wolverine vs sabretooth

in minimate form... yeah i'm that big of a nerd. most of my illustration lately has been focused on that band project i mentioned before. it's wrapping up so hopefully i'll be able to share some of that soon... but in the meantime, watch wolvie fight old sabretooth

scott pilgrim contest

deviant art is one of the sites i follow and recently they had an art contest in honor of scott pilgrim vs the world. i'm a huge fan of the comic (thanks to my brother) and i loved the movie, so i thought i'd give it a shot. this is the 8th evil ex idea i had. unfortunately i didn't win, but it was fun to draw this guy that you should hate.

sorry for the lack of updates lately. i've been working hard on a project with some friends of mine and hopefully i'll able to give full details soon... and hopefully i'll be updating more in general soon

super articulated ...continued

here's the rest of the heroes. still a few things to figure out, but i'm still thinking this should work.

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super articulated

So I'm working on some hopefully poseable digital versions of my Super Squad. These are the first three completed so I figured I'd go ahead and share them with you guys, since it's been a while. The ultimate goal is to use these little guys to make basic animations. I used to do a good amount of that stuff back in my msPaint days, so I figure why not get back in to it with better technology? I'm hoping it works. We shall see. And we shall see together.

toy story 3

i'm really looking forward to this weekend. the first thing to be excited about is the next toy story movie. this is just a quick colored sketch, but i wanted to do something because i love these movies so much.

more as the week progresses.

mega x-men

okay, so i know i've stated before that i love x-men... so hopefully that at least half-explains this. i used to work a lot in ms paint before i was introduced to photoshop and all of creative suite. i got nostalgic for my old sprites and gif animations and all that and thought i'd try to figure out how to do it with photoshop. turns out, it's much more complicated to primitive stuff in photoshop than it is to do in paint. but i was messing around on my sister-in-law's computer and even paint isn't the primitive beast it used to be. makes me sad, actually. i miss my old processes and cheats and i-guess-this-works and all that i used to do in paint. i didn't really get in to the groove with photoshop because of all of the layers and there's no easy way to erase pixel by pixel... so i created some of my favorite x-men and that's probably all i'll do like this... unless someone can hook me up with an old school version of ms paint...

Super Squad

Sorry it took so long to post the real image of the Super Squad here, but I kept making minor alterations to costumes and character names and wanted to have those set before I unveiled them all.

From front to back we have Super Bat (the leader), Froggy (the creature), Super Bug (the sarcastic one), Super Deer (the girl) and Super Rat (the smart one). If you couldn't tell by their terrible names and ridiculous costumes, the Squad is somewhat of a parody of super heroes.

I originally came up with the Squad back around the 4th grade. I continued drawing them off and on until about somewhere in high school. Every time I brought them back I updated their looks a little and played with their personalities. When trying to come up with an idea for a comic, I couldn't resist bringing back my childhood creations. This time, though, some major costume changes were made and two of the characters were kind of combined in to a hybrid that doesn't look like either of them (Froggy). I prefer 4 member teams (rather than their initial 6) and neither of the characters I used to make Froggy had much actual personality, so I felt comfortable combining them in to the team pet. It is funny what a 10 year old who loves cartoons comes up with for heroes, villains and everything else, so that's been fun to think back on and figure out what works and what doesn't. Surpisingly, I think a lot of it will work for this project and it's stuff that I probably wouldn't have thought of now for a completely new team. Some stuff was just too weird or didn't make any sense to bother about translating to the newest version of the Super Squad.


Hey just for kicks, here's some old versions of the characters circa 2001 (DONE IN MS PAINT!)

Stay tuned for more updates