy was/is/will be? an acient wolf for newer chapters in MORA when I get back to it
I forgot to post it but I'm gonna be at Meltdown comics on sunday march 30 for supermarketla http://supermarketla.com
it's an event for comic fans/creators/aspiring pros/ whatever to get together meet hang out please check it out if you can, this one is for folks in comics and in animation, that's the themes

TMNT and OMAC

Tales of TMNT #50

what i'm currently working on

Tales 36 faves

from Tales of TMNT #36 which came out last year, I'm very excited to be working on a very special tales of tmnt #50, I will post that stuff soon but you can find some of the stuff online if you want sorry I can't get to the links at the moment.
All images copyright 2007 MIRAGE

The Demon

I was throwing around some concepts for a pure fantasy piece it will be awhile before I do anything like that but this was a potential main character

Grey Hulk

Got my hands on Street Fighter 4

I just got back from Tokyo and was fortunate enough to be there for the beta testing they were doing at the various plaza capcom's around tokyo. I've been on the fence about so much of the look, it seems like they could get the 3d to look more like their drawings but aside from some really gross up close 3d animation, namely guile, the games whole package is pretty impressive in motion with full effects etc. The game is fun to just watch. I was able to get on three times, if and when you lose, you are only playing human opponents, you lined back up. I tried ryu once and blanka twice and on my final trip with blanka I actually had 3 wins, I was not able to pull off any of the super moves on joystick quite yet so I just played all straight up with their regular moves which was more than effective. I have to say the game feels awesome! I was actually not so thrilled about all the street fighter 2 /turbo gameplay but I actually found it to have more of the nice meaty feel of third strike. You really feel the hits and you feel like your characters are connecting/hitting your opponent, which what was usually lacking to me in most 3d fighters. The speed is perfect, pretty fast without being crazy. The attack and character animations in general really bring it all to life. The game just feels immediately addictictive, now I absolutely can't wait for this game to come out, to play online, to see what else they have in store for the game.

sony weekly 2 Kirby's OMAC

he's a weird one, not exactly happy how this came out but first sketch of that dude

SMASH BROS BRAWL!!!!  can't wait!! who's getting it? lets battle! i'm no good but lets battle!

same goes for cod4 on ps3 the first fps i have truly enjoyed

i'm getting burnt out so much work too many projects i just want to play some video games for awhile and recharge...

sony weekly

my pals at sony (spidey cartoon) are doing the weekly character sketch so i'm telecommuting mine till i return to the studio

beasts and bots

underwater

i haven't done a rendered piece or a monster in awhile though this is a creature i used to draw in high school, i wanted to take the rendering a bit further but i liked the impressionistic look

beta 2 and prototype

they go with the whole cyborgy thing started with the previous post

beta

why is having one weird weapony arm so cool? it is still appealing to me. it's getting harder and harder to just draw fun stuff, with the demands of work and even personal projects it's hard to try and just draw for the simple pleasure of drawing.

Fear Agent NInja Woman

Can you guys do me a favor and let me know how you came across this blog whether it's your first time or been here before. Thanks folks
here we have a snake ninja woman concept and a back cover for an upcoming Fear Agent

armour

i don't think i posted this here

Vintage Vinyl Japan style

I got back from tokyo recently and Hong kong, it was an amazing trip! as you can see I've become increasingly obsessed with vintage vinyl toys. in there we have Jumborg-A, Zone Fighter, Lion Maru, Tetsujin Tiger Seven, and some others anyhow

Batman

Hulk!

Some of my pals at Sony have been doing some cool character stuff and so I've been doing some of that stuff lately

AKUMA revisited

thundercats

i saw some very cool designs for a new thundercats that may never be and felt like doing a liono sketch, which is pretty much exactly the same as the original, if i wanted to do an actual "take" on the character i might put more thought into it and take more liberties

not much time for anything these days , metroid and bioshock have come to a halt do to my work load, falling oaks is in mid season hiatus but falls coming around so i really want to have nice stuff for the season and especially halloween. here's some recent doodles

batman metroid bioshock

totally unrelated I've got bioshock for my pc (laptop) and metroid prime 3 for wii, suffice it to say I'm not having too much fun with bioshock I find it pretty redundant and not even very interesting visually...i was hoping bioshock would be more of an adventure like res evil or just have more stuff happening. metroid on the other hand is awesome the art design is amazing the environments are stunning and its totally immersive, it's already like a great roller coaster ride I don't know why other fps can't incorporate the variety of gameplay like metroid or res evil

Mario Strikers Wii

If anyone has mario strikers for wii and want to exchange friend codes let me know,
so far i'm no good at the game but I never played the earlier versions, I will post my code when I get a chance to look it up

The Longman

Sketchbook

Dracula variation

Variation on the previous theme

Dracula

painter bits

stuff

Tales of TMNT #36

I FINALLY get to draw these guys!!!

Unfinished Wurmler

this was going to be for the 4th flight but I didn't have time to complete the story, when I get a chance to do wurmler of the west again I may go in a different direction

Me and my Laptop went to Life Drawing

Sketchbook Page

QUAFFINE

I am working on a custom figure of Quaffine from Mora...

