C08: CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF

I am still around, just trying to move chains as much as possible. The halfway point of the year is almost upon us!


Tanabata is around the corner, and Tara is SO ready!


Quite the assortment of faces here.


Summer has already begun, some ridiculous weather patterns have come through already. Oh, how I wish I was on the beach instead...

[Testing to see if this blog feature will work...]

[Yeah, just a little excited for this game...]

B29: THAT FELT GOOD, DIDN'T IT?

Just making sure Juri's on all my blogs.

B22: EXPENDABLE

Bill Rizer, from Contra. Dude, get the spread gun, don't get shot with it!

B12: DM's FLYERS #4 -- TARA

This was a fun exercise! I hope y'all liked the change of tune here, and I hope to deliver more short comics like this in the next week or two.

B11: DM's FLYERS #3 -- TESS

B08: GROWL, FROM THE DIGITAL HAZE

Chalk up one finished commission. 100% digital work. Go me.

B05: ART JAM

Some samples of the take from Ohayocon this past weekend. These were all during the Art Jam panels from Friday and Saturday night, up on the projectors for live demonstration. I had a TON of fun producing them, which is a notch further in the direction of... well... let's not get TOO ahead of ourselves for now.

B04: THE ZENITH

Holy smokes. It's like I'm possessed! This BETTER maintain after Ohio!

What's insane is that all this has happened in the past THREE DAYS. All 100% digital work. Most of it Photoshop 6.0. Need I repeat it?

B01: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZIGGY

Not much more to say than that. Enjoy the first new pic of the new year (what, the last post WASN'T new?)

Maybe THIS year, I'll consistently post a new pic for each DM's birthday. Maybe.

A48: HIJACKED

Oh noes! Works in progress from AUSA this past weekend. Love the atmosphere in both of them!

A42: VALKYRIE BRIDE

A rough sketch for a wraparound cover image. It's to the wedding program book for one of my best friends. Designing the "Valkyrie Bride" robot was the most challenging, but most fun part of it all.

A37: HANGOVER

Truth be told, it's been extremely rough since San Diego Comic Con.

I willfully go with unpaid leave from work, because... well... it's San Diego Comic Con! The kinds of people I meet there, the places I go throughout Southern California, I make back in epicness what I lose in paychecks! This year I was smarter -- saved up more and budgeted for rent's sake. But losing a week's pay still hurts like hell. Especially after my car gave out on me.



I've tripped up a little, gotten pretty sullen over how much still needs to be done. But looking back, it's still been a hugely productive year. This next three months is the last big push to finish strong.

Look forward to (fantastic) news on "The Demon Mages", some doujinshi projects I've been itching to finish, and at least some words back from Anime Weekend Atlanta, New York Anime Fest, and the last minute scramble to get to Tokyo this December.

A35: OFF THE CUFF

More of the plucky Guardian, Sylvie. I was playing The Guardian Legend/Guardic Gaiden over the SDCC week, and fell back in love with it. Let's see where this goes, eh?

A33: GREETINGS FROM SAN DIEGO!

It's nice out here. ALL THE TIME.
Posting up new stuff to make up for the radio silence leading up to SDCC. Got lots more to show, including pics from the con -- as in photographs!
















Tara is having TEN TIMES more fun at SDCC than last year!
















Tess could use another look, analysis is a bit too premature.















ARMS INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE, GOOD LUCK.

A28: ANIME MID-ATLANTIC

This weekend, off to another convention. Rallying artwork and gathering resources for the storm of activity come next month. Otakon 2009 and SDCC right behind. Then maybe a month after that, Comiket 76, and four months later... well stay tuned, my friends!

A26: SIEG ZEON

Been waaaay behind on commissions in favor of comics and staying MOTIVATED. Seems harder and harder as the months go on, which is honestly really scary. I chalk it up to more overblown expectations than absolute lack of work. I AM trying often to juggle three or five different projects at the same time.

The mood here is PERFECT. Linework, not so much. For three UC era Zeon underwater mobile suits, they're short on looks, so I had to pump up the attitude.

Also this:















What looks more and more like a definite doujin project BESIDES THE OTHER TWO is a Gradius Gaiden else-worlds take. I love the Viper and all, but she's gotta have a home away from home. That's where the battle ready, 1,300ft wide Cerberus-class supercarrier "Faraway Reach" comes into play.

A10: MEIDO-SAN MOE?!

Now, this is blog worthy. In the past four days, I've done 12 sketches, retraced 7, developed and corrected the first and hopefully by the end of the day, I'll have three more inked. This work-for-hire assignment I'm on comes hot on the heels of possibly my best lineart and color work in a LONG time, turned in ON TIME to Udon Comics. Even before that, I did another piece as the cover of a convention handbook, and completely redid the cover to my comic book! Productivity since the Valentine's Day weekend has gone THROUGH THE ROOF -- OH YEAH, and I did two, count'em TWO dakimakura design submissions! Lace-chan here is one of them!

Right now, to cleanse the palate (not palette) of all the cartoony artwork this week, I'm going to try and put together some sketches for a friend who wants to draft a game proposal. Whew! I tell you what -- a week of being 200$ in the negative really changed my perspective.

A06: EVERY MONDAY

Now, we might as well settle on a date, my dear blog. I say we kick off each week with a Monday post by default of ANYTHING done within the past week. Something special in the middle of the week? That gets an additional post. What do you think?

I've taken a minute to try and add more interactivity to this blog as well, opening up comments to registered users of Blogger and Gmail and posting newsfeed info. Not sure if it works, but we'll see.

Tara & Tess will debate on this further.

A01: HIT AND AWAY

The classic shmup starfighter Axelay, taking off for the battlefront.

You'll note a few new links on the right, most notably my Pixiv account.
Check there every so often, as there might be some exclusives.