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Green Lantern #40 In Stores!

2009-05-06T07:23:00.000-07:00

Written by Geoff Johns; Art and cover by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion; Variant cover by Rodolfo Migliari

"Agent Orange" part 2! The prelude to "The Blackest Night" continues as the war of light explodes across the Vega System. It's the Green Lantern Corps vs. the bizarre Orange Lantern Corps led by the most disgusting, filthiest, vilest being in the universe. But now that Agent Orange has been disturbed, what does that mean to the rest of the universe? Plus, John Stewart battles alongside his newest ally...Fatality?

We were a bit rushed on the issue so I did the best I could with the time given.

Green Lantern #39 In Stores!

2009-05-01T13:26:00.000-07:00

Written by Geoff Johns; Art and cover by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion; Variant cover by Rodolfo Migliari

"Agent Orange" part 2! The prelude to "The Blackest Night" continues as the war of light explodes across the Vega System. It's the Green Lantern Corps vs. the bizarre Orange Lantern Corps led by the most disgusting, filthiest, vilest being in the universe. But now that Agent Orange has been disturbed, what does that mean to the rest of the universe? Plus, John Stewart battles alongside his newest ally...Fatality?

You know what that means. New Hi Res line art coming soon for colorist and aspiring inkers.

Line Art for Colorist #2

2009-04-26T14:33:00.000-07:00

Line Art from Final Crisis Revelations

Pencils: Philip Tan
Inks: Jonathan Glapion

Art representation by Kirk Dilbeck

Final Crisis Revelations © DC Comics 2009

Line Art for colorist #1

2009-04-25T07:56:00.000-07:00

This will kick off my first official Line Art for colorist contribution. I only ask that you give credit to where you got the image from and of course NO PRINT FOR SALE.

Green Lantern © DC Comics 2009

Pencils: Philip Tan
Inks: Jonathan Glapion

Art representation by Kirk Dilbeck

HULK UPDATE...

2009-04-22T10:08:00.000-07:00

So here's the Finishes I did over Philip Tan's roughs, Some of it works for me some of it bugs the hell out of me. The goal is the more I do the better i get so I guess i'll have to take the good with the bad. I'll be inking this so I can at least use the confidence I have in my inking ability to make up for what i'm lacking in my pencilling.

To be continued......

Batgirl Commission inks

2009-04-22T07:28:00.000-07:00

Line art batgirl.600.bmp (OS X)

Here's the latest in a line of commission.

Pencils by: David Finch

DO NOT PRINT!
Batgirl ©DC comics 2009.

Hulk Finishes

2009-04-14T12:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a little WIP of a Hulk commission. Philip Tan wanted to play around with helping me work on my pencilling skills, so to kick things off he's doing roughs and I'll be doing pencil and ink finishes. The process is fun and a much needed break from my every day inking duties. I think the more of these we do the strong our work will become in the long run.

Green Lantern #39 In Stores!

2009-04-10T10:06:00.000-07:00

Written by Geoff Johns; Art by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion; Cover by Ivan Reis and Oclair Albert; Variant cover by Rodolfo Migliari

"Agent Orange" Part 1 and featuring an "Origins and Omens" backup tale! As the orange light of avarice erupts in violence within the Vega System, the secrets of the Guardians' pact with the criminals of the universe that has kept the Vega System off limits is revealed. Hal Jordan comes face to face with the mysterious and immensely powerful Agent Orange in a bizarre confrontation.
DC Universe 32pg. Color $2.99 US
On Sale April 8, 2009

A labor of love

2009-02-24T23:25:00.000-08:00

My favorite little artist working on one of five sketches for the day. It's funny to just sit back and watch her work and at 17 months she knows how to get in the chair and turn on the Cintiq. She gets so involved in her work it's the funniest thing to see and she really pulls off some nice shapes. She rarely scribbles the way I would imagine a little kid her age would. I try to let her do this at least every other day, deadlines permitted of course.

Green Lantern #39 SNEAK PEEK...

2009-02-24T09:01:00.000-08:00

We'll it's been forever since my last post, I really need to work on the blogging thing. With that said this should be a good start. Since the end of Final Crisis Revelations I've been pretty busy working with Philip Tan fine tuning our new look. We wanted to go for something a little more texturally interesting. So our journey has lead us to realize we both have a lot of the same art appreciations. We both have a strong love for the works of Sergio Toppi and for me one of my favorites Travis Charest (the spacegirl stuff is amazing).

It don't come easy and it comes at a heavy price at times (less sleep). The beginning is always rough when it comes to an inker trying to read a penciller, there a lot of back and forth on what works and what doesn't. The new look is more about how my lines are gathered and how values and tones are created with the use of flat line weights. I'm not going for that design cool looking line thingy, whatever the hell that is. What I find to be the most fun is the challenge of not falling back into those old habits. For the first time in my career I feel like I am truly collaborating with another artist and what I do really does matter. We aren't 100% where we want to be but we're on the right track.

