SuperheroAstronautPrincess

Prelim sketch for a commission...and possible picture book idea.

I Yam What I Yam

Sketching up some classics...

Alo!

Mr. Handsome

Troll-ish fellow with a rather serious nose wound...

'Ello Love!

A page from "TS Hullabaloo"...

Homage To Melies...

An inspirational sketch of Queenie, based on one of Georges Melies' classic films...

Paul Pope's Colette

Unleash The Puppies!

Picture Book Snapshots

A few pages from a picture book I'm working on.
And there you are.
:>)

Sketches

Just moments of warming up, keeping loose...

The Young Twirler

Poor Felton...

AVM, 1915

A surly-looking "twirler" from World War I...

Li'l Wolverine

Inspired by Marvel Baby work of the great Skottie Young...

A Moose Named Mortimer...

The header panel for my guest spot on Joshua Hauke's wonderful webcomic.  It was a fun little assignment.
Check it out here: http://www.brothers3comics.com/
And there you are...

Ain't Love Grand...

Some final art for a wedding invitation.  Really fun to do..

Fortress of The Justice Defenders

Another  pic-in-pencil form from the picture book WIP...

The Daring Do Kid

Man, I have to finish his/my story one day...
Oh yeah-and maybe put some hands on him too :^)

Character Conceptin': Tikki-Tak

This was fun li'l character concept to play with...

The Bully Felton

Another one of those lunch-break sketches...

Halloweenie

Having fun with the star of one of my (many) pic book treatments...

Flight

A "gas-powered" piggie made me laugh.  Someone convinced me to go with it.  He was right...

Friends...(pic book pencils)

...For the obsessive hell of it.

Pic Book Inspiration

A pen sketch for one of my pic book treatments.
And there you are.

Sparky's Bad Day

A fun little ditty I mustered up for the #CrazyCartoonExperiment.  Check out all the fun goings-on over at jonscrazystuff.blogspot.com, led by the captain of captains, Jon Esparza.

And there you are.

NOT Max...!

Another one of those work break-time sketches (man, I love drawing in ballpoint), sitting in the car, waiting to go back into Shawshank Wholesale.  Rough as heck, but it makes me happy.
The little fella's dialogue is a response to a co-worker who thought I had just drawn Max from 'Wild Things'.  Hadn't even dawned on me.
I was actually thinking of Miyazaki at the time...
And there you are :^)

Oh, SIlly Kabloo!

Goofy little sketches like these, in moments of freedom when I'm not chasing my youngest around the house, that make me happy...

This is not a slingshot...

The first image of one of my WIPs.
And there you are.

A Whistling Pig...

Pen & ink of my dear Queenie, riding her snappy little Vespa.
And there you are.

My Viking Years

Woah!  Its been awhile!
Well, here's a character sketch for a book a LOOOONG time in the making, which happens to be a  memoir of sorts, and a "companion" piece to the 'Waffles' sketch.
And there you are.
PS: Yup, that shield is a nod to a favorite 80's game of my youth...

No Time For Waffles!

A ink test thingamabob for a children's book idea of mine.
Little man's essentially a seven year old version of me. I did indeed refer to my mother as "woman" when I was actin' a bit dramatic...
And there you are.

RippleLick

A foil to our "hero", Simon, from the picture book in progress...Wearing my Dr. Seuss influence a bit too much on my sleeve perhaps :)

A Pig Named Bisley

Quixote

Simon Struts

A Silly Pig in A Silly Wig

Been focused so much on finishing the second draft of this little porcine beauty's story, that I've totally neglected drawing her. It's been a few weeks and I'm rusty as all get-out. But this little ditty was fun...

Monstrously Manuel

From a storybook idea that's waiting in the wings. One tale at a time...
My first real attempt at inking with a brush. It was a lot of fun, felt better than I was expecting.
And there you are.

Pete and Queenie

From my childrens storybook-in-progress...

An 'Imaginary' Prelim

Quick sketch (with a dash of color) of an idea for my children's storybook-in-progress. Taken with my phone on a whim, so its not exactly a great scan.
I like having it somewhere around me while I'm writing, for inspiration, a chance to dream of seeing it on a shelf some day. Creates a sense of urgency...**smile**

Monsters...I Dig 'Em

More concept sketches for my storybook, "A Monstrously Curious Thing Happened..."

The Great Bishop of Magic, Fillaroy

Had a lot of fun doing this sketch...