Pennywise the Dancing Caricature

Pennywise the Dancing Clown from It (2017).

Brand New Me!

Since its nearly the end of the year its time to make some changes around here!

I designed this banner to work for my website, blog, Facebook and pretty much any other social media site I'm on. 

What I really wanted to do was show my work in a way that could be easily read, unlike the previous banner which was made up of thumbnails from my greatest hits. A self portrait featuring me drawing seemed like a much clearer way to show what I do. 

What a handsome fellow!

This is just one of many changes and simplifications I hope to be making towards my personal brand in the future.

Also, I made this zombie variant for Halloween! 

Cedar Point: Halloweekends!

My last month at Cedar Point yielded a lot of couples looking to get in the Halloween spirit with some cool Halloween themed bodies!

Happy Halloween!

Vampire Count

Another take on a common costume trend featuring the famed vampire count.

Cute Witch

Stepping away from famous faces and into everyday people to picture themselves in some crazy costumes fit for the season.

Vincent Price

Following Rod Serling, I conjured up another face from classic horror, Vincent Price, as seen here in the guise of a mad scientist.

The Twilight Zone

Presented for your consideration Rod Sterling, creator and host of... THE TWILIGHT ZONE, who became the first of my commissions at Cedar Point to show off the kinds of Halloween themes that we can do. 

Cal vs. The Cephalopod

During the recording of my return to Geek Fallout, Calvin commented on my recent work and suggested that he would like to see a drawing of him. Seizing the opportunity, I decided to revisit our previous artistic collaboration.

This project really kicked the doors open. Not only did Cal love this picture and use it for his Facebook profile picture, but my boss at Cedar Point saw it and commissioned me to draw some Halloween-centric caricatures for display at the stands that we'll see soon.

Happy Halloween: Monster-Sized Post with Podcasts!

Do I have some special treats for you!

It's a double dose on podcasts this week!

Geek Fallout: The Comic Book Episodes - Super Fight Dome 
Chris Lockhart, Chris Giada and myself match up fights including a supernatural showdown with Blade battling John Constantine and the Big Bra Brawl between Power Girl and She-Hulk!



Geek Fallout: Top 5 Movie Monsters
Jason Roberts, Derek Ash and myself gab about our favorite ghouls!



Many of the monsters we talked about are ones that I got to draw for the Halloween Party at Barnes & Noble with the Michigan Comics Collective.

Flyboy from "Dawn of the Dead"

Maria from "Metropolis"

Michael Myers from "Halloween"

Olaf is a homunculi given life through supernatural powers.
He probably chills with Frankenstein's Monsters on the convention circuit.

Tarman from "Return of the Living Dead"

Trash from "Return of the Living Dead"

Were-Wolverine!

Captain America takes the cake as my most frequent request

Norris Head from "John Carpenter's The Thing"

Rough sketches including the two biggest "Michaels" in horror

Reinterpretations of scenes from classic horror movies

Hope you have a safe and Happy Halloween! 

Leave a comment letting me know what you liked and what you'd like to see me draw.

Now its time to start working on designing my Christmas cards. Sketch ya' later!

Geek Fallout 103: Movie Monsters

This one's a graveyard smash! 

The midnight hour is close at hand and Jason Roberts, Derek Ash and myself are gathered in the graveyard to talk about our favorite movie monsters.

Remember... we warned you!

Sketch Spook-tacular!

Just some portraits that I put together for fun this week. Some of them even tie into the Halloween season! 

Beetlejuice

Frankenstein's Monster

Humphrey Bogart

Freddy Krueger

The Eleventh Doctor

Imhotep the Mummy and the Phantom of the Opera

Lauren Bacall

Vanna White

The Many Faces of Lon Chaney

To prepare for Halloween I put out a call my Twitter account asking what I should draw. I got many colorful responses that I'll be posting throughout the month, but the one that got my attention right off the bat was a request by Michael May (of Michael May's Adventureblog!) for silent film icon Lon Chaney.

I gathered up some reference photos of Chaney in little to no makeup to get a grasp of what his face was like. He has a very unique portrait; The high brows, cheekbones and hair combed close to the scalp make him like grim like a skull, and yet he has big ears and a teardrop shaped nose that feel like they belong on one of the Muppets.

To demonstrate his extraordinary makeup, I dropped the opacity on his face and drew some of his monster faces over top. This was part was rather challenging as it was difficult to tell sometimes were the prosthetics started and ended.

The Man in the Beaver Hat
from "London After Midnight"

Erik, from "The Phantom of the Opera"
You can trust a guy with a name like that.

Now I want to hear from you. Doing a "character design" project like this was very out of the ordinary. Is it something that I should continue with something similar?

What would you like to see me draw during the month of Halloween?

Sketch ya' later!

Creature Commission Cover

I caught a bit of the Halloween Spirit when Brian commissioned me to do this cover, saying "Do whatever you want". It took me a while to come up with what do, until I saw the Creature figurine on my desk and decided. "Eh, why not?" (Hear me talk more about this Creature toy on the Geek Fallout podcast here! )

Since posts about process get more views and comments I'd take you step by step through how I drew this cover.

Rough pencils to establish the most important shapes

Then I establish the darkest shadow eras and after that the finer details.

Then I repeat the process, but in reverse. 

With my brush pen I draw in the darkest shadows.

Then I fill in the small details with Micron pens.

Finally I double check to make sure I haven't missed anything 

and bumping up contrast between thin and thick lines as best I can.

In the meantime, I'm thinking about doing some rough sketching without necessarily preparing for a project, so that can be better figure out what it is "I want to do" for something like this in the future. Just trying to cultivate my artistic identity. Its weird having a blind spot on something so personal like "what do you like to do?"

Also I'm still taking suggestions and commissions for Halloween.

Sketch ya' later!