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Ink studies of Dr. Banner demonstrating some of the basic inking styles: draftsman, painterly and spot black/tootbrush.

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Illustration for my Comic Book Illustration class sign; ink on bristol with Photoshop color. Basic demonstration of Kirby Krackle and some reasonably OK feathering.

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Here is the Photoshop color study for the "Deep War" final oil painting. Commission for a request for an underwater Kaiju steampunk battle scene. I'll post that here soon too.

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Old School PhotoEdit: Kane. This is the still of the landing page from my site back in college; you could click in the finger holes and be taken to different parts of the site. I meticulously recorded the different sound effect you'd get for each number and animated the thing all in Flash. Don't bother trying to go there, long since gone.

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Manxbot: Its a Norton Manx, its a robot, its a centaur; what's not to like?! Pencil on paper with a little Photoshop help.

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GG: One of a host of studies of a comic character I am writing that varies over time in how much her skeleton is external.

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Anatomical Studies: Some of my work from Vince Perez' class at CCAC. That guy is a genius. This is pencil, colored pencil, toned paper, etc.

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Pencil Study: Archangel. One of many designs I looked at for the Archangel Seraphim from Neon Yang's novel "The Genesis of Misery".

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Exquiite Corpse: spaceship achoo! For some reason this spaceship is oddly nasal in design. I blame myself!

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Exquisite Corpse: more tentacles! Because really, can you ever have enough? Ball point.

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Pen study: mooterbike. Whilst in the middle of designing a robot/motorbike this guy showed up. Yee-haw!

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Pen studies: Mosscap. The gentle, curious robot from Becky Chambers' "Monk and Robot" series. Becky Chambers is the greatest!

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Pencil Study: Martian Marine Corps powered armor. One of many pencil studies for an oil painting I'm working on of Bobbie Draper from "The Expanse" novels.

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Final Pencils: Deep War. Study for an oil painting I made on commision. Still don't have a good photo of the final painting. In the end I had to take out the cliff in the background because people couldn't tell that the tail was supposed to be part of the same creature we see far right. Kaiju!!!!

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Figure Study. Pencil, oil and acrylic I believe. Just kind of like the feel of this.

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Exquisite Corpse: Bunny? I dunno. Pencil.

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Exquisite Corpse: Bony spider tank. Apparently this was drawn on December 7th, 2021. Ball point.

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Exquisite Corpse: Coffee Stains. I used this demo during the remote learning year. Fun things to be found in coffee stains!

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Exquisite Corpse: A Businessman! Pencil and watercolor.

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Exquisite Corpse: Angry Ant Dude. Apparently this guy has something against name alliteration. Pencil.

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Pencil Study: blocky ship. Apparently aerodynamics isn't a concern on this planet.

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Speedpaint: Kaiju attack! Photoshop over pencil. Needs some color disambiguation between creature and buildings...

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Exquisite Corpse: Popeye Arms. Pencil. I like this guy.

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Pencil study: Landmate inspred samurai mech. Super rough but there's something good going on here; I'll probably paint it out some day.

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Push/pull study: Luke Skywalker. One of Barron Storey's classic techniques, used this one to demo in class. Pencil, pen, watercolor, ink wash, collage, kitchen sink.

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Exquisite Corpse: Bad Hat Harry. I really like this character, might need to figure out what the rest of 'em looks like and paint it. Just pencil here.

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Exquisite Corpse: This guy. No clue where I get this stuff. Pencil in the sketchbook.

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Pencil Studies: Wraith Mech. Some thoughts on how the suits might look in Gavin G. Smith's "The Bastard Legion." The one on the left is fun though I don't see how a human's legs work in those legs...

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Pencil Study: Carl. I made several attempts at the giant samurai robot from Hank Green's "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing". This was the most successful.

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Exquisite Corpse: Not Big Bird. I just really like how this one came together; the zygomatic structure entering the orbit just seems to work.

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Linear Perspective Study: The book nook. One of about a million pencil studies for my living room built in project. In the end it looks pretty much just like this.

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Watercolor sketch: The Burren. View out our kitchen window at our rental in Ballyvaughan, County Clare. This sketch probably warrants a painting on watercolor paper.

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Speedpaint: Broken Earth. Mysterious crystal obelisques drift through the sky in N.K. Jemison's brilliant series. Photoshop.

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Exquisite Corpse:spaceboard! Pencil study. Spaceboarding is not a crime!

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Photoshop Study; sppedpaint character. Evolved from exquisite corpse but I did photo reference the Doc Martens. Pretty happy with those.

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Watercolor Study; reference was a heavily photoshopped Venice canal. This was actually one of my more effective watercolor demos.

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Exquisite Corps: flamey-book space-wolf rider. Pencil.

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Exquisite Corpse; chapstick, please! In my defense this pencil sketch was done a couple years before MCU's Thanos was released.

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Photoshop study; Alien bug character loosely inspired by Sam Delaney's "Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand"

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Landscape sketch: South Shore looking west. House we rented in Alameda for Leighninger Christmas a few years ago. Potential for a "finished" work on good paper; this is watercolor in the sketchbook.

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Exquisite Corpse: Gaurdian. Always fun figuring out what to do with the clavicles and scapulae when you got extra mits. Probably going to paint this one, currently just pencil..

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Landscape study: Lake Almanor. Watercolor sketch for a more finished painting on actual watercolor paper, not sketchbook paper like this.

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Mousemate; an Appleseed Landmate-inspired cop mech with Buttonwillow driving. Ball point.

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Mouse study; at an earlier phase, my character Buttonwillow McKitrick was male. Pencil.

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Weird Aliens with Weird Guns: pencil mostly, water color on the red dude. I like the shiny-ball-head figure.

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Mech study; Macross-inspired vehicle, seen standing in the large sketch, flying in the thumbnail. Pencil/exquisite corpse. I think this one is going to get painted.

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Daniel Blackland. Pencil sketch of the main character from Greg Van Eekhout's "California Bones". Earthquake Beatles!!

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Interdimensional Cafe Hillclimber; ball point.

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