Batgirl Commission inks

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

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!

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

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...

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

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