Ripping Creeper

This is a piece I did for a game. The brief called for a particularly nasty carnivorous vine with hooked thorns. I love inventing horrible alien botany.

Pitt pen on 114gsm paper.

Feeding the Specimen

So, a couple of weeks ago, I got a copy of Manga Studio 4 for super cheap. I've never used Manga Studio before, but a lot of artists I admire swear by it, so I thought I'd give it a go. This the first thing I've drawn with the program. It's a test piece, not a finished drawing. This is entirely digital, drawn with a Wacom tablet, as opposed to my usual preference for drawing something and then scanning it to be inked in Illustrator. This also corresponds to a commission I recently got for a role playing game. This is NOT the drawing for that game--those will be drawn traditionally--but it's inspired by the description given to me by the game developer.

Do I like Manga Studio? That remains to be seen. There's a learning curve involved and this, frankly, isn't my best foot forward. But what the hey. It's another tool for the toolbox.

Fearless Monster Hunters

This is an illustration I did for a roleplaying game that a friend of mine wrote. She wanted a Hammer Horror sort of feel by way of Bernie Wrightson, so this is the result. (And, oh, look at that! Another excuse to draw Peter Cushing). Brush and ink and crowquill and Pitt pens on Bristol board. Technically, this is still a work in progress, but whatever. The finished piece won't be too different.

Exile, page 9

This has been finished for a while. Katie asked me to hold off posting this while she runs a fundraiser on her tumblr. If you like queer erotica, she's offering stories as an incentive. In any case, back to this. Brush and ink and typeset, mostly, though I also used a Pitt brush pen and my fingerprints. This page was fun to draw.

Frogs

These were done for a freelance client. I don't know the background of these characters. The originals were all human characters. The client wanted them all as frogs. I'm easy. Frogs turn out to be insanely fun to draw in an anthropomorphic fashion. I got my inner cartoonist on for these. Adobe Illustrator over pencils.

Exile pages 7 and 8

Finally back to work on this. It's amazing how much easier it is to draw comics when your hands aren't covered with sores. This is a two page spread. I drew the top of this digitally, and I'm not really all that happy with it. there are some things I like, but not many. My avoidance of gray tones here borders on the masochistic.

The two pieces of art on the walls here are by Jim Dine and Willem DeKooning.

Lon Chaney

I couldn't sleep tonight, so here's a drawing of Lon Chaney I did for the hell of it.

Pitt pens and Copic markers over red col-erase prismacolor.