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Son of a gun

2008-05-27T12:10:00.000-07:00

Hey look, there's an old interview with me up at http://rococoflow.blogspot.com. ... anyway, guess what time it is?

Sorry folks. A million and one things to do, and not enough time to do half of them. Hey, look on the bright side -

Feed the Hungry

2008-05-19T18:43:00.000-07:00

.. have fun, and learn something along the way too. Win-win if you ask me.

http://freerice.com/index.php - vocabulary related questions, each correct response donates 20 grains of rice.

http://www.freepoverty.com/ - geography game, the closer you are to the location, the more water gets donated.

They're both pretty fun and educational, and you don't feel bad for wasting your time playing online games afterwards. There's also one that donates flour, but it was buggy and had some dubious advert spamming, so I'm not too sure about it.

Since I'm posting, here's something I never finished, started when B.Clay Moore was looking for "robot" art for his newborn's room/nursery. That must have been at least a year ago now, if not longer... I fail. But I fed some people I hope.

In the sea there is a fish

2008-05-16T13:01:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I forget to do warmups, because y'know.. there's never time. And then I sit there struggling thru work with "cold" hands wondering why the hell I can't draw anymore. Last night I remembered! So here's a warmup of sorts that turned into a portrait.. of sorts.

Thanks for the comments, friends, will reply when I'm feeling more myself.

.sound_PRI - To the Best of our Knowledge

.screen_2 Days in Paris

Shut your mouth

2008-05-11T12:00:00.000-07:00

Just talkin' 'bout scraps~

Tossed in my Photoshop workspace to fill some blank white space.
nada much to say today. Kids, remember, conducting business when you haven't had sleep is a bad idea! And always brush your teeth.

What it is

2008-05-03T07:19:00.000-07:00

..what it is. The last cover, even though we still have 5 issues to put out.

And hey lookit, Clay's posted all 8 up at the Image forums. Kinda fun to see the progression, I've definitely learned a lot about painting and my process along the way.

Still got a lot to learn, but it's gratifying that the first cover is the "worst" one. Apparently 6 is everyone's fave, despite the fact that I had to turn out those colors overnight and it's at best 25% done... haha. I've got a lot of work to do on it before the actual issue 6 goes out. Oh well.
I'll cobble together the scraps for this cover for the next post hopefully.

*ps - that "QB" graf is supposed to read "CB" - but I am lame. Sorry, Be. I'll fix it for print!

.sound_Dasi | M.Ward | Francoise Hardy

.screen_The Squid and the Whale | Shaun of the Dead | Paris Je'Taime

Scrappy Doo

2008-04-28T07:48:00.000-07:00

Some scraps from issue 5, just like it says, nothing fancy, very scrappy.

Cover to the last issue (8/8) and/or scraps for it next time. It's a little strange to be doing the final cover, but it's my favorite one I think. More my vibe than the others I've done - although I had a lot of fun designing Issue 5's poster cover too.

Sara

2008-04-21T22:58:00.000-07:00

Tonight's life drawing - only threw out one drawing! Model was great, and there were cookies - Oreo AND chocolate chip. Not a bad night at all.

First row are 5 minute poses, last 3 are 25 minutes. Scraps.. next time! Oddly enough scraps actually take a bit of time to organize together in a presentable fashion. Who knew? :(

Just saw the teaser for the Spirit. Is it just me, or is this basically Sin City, with the Sin City/300 font. There's nothing particularly Spirit-y or Will Eisnery about it.. at all.

Candy Hairclip

2008-04-19T08:31:00.000-07:00

A present. I think it's done? Gotta comment now, I reckon. ;)

Issue 5 scraps next time! Has anyone read Issue 3 yet? I think it's the first one I'm fairly happy with all-around. Wizard Online digs us too:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/041708tmqb4.html
(last cover/review at the bottom)

urgh

2008-04-13T14:36:00.000-07:00

concerning recent hysteria:
http://maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

Here's a doodle.

In other news - '76 #3 is officially coming out this Wednesday... finally. As I've mentioned before, we've had it in the can for months now, so if readers had the idea that anyone on the creative team was behind the delay, we weren't.

I might be the one who holds up Issue 5 if I don't get back to work though, so... yeap. Back to work for me. I'll probably post up some scraps from it next time, I'm pretty damn happy with how it's turning out.

.sound_Bram Stoker's Dracula [audiobook]

.screen_A Little Romance [1979]

wth, cowboy.

2008-04-08T16:26:00.000-07:00

Just some scraps! Bunch of work in progress things for that Issue 7 cover, y'know, for the kids. It's all for the kids.

Oh Eh Sketchi.

2008-04-03T21:19:00.000-07:00

random oekaki sort of things, done in iSketch and MSN msgr.

.sound_Marlena Shaw [Liberation Conversation] | The Ink Spots

where have all the flowers gone

2008-04-02T03:25:00.000-07:00

Cover to Issue 7, 95ish% done, good enough for Previews, and gonna sit like this while I catch up on pages, and on a gazillion other things. Cool beans. Issue 6 cover... still in the works, if that makes any sense. I'd worry about spoilers, but nobody really reads these things anyway, or our book, which is still somehow MIA... and I still don't own a single copy of. Yeah. I don't know. *shrug* Cover was fun for me though, I hope that shows. Couple old studies for good measure.

.print_John Buscema(+ Klaus Janson and Al Williamson) on Wolverine

.sound_Smashing Pumpkins | Kula Shaker

.screen_King of California | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Sometimes

2008-03-25T13:59:00.000-07:00

...sometimes the only things that make sense in life are a runaway, a cross-dressing hobo who wants to be a mother, and an alcoholic gambling addict. Hustling on some things, so here's a couple oldies. Miyuki from Satoshi Kon's brilliantly multi-layered Tokyo Godfathers. Probably one of my favorite films of all time, animated or otherwise. There's a lot you only notice on 2nd or 3rd viewings.

