Paid Work

This is what i've been working on most of this month. the good people over at www.onelessnemesis.com were nice enough to hire me to illustrate the bird of prey t-shirt and the one less redshirt for their table at the Star Trek/Sci-fi convention in Las Vegas this month. If you can't attend and want a shirt go to their site. Buy many the money goes to a good cause keeping a roof over all of our heads :)

i do commissions

Here's a commission piece i did for a friend, it started out as just Dr. Strange but i fell behind working on it so to make it up to him i drew the Defenders. The toned version is what i gave him and the colored version was just me practicing.I know there's problems with the layout and next time i use pre-ruled paper I'll work on the back, and for some reason i drew it half Sean Galloway style/ half European

Im sure this is gonna piss somebody off

I'm sure this will upset somebody and I'll get some mail over this, but here's the thing : This is a funny joke, yea i know puns are lame but still. To anyone offended i offer this:
Religion without humor is wrong.
As far as whats coming down the line: More cartoons, more comic pages, more illustrations and pictures of the 1/60 perfect grade Zaku 06S we just finished for a customer at the store (International Model Toys @ 524 king st in Chinatown)

we all need friends

for this post i decided to show the progression of an idea
to start with, the inspiration: 20th Century Boys I read a review of
this movie series along with some screen shots and was inspired
by the idea of a cult of masked people and i was also looking for a
excuse to follow Ben Templesmith's (30 Days of Night, Wormwood Gentleman Corpse)
demo on creating a comic book cover from concept to print and using textures
in an old issue of Advanced Photoshop as closely as possible. I ended up skipping
a few steps (using photographs for face texture, adding tentacles :) ) the longest
part of this was putting together the final ink/wash drawing after scanning it in in sections
and trying to make sure every thing had the same density. It seemed like the color went
quicker than i expected. also my piece looked a bit too much like one of Templesmith's Illustrations.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Templesmith at this years
Emerald City Comic Con and it was an educational experience. He was very generous with
his time despite having to work on sketches he took the time to chat about tools as well
as work, If you happen to meet him at a convention and see him say hi and let him know
how much you enjoy his work.
from concept to book cover

Beefy

A new joke today, I'm sorry for the lack of posts but there's more stuff on the way soon !!!
art: pen, brush and ink with lettering tone and line using Photoshop and Illustrator

International Model Toys

These were done for the grand re-opening of International Model Toys at the new location at 524 s. king st. i was asked to make some sale tags at the last minute but due to the flu i was unable to make them as well as work the sale we had over the weekend

make them laugh

first sorry for the lack of posts if anyone is reading this blog but we've had some family stuff w/my daughter that has just now started to calm down. About this strip...if you find this offensive get a sense of humor it's funny. In case you couldn't tell by my name I'm Italian + this is HILLLLarious not just because i witnessed my father, on vacation a few years ago in Atlanta, call all the rest of my family members staying in the same hotel as us at about 3-3:30 am and tell them this joke in a fit of Dewars inspired insomnia. If you knew the family i grew up in you'd know how true it is. Done on Canson comic strip board (2ply bristol) and Higgons india ink with a brush, quill and Copic drawing pen and liner