The fat cats have got your tongue...

Here is that inked piece of Julio that Patricio did. He never finished it, but he's a talented chap, no? The simple linework to the right was what I gave him, and he (almost) finished with the piece on the left.

I wasn't born a failure...

I worked my ass off to become one...

I never retraced this, it's still in rough stages. Please pardon the scan quality. Luigi. I love everything Nintendo makes, and I felt the need to show some love. Very rarely do I do art of a character I did not create. I should do it more often.

This one I did finish. Almost. I wanted to have Mario kicking Bowser or a Koopa or something. I like it!

Here is a much more finished version of my Rot Falke piece from a previous post. I retraced it, made it cleaner. Added a little more visible detail, most noticeably to his utility belt. I hope you like it better the second time around.

Bumpin' Like Teenage Acne...

So, for the first time in Allah-knows how long, I actually sat my ass down to draw. I feel really good about it. I know nobody reads this, but if somebody out there does... COMMENT ME!

So you remember when I posted that rad drawing Jared did of Warhowl? Well I neglected to mention that prior to that I never actually drew Warhowl. I gave Jared this crappy rough sketch, and he really helped to form the idea in my head of what Warhowl should look like. Maybe I did the collar a smidge too big, but I like this one. I didn't draw his Dust blade because I haven't decided on EXACTLY how it should look. I'll sketch it soon and post it.

THIS TOOK FREAKIN FOREVER! I hope you all damned appreciate my hard work here. Here we have the as-of-yet unnamed Green Grubat commander. On his planet there are both Green and Purple Grubat. The purple are more intellectual types, whereas these green ones are like... Conan with really big guns. The scale work took freakin forever! I hope you appreciate this work. Get your ass on the fan art.

I got two more comin' up this week of Mario and Luigi, as well as a more refined version of that Rot Falke pic I did some time ago (Really I just made the lines darker, but still).

Wear a shirt that says I bleed if you shoot me in the chestplate...

An as-of-yet unnamed Russian super hero. I liked Foxstar, but nobody else liked it so I'm not decided yet. He is intended to be a low rent version of the Patriarch. In his cold war incarnation he carried a sickle and hammer. His modern day incarnation he ditches his jetpack and fights with these rad knife gauntlets and rifles. He's more like the Punisher but... You know, evil...

A crewmember aboard the Warhowl. Zalone Lugik is the trigger happy weapons specialist. He carries a large sword with three holes for his fingers in the cross section to make the sword double as an exceptionally long punching blade. He also carries four knives, two on his back and two on his thighs. He keeps his second set of arms hidden so that his hidden strike with his back knives is a killing stroke. He also has this interesting rubber band bow and arrow thing... I'll draw it sometime.

an old drawing I did in high school of mah BOI! Anung Un Rama, AKA Hellboy. Big ol HB is one of the most consistently entertaining characters in the comics industry, and I am VERY excited for the new film. I'm gonna count how many times he says "Aw crap".

This isn't that old. Just a sketch for something I started doing some time ago. I think I'm a more talented designer now. I wanted to redesign the Mortal Kombat universe, giving the characters more story and personality. Here we have Baraka, who is a pirate in my Outworld.

And another of my zombie-hunter version of Cujo. I think this was from high school, but I can't remember. I just put it up here so I can download it when I get back to California. It sucks, but it's fun.

Another piece I did back during our Legacy Of Kain contest. Raziel, the Soul Reaver. One of my favorite video game characters ever.

A not very good sketch of a character from my Warhowl story. This is Fleet Commander Arjo Serren. I REALLY hate this sketch, so I think I have to do a fresh piece of him... This one makes me cry. It sucks even for a sketch.

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Here we go with another mixed bag of old and new.

A sketch of Whiplash's face. I like this a lot, but I really have no idea why I drew little cherub wings on him.

Some assorted character sketches for that children's cartoon. In the back you can see Baron Apocolypto in the top hat, professor Sakimoto on the left, and his daughter Julie in rear, with Teddybom to the right. Those were afterthoughts. The primary focus was Ultra Heroman in the foreground. Ultra Heroman is on a sabattical in space when Giga Reptos attacks, forcing Professor Sakimoto to create our new pink hero. Heroman fights with a giant spear and his Rocker Watch Blade. The Rocker Watch is how he transforms, and has a pull string like a gas powered lawn mower. :-)

Tiburon. I like him. At one point I wanted to make Julio part of a superhero group called the sons of Mexico. Tiburon here has gills, claws on his fingertips and acid secreting pores on his palms. He wears a rubber suit to retain moisture. I liked the absurdity of having a skeleton in a wifebeater, a rubber suited sharkboy hiding behind cholo-wear, and a musty old oily cyborg in a torn up double breasted suit. It's ridiculous, and poking a little fun at Clark Kent and his stupid glasses...

