"Hell's Treasure" Kickstarter Campaign is LIVE!!

Grab your wallets and dump out your change jars, because the Kickstarter campaign to fund "Hell's Treasure" is live! 

I'm a little late posting this to the blog, but the campaign will run through August 18, so any little bit of help you can give brings us closer to me having the budget to illustrate this entire graphic novel, in full glorious color, and bring this fantasy story to life. 

Here's a couple more pages if you're not convinced! 

Gig Poster

A recent illustration I did to promote my brother's band Izalith and their LA stop on their first tour. It was a fun opportunity to draw something a little different than I usually do!

For those of you in LA, Izalith will be playing tomorrow night at Amplyfi in Hollywood. The show starts at 7 PM, and in the words of the venue's own website, "AMPLYFi is located in the alley behind Astroburger in the 5600 block of Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90038. We are between Gower and El Centro." You can purchase tickets here.

The finished image.

Early rough marker sketch.

Pencils.

Inks.

No Angel

While my and Jamie S. Rich's upcoming book for Oni Press has occupied most of my free time these days, we're coming up on the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to fund another graphic novel I contributed artwork to! 

I'll link to the campaign once it goes live, but in the meantime, here's a teaser of my process for first pitch page (page 45 of the final book, to be exact) of "Hell's Treasure" by Robert Jeschonek. 

Pencils

Inks

Final Color

There and Back Again

With a couple weeks left to go until the release of the first "Hobbit" movie, I'm starting to get excited. For all my fears of it being broken into a trilogy (how many zombies did Peter Jackson shoe-horn into THIS one to stretch it out for three movies?), this is an adaptation of my favorite book of all time, produced by a film cast and crew who made one of my favorite film trilogies of all time, so I'm choosing to go in optimistic. 

"The Lord of the Rings" films, flaws and all, are very near and dear to me. I loved the books, of course, but the films came out at a time when I was in art school, studying to tell stories through my illustrations (at the time, I expected I would go into conceptual design...this was before I realized every illustrator my age wanted that job, and most of them were male and drew the way everyone expected of conceptual designers). And suddenly here was this series of art-rich movies to inspire me. So, it makes sense that as another story of Middle-earth is coming to the big screen, the excitement shows up in my sketchbook. 

(I mean, I'm certainly too old to go to the premiere in costume this time... ;) )