I spent my break at work creating this tribute to William Tell... All work done in photoshop.

I posted this on my new community art board: http://washingtonavenue.blogspot.com/... come by and see my crews new art and challenges, this month is Pirates! ....ARRR.

Almost done with my corperate gig...it's taking longer than I planned...Coming back soon I swear.
Enjoy, Bob

Links I love...

No artwork only links!

Check out this page it has Nintendo character based comic strips.
http://www.awkwardzombie.com/

Still my favorite ongoing webcomic is Kukuburi...
http://www.kukuburi.com/?p=4

But I was sent there by a great webcomic "Girls with Slingshots"...
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html

And check out my new art community blog I created for my artistic friends...
http://washingtonavenue.blogspot.com/

I should be back soon...working on corperate art. and a much needed break.

Happy Halloween Sign

I know I'm a day early for this but I'm so proud of it I needed to show it 0ff... I've been working on it on and off for a week!

(Click on the picture for a full view)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL!
Enjoy!
Later,
Bob

Halloween Pumpkins...

Check out our cool pumpkins my wife and I carved Sunday!
Happy Halloween!
Another art update to come later today!

Later,
Bob

Happy Halloween Type

I sat down and listed all the creatures of the night that I could think of associated with halloween. Like Werewolves, Witches, Frankenstine and used them as skins for my Happy Halloween poster. My expectations are to color each of these letters in time for All Hallow's eve.

I have a bunch of plans for work drawings, we will see when those come to fruition.
Have a scary...I mean nice night...
Later,
Bob

HAPPY HALLOWEEN in color!

I just finished up a color version of the Halloween monster guy card. The finshed one my be a differnt color. I have been working up a couple of differnt versions... Tell me what you think?

Have a great one...

Enjoy,

Bob

Happy Halloween!

I finishing up my halloween card for this year!

You may be seeing a copy of this little guy in your e-mail inbox soon!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Enjoy,
Bob

Sebastion drawing

Just a small weird drawing of Sebastion Scott in a hallucination filled world. I think this drawing was a bit inspired by the little part of "Beetlejuice" I watched over the weekend.
I'm torn between drawing Beyond, Claf and Steve or some online comics.
Well I gotta go work on somthing...
Later,
Bob

End of my week!

I'm enjoying my Sunday to Thursday schedule. It's still going to take some time to get used to. But I am trying to take the time to actually work on long time projects that I have in the works.

Sorry most of these will not be seen here. (Well, maybe a sketch or two.) But I am planning a full Claf and Steve online story and some other finished odds and ends. Here is one now...be it an odd or be it an in; who is to know?

A panel idea that came from a previous post.
Well, see you next week
Later,
Bob

Claf and Steve online!

Just finishing up some online adventures for the boys of the farlands Claf and Steve. Here is a panel from a random story. It's a bit out of place with out the whole story, but it does have a Buckaroo Banzai reference in it so that makes me smile.
More stories soon I swear!
Later,
Bob

Art exchange...

I mentioned to my friend Andrew that I was working on a picture of his character Andar. He was very interested in seeing it and said that he would work on a picture of my characters Claf and Steve in exchange. So here is the results of the project...



Andrew's Version of Claf and Steve...
His blog is : http://www.andrewwales.blogspot.com/

And my version of Andar.

If you are comic creator who would like to participate in an exchange and have their characters rendered by Andy or myself go over to the YAC forum and introduce yourself.
http://youngamericancomics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26 or
http://52comicchallenges.com/ go to the forum page...

Thanks for coming by,
Later
Bob

Happy Anniversary

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MICHELLE!

My world would crumble if you were not here!

I LOVE YOU MORE, SCOOBY!

(These pictures were on our wedding program, I'm very proud of them.)

Later,

Bob

Hellboy

I just finished this Hellboy picture I like it so much I'm going to post it immediately. I love Hellboy and have done countless drawings of the big guy with little success. So when I inked this one I loved how everything came together. Anyways here it is.
Enjoy,
Later
Bob

Fill in the word bubble...

Just adding to the Writer/Artist jam session on YAC site see if i can get that going. Here's my contribution...