Falling Oaks #1: Haunted Ghosts

be sure to check out falling oaks
I will be uploading strips early and am working on getting the strip its own site which hopefully will be up and running in a week or maybe earlier.

Falling Oaks is ALive

the web adventure is up! check out this spotlight artcle folks
http://comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9289

2k7 WHAT'S UP

How have I been entertaining myself this holiday? Nintendo Wii for sure, bowling, and The big "Z" Zelda, twilight princess.
Lately I've been listening to Joanna Newsom's awesome new album "Ys" absolutely fantastic! It's like Newsom's "Kid A"
White Magic's new album is awesome and well pure magic. I'm also listening to new Yola Tengo and a Twilight zone soundtrack. Jerry Goldsmith is pretty damn amazing sometimes listen to the the nervous man in the 4 dollar room, the last 2 minutes are so sweet!
I'm working on a custom figure of Quaffine from MOra and it looks amazing. Her new outfit will definitely be in the new works...
happy new years folks

Aliens in Hell

The InhumanoidS

MORA ILLUSTRATION

the early stages of a painting

The Inhumanoid

The Sketchbook

A small very limited sketchbook I made for fallcon

The Dogmeatsausage Show

Well it almost ready to launch and "Falling Oaks" will be the premiere series. It will be very dark very mysterious and hopefully a lot of fun please tell folks if you dig what I'm doing it will be something very special. check it out the show

FALLCON INTERVIEW

http://www.mncba.com/Fallcon/F2K6interviews.htm

NINTENDO WII!!!

man cannot wait to get my darn paws on this system! I don't think I have ever bought any sytems on launch except for the ds and ds lite. Zelda wii is an absolute must!!

FALLCON OCT 7-8

I was graciously invited to Fallcon in Minnesota Oct 7,8. I am really looking forward to attending and checking out someplace new.

MORA BUSTS

II have been getting into super sculpey it is so much fun. here's the first few things I have done. The owlen man is in progress

wolves

Sea of Red covers

WURMLER INKED

IN MY HEART A STALKING PUMA-WURMLER 2

title page art for the follow up to wurmler of the west in flightvol 3

BADIES

creatures and villains from stories I have yet to get too...someday fellas we'll get you a nice home

MORA #2 cover pencils

Beings

At the cafe

Mora Sketches

concept sketchies for the Mora Bat creatures

Mora Cardboard Art

Baby Giants are Hideous

MORA RAW ART

Raw page art from Mora, I will try and post more from time to time and you can check out the gallery I posted on the comicartfans by clicking the link the title

AKUMA

man where is street fighter 4?! they just let that thing die. No marvel vs capcom 3?! c'mon!

Desktop Inhabitants #1

Some of the goods on my desk right now. I've been a toy nut always and am very fond of the Japanese stuff. Kamen Rider the First, Kikaider both by medicom
and a very awesome looking Batman begins from takara, you can even change change him into bruce wayne with the harness and ninja mask, an incredible figure

comic con sketches

some sketches i did at the comic con. i love tmnt! and the mora one is some future cover concepts, i want to paint it when i get a chance to blow it up

Alice Prints

Nucleus Gallery will be selling prints for "Alice?"very soon. So contact them if you'd like one

Wurmler of The West in Flight vol 3

Some pages from my first foray into color. Wurmler of th West is a fantasy adventure short in flight vol 3. check it out let me know what you think.

MORA TPB

mora 1-4 in one neat package. I put a lot of extras in the back studio photos, sketches my process, the story is the early stages of mora who will become a most powerful and most tragic witch. the story is about the inhabitants who have chosen to live in the city of witches...dark fantasy horror if you like that stuff :)
you can order a copy easy enough from amazon i'm sure

new art

created this new bg for the site i like this character she will show up in other things probably in a new mora

http://dogmeatsausage.com

music i love now, artists i love now

celebration, metallic falcons, maximum joy, the slits, liars drums not dead,
talking heads, fear of music, remain in light and the first two albums, animal collective, deerhoof, brian eno, televiion marquee moon,....
nicolai fechin, jw waterhouse, gustav klimt, jerome witkin, burt silverman all fantastic painters

http://dogmeatsausage.com

Mora and Me

My first blog. I don't have much time to spill my guts, cuz I'm desperatley trying to get this one-shot I'm working plotted out. Anyway pretty excited about my first book MORA which comes out this Wednesday, Feb 2nd. I'm gonna go to Hide-Ho to sign a few books, and will have something at Meltdown and Golden Apple this is all in L.A. of course. Anyway I had a lot of fun last weekend back in SF at the Image Isotope party. James and crew are awesome. It was really cool to be there and watch the very first people in the country pick up the book and get immediate feedback. I'm very busy getting the third book written right now and am really excited about it. Here's my website if you want to see my work http://dogmeatsausage.com feel free to email me. I'm certain most of these posts will have to do with Mora because my life is boring, hers isn't. ;)