Desk Shot for TPANVB

Here is a screen shot of an upcoming page for The Precarious Adventures of Newton Von Brisby. It's just the start of the new year, but I hope that the art and story telling is that much better than last year. Each page should be an improvement on the last.

I'm pretty proud of how this looks. Now I get to ink it.

Vargas Juxtapositions of the Third Octopi Nebula

Haven't posted on here in a while. Thought I'd write down some of my thoughts. Hope you don't mind.

I need to stop putting so much weight in what other people think of me. Their opinions are based on miniscule observations of my overall being. They can't see what's within. They can't contemplate the clockwork engine that operates beneath the surface, fueled by the ether, the aura, the spector that floats around me. They can't see the colors and the sounds and the shapes that abstract my being into understanding on a higher plane.

They can only see the material, the dying and and replacing, the cells and organs. The shadows on the cave wall. They can only hear the minutia of of the process that slips out of the conscious onto the physical, fleeting moment of experience that is gone before our breathe escapes our lungs.

Only when I realize that absolute truth can I begin the existance me.

My Two Lovely Little Ladies

Here's a christmas gift I put together for my wife, who's put up with me and my dysfunctional brain for almost ten years.

I had my girls pose for the camera dressed up, much like my brother and I had dressed when we pretended to be superheroes. I took some artistic liberty and such and totally blew off any detail or quality for the background. Right now, I'm just satisfied that I captured the feeling that I wanted. When we're kids, we're invincible. And it doesn't take much to bring us to the reality of our imagination. Perhaps I'll revist it at a later date and clean the background up. add some colors and all that.

Hockey game doodle

The Crazy Mental Distortion Fields of an Insomniac

Here is a sketch that I laid down tonight (this morning) at a frenetic pace. I was like a hound dog on the scent of some undisclosed query, but without the fur and quivering nose and yipping. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that I was manic in my delivery of ink from my pen to the surface of the paper. I had to be, I had been lying in my bed with the idea slowly revolving and surfacing and constructing itself right inside my head. While I was trying to sleep, damn it!

So, I put it down for all of you to see and clap your thunderous applause and bow in your humble adoration.

The basic idea is that wherever you go, you plant seeds of yourself (get your minds out of the gutter) for them to ferment and grow. You are important to the bio/culture/technosphere around in that you allow it to grow and cultivate itself and you actively contribute to that whether you like it or not. It's an idea that I'm still trying to shove into my own very stubborn brain.

Here's some of the text from the piece in case it's not legible: From his head: (from top to bottom.)

- Every day must be as important as the next or we loose ourselves in time.

- Allow others to appreciate you.

- The human being exists not for its manual labor but for the beauty of it's mind.

- Love yourself.

- My ideas are the only way I can justify my existance here on Earth. (doesn't quite fit the positive flow of everything else, but it's there, so deal with it.)

- Love what you do.

And then the little paragraph behind the walking dude: Regardless of whether or not you believe in god, take solace and pleasure in the fact that you are a jumble of atoms put together in a cosmic mistake and given the prescious gift of knowing you are here.

A Simple Little Panel

Sometimes, a simple little panel jumps out at me and I really like it. Here's one that contributes nothing to the story. Just an establishing shot leading to another establishing shot. Just a place for me to put my monologue.

But for some reason, I really like this panel. It's just cool.

Atomic Robo, Myers Style

Here's my contribution to Red 5's request for Atomic Robo pin-up's. Atomic Robo is awesomesauce. That's right. He's awesomesuace.

Created by Brian Clevenger and Scott Wegener and published by Red 5, he's full of attitude and the writing and art in this series is smart and crisp and phenominal. Highly recommended to all.

Other contributions and info can be found here on their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/red5comics?ref=ts