Check out the thread here:

http://youngamericancomics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20

Salamandermen

This is my Salamandermen illustration for a childrens book I have been thinking about. My nieces and nephews inspire me to write stories with them as the stars, that is the crux of the book.

More next week...
Sorry for the slow week
Later
Bob

Sketchbook Thursday...

I got too busy last night to finish what I planned to post...and I wasn't happy with the things I did produce. My sketchbooks saves me again from my lazyness.

Just some nice figure figure work on this page.

Here is some Claf and Steve characters and ideas... If you look closely you can find a a sketch of Sydney .

Here is some ideas for a band, JohnnyHyperDrive, I was working with at the time. I still love the Easter Island heads and the Hula girl imagery. I only produced one poster for them they wanted more violent gun toting imagery.

Sketchbook Wednesday...

I was going througn some older sketchooks and ran across some cool drawings that I would like to do a finished inked versions of.


Enjoy.
Later,
Bob

Claf's Girl

I finished a drawings of Claf's love interest in "Claf and Steve." She is a lady in waiting and could not be even seen with a rogue. But they have a unrequited love for each other from afar....and an occasional stolen kiss (Claf is a thief.)




And also a picture of my Plaid Paladin in his magician garb.

I'm getting a lot of updating of these characters done...
Enjoy
Bob

I'm Back!

I had a nice little vacation . I got a hand full of stories drawn and some written. The one that I had a deadline for was Crash! Boom! Bang! I turned it in Friday. and decided to finish up my first version of my submission, which was a completely different idea. So I decided to post this old version up for all to see.



This was a challenge for publication of a story called Crash! Boom! Bang! where they supplied the script of sound works and you had to make a comic from the words. I decided to turn in a actual story involving the mud monster in panel 5 instead of separating the sounds.

Visit http://52comicchallenges.com/ to see the projects origins. and to see where you can get published, too.
More finished work to come.
Later
Bob

Vacation...

I'm going to take a week off from blogging to finish a few assignments I need to work on. I am finishing up my "Crash! Boom! Bang" submission and starting up a "Claf and Steve" project and possibly few CAS online goodies. Maybe I'll get a surplus of doodles and drawings to post up here..

Here is a lone panel from Claf and Steve...

Be back in a week!
See you later,
Bob

Crash! Boom! Bang!

Almost forgot to post my picture today. I've been so busy!
This little guy is a by-product of the "Crash! Boom! Bang!" comic I'm working on for YAC...
Go here to see what im talking about and join in and submit a strip...come one, come all!
http://www.youngamericancomics.com/category/group-projects/

Gotta run!
Later,
Bob

Tyr the Yeti

Here is a character I created for Jupiter City. I was talking about Bigfoot and Yetis the other day with Andrew. Here is my Yeti, Tyr...


Hint: he's the same color as the Rankin-Bass abominable snowman from the Rudolph movies.

Later
Bob

Claf and Steve Panel

Just getting reacquainted with my old characters. Claf and Steve have an old familiarity to them that makes them easy to draw and a newness that I need to write fresh stories. Here’s a panel with no background, with Steve peeking around the panel border, it shows the “tongue in cheek/fourth wall break” quality to the script I was going for when I created them. And we see Duke Snookie the one eyed nobleman of the Farlands hasn't aged a second.

Camping was fun this weekend, not too hot. We learned my puppy can swim like a fish. I'm exausted and back to work, hopefully not nodding off
See you tommorow,
Bob

Sydney

This is Sydney the bounty hunter from Claf and Steve. I decided to update her look for the new chapters I have for Claf and Steve.

for the old version of this pic go to: http://clafandsteve.8m.com/

Some prelims of Sydney that I worked up.
More Claf and Steve related things abound next week. I'm off tommorow, going camping with my wife and her clan.

Enjoy
Later,
Bob

Sketchbook Wednesday...

I have some good stuff coming up but I took a night off yesterday. Accsidently pass out on my couch and wasted a whole night!

Thus, a sketchbook day!

This guy is an apocalyptic superhero I have no background for...

And my version of a fairy...I'm not that fanciful, she's more realistic sad girl that just happens to have pillowy wings.

More to come...

Enjoy!

