Has it really been a month already? 

Sorry, still no updates guys but got a few new things on my plate including a job interview, a new commission from Underfiend Radio and a booth at this years Project Comic Con.

That means I really need to update my portfolio, new art and finally updating so older work with my new software.

Three things I need help with:

1.) tips on muzzle flash

2.) best colors for swap lands

3.) Storm effects

Chances are I won't have enough time to make a entirely new portfolio so feel free to suggest what you think should go on the table.

More updates soon...ish

Got tagged by so here we go!

10.) I was once a fan of Rob Liefeld. Liefeld's success convenes me that I could make it in the comic book industry. Few years and a few rejection letters later, I now just loathe the bastard.  Liefeld did create Deadpool, Cable and Domino so I still have to give him some props.

9.) I was nearly arrested by police on my lunch break 10 years ago because I matched the description of a man who just held up the Denny's up the street.

8.) I was put on Ritalin as a child for my 'hyperactive' nature, screwed up my metabolism and my head for years after. Meet allot of people in high school with similar stories and been very critical of Ritalin ever sense.

7.) I'm straight edge. Though I joke about it, I rarely drink and never smoke.  

6.) Once had a decent size collection of Battletech miniatures and books for the game, the box with that collection went 'missing' during a move to a new apartment along with a box with my comic book collection and my original portfolio.

5.) I had to sell most of my possessions during the recession after losings my job.

4.) I tried to learn Japaneses in collage, only remember sumimasen due to the multiple times I needed to apologize for my mistakes.  

3.) I once tried starting my own business after high school. Was going to give it another go after college but then the recession hit, c'est la vie.

2.) I own a Samurai sword. It's just a stainless steel replica but it's full tang and I enjoy having it hanging on my wall.

1.) So far, I have only attended one convention. This years Project Comic Con will make Con number 2 and this time, I'll have a booth!  

Now it's your turn. Yep, your tagged so go forth and spill your guts.

Yeah, remember when I said I was about to update...  
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Been working crazy hours. Right after I posted that, are new GM of the store I help informed us that we have to prep for our next big inspection and we can't afford to get anything less than 100% because the other store in our district tanked their inspections last quarter killing our average. Keep in mind that our GM is a lazy bastard who more or less only files paper work and cuts labor (so the only thing he does is gives us more work) So I have bigger work load, working 40+ hours and little time to finish the projects in front of me (I actually had to turn down a couple of commissions and missed out on two contest)

I'm still hitting the job boards but not making any progress. Just another resume filling up a inbox. While I find it somewhat embarrassing to admit, I've also been spending time on a couple of dating sites with about the same amount of luck. I rather avoid dating sites but I work crazy hours, not much for the bar scene and I hate clubs. With music stores and book chains things of the past now thanks to the internet (the double edge sword of our modern society) I'm running out of social venues to meet people with common interest. yeah, job sucks, no social life... Christ, I'm becoming Dante from Clerks!    

Alright, enough of that
Now it's time for some humor to lighten things up: Next time you bring your noisy kid into my store, this is what I'll be playing this in my head
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Updates soon as I have time.

Not much is going to plan but what ever does...
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Sorry for the long break without any updates guys but haven't had much worth posting and I've been spending allot of time at work. My job has really been killing my inspiration as of late and leaving me spent, job boards haven't been of much help as of late.

I do have a few sketches I'm working on that may be worth posting in the next week so some new stuff will be up soon.

Finally getting a Graphics Tablet
Right now it's ether a Wacom Bamboo Capture or Splash, can anybody tell me if one is better than the other art wise?

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt,
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Apologies for the lack of updates but it's been one hell of a month. My work place has been a chaotic place which has motivated me to use even more of my spare time looking for new employer. Got one call back but after a total of 4 interviews over the month and a phone conversation, nothing, big waste of my time. Meanwhile my current place of employment has been giving me nothing but reasons to leave with a chaotic bickering coworkers, slipping inspection scores costing me bonus money and taking on more responsibility without the pay. As it stands, I'm the lowest paid manager at my workplace and my boss more or less told me that is how it's going to stay for the time being (what does he care, his promotion is in two weeks) All I got at my job are reasons to leave but with the holiday season, no where to go.
This has been a huge drain for me, along with getting my profile turned down by a couple of comic book companies (good but not good enough) has left me in a slump that is hard to get out of.

