Panel 3, Megan and I doing our best Timbaland impressions

Here's a rough sketch of a harpy for that game we're working on.

Working up a new site and new logo for the Konamis. With this adventure rounding the corner to a close, I want to have something fresh to go with the next storyline. BTW I love this new logo.

I'm really just happy with the way this came out, but I'm not sure what I want to do with it yet. Shirt, CD cover, Graphic novel? I dunno.

Working on developing some background elements for the game demo.

Playing around with different palettes and weapons for high level and low level monsters of the same class. Here I've got a High level Ogre (red on the left) wielding a War Hammer (yet to be colored), and a Low level Ogre (blue on the right) wielding a tree trunk club. The War Hammer strikes slower leaving a larger opening for player to attack, but is much more powerful than the club.

One critique that I'd received with some regularity about the Konamis webcomic, was about the old "Cast & Crew" page. Primarily that it didn't offer any real information for first time readers. I've been thinking about it in the back of my mind for some time now, and finally put together a page that I feel offers a bit more information than the old one. It's not perfect, but it is a step forward. I would love any feed back on this. If you are a first time reader, what are the things you'd expect to see in an about page? did I miss the boat completely, or does this do it for you? Thanks, for reading.

I'm happy with how this turned out. I think it will make an excellent Konamis cover

Here's a digital painting I did for my brother's birthday. It's an Anime version of him as the green lantern, riding a construct of his dog. I pretty happy with it.

Hello Blog. How are you? I am fine.

I guess this is the first post of the new year. I didn't want blogger to feel neglected so I decided to post a quick Sheena of Savageland concept for ya. It's my first attempt to produce anything using the watercolor brushes. They're a bit unwieldy, but it was a fun result.

Everyone can thank Steve for the killer idea of taking an obscure last panel and turning it into a T-Shirt phenomenon. Go here to get your very own: http://www.cafepress.com/inmonsterland

I don't know who the artist is for this amazing piece of work, but I had to share this awesome, awesome mural.

Here's some story boards for a fake japanese cereal. The overall premise is about a boy and his robot, and their battle for the bowl of cereal. Neko-Crunchies!

Since it's been a while since I posted any Monsterland stuff on the blog I thought I'd post a rough comparison. I draw this strip from start to finish in illustrator. I'll start with the text, to layout the joke and see how much room I'll have to work with. Then I start out with a rough. Loosely drawing gestures in a 20% grey line I can get a feel for the movement and pacing of the strip. Sometimes I'll scrap an entire panel 3 or 4 times before I get a pose or angle that I like. Then I lock those layers. Always putting the text as the upper most layer, and the rough on the bottom. then I have a seperate layer for panels, foreground (characters), and background. Basically from there I go over the rough and try to clean up or smooth out any wonky angles. Also adding more shading for dynamic and depth. Then it's simply a matter of turning off the rough layer, saving it as a jpeg then posting it.

Rough idea I had for Diablo Translations logo. I think the kanji is backwards though.

New Konamis advertising! Check it out, we've got these bad boys around a few other websites, such as FChords, Starslip, and Goats. Hopefully they're still up when you check it out.

New link over there on the links! YAY! It's my brothers button business, so this is my shameless promotion. There ya go.

In case you haven't been keeping up with the Konamis, there's a link at the top of my page, also one here. This is what I'm thinking for a cast and crew page, just a brief introduction to the character roles.

It's been awhile since I painted for myself. Done a couple of newer things that are more decorative, but 'George' here is still one of my favorites.

This Big 'ol farmin' Vampire looks similar to the old grimace, maybe they're distant cousins?

Number 2 for sketchbook pro. Tried to be a bit looser with it, play with form a bit more.

Kyle introduced me to this program called Sketch book pro. Here's the first thing I did with it, got some mixed feelings about the interface, and the end result. Gonna keep at it for a while longer.

Here's a piece that I'd colored for Ben Caldwell awhile back, when he was looking for a colorist. He didn't end up using it, but I thought he drew it well, and it'd be something cool to post.

Mecha-lulz

Escape! Escape! clever plans of monsters and men.

A couple of random sketches from the sketchbook.

So I was sketchin this up in my book and thought, "hey, that would be a pretty cool look for the website. At least the nav box, with the claws holding up the comic, and a pretty ornate back and forth arrows, with the previous five and next five comics easily accessible.

So in preparation for moving Monsterland to it's own website, I am going to start posting Monsterland strips here:
Wordpress

I'll probably still post them on this blog for a while, as long as I'm still getting everything ready. Ultimately though this blog will be more random art drop stuff, and the wordpress blog will be specifically for new IML strips.

Bring in the Bounty Hunter.