process

a little bit more of my process:

the scanner i've been using is always a little smudgy.


so my friend vince, a graphic designer at work, showed me a trick to solidify the black. it changes the effect of the line art, but i went ahead with it as an experiment.


flat colors.


one layer of shading.


and finally with a second layer of shading.

note: this is actually a marvel universe wolverine costume vs. an ultimate universe cyclops costume.

free post-its

along with the free notepads, we office workers get all the free post-it notes we can use. the great thing about that is that such a tiny surface is far less daunting to approach with a pen. if i screw up a doodle, who cares? it's just a post-it.

so here i condensed a couple prime post-it doodles (albeit unrelated) into one stackable, savable notepad page.

on top, a group inspired by my november 2008 viewing of spamalot at chrysler hall in norfolk. black knight and john cleese both appear, as does a medieval colossus (of the x-men) and my good friend greg steele (for some reason). the others i cannot identify, even though i've left hints for myself. the true answer could be lost to the ages.

EDIT: i just realized who the other knights are - jeff goldblum and magneto. no word on the horned damsel yet.

below, battle of the hulks. from left to right: edward norton's hulk, ang lee's hulk and lou ferrigno's hulk. i started a comic strip with a fight between norton and lee, but ultimately felt that the inclusion norton's american history x swastika was in bad taste, so i never finished. maybe some day.