That's not to say that I haven't been working. Working on one big commission for my bud DJ Sunder and have been working on character sketches for two other projects off and on along with a lot of scraps that I rather not post online but this will soon change.

asked in in his own journal, what 10 comic titles influenced my work and my perception of the media the most.
Here is my top 10 must reads        

1.) The Punisher- believe it or not, I wasn't that much into comics when I was a kid, superheros never really appealed to me. Then I found a issue of the Punisher on the comic rack and my whole idea of the medium of comics changed. Punisher reads like a crime story from start to finish, morality blurred between ruthless criminals and the man hunting them down one by one showing no mercy. Garth Ennis run on the Max line was arguably the best though I'll never stop asking Marvel bring back the Suicide Run and Countdown in trade form.

2.) Alien Vs Predator- This was one of Dark Horse comics best ideas. At the time, even Hollywood couldn't pull off something as epic as pitting these two iconic sci-fi creatures against one another in the same story. When this battle finally made it to the big screen years after, it was still far short from the depth and intense action that could be found in the comic. Only Dark Horse make this happen.

3.) Team 7- One of the most underrated origin stories in comics, it's what made me a fan of the original Image team. Internationale Operations' star Black Ops Team is made up of the best killers in the world, Director Craven wants to make them better by unknowingly exposing then to the 'Gen Agent' to turn them into super-soldiers... but at what cost and what ends? For a miniseries that established the foundation of the entire Wildstorm line up, it's sad this book was never in trade format.

4.) Super Patriot- Another criminal underrated mini series during the original Images hay day, Super Patriot tells the story of a once Captain America like WWII super hero who has been reduced to a modern day walking gun after years of being used and abused by his government. After being captured by a terrorist organization, he is then turned against America destroying half the Pentagon in a frighting (very frighting considering what happens in the real world years later) only hope that a fellow once-was hero turned weapon can still reach than human-being inside the killing machine before it's too late. Great story, beautiful art, it has it all. Only reason why this isn't in trade is because of the mix of Savage Dragon and Young Blood characters prior to the Image founding fathers splitting up.

5.) Sin City- In my option, Frank Millers most defining work. Gritty noir crime stories though forgot to the by comics, Miller took you for a ride in a world of sex, violence and psychopaths with stunning artwork, unforgettable characters and subjective matter not often explored in the american comics. Sin City told the industry it was time to grow up.

6.) Kingdom Come- We I finally read this book, I looked at DC characters in a whole new light. In a dystopian future super 'heros' act more like violent street gang, fighting each other over their own beliefs without regard of the casualties that ensue, Wonder Woman convinces Superman to return from a self imposed exile, along with the original JLA, to bring back order to the new world. But others have their own ideas of what the new world should be and it's not long before these forces clash with dire consequences. This book defined the idea of 'Gods and Monsters' for all other super powered books that followed, proving even gods can bleed.

7.) The Walking Dead- The book that define the tradition Zombie genre create by Romero, not as much about the zombies as it is about the people trying to survive the world slowing slipping into hell all around them. One of the only books that leaves my jaw on the floor and screaming 'good god!' after every book.

8.) Battle Royal- A Japanese manga filled with some much violence, it leaves even a desensitized child of the 90's like myself gasping. A tragic story of a high school class chosen at random by their dystopian oppressive government to fight to the death as the nation watches for entertainment. The real  of this achievement book is not the over the top violence but the how the writer and artist almost magically gets you to invest yourself in every character of the story... right up to when you pull the trigger. Then ask you point blank: 'how did you enjoy the show?' unforgiving, unrelenting and got damn brilliant.

