Comics

Since I've had the doodle bug, I've sketched and drawn many kinds of things. One thing that I spent a good deal of time on was comic books. My eye was drawn to the artwork immediately. It seemed like a more realistic version of the cartoons I had drawn so far. They were grown up characters, not as goofy looking. They weren't drawn for a laugh this time. So at first I bought comics that caught my artistic fancy. I began sketching from the pages of such artists as Jim Lee, Sam Keith, Todd McFarlane, Stephen Platt, and Jae Lee. I loved Jim Lee's se-metrical style, and Sam's sketchy, sharp edges. I slowly began forming my own style from this inspiration. I can never decide how I want to draw my characters so it all depends on the day or mood I'm in.

I started reading some of these comics I bought, trying to learn how to connect pictures with the story lines. I found myself enjoying the reading experience quite well. So it was that I became a full fledged comic collector. About 600 comics later I'm still enjoying this pass time of reading and collecting comic books.

My goal is to start writing up a story line and create some unique characters to make my own comic book.

I've worked on a project for an online role-playing game with one of my old mudd gaming friends. It involved creating splash screens for the game, which consisted of dwarves, elves, and other D&D style characters as well as their weapons and accessories. I did a little bit of the menu decortations as well. The project never came to final stages because as with many things creative, something similar came out that stole the light, it was called World of Warcraft. :)

I have been discussing a musically-based comic with a good friend of mine, Brian Moss, who has given me the underlining story ideas dealing with a sentient guitar. I think it will end up being a great comic.

I intend to post some comics on here for all to see, but until then I'll be posting some character sketches and other related comic art.

X-Men, Spiderman, Wolverine, Gen 13, Creed, The Maxx, Spawn, Pitt, Prophet, The Hulk, Bone

Some related links:
Spawn.com
marvel.com
dccomics.com
Topcow.com
Imagecomics.com
Crossgen.com