Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Alternate title: How I learned to draw lightning. May I just take a moment to comment on Coipel’s amazing Thor design? Well, it’s amazing. There’s stuff about it that I didn’t realize until I sat down to draw it and man, it’s really the best Thor costume out there. Anyway, I’ve been working on this [...]

After slaving over a background in my last piece, it’s nice to draw something simpler that I can knock out in a couple of hours. This is Miss America for Project: Rooftop’s upcoming Fan-Art Friday. I’ll be honest, I’m not super familiar with the character but that was all the more reason to give it [...]

It’s oftentimes frustrating for me to work entirely digitally. Something about doing the line art on a tablet just doesn’t feel right unless I’m going super loose. That’s why making the line art to my Mario fights on paper generally leads to a smoother process but, oddly enough, that’s about the only time where something [...]

Allow me to be a little introspective for a bit. This might take a while.

The Avengers has passed (REVIEW: it was AMAZING!) so, other than the inevitable sequel, what other long term comic book movie project is there to look forward to? The answer to that came during this year’s Marvel Studios panel at SDCC: it’s Guardians of the Galaxy. I think there’s a void in superhero films (which could be considered its own [...]

After watching the Tron: Uprising 30-minute preview, I decided to try something I’ve never tried before (*gasp!*) in coloring without an outline. There was an underdrawing obviously but the main coloring was done by blocking in shapes of color. It’s a little hard for me to work on something without having a clear idea of [...]

I often get stuck without knowing what to draw next. When that happens, I turn to my sketchbook or I just dive into my latest Mario Versus piece. So when Project: Rooftop asked for drawings of Carol Danvers in her new Captain Marvel persona, I was relieved because I needn’t think about my subject matter [...]

This was done for the newly started Drink and Draw NYC weekly challenges. It’s amusing to me that I’m doing these from Barcelona but I loved going to the Drink and Draw gatherings back in the lovely city of New York so these online challenges are a great way to keep in touch with that [...]

I didn’t really like my last piece so I set out to redeem myself and may have done my best piece yet. Without getting into it too much, let’s just say that my initial knee-jerk reaction to Miles Morales was “oh great, publicity stunt” but the more I read about it, the more I realized [...]

Another week, another SKRATCHJAMS entry. The challenge this week was to re-envision Spider-Man as a Dragonball Z, Naruto or One Piece character. I have utmost affection for DBZ (and none for the other two) so the decision was clear. DBZ character designs tend to have very loose clothing and that just didn’t sit right with me [...]