Smoke and Fire - Portland Mercury

I did a new editorial illustration for this week's Portland Mercury. You can read the full article here. The color version is online and the gray version is in print the printed article this week.

I used a few different tools for inking this. It's been a while since I used a nib, but I used a HUNT 99 for most of the line work on the city image. I filled in the blacks and did the line work on the rest of the image with a size 0 sable brush from Rosemary & Co. Also, I added a bit of spray effect for the flame using a toothbrush. Coloring was done in Photoshop.

Space Walk

I did a new illustration for a t-shirt design. Follow the link to check it out on sale through MySoti.

New Shirt - Sludge

I made a new shirt and put it on mysoti.com for now. Eventually I'll be selling these shirts separate from mysoti I think, but this works until I get that going.

This was a fun design to make, I penciled, inked and finished it off all today. I used a Rosemary & Co. Series 33 size 0 brush for the linework. I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted it to look like in the end, but I did things a little differently with the brushwork. Instead of filling in all the 'black' areas, I outlined the penciled linework, then in Photoshop just filed the inside and subtracted the brushed lines. Working this way made the line weights extra important.

I wasn't sure about the face. Adding it made it look a bit cartoony and leaving it blank made it look more creepy.. but a little less interesting - so I went with the face.

While inking I was thinking a lot about 'process' and I came up with this: "Your process is the answer to the question 'how do I make this look the way I want it to?'" - That may not be the best or fullest explanation, but that's kinda how I think of it.

Rocketman Tshirt!!!

UPDATE: I made this into a shirt design and put it up for sale on mysoti. Check it out: http://www.mysoti.com/mysoti/product/380958


I did this illustration today, thinking of making it a t-shirt.

Digging Up Dirt - Portland Mercury

I did a new illustration for this week's Portland Mercury. I got to play around with a few inking tools I don't regularly use - to build the textures in the forest scene. I used a size 0 brush, series 33 (from Rosemary & co.) for most of the detail work on the main figure. The trees were built with a combination of toothbrush, old rag and foam brush.

Full article here: http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/digging-up-dirt/Content?oid=1380377

Money Talks - Portland Mercury

New illustration for this weeks Portland Mercury. Read the article here.

Stumptown 09

I went to Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland this weekend. I made the above image as promo card / bookmark.

Happy Birthday Riffer Ripshaw

My brother's birthday is today. So I drew 20 robots battling for him... it makes sense to me.

Metroid Loves Samus

Been playing Metroid Pinball lately on the DS. Good stuff.

Portland Mercury - Budget Cuts

I did another illustration for the Portland Mercury out this week. This was a fun one to draw/ink. You can see the illustration in the context of the article here.

Full of Pryde at Floating World Comics

Here is the piece that I am submitting for the 'Full of Pryde' art show at Floating World Comics in Portland, OR. All proceeds go to OHSU. FWC is a great little comic shop and it's owner, Jason Leivian does a great job organizing cool art events. Last year I submitted my THEY LIVE piece to the SUPERTRASH film festival that he helped organize. According to the website, the show opens May 7th. I look forward to seeing all the other pieces!

Baby Card

Here is a baby card I illustrated (and crafted!) for a friend's newborn.

Abstract

Here's an abstract piece I did recently.. hopefully the first in a series.



..and here it is hanging over my messy art area, where it will probably stay until I figure out what else to do with it.

Side B

So I posted a preview of my submission to this about a month ago. Here is a link to the site. It'll be hitting the shelves early June. It's being distributed through Diamond, so I'll probably post an update once it's in the Previews book.

Portland Mercury - There goes the Neighborhood

Here is an illustration I did for this week's Portland Mercury. It was a fun job, and I got to work with the new art director over there. Good deal. Read the full story here.

Litterboxx for Side B Anthology

Here are the first 2 pages of a 6 page comic that I submitted to a music-based comic anthology. It's called 'Side B' -- more info here: http://www.poseurink.com/sideb/ . It should be available sometime this coming summer.

House Poor - Portland Mercury

Here is another illustration I did for this week's Portland Mercury. You can read the full article here.

Fall Leaves - High Res Photoshop Brush Set

Here is a set of 10 Photoshop brushes that I made. They are free for use on any projects, though you may not sell, redistribute or host them. They are high resolution and were created in Adobe Photoshop version CS3. They were tested in CS3 and CS2, but may not work in earlier versions of Photoshop. Here is a preview of what they look like:Also, I made a color palette from the fall colors in our backyard that is also in the .zip file.The .zip file contains the .abr brushes file and the .aco color swatches file. Load these to their respective folders in your Presets folder. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments.

Click here, or right click and select 'save as' to download the .zip file.

Enjoy!

Free Font - Sewer Rat

I have created an original font and I'm proud to release it here. This is the first font I have designed so let me know if you have any problems with it. Please send me any feedback you may have.

This version only includes a basic set of all caps A-Z and 0-9. This font is fairly detailed in it's texture, but would work well for high resolution or large work.

I could see this typeface used for grunge, punk, rock, skateboard and other designs along that line. It would also work well as a Halloween font - as it is October...

It is a free font so you may use it in anything, even in designs you sell. You just cannot redistribute this font, or host it on a server.

The font is hosted on my website so click here to download it. Or right click and select 'save as'.

Obama 08 Desktop Wallpaper

Here is an Obama poster I put together. I haven't done many desktop wallpapers, this one is sized at 1280 x 1024 so it at least works for my screen. Hope it works for yours.