Commission Inks

2008-12-01T17:06:00.000-08:00

Here's a few of my latest ink commission. I'll admit it's a challenge finding the time in my schedule to do these but it's always fun. I'm not sure I have a favorite of these three but I did have fun with the Alan Davis one. It's a bit outside of what I normally do but thats when I usually learn the most.

Stay tuned more to come!

Halloween Sketch

2008-11-01T09:58:00.000-07:00

Good day for an evil sketch

2008-10-17T19:05:00.000-07:00

Well today's been a pretty crappy day so I figured I may as well dust of the cintiq and have at it. I didn't really have anything in my head that I wanted to get other than just something more than a stick figure. It's was a fun process of being frustrated but in the end I discovered some things about myself. Like I don't draw nearly as much as I should.

Tool: Painter X, Photoshop CS3, and iTunes.

New Cintiq 21UX

2008-10-03T13:19:00.000-07:00

Today's sketch is brought to you by my new Cintiq 21UX (painter and Photoshop). I've been wanting to pick one of these babies up for a while now and I finally got around to picking one up and I'm glad I did. This is one sexy piece of technology. I wasn't sure how well I'd adapt to working on it but I have to say the set up is easy and working on it is a dream.

stay tuned for more sketches to come.

Final Crisis Revelations #2 In stores

2008-09-22T19:35:00.001-07:00

This is one of my favorite pages of the series so far..... I mean come on Batwoman and Killer Croc, what more can you ask for. Philip did such an amazing job on the piece my jaw dropped when I saw it. I'll admit I avoided inking it for a while, it's a lot to take in.

Once I got going on the page I worked on it over a course of several days in oder to keep my sanity. It's not hard to go a little batty on a page like this.

Stay tuned for more to come......

The Last Cover

2008-09-16T11:22:00.000-07:00

The last in the series and I have to say it's my favorite one. For this one I wanted to do something special.... something a little different. Well that was the plan at least. DC needed the cover turned around ASAP (as usually the case with covers) so this was pretty much would I came up with in the time I had. I'm hoping in the future to explore this style more in upcoming covers/pages.

Final Crisis Revelations #2

2008-09-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

Written by Greg Rucka; Art and Covers by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion

Cain walks the Earth with the Spear of Destiny in his hand, and the only one who can stop him is the Spectre! But the Spectre hovers at death's door, split from his host, and only one person can save him: Crispus Allen. Meanwhile, the Question, Radiant, and Huntress struggle to defend what's left of Gotham in the face of a Justifier siege.

The deadline blues...

2008-09-09T16:01:00.000-07:00

So here we go again..... the sleepless nights, the endless cups of coffee and the dreams of just hanging out doing nothing. My deadline has tracked me down like the grim reaper. I have insane amount of pages due by the end of the week.

I hate having to work like this. I mean how can you enjoy what you're doing when all you have consuming you're thoughts are being done. Generally I don't work well under this type of stress. On the upside in a way it's when you really discover what you are made of..... I guess.

Well, back to the drawing board..... literally.

Latest Commission

2008-09-01T13:49:00.000-07:00

Since I've been away I've been keeping pretty busy with the typical deadlines and not your average Ironman commission. If you're thinking man this must have taken forever you're right it did. Some how I kept my sanity though so I'm up for more commissions...... I think?

Pencils by: Philip Tan

Inks: J.Glapion :)

Tools used: lots of coffee and excedrin.

Coming Soon.....

2008-09-01T13:39:00.000-07:00

So it's been a while but I'm back. I've grown pretty tired of the old site so I'm putting artoficial dot com under the knife. It's taking me forever for two reasons, I'm doing the site myself, and my deadlines on Final Crisis: Revelations. So bare with me a bit longer.

Demons of Mercy#1 WIP....

2007-07-22T22:15:00.000-07:00

Here's another WIP, this time from Marvel & Maxum Games. This is one of the interior pages (inked about a month ago) penciled by Walter Geovani.

With this book I'm working over blue line (since Walter lives in Brazil) or should I say gray line. I don't like working over blue so I print any "blue line" type work in grayscale. I've found it's easier on the eyes and you don't miss any subtleties in the pencils.

BATMAN COVER WIP

2007-07-21T08:11:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since my last post so I've decided to share a cover in progress.

Here I am working on an up coming cover for an issue of BATMAN penciled by Tony S. Daniel. I couldn't resist going straight to BATMAN, screw the side dishes for now. At this point I've pretty much used all nib. For spotting blacks I typically use a water brush (mostly just for filling in the larger areas) filled with ink. The upside to using water brushes are that you can work fast since you don't have bother with dipping and cleaning your brush (sorry I'm lazy folks). When I need to do more intricate work with a brush I use an Escoda #2 Kolinsky and my favorite brush Dragons Tongue #2.

Stay tuned more WIP's coming soon.......

Doodles.

2007-05-27T17:54:00.001-07:00

Some old, some new. Nothing special......just a few late night sketches.