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