I'd posted the (hastily) toned version on my LJ, so here's the ink version so I'm only 1/2 cheating? Also a Hulk doodle I never scanned in, in which he reveals his love for a particular flavor of frozen treat.

I think I may have had things I wanted to write about, but I'm too scatterbrained and behind on.. life. Maybe next time.

.print_John Buscema's Wolverine run

.sound_Oasis | Smashing Pumpkins | Kula Shaker

.screen_Atonement

Straight On Till Morning

2008-03-18T10:42:00.000-07:00

So we're gonna try to do this update-y thing at least once a week. Hopefully I'll have a few things every week, maybe just one... but expect to see a lot of scraps and old stuff when I don't! Here's another Sophia, been sitting at this stage for a few days now, which usually means I won't be back to it for a long long while, so there she is. A Peter Pan thingy for the same DrawingBoard thread as Alice, and some head studies. Working on expressions.

Also, '76 #3 is late, I'm not entirely clear on why, suffice to say that we've had it written and drawn for months so... *shrug* I hope the 10 people reading it enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it! The scripts for both are great and different enough to balance out well, and the stuff Tigh's doing is an education to me everytime I see pages.

On an unrelated side note, I sure am glad the government is making laws to make sure we all get HD television broadcasts. Everytime I see those commercials I get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside my tummy and bluejays chirp outside my window, as if by magical impulse! It's almost like the world/this country is completely fine and we *don't* have anything more impo-- .... well anyway, it's good to know they're on top of that HD thing.

Until next week, kids. Yeah, all 5 of you.

.sound_Anette Hanshaw | Sleepy Rebels

.screen_Foul Play | Bullitt | The French Connection

S'long Dave

2008-03-14T14:28:00.000-07:00

A farewell salute to the late, great Dave Stevens, creator/genius/artist behind the Rocketeer.

Alice

2008-03-13T06:49:00.000-07:00

Here's something I started maybe 2 years ago. Retooled and finished up for ye olde DrawingBoard. Older, very aborted versions: 1 | 2. I was in a "hey that halftone filter is pretty cool" phase, as you can see. I left some of that underneath the new version.

doowop

2008-03-10T02:02:00.000-07:00

Did I say soon? I meant.. "eventually". Some peace offerings. A couple studies, one for a Sophia Loren jam at the Drawing Board. And a little digi-doodle from the dying embers of 2007.

Oh, I also updated the links page just a tiny bit. And now, a public service announcement:

Hey kids! Have you been reading '76, from Image Comics? Wish you could have your VERY OWN Jackie Karma Miis for your Nintendo Wii? Well, now you can! Simple sign into your "Check Mii Out" channel to get YOUR:

Jackie Karma (Mii# 5405-1901-4538)
Marcus King (Mii# 6483-8577-1493)
Bobby Howler (Mii# 5735-9843-5932)

Tell your friends!

.print_The Wednesday Conspiracy [Sergio Bleda]

.sound_Yael Naim [Yael Naim]

.screen_Irma LaDouce

Studies and things

2008-02-08T16:14:00.000-08:00

I apologize for the lack of updates, it happens sometimes! Especially when life hates me. Anyway, here's some study and prep work, one for '76/Jackie Karma and the other two were for La Llorona. More soon, promise!

.print_Scott Pilgrim Vol.4

.sound_Blur[Think Tank] | Kula Shaker | Cold War Kids

.screen_The French Connection

'76 #5 Cover

2008-01-23T19:07:00.000-08:00

Here's a near-final that I sent off for Previews. Some minor tweaks left, but I've got time until we need it for the actual issue, soooo. Yeap. Pretty happy with it!

76 #1 Out Today!

2008-01-16T19:13:00.000-08:00

So... yeah. It is. And if your store doesn't have it, then they're lame (and you should please please ask them to order/reorder it)! This is what it looks like, and I drew the half starring that guy there, Jackie K.

76 #5

2008-01-12T03:09:00.000-08:00

...maybe. Just playing around with this tonight, very very rough of course, but uhm, I feel bad about not updating. Although, I guess this is more graphic design than actual art. All the images are placeholders for now while I tweak and retweak the design to death, as is my custom. Ah, ok more update cheating, here's a couple old (really old) things most people probably haven't seen.

76 shipping update

2007-12-30T23:43:00.000-08:00

Rawr -due to the holiday egg nog affecting the printing/shipping schedule, I've found out that '76 #1 will actually be appearing 1 or 2 weeks later than the solicited January 9th date. Every issue afterwards will ship according to the original first-week-of-the-month schedule.

Newsarama '76 Interview Part 1 - Clay and I answer some questions and Clay is highly amusing. Also, pages.
Seth and Tigh do their thing in Part 2 and more pages!

CBR Interviews Clay: "Moore Gives Good Karma in '76"
Ain't It Cool News Cheap Shots digs our book! .. You gotta scroll down a bit to get to it, but they say a lot of nice things about us, woo!

Entertainment Weekly Online begrudgingly gave us a B+! I don't have the link anymore, but they basically didn't like the book, despite admitting it was "well done" and that the four of us were "obviously talented". *shrug* Ya got me.

http://76blog.blogspot.com/ - Some newish pages from Tigh and myself posted in the last month or so.

ororororor

2007-12-28T00:07:00.000-08:00

Thought I'd post a bit of the recent LJ stuff to fill this blog out - Next on the list, I've got to go through my links page and update/delete as needed. When will this happen? I'm.. not sure.