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Moleskine Monday 14: The Force Awakens

January 18, 2016

Perhaps it's a little difficult to remember since so many have seen the film, but remember the excitement when the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the internet? It was pretty electric and like many, it brought back a lot of those old memories of that long lost love. At the time I did a sketch of Han Solo where he says, "we're home" and here's the full two page spread showing some of the behind the scenes that went into creating that illustration. I think it's worth sharing again just for the strange little character doodles and their fun interactions.

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Moleskine Monday 13: The Man

January 11, 2016

Sometimes you just draw a creepy dude with something to hide. Certainly, allusions can be made to Grady (the older version) in The BUNKER but when I drew this I'm pretty sure I wasn't thinking of a particular character or person. For me the real treat in doing this drawing was capturing the little glint on his eye. It's the little things.

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Moleskin Monday 12: The Lady's a...Shroom!?

January 4, 2016

Welcome to the very first Moleskine Monday of 2016! Here's a little ugly to kick your year off! :)

I'll have a more complete posting next week but in the meantime, Happy New Year and thank you for stopping by. The rest of the series of Moleskine Monday postings are available here. See you next week!

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Moleskine Monday 11: Designing Women…Revolutionary Women!

December 28, 2015

As I've mentioned before, some of these pages are glimpses into the very earliest steps of putting together an illustrated story. When thinking about a female character and her revolutionary suit of wondrous perception, I had a few missteps and a lot of dead ends. Here's an example of some of the attempts along the way. I can't talk any more about the project but I can speak to the influences at play. I looked at ninjas, Dune still suits, some of Moebius' designs for Jodorowsky's Dune, those amazing sunlight blocking suits the vampires wore in Blade 2, and the iconic femme fatale from Fritz Lang's Metropolis…OF COURSE! I think I even threw in a little Tuskan Raider for fun. 

The point is that these stories are built little by little both by writer and artist bringing into focus the ideas that are the impetus for these creative adventures. Thanks for being a passenger along with me on this journey. I promise many more horizons and wonderful vistas await.

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Moleskine Monday 10: Head Games Double Header

December 21, 2015

This one comes out of playing with drawing faces in as many different ways as possible. These sketches are often done as a distraction from evening television (or is it the other way around?) and the easiest thing for me to mindlessly doodle are faces. In some case you'll see faces share features with others or barely hold together as faces at all. Have fun exploring! Click the image for a larger view to catch the details!

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Moleskine Monday 9: Manic Memento Mori Double Header!

December 14, 2015

This week's installment of Moleskine Monday is a frenetic and acidic reminder of our own mortality.

Sometimes the subject matter for a drawing takes a back seat. In this case I wanted to play with my Copic markers to see if I could replicate an aesthetic similar to silkscreen and the skull was simply an occasion to do that. I'm not sure this was a complete success but it was fun to play around and I think there are some interesting moments here. Sometimes that's all you get. 

As a fun side note, the bleeding inks on the Copic markers give me an opportunity to play with the sketch on the reverse side. In this case I added some red veins to bleed through the front and some opaque white to give it the googly eyes. You can see the reverse image on the right.

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Moleskine Monday 8! Baby Manticore

December 7, 2015

Manticores being a recurring theme in Moleskine Monday posts*, you might think the series should be called Manticore Monday. Not gonna happen. BUT! For all you Sherlocks out there, it presents a clue. For all you morons out there, the clue is that amongst the weirdo and trippy drawings that I assault you with on the worst day of the week are some real drawings for work. So far any of the character design work, world building, or color tests you've seen, are still too preliminary to name, but if you want to get an idea of what's on the horizon from me, you're seeing it now.

*Hillary Clintocore in Moleskine Monday 3!? D'uh! :)

 

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Moleskine Monday 7

November 30, 2015

Apparently I'm drowning in the Sephiroth…or at least some version of it. A long while ago I needed to prepare a new convention banner and this was one of the sketches I made in developing an idea for it. I ultimately ended up going in a completely different direction but I still like this idea and may use it for something else down the road.

Here are the final two convention banners:

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