9.) The Authority- Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch literally rewrote the definition of super teams with this book, a team of super powered former UN peace keepers and black op agents set out to save the world from itself as they take on super human terrorist, invading armies of a parallel dimension and near omni power god like being. Mark Millar and Frank Quitely take over without missing a beat, showing the conciseness of the heroes intervening in international affairs leading to a bloody battle with a former US super powered black ops team and their master mind who has become disillusion world and it's leaders. The book went down hill after Millar and Quitely left but it forever left it's impression on the industry.

10.) Lone Wolf and Cub- There are few books in ether the comic or manga industry that have influenced or inspired as many people as Lone Wolf and Cub, a story of a former samurai turned assassin traveling with his baby boy across feudal Japan in search of revenge. It's a samurai father, son story of love, death, betrayal and revenge that will leave you asking for more from beginning to end.  

Honorable mentions:
HellBoy: Only reason why I didn't list this book is because you should already be reading it. Hellboy is honestly one of the best characters ever written.

Blade of the Immortal: A tale of a ronin who cannot die until he slays 99 evildoers, great artwork and amazing fight scenes.

Gipsy: a great series I found in Heavy Metal Magazine that follows a Roma trucker, Tsagoi, driving across the international freeways of a not so distant dystopian future trading ill gotten cargo on the black market. Mess with his sister or his truck, you will regret it. Great writing and artwork.

Sorry for the lack of updates guys but two projects I'm working on right now are being kept off the web until I have the final OK to publish them, also interviewing for another job so that's keeping me busy.

Anyway, found animated gifs for a anime called Genocyber while on Tumblr. Nothing special, over the top ultra-violence that was common in early 90's anime scene but what really made me stop to take notice was the attention to detail. This used to be the staple of the Anime industry, what made me a fan of Ghost in the Shell and Akira, it's what showed me what a artist is capable of and reevaluate my young thoughts the animation. Man, what ever happen to that level quality in the anime industry? It's like when they started to cut back on the sex and violence and turning up the teenage drama, they also cut back quality in the animation and depth. Maybe it's simple a question of what we see marketed in the US sense the States has never shook the stigma of animation being a kiddie market but looking how the anime industry as a whole was sundered over the past few years seems to be a indicator of something else. Maybe it's just a mix of nostalgia and my contempt for the lack luster main steam media market, maybe it's something else.

Have a thought, please share, I have a real update soon.

Just a short update, haven't got much done as of late do to catching a couple of bugs. Working on a project for a friend and will be following it up with a couple more Mechs for along with a few other things.

On another note, another friend of mine gave me the heads up on the upcoming Robocop Remake, the images I see are not encouraging. Along with the awful looking trailer for the new Red Dawn (North Korea? Really!? ) I'm now feed up with Hollywood and the current bending on remakes. Is it really that hard to come up with a new idea or is it that all their new ideas are so bad they have to name-rape a classic in hopes people will think that it might be good as the original?

I am not a hater of remakes, there are some damn good remakes out there (The Thing, The Fly, Scare Face, Dawn of the Dead) and some movies that have not aged well at all that may need a remake just to remind people what was so special about the original. But the current long list of remakes in the works seem more like Hollywood has just become lazy.

not till we close our eyes for good...
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I really need post more updates.
While work has been driving me nuts, I have manage to get some drawing done. I've been working on the commissions for but Mike has been so busy himself, we haven't had the time to compare notes so it's still on the drawing board. I'll keep posting the preliminary pencil work on Tumblr until I get the final details ready for inking. [link]

Though my work with Mike will be a little more drawn out due to both our busy schedules, I will make time for more commissions. My job has ask for allot of my time and attention these past two months and hasn't exactly rewarded me very well for it. It's time for me to return to the drawing board and cranking out commissions for you guys because, 1.) I need the money and 2.) I love to draw and there is no better excuse for me to start drawing then someone putting a couple a bill in front of me and asking me to draw something epic.  
Also, my car is completely trashed so this is the only way I'll afford the a graphics tablet.

