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Venom colors...

Here was a sketch cover I did at the New York Comic Con (NYCC) this last fall. I had the surprise of someone coloring it up as a warm up. Always cool to see.

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Colors by miguel sequeira
Here was the original inks



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TMNT Leo vs the Foot Inks part 2.....

Little bit at a time, Ninja by Ninja, this finally got done this week. I didn't realize how many ninjas I had put on this cover until I was sitting there inking them one by one. I'd think I had them all...then POOF another Ninja would seem to appear.

Man, they really snuck up on me...


Anyway, the best part of doing these covers is getting to draw characters I love that I don't normally get the chance to draw. So much fun! I think this is one of my favorite blank covers so far.

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The sketches for last years daily challenge are collected in these 3 volumes!366: Daily Sketch Challenge SketchbooksVolumes 1, 2, and 3 are available for $10 each combining 180 pages of art!$5 flat rate shipping for 1 or all 3 combined.
Volume 4 will be coming out this year for the convention season.  Volume 1's first print run is almost sold out! I only have 4-5 left. Volume 2 is nearly sold out as well. Get them while you can!

TMNT Leo Vs. The Foot- Inks part 1....

Here's just a quick progress scan. Leo all inked in. I'll be making the Foot mostly heavy blacks, so I wanted to keep Leo pretty open in the line work to make him stand out more. 
Always fun drawing the Turtles!!!

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There's always an interesting anatomy challenge when drawing the Turtles. How humanoid to make them look in the anatomy? Some take it to extremes and go more toward the turtle direction. I've always approached it more that if you want them to really look like mutants, then you should push it more towards human anatomy. Just very stocky, and then the obvious differences in the hands, feet and head. But under the shell, These guys would follow basic human anatomy. That's what makes them so weird, and capable in their martial arts. It's their denseness and durability that makes them so tough to beat as well. Not to mention the obvious protection of their shells from rear and vital front attacks. 
I'm sure I'm thinking about it too much, but that's what makes my job so fun!
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More TMNT goodness!...

Another blank sketch cover I have in my list of "To Do's".... Pretty busy one, but they asked for it, and when it comes to any 80's property I'm more than happy to oblige! Premise: Leonardo Vs. As many Foot Ninjas as I can fit on a cover...ready GO!

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This is just the pencil underdrawing to work out the composition an details. Inks are coming right up!

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EOT RuneStone Cover 2 Inks...

Finally got this done, I took a day and was working on it. Then we went out of town for our niece's 1st birthday and a few other things came up, so I was working on it a little at a time. I always hate doing work piece by piece. I much rather have a large chunk of time and just focus on the project until it's done.

Unfortunately for most side projects, it's hard for me to take 2-3 days out of my deadline schedule to do it that way.  I work it out as best as I can.

I realized it's been a while since I inked anything, especially with a brush. It took a little bit to get the rust off. But over all I'm happy with how the characters and backgrounds came out. I can't wait for this to be colored. All the wispy smoke is left over from Gar, the large character's transformation. Then Jenny has energy gauntlets that form over her body that she uses as armor and can send out blast shockwaves among other things. So there's a lot of opportunity to color up the powers and get nice reflected lights all around.

I'll be sure to post it as soon as it's done.

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Superman...

Here is one of my smaller convention size sketches. I'm working hard to get caught up on all my commissions on top of my regular work load, so I really do appreciate how patient people have been. Luckily my work is now finally more regular and predictable, so I finally have time to start slotting these in and catching up. I really wanted to make sure I have all my sketches and commissions done before the new convention season starts up.

So if anyone checking out the blog has a commission with me, I'll be wrapping them all up between now and March at the absolute latest! You can email me directly if you need more details. With just one book to do a month, I can get back to my daily warm ups. When I was juggling 2-3 projects at once, I had to set aside my daily sketches and fit in the other deadline work. I realized I just reached my limit and it ended up not being worth taking on so much work.

This Superman sketch was fun to do, I feel like I've never really been able to draw a decent Superman, and I'm finally happy with one that I've finished. I think the request was a head shot of Superman smiling. With most of my commissions, if I'm over due in getting them done I try to spend more time on them and put the extra work in to make up for it a bit.

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Original art- Ink-  9x12




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Character creation...

When I was a kid, my brothers and I would sped hours coming up with superhero characters. We'd draw them out, write up the bios and then act out the adventures. Now, for the most part they were all terrible amalgamations of established characters. I can't think of one original character that wasn't laughable.

But it was still a blast to do! I wanted to do that with my kids, and my nieces and nephews at our next family get together. The last time I had seen my nephews they were doing this already, and I've spent time creating characters with my son recently as well, so it seemed like a great thing to do around Christmas.

I think I've shared these on the blog before, but years ago I created these figure templates that I use for my elementary school presentations I do throughout the year. I have the students create characters, and use this template to draw their character on. It helps them feel like they don't need to be fantastic artists, just creative. I get some pretty awesome characters shown to me each time.



 



Feel free to print these out and use to create your own characters!
So I took these over and sat down with each kid in the family that wanted to, and we came up with some pretty amazing characters and designs. Mostly these were characters they had already come up with, and I just helped them work out the design and look of the character they had in their head.


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My nephew Cai's character - BlackoutLots of cool weapons and a very interesting power. He designed the logo on the should guard himself, which I really liked in particular!
My niece Lilly's character - Goonga (she's 6 btw)He's part cyborg but all evil! When she was describing the character to me, I thought she meant the human side was good, but the cyborg side was programed for evil. I thought that was an awesome idea, but I was just misunderstanding...He's all evil. That works too, heh.This was fun working out the cyborg details. I'd like to draw a character like this on a regular basis.
This was my nephew Benjamin's character - I forget the name, I'll have to askEx- Military, but an artist as well. Whatever he draws, he can make come to life. All around cool dude...

My son Connor's character - I forget her name as well. She started out just as a female ninja, but then he gave her powers like the Atom in DC or the Wasp in Marvel comics where she can reduce her size to incredibly small... I'm sure as a ninja that would be handy sneaking around and making it look like she can disappear.I just like drawing ninjas...
My nephew Tyler just wanted a picture of Spider-manCan't knock a good thing!
Tyler's went much quicker since he wasn't coming up with a character so I had time to color his with some markers. Super quick sketch.
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Cobra Convention Jam...

I recently got an email from the guy who put this together. I did my part back in 2009! It's always awesome to see these come together and finished, especially when you're on the front end of the process.

Thought I'd share it will all of you!

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I drew Firefly on the far left, I think mine is the only one not colored so it kind of stands out...not necessarily in a good way. hmmm.

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Hulk Color and variants...

Here is the Hulk piece colored up by Simon Gough who helped out on the project. He did two versions, I preferred the darker one that I'm showing here.

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There was another gritty version done by Jeff Simpson who headed the project, I think this was just done for fun on the side.




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Incredible Hulk Pencils and Inks...

Here was the final chosen, then pencils and inks turned in. The side turned pose was chosen since the HULK was going to be fighting another character. So it's always a tough pose to show the front of both characters that are fighting each other. You'll always end up with one or both of the character half turned, so the Hulk here gets stuck with not being the front on shot.

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I don't normally go into this much detail when I'm inking a character piece. But at the time I was teaching an anatomy course and this was a good chance to work out the muscle groups more specifically in the underdrawing. 


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