Kitties!

Here are some cat studies for a self-directed project I'm working on. Just a little something to keep me busy when I'm between jobs. These are character studies. I want the style of the cats to be somewhere between real and cartoony. I took the liberty of coloring a couple of them in Photoshop, just for fun, and to make my sketches a little more interesting.

random sketches...

random femme sketches from one of my earlier sketchbooks....

Secret Origins!

It's been a while since I posted anything. Work is keeping me busy. But here are a couple more pages of pencils for the next issue of Amazing Challengers. They tell the origin of the Scare-Monger.



Enchanted pick-axe!



I'm trying to make them look more dynamic. Ideas? They look kind of bland, like a Valiant comic book. Nothing wrong with them, but nothing particularly good. The problem is making it look dynamic while also making it look mundane (because that's the overall atmosphere I'm trying to make for the book -- superheroes, but really mundane).

Expensive Baby

This baby is more expensive than ordinary babies. Find out why below.

Expensive Baby in: Teething Money.


Expensive Baby Utters his First Words.


Expensive Baby Takes his First Steps.

Surreal work (What's right with these pictures?)

Winter Damage.



Poetry in Motion (Goodbye Sober Day).

Lucha Libre!

Hey there folks ...

Since Alana showed her promo illustration for The Box Lunch ... I'll show mine ... as you can see my wacky festival is Lucha Libre ... if you don't know what that is, it's Mexican Wrestling silly! Enjoy, ese!

-Ty

YeeHAW! Redneck Games!

Redneck Games

Here's a new illustration I'm working on. It's a little bit of a departure from all the serious looking images I've been creating as of late.

This one is a spread for the new Three in a Box editorial promotion, The Box Lunch. It features wacky festivals and holidays from around the world.

My image shows the annual Redneck Games down in East Dublin, Georgia. The games feature such events as the mud pit bellyflop, bobbing for pig's feet, Miss Big Hair USA, and a toilet seat horseshoe competition.

preview of what's to come...

Here's my first piece to a new set for an upcoming circus-themed art show.
I call it Squidward, because the SQUID-guy is upside-downWARD.

Fake Chalk Pastel

Lookit! it's our cat!

Fake Joanna

Watercolour!

Fake Oil Painting (Loo Likey Sooshi)

Check it out. More Photoshop foolery.

Fake Watercolour

Look closely. This was entirely done in Photoshop. Neato huh?

More Stripmalling

Another page from Stripmalling, the book by my author friend, Jonny. Hopefully it's not too low res.



Riddle me this -- last two panels: snow or stars?

Life Drawing Mar05/07 -Vampire Challenge

Tyne - In Living Colour!

Hey dudes!

I just finished colouring the first page of Tyne. I really had a fun time with the hard rain falling. Let me know what you think.

-Ty

Pushpins

This is an image I did a little while back for the cover of Manufacturing Automation - a trade magazine about machine design and technology for the industrial workplace. The concept was suggested by the art director and I think it was a really successful piece. I especially love the warpy perspective. I achieved it by putting my map sketch into photoshop and playing with it until I got the desired result.

During the process there was a little bit of a hot potato game going on between the workers as I was told to swap and change items on their person. The linear underwent quite a few revisions until the right number of females, males, ethnics, and trades were accounted for.

I'm still waiting on a printed version. Should be exciting to see since this magazine is printed at a large size.

Life Drawing - March 8/07

I'm really digging the new life drawing studio we've been going to lately since early-January. The ratio of female to male models makes my new sketchbook a pretty sight to see than my last sketchbook from the last studio labelled "sausage fair".

Luchador Challenge.
20 minutes...
5 minute drawing. She looks anime-ish.

Dirrty Sketches

I was assigned an illustration for an article in a magazine about 'World Orgasm Day' (December 22). Apparently, a few organizations have noticed that during times of great disaster or suffering, the crisis has a resultant impact on human emotions the world over and an actual physical effect on the earth itself. So, they declared World Orgasm Day to see if a major positive emotion on one day would have a positive effect on the mass populace and the world. So, first I sent them a few sketches.


Simple, but not too exciting.


A very satisfied earth.


Planner with all the day's important appointments listed.


This one was my favourite.

But they went with the planner instead. So I did a final, and it looks like so:

Sketches

Its been a while since I posted anything. Between teaching part-time and making a videogame I and finding spare time to get the ball rolling on my personal work and graphic novel concepts. I enjoy coming up with strange ideas like these. Tell me what you think.

Dora the Explorer

Character sketches for Dora in my friend Jonny's novel / graphic novel, Stripmalling. I wasn't given much in the way of instructions. Mostly, 'She should look sort of like Enid from Ghost World.'

background study...

Just trying to nail down a colour scheme for the beach scene in Popper Cosmix the webcomic. I'm sorta not happy about the colours I used in the sand...guess I still need to play around with it.

Oldie But Goodie Pin-Ups

Hey! After doing a pin-up for Rex Libris, I remember I did some others a while back. Check 'em out!

The first one I did was for Matthew Mohammed's comic Black Bastard. Some of you probably seen this before, it was published in the Blacktacula issue. LooBot was in that comic as well!


The second pin-up was for Ramon Perez & Rob Coughler's web comic Butternut Squash.


Enjoy!

-Ty

Life Drawing - Feb 22/07 - Boxer Challenge

I killed two markers in this session. Enjoy!