It’s only a ride.

It’s only a ride.

Here’s a commission from late last year that fell through the cracks. The client wanted a simple Bill Hicks portrait but I talked them into letting me do a comic page of my favorite bit. And they loved it.

If you’ve never heard of Bill Hicks you’re missing out.

International Self Portrait Day

International Self Portrait Day

Yesterday was International Self Portrait Day, so I did this.

I’ve had the idea floating around in my head for a while and thought it would be a good excuse to bust it out and practice in a more realistic style. Look for it on a business card or banner later this year.

Here’s the entire piece. It was done at 11×17 in separate layers for easy editing. The portrait was penciled digitally from photo reference, printed as blue lines, inked by hand and then colored on the Cintiq in Photoshop. The iPhone lineart was made using shape layers.

Click the images for larger versions.


Spider-Man Webhead 2.0 Redesign

Spider-Man Webhead 2.0 Redesign

I contributed the following piece to Project: Rooftop’s Spider-Man 2.0 redesign. The old Web-head has been one of my favorite characters since I first got hooked on Todd McFarlane’s art during his Spider-Man run in my teens.


Click to magnify!

They’ve announced the honorable mentions as well as 2nd and 3rd place winners, so I’m going to assume it’s safe to post this here, as I doubt I won the thing after seeing some of the other designs that were submitted.

Still, it was a blast to participate and really took me back to when I first started reading comics. I’m definitely going to be doing more of these redesigns in the future.

Thought Criminal & Space Dolphin 42

Thought Criminal & Space Dolphin 42

A few weeks ago a tweet come across the Deck from Adam WarRock looking for someone to work with musical collaborator The Thought Criminals on an album design.  I did a a gig poster for WarRock once before and had him get me on their radar, with a common love of comics & sci-fi securing the deal.

Plus the project came with complete creative freedom, so it was a perfect fit. Space-Dolphin 42, A Kirby-tech-Mayan-Dolphin-rocket was the result.

You can check out The Thought Criminals & Shane Hall at TheThoughtCriminals.net. The album drops October 25th.