spring cleaning… figuring out how to change the theme here… bear with me

…and here’s a wallpaper of the new header

so, the seasonal motif will be changing soon

here are the pencil and inks for the header.

It’s shameless exoticism/orientalisme/sexploitation… I’m not ashamed, hahaha

So ok… from now on, when I see a flick or a show I’m gonna write a little something about it. The name of this editorial will be “ticket stub”. The gospel it aint, just my oppinion and a little bit of color. I’ll give the short and the long of it. The short will describe things in a way as not to devulge details because I like to see a film with almost no knowledge of the story and I don’t want to spoil it for you guys. The long will be my interpretation or oppinion.

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A color test/pallete sketch I did before working on aDeadman cover that won’t see the light of day.

Fanboys be damned, I made Jubilee into a butch rocker… like one of those yankee Yakuza in training (I know she’s chinese american, not japanese) I couldn’t decide weather or not to make Wolvy into a greaser… but yeah… I had fun doing it. I don’t get to do much watercolor for work, so I had a little fun before I set to work on Deadman..
you can see some of my limited pallete puddles around the paper.

PS- MARVEL!!! GIVE ME SOME WORK!!! STOP FRONTIN! you know it’s hot!

the rest of the rough ass pencils for my meathaus book. explanation or whatever when I finish… so I won’t be around for another week or so…

grinding…

In other news… read “A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier” great book… more when I finish this comic… until then check it out.

I doodled this while trying to sleep, watching the killing machine on IFC. eesh. so tired… and yet, not at all sleepy.
Anyway, so It’s just sonny chiba then I drew a headband on him and accidentally spilled mad ink on his hair with my pen brush. Then I proceeded to doodle myself into a corner…

…anyway, I swear that the character of ryu from street fighter is taken from a Sonny Chiba flick called Karate Bull fighter:

see about a minute 25 into the video, I swear this is Ryu. I love this old stuff, spaghetti sauce, rubber eyeballs and all; The energy of it is undeniable. Sonny Chiba would be the perfect Ryu.

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break it up, break it up, break it uuuuup

here are a few pages of breakdowns on the strip I am currently working on, you can see me working out the characters on the left.. the main character is still evolving. I’ll consolidate in the inks.

placemat doodle I did at 200 fifth ave bar. in Park Slope. Julian told me to shoot it.

It’s a great place for takeout, but if there is a game or a fight on tv, prepare yourself for some ruckus if you want to sit in and eat.