Batman Day 2017

Those of you who know me know I'm a big Batman fan. A huge goal of mine is to work on a Batman comic and even write AND draw my own (like Frank Miller). So I'm always drawing Batman. This year for Batman Day I wanted to go a little above and beyond and pretend I had a cover assignment for Batman. I put a lot of care into the composition and framing as well as in every little detail. Someday you'll see my work on Batman. For now, enjoy this.

You can buy this original artwork as well as a high quality 11x17 print from my Shop.

COMIC - Bank

Hello! I'm proud to announce my first published comic art since 2010! Wow! While I've done a lot of work since then, I kind of strayed away from comics for a bit. After making a few big life changes, I remembered my favorite thing about art was telling stories. I decided to start drawing sequential art again. After being rejected about 10 times a week, I finally started working on several different series and stories with different creative teams. One writer who gave me a chance was Jed McPherson, who was creating a web anthology of short stories. I drew 8 pages, which you can read for FREE here. Below, I put a little insight into my process showing one of the pages from the short story, Bank. More published projects and announcements to come, but enjoy my first sequential work to see the light of day since 2010. :)

Illusration - Circus Poster

Here's an illustration I did for a comic book I'm working on. Heavily Alfons Mucha inspired. Stay tuned for more art from this series :).

Outworlders Pitch Samples

Art Update - Misc.

Kickstarter - Hell Paso

In 2010 I got my first opportunity at my first paid comic gig. It was on a mini-series called Hell Paso. I did pencils and inks for issue 5 and did inks and some color assistance on issue 6. You can find the series here.

Well I'm proud to say that 3 years later, writer Jaime Portillo of JimmyDaze Comics, launched a Kickstarter to have a special edition Trade Paperback print of Hell Paso made. Meaning all 6 issues in one big book, plus special features and bonus material. His Kickstarter was successful, and even though I'm not earning royalties of any sort off of this series, it's important to me being the project that started my career. So congrats to Jaime Portillo! Awesome!

Check out some of my old 2010 Hell Paso art HERE

Comics - The Savior panel

A panel from my upcoming comic.

Comic - White Smoke

I've been wanting to share some pages of a comic I worked on for a while, but haven't been able to til now. I do want to talk a little bit about this comic because it's unique and very cool.

Did you ever play that game where someone starts a story, and you go around the room and people add their own part to the story creating a big, fun spontaneous story? Imagine doing that with a comic. That's what Simon Lindenthaler decided to start with his comic White Smoke. He started a story and a few other artists have chimed in over time, including myself.

I first heard about White Smoke from my fellow artist friend, and member of my studio, Robert Barnett. He had done pages 7-10. Soon after, another member of my studio, Anthony Salinas, jumped on and did pages 11-15. And I followed their example doing pages 16-19. My art has improved a lot since I actually did these pages, but they were still a lot of fun to do :).

Simon Lindenthaler's brain is a factory of creativity and I think White Smoke is a brilliant idea. I was glad to participate and hope many others do as well. Check out the rest of his work as well at www.simonwl.com.

Click the White Smoke logo below to read the comic.