So put me to work and give me a challenge
Commissions in Progress
1.) Mech Commissions 7/10 Wip
2.) Johnny Skull Commission -WiP
3.) Firefly/Serenity Nose Art -WiP
4.) open

Pencil character sketch- $5 [link]
Inked and detailed action cover work- $10 [link]
Epic multi page spread/ poster work-  $15+ depending on size of epicness [link] [link]

Also don't forget my buds at Underfiend Radion has the station running 24/7 now! Catch Johnny Skull on Sunday night 7pm-9pm central, ask him qestions, ask WTH, enjoy some tunes and then tune in to Sunders vodka powered nihilistic rants every Monday 8pm-10pm. ore DJ's are being recruited while Auto DJ  picks up the slack in between.
FOR ALL THINGS METAL! www.underfiendradio.com

A Zombie theme park/airsoft arena to simulate surviving a zombie apocalypses!?
We must help these men make this a reality!!!
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I finally caved, I know have a new Facebook account and Tumblr
Tumbr has many artist not on DA and it's a good place for my work-in-progress, [link]
I still hate FaceBook, may end up killing this account too but though I would give it one more try.
More later.

Underfiend Radio is now running 24/7!
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That's right, for all your PC and Android music needs: Underfiend has gone Skyenet on our ass and now broadcast non stop
My buds Johnny Skull and Sunder MK II have their same time slots but Sunder has brought back the Auto DJ so even when the DJs sign off for the night, the music will keep playing. There will be new DJs joining the ranks of Underfiend shortly for added insanity, for now just enjoy the never ending shuffle of tunes
Remember, insane rants and rave of the space monkey we know as Johnny Skull can be heard every Sunday from 7pm-9pm Central, the nihilistic master of metal and Underfiend it self, DJ Sunder MKII, every Monday from 8pm-10pm and non stop music in between!
Now tune in before I track you down and smash your PC with my mighty boot! Yes, I'm that crazy so you better tune in DUE ET, DUE ET NEOW!!!
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Happy Independence Day!
Thanks to this [link] we now get this [link]
Now lets blow some shit up!

Well, my work has me all tangled up again in studying for certification so my time on the drawing board is still moving at a slow pace. Good news is that I finally get a day off after two weeks.
I'll have a update for soon as well as other projects

My buds at Underfiend Radio also have some news regarding a ne DJ joining the ranks and open recruitment for any others who wish to join the ranks (the goal is to broadcast 24/7)
Check 'em out Sunday and Monday night [link]

more news shortly

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has been talking about starting a World of Darkness game with a few friends, thought I would did up some comics for inspiration and atmosphere    

Memento Vivere [link] by is based directly from the pages of World of Darkness, Vampire the Masquerade.  
I really come to enjoy reading Walking on Broken Glass [link] while the comic itself is not related to WoD, I feel the characters would fit in well in the darker White Wolf setting. Samantha and Caytlin have crafted a great cast that I will defiantly think about the next time I create a character (yeah, Chapter 2 gets a bit cheesy for my taste but the next nightmare sequences helped remind me why I was reading this.)
The comical apocalyptic comic The Pocalypse [link] deserves a mention, not for it post-apocalyptic setting but for it's portrait of vampires which I think is dead on.
Turbo Defiant www.turbodefiant.com/ is 180 degrees from anything else on the web and serves for great inspiration. Odd group of people fighting baby eating demons in both the real and dream world.  

Wish there where more comics to post but while there are many supernatural and horror comics but few have the depth or fit the same ton as the WoD.

Good thing the show Supernatural does a great job portraying hunters, now we just need a webcomic.

If you have any to add, please do.

Next update to follow shortly.

It's a Long Way to the top...
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I honestly thought I would have two commissions done by now but my day job is keeping me from the drawing board. Sorry guys, I'm working on it!

There is allot of things I learned from the Comic Con I want to apply to my portfolio after I finish my commission, one being new comic pages but this will have to wait for now.

