Still Learning | PAFA CE Editorial: Assignment 1

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Still Learning | PAFA CE Editorial: Assignment 1

After finishing ORCS! The Curse, I promised myself I would take some classes. I’ve been feeling the itch to change things up, and the desire to move my work into n even more analog space than it already occupies. So, I decided to take a Continuing Education Editorial Illustration Class…

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ORCS! The Curse (Volume 2)

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ORCS! The Curse (Volume 2)

I’m please to say that I have finally completed all of the issue art for ORCS! The Curse. That’s 200 pages written, laid out, inked, and colored since March. In addition to painting four issue covers. It was a lot of work in a short time. Unfortunately, it kept me away from posting issue previews like I did for Volume 1.

So, for the uninitiated, and everyone else wondering What the heck is ORCS!? I wanted to do a post with all if the issue summaries and a small preview.

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ZINES!

ZINES!

There’s a good sized community out there for any kind of zine you can think of, not to mention numerous local and national zine fests where zinesters can gather to trade their books. They have long served the comics community as a way to tell a story that is short and unfettered. Some zines are akin to tiny works of art: riso printed, screen printed, hand bound, and full of fancy papers. Others are quick and dirty fold-ups that serve the purpose of any ephemera, a quick relay of information…

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ORCS! Issue 5

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ORCS! Issue 5

The Orcs hatch a plan to get back home, except that Pez and Zep aren't sure it's even worth trying to go back. But the debate may be moot as they are literally swept away and brought face-to-face with... destiny?!

Issue 5 hits shelves on June 9th! Here’s a 13 page preview…

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From the Drawing Board: ORCS! Issue 4 Cover

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From the Drawing Board: ORCS! Issue 4 Cover

I had no time for this. That happens a lot when it comes to comic covers. They are often the last thing I am thinking about when I have interiors to tackle. I did have two ideas I really liked for the cover of 4. One was an image of the elves (Daniel and Leonard) with Mother Spider. The other was the Wise Woman and her magic in the Astral Plane. The former would have been a lovely, moody piece, but the latter – with only one figure and the worst of my worries being a great glob of glowing goo – seemed the piece I could turn around the fastest.

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Sketchbook Fury | Comics

I thought it would be a good idea to get some of my older sketchbook comics up on here, since they really have nowhere cohesive to live.

Old Besties started as a sketchbook doodle that lots of people responded to. I dusted the girls off once COVID came knocking.

All of the sketchbook comics below have been done since last March. In most cases, I sketched them out first and then colored them digitally, but there are a few painted pieces in there. I put them into order of creation. They were designed, mainly, as instagram posts, and probably read best in that format. You can find them on my swiperight_comics instagram page.

Then & Now (Volume 2)

Then & Now (Volume 2)

About a year ago, I contributed to an art book on kickstarter called Then & Now. The editors picked a number of illustrators and asked us to find old drawings from childhood to redraw now that we are professionals.

As with last year, I went to my high school sketch book (I was approximately 15 or 16 when I had this one) and plucked out two random character pages.

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