I'm writing a fantasy story. this here is Sasha the bandit king. He has a chainsaw sword. That plastic segment on top of it is a) a seat, b) a grip, and c) a shoulder guard. I like him. I intended him to have this thick Cockney'ed accent and a really sour self righteous attitude. He has a major Napoleon Complex, and he'd be immense fun as a hero.

Some sketches for the Stelken fanatical group, The Fifth Sight. They scour the universe for races that they feel will spread out into the universe consuming natural resources and destroy them. Militant Commando Hippie-Monks, sort of. They have two opposable thumbs on each hand that can pop out of their sockets. All of their joints, for that matter, are able to be dislocated and relocated without pain. They make phenomenal assassins.

My original sketch for the Judge. Looks a lot like Jason's, no? He hit what I was going for.

A sketch of Julio. He looks sad. I loves Julio. I've since began drawing him with individual vertebrae and removed the skull icon on his boots.

Mercenary Kael hounds Warhowl throughout the galaxy in order to consume the Grav Matrix and all of his power with it. Kael is a purple scaly space dog thing. His race lives among asteroid belts, carry bio-luminescent gas propellant beneath their scales and eat through a process similar to photosynthesis. They can cocoon themselves and enter a hibernation state. He's fun.

From my Zombie story, Niko. Niko fights with a Japanese short sword. That's really it. I haven't written anything of him.

On the left we have Sarna, chief secretary to Administrator Amagon. Amagon is a deep space despot. He's very Stalinistic. He hires Kael to hunt Warhowl. To the right we have the Ko-Za, native to Renneks home planet.

Zombie hunter Kunta. He has those giant metal gauntlets to protect his hands from his razor wire whip.

THE CHUPA-FREAKIN-CABRA! My version of everybody's favorite goat-sucking demon. She is a short lived adversary to Julio. He destroys her to ease the pain of a small village that relies on their goat farming for income. El Diablo get's more than a little cheesed.

Line art of Julio. You should see the inking job that Pato did on this bad boy...

Remember the Lawman I told you about? HERE HE IS! He was designed to be a fantasy version of Clint Eastwood. The whole story has massive parallels to The Good the bad and the ugly. Almost a remake, honestly. The Lawman carries a revolver, and in this universe guns are this alien technology that can level cities. His eye is a prosthesis concealing a key to a great treasure which can restore water to the barren deserts of his Earth...

Bounty Hunter Hussla Haula. He's a FREAKIN KANGAROO SPIDER! WITH AN AUSTRALIAN GUY HAT! He has a gun that fires syringes filled with some gnarly narcotics, Overdosing his haul.

Giga Reptos as drawn by Jason. The first villain in Teddybom. I can't draw it, so I have him do it. Guga Reptos is covered in stone scales which are actually hermit crab monsters! He is actually a few of the mountains in the Yokohama Mountain Range.

Another of El Diablo's legbreakers. El Cucuy is modeled after both Aztec and Mayan warriors. he has a rad phatty oar sword.

Unfinished sketch of Johnny rage.

And an unfinished sketch of undead Jose Muerte... I love the design, but it's just so hokey I don't know if I'll ever go through with it...

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Breathe in...

So I'm up here in Seattle and lo and behold, I discover there is a scanner available! Here is about a third of the stuff I scanned the other night. Something old and something new, stuff from high school sketches from work and all that. Hope you like some of it.

I did this sketch on a printout of an E-Mail from my supervisor at work. God bless photoshop, it was a piece of cake to eliminate all of the text (The character was drawn OVER the words of the E-Mail). The guy on the right is just a boredom doodle, as the focus here is the Red Ranger. It's Morphin' Time!

My first serious sketch of three of the main mob bosses from my fictional Mexico. Left to right we have Hector Huitzil, Javier Castillo and Ignacio Cruz (Nacho). I was mostly trying to get an idea of how they would look standing near each other.

My first sketches of before/after ideas for the mob bosses. We additionally have Sanchito Acero down at the bottom. The "before" versions are supposed to be what they look like as Julio is just becoming a member of the underworld. The "after" are after he has established his dominance as Mexico's top pistolero.

The DSA SPAT unit (Department of Superhuman Affairs, Super Powered Anti-Terrorism). We have here Chaz Armstrong (Whiplash), Bill Wade, Johnny Rage (Scissorman), and Atlas. I sketched this on the front of a report I did. The heads are a little long and Johnny's body is a little too stocky, but I like it a lot.

A lot of High School sketches on the way, so prepare for a lot of lined paper. Here we have Jake Dangerfish and Perilous Hare. You'll notice Perilous' gun and knife are unfinished, which is all well and good considering the boots look lame. THEY HAVE NO TREAD! I really liked the piece though. Dangerfish's signature weapon is the Hustler revolver, and Perilous' is the .357 Playboy.
In their story they are air pirates who have stolen the first prototype jet engine from Her Majesty's Royal Air Navy. It's a fun story.