Later,

Bob

Young American Comics

Young American Comics (named after the Bowie so... Not some political group!) has a new site that challenges people to draw comics. And will post a challenge a week for a year. I'm trying my best to so some shorts for them.

http://52comicchallenges.com/

I also plan to submit to their Anthology with a "what's in the box" entry. Go to the site to see what that means. I am working on a strip starring my college characters Claf and Steve. They are thieves that collect and sometimes sell the stuff they steal from Duke Snookie.

I will try to post up bad strips on the Claf and Steve: The blog .

Enjoy!

Bob

Sushi Monday...

I took a vacation day last Friday, and will take one next Friday. Sorry for no Friday updates...

We went out to my friend Jeff's family lake, it was too cold to swim, I was very disapointed in not swiming. We took our puppy Chocolate out to see the lake and meet some of my friends that haven't met him yet. He had a blast with his new friends. We built a fire pit, made a nice fire, and cooked brats and chicken, yum. It was a perfect cookout day. I will post some pictures soon.

I think I still have Japanese stuff on the brain, left over from the Japanese Festival. I have been drawing Sushi, ninjas, and Japanese schoolgirls all weekend. Honestly, I draw Japanese Schoolgirls constantly. So here is the out of the ordinary sushi drawings.



Thanks,
Later
Bob

Spider-man Sample

I have been working tirelessly on samples to turn in to CBI... I have about three done and three more in the works. Heres the more mainstream sample of spideman web-slinging.

My other CBI submissons are at:http://blearned.deviantart.com/gallery/

You can keep up with the contest here:http://cbi.comicbookresources.com/

Sketchbook Wednesday!

I still don't have much to show but here are some thumbnails of the Spider-man comic I'm working on. I have a whole bunch of finished work to show you, I swear. I'm also working on the 1st cover to "Beyond: The late adventures of Sebastion Scott" It was really fun to design so I am really trying hard to make it beautiful.


And a girl that was stuck in my head, so I let her live in my sketchbook.

More to come.
Enjoy
Later,
Bob

Post old stuff to recover from weekend!

I worked all the way through the weekend at my Sunday job, they called me in on Saturday. I did get alot of nice work done while I was there. but nothing finished yet I am rotating between three stories, so not to get bored with any of them. So they will be up soon. Until then I had to scour my files for stuff I scanned but never posted. So this is technially a clean up day! Enjoy my Ninja that me and my friend John mused over one day.

I have been very interested in the storytelling of illustration in a single image. Even though I have been working on lots sequential panels. I think a single picture can say a thousand words as an old proverb says. I am very interested in the drawings of Arthur Rackham. He's got so much going into each one of his illustrations. His pen and ink with the watercolors are so lush and beautiful. It's hard not to be inspired by his works here are some examples.





Well thats all i got.
I'll try to scan my thumbnails of the finished comic pages too.
Enjoy!
Later
Bob

Not much...

I don't have much to post today. I am working on some bigger more complicated samples for the CBI contest. I am also going to submit some "Beyond" pages that I was reluctant to show due to the story only being part-way drawn. I am becoming less and less optimistic that I will even make it to the next round by the strong submissions. I wish that you had to show how long it took them to do a particular drawing. I’m wondering, because I am limiting myself to 24 hours for a single drawing and a week for a sequential set of pages. I’m not sure if that is what some of the contestants are doing. They will have to produce on deadline. Which is very hard if not practiced on a normal basis. Well, we will see.

Here is a little pencil doodle I did Saturday.

Please check out the rest of the blog and comment accordingly. And check out Comic Book Resources' Comic Book Idol contest. Links are in earlier posts...

Harry...and CBI

Just finished a little drawing before I go into comic book mode big time for Comic Book Idol see my work featured here:http://cbi.comicbookresources.com/cbi3/idol-thoughts-96/#more-7

And a color version.

More Electric monk soon too

Enjoy

Bob

Comic Book Idol

Hope fully this blog can be my submission to Comic Book Idol. For my sequential work don't miss my "Electric Monk" pages here. Here is the inked version of the birthday card I gave to my nephew Cory.




I also did this little drawing for my wife.

Enjoy,
Later
Bob