Though I will load all my old comic project for your guys in the mean time so you at least know I have attempted this whole comic thing in the past.

More soon so stay tune

Project Comic Con was a blast, couldn't be happier to finally catch it this year.

Cupcake Corner was good fun. Sat next to Pros like Kenneth Rocafort, Eric Basaldua, Clayton Henry, Chris Giarrusso, Don Kramer, and Javier Saltares for a live sketch with Dead Times cover girls [link] along with pro cosplayer Tiffeta Darling [link] . Awesome stuff, wish I talked with these guys some more but I started to feel I was intruding.
You can ask he was there.


Chris Ryall of IDW had to cancel this year but I did show my portfolio to Anthony Spay, the Art Director of Zenescope. Gave me some good advise that I need to follow up on.
Can't argue with the man, look at the books he works on and you can see he knows how to draw. [link]

Also had a great conversation with at his both, listen in on some great advise on architecture and checked out some of his amazing work.

Two artist who I really enjoyed talking with has to be Halo and Terry of Shonuff Studios [link] These two are great artist and just awesome people to hang with at a con. Halo and Terry gave me some nice props on my own work and I cant wait to see more of their own Serial Kittie!
Who's the Baddest!? SHONUFF!!!

Talked to the guys that do the Nextuss web comic www.nextuus.com and the guys who just started  Headmetal Comics www.headmetalcomics.com (awesome guys out of O'fallon) and checked out the the works of Scott Quick of Camden Bottoms webcomic, [link]

The highlight of my day has to be getting to party with Angus Oblong, the creator of The Oblongs cartoon and a true comedic genius. You know, this guy www.angusoblong.net
I got to watch the guy pour beer down his brothers throat at the Underfiend Afterparty and sat down to draw at his booth.... Me, draw, at Oblong's booth... How did that happen!? Got to love PCC   

You can get even more from my Bros at Underfiend Radio, DJ Skull has a list of many of the great artist at the show and DJ Sunder's girl has plenty of photos of the Con posted on the Underfiend forum and Myspace page.
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Got to thank Steve and the guys at Newcastle Comics and Games for putting this together, can't wait for next year.

Looking forward to expanding my portfolio but first things first;
Commissions in Progress
1.) Death Trooper action scene Comic Con Commission -WiP
2.) Mech Commissions 2/10 Wip
3.) Sunder Commissions -Complete
4.) Firefly/Serenity Nose Art -WiP

And I'm always looking for new work,
Pencil character sketch- $5 [link]
Inked and detailed action cover work- $10 [link]
Epic multi page spread/ post work-  $15+ depending on size of epicness [link] [link]

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Project: Comic Con is quickly approaching!
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Comic Con hosted by my local comic and game shop Newcatles and music provided by my buds at Underfiend Radio. I've avoided Cons for years for the obvious reasons [link] but this Project Comic Con is something I cannot miss out on. I have made the flyer for Underfiend Radio, will be attending  Cupcake Corner [link] and hopefully show my portfolio to Chris Ryal of IDW Publishing [link] And of course there will be the Underfiend Afterparty!

For more news on the upcoming Con along with Metal Industrial and Punk, tune in to Underfiend Radio on Sundays and Mondays for Johnny Skull n' Sunder for the rage, insanity and vodka induced Arnold impersonations. [link]   

Going to need to get some commissions done to make sure I can afford it
Commissions in Progress
1.) Mech Commissions 2/10 Wip
2.) Underfiend Flyer -Complete
3.) Firefly/Serenity Nose Art -WiP

I have to study for a ServSafe exam for my work and still working on the current series of commissions for Strider's Strikers and DJ Sunder which will be taking a good amount of my time that I'm not job hunting or at my current gig but after getting ripped off, I need the cash from commission's in a bad way so let me know what you need I'll make time to make it work, be it before or after the Con.
Pencil character sketch- $5 [link]
Inked and detailed action cover work- $10 [link]
Epic multi page spread/ post work-  $15+ depending on size of epicness [link] [link]