cliff house

here's another sketch for my island story.
i'm trying to focus my ideas as to what the "world" looks like.
i'm trying to be a bit more specific with the geography and the landscape.

happy halloween!

clear blue

old west designs

wild frontier

a few sketches for an idea i have for a graphic novel.

cliff jumping!

i'm trying to post some more sketches from my island story.
here's one i did a few months back.
i drew it on the cintiq and colored it with marker.

october sketches

caleb's card

this is a card i recently did for my buddy, caleb.
he was storyboarding on penguins with me and left to work on american dad.

friday sketches

more cintiq sketches

to cintiq, or not to cintiq...

here's a sketch i did at work.
each sketch i do on the cintiq, the more i enjoy working on the computer.

island concepts

here's a few more marker sketches for my island story.

island girl sketch

island boy

it's been a while since i've blogged.
here are some sharpie sketches for my story.

olivia's 1st birthday

our daughter turned one year old on april 29th!
it's been an amazing year.
here's the sketch i did for her very first birthday party invitation.

boy smiling

yet another sketch of my island boy.

green eyes

backyard

graphite storyboards

here's another storyboard page from an avatar episode.
it's kinda refreshing to look back at my old boards.
especially since i work all digital now.
i really enjoy drawing on the cintiq,
but there's something very appealing to me
when i draw with a pencil on a piece of paper.
i guess it's the textural quality it achieves.
or maybe it's because i've been drawing on paper for so long.

kung fu studies

on avatar we would shoot live action kung fu reference with the help of our martial arts expert, in the gym at nickelodeon.
here are a couple of pages i drew from that kung fu reference.

avatar storyboards

i thought it was about time to post some storyboards.
these are from an avatar episode where jet confronts zuko, about being a firebender, in a ba sing se tea shop.

what's he look like?

some sketches on how the boy's design might look like.

boy meets girl...

first day of spring

photoshop sketch

here's a sketch of the boy in my story.
when i'm at work, i draw on a cintiq.
when i go home, i stick to the classics...pencil and paper.

happy st. patrick's day!

piggy-back ride

another concept from my island story.

island girl

abort

here is another page from my comic, spaceman.

ruins

elephants

some elephant studies,
for possible character ideas for my island story.

boy and grandpa

this is another concept from my story idea.
a boy explaining to
his grandpa that he saw something off in the distant mountain tops.

sketching at work

two old geezers with hats

cintiq sketches

here are a few doodles i did on my cintiq at work.

president's day

trying to work out some story points with a
few image boards.
it helps me keep my focus, as a bunch of different ideas
run through my head.

some stuff

here are a few sketches i've done for a story
i'm working on.
quick pencil sketches with some marker on top.