My Brother is Weird (New page 1 WIP)

Posted for one of my best friends, Andrea Caroll.

Ki looks much better on this page. In the words of my other best friend Rachel Stolberg, he's 'shrimpy.' Shrimpy is a much more flattering descriptive word than what I tend to use for Ki - 'girly.' He's also very 'haunted baby wild animal' on this page which is definitely what I was going for.

I'm redoing the first page of MBiW and making it into 2 to make it sync better with the rest of the comic. This may mean redrawing all the Ki panels on the current page 2, which is baaaaah...

Cold Mountains Rough Velocity Comic Idea

The swiftclaw have an attitude of 'It's better to be a coward than die stupidly.' They don't tempt fate.

Velocity Rough Idea Comic

This is actually the very first rough comic I did exploring the story of Velocity and in this, we meet Tyanar's emaciated father Versuva, who is dying. Now, I'm not actually very sure about how this story is going to go yet except that it's going to be a multi-issue adventure story but right now the main pretext is reminding me a tiny bit too much of one of my manuscripts already in production so I'm going to have to change that. (Though since Velocity came from games that I played as a child with my plastic dinosaurs - yep, I was epic - Velocity really came first!) Anyway, enough of that! I hope you enjoy the short. I really like how Versuva looks in this and if you compare him (and Tya) to how she looks in the previous post, there's a lot of improvement. She looks less wolfy and more unique, which is important considering that she's supposed to be closer related to a modern hyena, not a wolf!

What's interesting is that this started as just concept art for Versuva, then I started writing and then I had to draw the scene that was in my head! It was mad.


*In case it's missed because of the cut off corner in the fourth page when Versuva falls down and he's talking to the swiftclaw, he's offering a bargain to them of his life for Tyanar's - aka, he's saying that he'll die quietly and be the swiftclaw's food if they save his daughter. Hmmmmm Versuva... personally I wouldn't trust a pack of raptors not to eat my daughter, but whatever floats your boat, half dead guy....

Sketch Dump of the Unscanned

Old sketches from WAY back! Some may be repeats (I was trying to be thorough) but in any case, here we have concept drawings for:

- Cat the Border Collie
- Emperor's Blood
- The Copperbane Series (in general)
- The Prayer Fulfilled
- Velocity

Also, a few things are random. Like the bucking bull and the creepy ass monkeys. Monkeys scare me!

Matriarch & Sunny

My first post today is a sad one. If you read my writing blog, you probably know that my dear cat Sunny passed away August 19th of this year, 2011. The pain is still very fresh and drawing this was an excersize in agony, but it's done and so here Sunny is, in all his cuddly, adorable, splendiferous glory.

Rest in peace buddy.

I realized today that I didn't upload my picture of Matriarch (the alpha female of the swiftclaw pack) to explain yesterday's speedpaint post. She's Moki and Tyanar's mother in my graphic novel idea Velocity. She's not a huge character, but she's a very strong female personality and she doesn't take shit from anybody. This is a raptor who is extremely smart who is more likely to outsmart you than you are to outsmart her. She might not be a big dinosaur as a swiftclaw, but she makes up with that with pure ass-kicking badassery.

Raptor's Oasis Speedie

Yep, it's raptor season again. Here's a 10 minute speedpaint using only one brush of a concept for where these guys live, featuring a lake populated by crocodile things and a bunch of annoying hadrosaurs which like to thwart the swiftclaws. "See? You COULD get us, but you're too afraid of the croc-things so you won't and they won't eat us because we're too big! Haha!" The swiftclaws might reply to their prey with "Sooner or later, you shall have to poo and if you have any decency, you won't do it in that lake where everybody else you know is grazing."

The raptors live in a big random oasis thing following a river maybe which I don't really quite understand yet but it's pretty awesome and there's this huge BIG angry dinosaur named Baro who lives there too. He's pretty much the raptor's t-rex without him actually being a t-rex.

Moki and Tya totally try to get Shakka eaten by him.

Ki and Keel Have a Serious Discussion