May 17 2012
Here’s a commission I recently completed of English Jazz singer and writer George Melly. Likenesses are always a bit of a struggle for me, and this one was no exception. I’m pretty happy with the inking and toning of this piece, though for sure. It’s headed off to its new home in Cambridge soon! Here’re …
May 17 2012
There’s a nice write-up about Strikes, the mini-comic story I illustrated for Bret Parks (the owner of our local comics shop, Ssalefish) in today’s Winston-Salem Journal. You can find the article online here along with a short video featuring Bret and me talking about making the book. Here’s a scan of the newspaper article featuring …
May 10 2012
The show is this Saturday (5/12) from 10 am until 5 pm. I’ll be arriving fashionably late (Apparently, I can’t just leave our four-year-old at home by herself until my wife gets back into town to take over). I’ll be hawking copies of some of my books and doing sketches/commissions… but–most important–you’ll be able to …
May 07 2012
The new Jack White record is pretty great and I’ve been listening to it (and the new Spiritualized) pretty much non-stop for the last week or so. Just ’cause I had Jack White on the brain, I whipped up a quick illo of him in my sketchbook. It’s not a great likeness, but I do …
May 01 2012
If you follow my ramblings, you know that I love my Rotring Art Pen for working in my sketchbook… except for one thing: the ink refills you have to use for the pen aren’t water-fast, so you can’t sketch with the Rotring and then go over your drawing with sepia wash or watercolor. On the …
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