A pen sketch of Julio. I'd like to finish it, I think the pose is pretty cool. It was one of those things where I was just trying to learn perspective.

High school again. This is Cervantes, a machine super hero created to patrol and protect Mexico D.F. from the forces of evil. He doesn't make a distinction between life and death, so every day he reports back to his long dead creator after dropping off dead criminals in jail cells.

This one is actually from my freshman year at college. I did this during my two hour break between classes. This character is a future version of the one below. He has become corrupted by the power of The Encroaching Darkness and become a demon. His gun fires capsules of holy water with the bone shavings of saints in them. I call it the Relic Gun.

you'll notice that my boy Cujo here looks a bit like Jake Dangerfish. Every story I write has myself in it as a character. Cujo here is one of me. I never finished this, but I had kind of a Shredder thing going on here. I also did not place his sword in here, which I would still like to do.

Two characters from my zombie story, Dig and Ash. Dig has a gauntlet with bladed pincers and a short sword. The short sword can be launched from the gauntlet with a spring like a crossbow. Ash carries two Kama. He's a little less intriguing.

Julio and Jose. I originally wanted Julio to smash Jose's ribs, cut off his hands and gouge out his eye before he kicked the bucket. Jose comes back from the dead and rebuilds those parts of his body with machinery. He has machine gun hands and metal ribs. I thought that came off as really contrived so I ditched it.

The Patriarch as he appears in the 1950's. The idea is that he is basically Captain America, minus the strength and reflexes and plus a jetpack. So he's not really like Captain America at all. He's essentially our most skilled soldier, and HE CAN FREAKIN' FLY! That is rad.

Atlas is my Superman style hero. Everybody loves him yadda-yadda-ya. I don't like the idea of a superhero who can take a bullet in the eye without blinking *COUGH*, so my idea of bullet proof is more like a bullet proof vest. He has accelerated healing, immense strength, flight and sonic screams. He fought in WWII as Rot Falke, and acted as a member of the superhuman Illuminati group controlling the fate of mankind. Up in the left corner you can see a concept sketch for a satam style version of him.

And here is me again playing around with Saturday Morning Cartoon style. It was fun.

Baal is a space pirate... Even cooler than that, he is a space VAMPIRE pirate. A vampirate, if you will. Instead of UV allergy, I like my vampires to instead have violently photosensitive vision, hence the double eyepatches. Plus, it just looks damned cool.
I originally designed him as a joke character, with two eyepatches, two peglegs and two hook hands. He still has two hooks, but those "I know what you did last summer" fish hooks. He's the consummate badass of the Hephaestus crew.

And lastly, a poor unnamed Old Ways. He's important to the story of Warhowl, which is why I had a difficult time naming him. He has a large gourd on his back for booze, Ko-Za antler armguard... And I did something a little different with his dreads, tying them around his shoulder area. He is the dodgeball captain, and one of the generals of the Old Ways makeshift army when they rise up against General God King Korr of the Fine Hair... Which is a mouthful...


Anways, look forward to more of my scans soon.

Breathe out.

The world's greatest writers are all drunks and fighters...

I thought since my last post was art of my characters by someone other than me, I'd give you all a show of some others' work! First two are from Jared Lipscomb, click him on my peeps sidebar to check out his stuff.

First we have a character whose name I can NEVER decide on. His hero name, however, has been firmly planted as Warhowl. He is the captain of a ship and a loyal crew. An American astronaut sucked into a wormhole and unknowingly through a hidden planet where he was imbued with gravimetric super powers.

Here is Rennek of the Old Ways, as seen in my first post (Please, go back and check it out! I love the piece I did of him! I was proud!). Rennek was the first alien friend and war buddy of our main man Warhowl. Prince rennek becomes what I'd been calling "honorbound" to Warhowl for saving his people from a genocidal king, General God King Kor of the Fine Hair. I think if I can ever actually script some meat to the story, it could be a lot of fun.

So Jason sent me some more art of my characters. I LOVE collaborating. It's fun. Again, he is skilled in taking my characters and giving them a little more life, but still being what I was going for.

I will update this soon with comparisons of the sketches I gave him.

Bloody Bill Wade with his less savory alter ego, The Sadist looming in the background. All of the DSA heroes are government agents, so I designed them all with utility belts. I like my heroes having gear. Honestly, I've only created three gadgets for them, but still!

The beginning of the Judge. I like the Judge, so I hope this finishes up well. The face is definitely good. He looks upset, no?

This is my heavy hitter type villain, Rama Amon. Idea here is that he is a long forgotten Egyptian harvester of souls, erased from their history for his plans to utilize his army of souls for sort of a Coup De'Tat against the Elder Gods. I like him, and here he looks suitably detached.

This guy is tentatively known as Ominous. He is created from the reanimated flesh of a zombie. It's one of those silly comic book things that makes no sense, and why I love comics as a form of art and entertainment.


I hope you guys enjoyed the work of my fellow artists as much as I do.