These are pieces I showed during the Wizard World Philadelphia Con

Inks over Bowden

Here is that 2nd piece I mentioned in my last post. Mike Bowden penciled this; who is just incredible. I'd love the chance to work with him some day. I used this piece for my warm up inks. I'll usually start off inking a pin up to warm up my hand before working over the days intended page. So this one took me longer than usual to complete.

Wow, it has been some time since I've updated. I'll just blame my hectic work schedule and being away from my scanner. I'm going to post 2 pieces, unfortunately I haven't done a side by side with the original pencils but I'll be sure to post them for comparison. I've also kept it as the original color scan so you'll see that the blacks aren't as true as they would be altered as well as the blue lines still visible. The first piece is penciled by Ed McGuinness; I believe it's from his recent Avengers: X-Sanction book. This is just a piece for my portfolio. Hope you all enjoy!

Sketch

I had to travel to Spain for my day job and had some hours to kill. So I thought I'd whip out the old iPad and do some sketching. This piece I did using the SketchClub app with a stylus and referenced a picture of Ian Mckellen as Magneto.


Enjoy!
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Gleason Inks

Here is another piece courtesy of my sumi ink well. This was another one for my portfolio and done using various size brushes. The pencils were done by Pat Gleason and again found online somewhere. I did all the conversion to blue tone in Photoshop and printed on 11x17, non-glossy card stock paper. I'll make a note of which brand it is but I purchase the paper at Kinkos. It's actually inexpensive; I believe I get 100 pages for like 25.00 USD. The paper holds ink really well and is extremely cost effective. 

Now, I'm still trying to figure out my tabloid scanner and so the quality of lines might be a bit degraded as I play with resolution and other scanner related settings.

I'm a huge fan of Pat Gleason and would LOVE to work with him. I like to think my inks fit his style fairly well; I just wish I could find some sequential pages of his and take a shot at inking them.

I've been working on some new pieces for my inking portfolio. I was fortunate enough to attend Mega-Con in Orlando this year and show my work around. As I mentioned before, I received some pretty great reviews and tips from some of the top guys in the biz. 

This piece I inked using various size brushes and technical pens for some of the smaller details. Now the make of the brushes is random as I usually pick them up wherever I am. I think I purchased this batch somewhere in France or Spain. I use Sumi ink diluted with just a bit of water.

Penciled by the amazing Eddy Barrows, I found a scan of this page online and altered the pencil tones to a non-repo blue, then printed on card stock non-gloss tabloid paper. 

Enjoy!

Welcome!

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my little corner of the web. Hopefully you like what you see and will come back to have another look. I've never been one to actually blog my work but feel that now’s the time.  After having an amazing weekend at Mega-Con Orlando where I received some great portfolio reviews from such pros as Phil Hester and Rob Hunter. It's about time I put my work out there and try to get as much exposure as I can. The majority of work I'll post is inking but you'll see some sketches and possibly some sequential pencils pop up (if I have the time).

The first piece I'm posting is from a short story that was published Orang Utan Comics flagship anthology series, FTL issue 2. The story titled "One Last Ballad" was written by Itai Rosenbaum and penciled by the very talented Gary Heany. Nick Dismas provided grey tones, Richard Nelson lettered and I of coursed inked the book. 

Now this was published in 2007 or 2008 (I honestly don't remember), so it's been a few years. Not only was it my first published work but also I was playing around with a grittier feel for the inks. Gary's pencils are just full of energy and very sleek. Since it is a horror story, Gary gave me the freedom to play around and do with it what I would. I'm just glad Itai and Gary was pleased with the final product.