Archive for June 2019

IDW edition Scott Dunbier stopped by my signing at Knowhere Games and Comics and gave me an advance copy of the 460+ page, over size Complete Grasscutter Artist Select edition. It is a beautiful slip cased edition with such attention to detail. It’s one of the most impressive book in the Usagi Library. Though black…

Here is a horrifying watercolor, the cover of a “horrifying” project. Usagi is participating in Halloween ComicFest, where you can buy packets of comics or mini-comics at a discount rate and give them out to Trick or Treaters. They will be available at participating comic shops in late October. The Usagi book will reprint a…

Sergio and I collaborated on a couple of things for our upcoming trip to HeroesCon next week. This 3 inch reusable vinyl sticker is one of them. Mark Evanier and Julie Sakai will also be there.

The art is 9×12 inches on 10×15 4-ply, 500 series, cold press Strathmore Bristol. I used a .3 2H mechanical pencil to do a rough layout and a .5 B for finished pencils. Inking was done with a Koh-i-Noor ArtPen with Platinum Carbon black ink. The art is finished with watercolors.

They approved the pencils but wanted their dog and cat included. Then I took it to inks.

This commission request came as, “Usagi and Tomoe, back to back, with swords drawn and smiling. There is a tokage in the background and small animals around them.” They did not limit me to non-fictional or extinct animals, so this is the pencils I offered.