Poot's Pen

Mortifera Issue #3 Preview

2011-03-15T15:57:00.000-07:00

Here's the cover (layout sketch and final versions) and one of my favorite pages from the next issue. Inked version all finished! Woohoo!! Now it's time to go back and tell the beginning of the story haha.

Train Sketches

2011-02-25T15:12:00.000-08:00

Took a break from other projects and drew some funky trains. Its fun to change gears for a minute and draw something more mechanical.

SteamPunk Concepts

2011-02-09T09:58:00.000-08:00

Soooooooo much fun!

hand?

2011-02-03T15:19:00.000-08:00

yep. That's a hand alright... and a wrist too. Scandalous!

Foooooood Fiiiiight!

2011-02-03T09:54:00.001-08:00

Concepts from an internal project at Suppervillain Studios. I had entirely too much fun with these.

Sports!!!

2011-02-03T09:50:00.001-08:00

Some concept stuff from Supervillain Studios. Woot!

Animation?

2010-09-16T17:39:00.001-07:00

A little homework assignment I gave myself. Feels like forever since I animated anything and trying to learn how to do it in Photoshop. This is just a test frame I made give myself an idea what I want the finished to look like. Its aloooong way from done but I'm having fun with it.

More Mortifera stuff

2010-09-15T16:24:00.000-07:00

Welp, issue 2 is now fully colored and will be printed soon. Gave me a chance to draw one of the main villains for the inside cover. Hasn't made an appearance in the comic yet which sucks because he's damn fun to draw! I look forward to the day I get to draw him ripping people to pieces and generally spreading mayhem and destruction.
Especially excited to get my copy of the color version cuz my hommie Miles has drawn an pinup for us (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JtWcULEmXhI/TI-sZ_uAp2I/AAAAAAAAAdw/jKMQo1mry6g/s1600/MortiferaGroup_05B.jpg) Turned out cool as hell! You rule Miles!

Star Heads!

2010-08-20T17:16:00.001-07:00

Wanted to do some head studies. I Don't do this kind of stuff nearly enough and turned out to be damn fun!

Sketchy Time

2010-08-13T14:32:00.001-07:00

Mortifera colors!

2010-08-07T11:34:00.000-07:00

Got my copy of the first b&w version of Mortifera and turned out great! Looked much better in print. Working on color pages now let me know what cha think.

Mortifera parto tsuu!!

2010-06-20T12:27:00.001-07:00

Issue 3 all ready to go for the Comic con! I'm all excited now, cant wait to hold a tangible copy in my own phalanges. Looks like Stephan will have all sorts o shwag (t-shirts, stickers and whatnot) ready to promote it and Tyson has made a kickass Durin sculpture ta boot! You can check it out on his blog here http://tysonsart.blogspot.com/ and the Mortifera page and blog are up and running (http://www.mortifera.net/) so go check em out!
Hope I see some of you at Comic con. hit me up and we'll grab some food and mock our fellow geeks.

Critters!

2010-06-19T22:12:00.000-07:00

Felt like drawing me some monsterish stuff. Blroooghsh!!

Mortifera Pages

2010-02-01T22:05:00.000-08:00

A preview of Mortifera.

Comic stuff!!

2010-01-21T16:07:00.001-08:00

Thought I'd share some stuff from the comic projects I've been working on. These two are just some of the concept sketches from Mortifera, the brain child of my buddy and former work chum Stephan Frost. Having a blast with it but how could I not be happy drawing demons and massive bloodshed! When we have enough ready for you viewing pleasure it will be found here http://www.mortifera.net
this is the cover image for the fist issue (3 or 4 issues total i think) for my other project Gangsta Queens which will be out on the shelves... when we get it done. Hooray for killer strippers and booty shaken!

Illustrator

2010-01-21T15:47:00.001-08:00

Some of the work I did in my Illustrator class. Made this one for a winter solstice greeting card.
This one was fun. Wanted to take a stab at the design styles of Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, whose work you've seen if you've ever come across El Tigre. I love that show it manages to maintain that delicate balance of stupid and clever that I find so entertaining.

Tales of Despereaux

2010-01-20T19:10:00.000-08:00

Some of the Character work I did waaaay back when I was working on Tales of Despereaux games. I believe my comrade in arms Miles Collins designed the rats I just had the pleasure of pleasure of making the color comps and turnarounds.

No. 11 more Robots and a Random Dinosaur

2009-05-15T14:50:00.000-07:00

Just trying out some different ideas an approaches in Photoshop.

No. 10 environment practice

2009-02-25T14:06:00.000-08:00

Too tired cant think of anything clever to say....

No. 9 Monster Heads

2009-02-17T13:54:00.000-08:00

Been messing around with the photoshop a lot more lately once I stole some useful brushes from various friends and colleagues (thanks guys!) I actually had fun~

No. 8 Floaty Island stuff

2009-02-12T15:49:00.000-08:00

Working out some ideas and loose concepts for fun and possibly profit. I got some good feed back from my buddy Miles, which I have yet to implement (I'll get there its on the list) just figured I'd post it up as is just so I feel productive.

No. 7 Time for Some Good ol' Fashion Bare-Knuckle Boxing

2009-01-29T15:57:00.000-08:00

Still more somewhat old stuff. bunch o' folks in basically the same pose losing points for creativity there haha. I love painting in this way though it allows for the fun of the chunky painterly stuff as well as the cleanliness of comic lines.

No. 6 Random junk and a goblin

2009-01-14T17:26:00.000-08:00

Had a bit o down time at work a little while back an drew me some fantasy nonsense.

Just messing around doing some random quick studies yaaaay.

No. 5 Robots n' Demons oh my

2009-01-12T10:22:00.000-08:00

No. 4 Butterflys n Fish

2009-01-09T09:52:00.000-08:00

Still playing catch-up

No. 3 Spidy Samich!

2009-01-08T15:45:00.000-08:00

Was watching the new Spiderman cartoon, love what Cheeks has done with the designs and it’s nice to them experimenting with the character roles and stories. Hopefully it will be back on soon so I’ll have something to geek out to on Saturday mornings again.

Numbah 2. Old Stuff

2009-01-06T09:49:00.000-08:00

Floating Junk Heap

Zombie Bear

Just some old stuff that I still like.

The Epic First Post

2009-01-05T17:46:00.000-08:00

Well I've had this blog sitting here wasting precious web space for a month or so but i finally got around to posting something.After much deliberation and soul searching I decided that for this first monumental post I'd share something amazingly stupid.
Hobo-Bot and Robo-Angel...

Your mental pain and confusion brings me joy.