Guest Art For Tom Dell'Aringa's Marooned!

A few months back, Tom Dell'Aringa of the webcomic, Marooned, asked if I would be willing to contribute a piece for the art gallery in his first book. Being a fan of Tom's I obviously said yes! I had a lot of fun working this piece and learned a lot as well. If you haven't checked out Tom's comic... Go do it already! It's a fun story and it's awesome to see how far Tom's work has progressed since he first began.

Things of late have been slammed with progress on Amulet 3. Denver Jackson and I, moved from working on the flating preparation of Kazu's pages, to actually coloring a few. It was a huge honor to get to help see through the final process on the pages and help Jason Caffoe, Anthony Wu and Kazu out as they barreled through to the end. The book looks amazing and I can't wait for everyone out there to see what we've all been up to for the past year.

Other than that, The King's Game has been what I've been working on and I think its coming out great! So far, my agent has been ecstatic about the pages I've shown him, and I have about a month left of work I would guess before I'm ready to ship it out to him.

Oh, and I expect From Death Til Now will return this week as well. :-)

Bounty Hunter 2

I spent some time this weekend completely a second drawing of my bounty hunter character. I actually begun it awhile back but things got busy and it took some time. I'm pretty happy with how it call came out. I figuring this digital coloring thing out.

The Game

This week's painting is a conceptual painting around a story idea I am still in the infant stage on, called "The Game." It was quite the challenge to push myself on. Hope you all enjoy it. Click the image above to view the larger file.

Bounty Hunter

I drew for pure fun today for the first time in a long while. I decided to spend some time drawing a character I had been developing a few months back. I'm pretty happy with how it came out.
I decided it would be cool to show you all my process. So here's how it all starts...

This is the original rough drawing. I make a lot of mistakes in my drawing process, so doing my initial drawing this way really lets me be messy and get what I always intended from the drawing.

I then scan that drawing into the computer and convert the pencil line work to red lines like so...

Then I print that off on a sheet of bristol and draw it all again using a 2B pencil which helps the coloring process have a more painterly feel.

And well, you've already seen the finished product. From here I flat the whole thing in with simple colors and go to town coloring.

I meant to save an image of the flats, but I had forgot.