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