Charlotte Comicon - Sunday, August 4

I'll be set up drawing on-site commissions ($10 custom chibis & minions and head sketches) plus I'll have prints & sketchbooks and both of the Sketch Charlotte Anthologies with me! 

And while you're there don't forget to check out my talented friends: Eraklis Petmezas, Stan Ford, Bridgit Scheide, Matt Starnes, Bradd Parton, Chrissie Zullo, John Hairston Jr, and tons more! Hope to see you guys there!

Here's a few examples (that were on my phone) of what I'll be drawing:

Charlotte Comicon sketches.

I had the pleasure of sharing space with the gang from Sketch Charlotte at last Sunday's Charlotte Comicon. For a pleasant change, I didn't get to spend much time drawing anything to scan and post online, but that was mainly because I spent quite a bit of time drawing for other people! Everyone was really great, and seemed to like their drawings. I took three pictures, but didn't get to take a picture of the great Mad Hatter that I did for Savannah, who also got the Esmeralda sketch I did below. I apologize for the blurry pictures, but these are taken with my phone, and this close up, it just gets blurry sometimes. Pretty soon, I'm gonna take an actual camera to these things to capture convention drawings.

Designed Only for Killing

I did this little MODOK drawing a little while ago but only posted it to Twitter in a hurry. Here it is, but I think it needs a background desperately. Maybe I'll redraw it in complete glory sometime in the future, actually using reference for the character.

Charlotte Comicon sketches.

I did a couple of sketches today at Charlotte Comicon in between selling stuff. Thanks to Herc, Jonathan, Brandon, and Henry for a fun day.

Batwoman

Brandon made me swear to post this on the blog, so here it is, with no tie to any of current threads...Batwoman.

With this I was trying out my shortcut method of drawing characters that wear mostly black.

1970's DC - from the vault!

Looked around the old "studio" and found a few pieces from previous sketchbooks. Thought it'd be a great (and easy) way to kick off the topic!

Zombie GL/GA #85 - Mark Godby & Brandon Padgett
Mr Miracle - Terence Hoskins
Kid Flash - Brandon Padgett
The Creeper - Mark Godby
Metamorpho - Brandon Padgett
Jonah Hex - Brandon Padgett

Sketch Topic #1 - 1970's DC

A fun topic to be sure! Henry suggested this one...let's see what we can come up with! Feel free to post any suggestions as to what you'd like to see.

Time to go to and do! :)

Lunch Sketch - Batgirl!

I catch a lot of flack for rarely drawing women characters. Well, I'm never really asked to draw them...guess that could be because people haven't seen my womern! That is something I need to rectify. So I decided today during lunch to try my hand at the Barbara Gordon Batgirl. I've also been kicking around the Bruce Timm style as of late to see if I could find any room to evolve my style, so this is also one of those experiments.

40 minutes - pencil with prismacolor pens & copic markers - 8-1/2 x 11

Lunch Sketch - FELL

Decided to trade away my FELL comics last night. It took some doing, but I finally pulled the trigger. I picked up the tpb last Summer and was fortunate enough to have Ben Templesmith sign it for me at last year's Heroes Con. So trading the actual comics was something I was prepared to do...even though I LOVE this story! If you haven't read it yet, do yourself a favor and pick it up.

So while I brooded over the decision today at lunch I decided to do a quick send up of the lead character Detective Richard Fell. I'm not even in the same universe as Templesmith, but I sketched it out anyway! I tried to keep my style (whatever that is) out of the piece and just try to capture the character. So this piece was pretty quick...most of the time was spent in photoshop filling in blacks!

Hope you enjoy it...and go read some FELL! :)



apologies to Ellis & Templesmith...ESPECIALLY Templesmith! ;)

Lunch Sketch - T-Rex close up

I've been contemplating drawing a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a 2 page story I'm writing, so I decided to take a stab at doing a few quick studies to see if it was something I would end up using.
Enter the neat lil' 5 x 7 sketchbook I got as a Christmas present. Perfect for just this sort of thing. Rather than try and squeeze a lot on a small page I decided to zoom in on an area of interest...the T-Rex's eye.
Did this at lunch with an everyday ordinary pencil...funny thing is that even though I'm pleased with the outcome I may end up not even using it!