This Is A Madbot

Hey, reader(s?)...

Sorry for the absence... been busy and distracted (the two worst things for an artist trying to keep up-to-date on the Interwebs). Here is a Madbot from Lightning Girl Loves Rocket Boy to hold you over... bigger update soon (could be as late as August, but I'll try and get a second belated July post going shortly)...

I really love the design for these villainous robots... they're just fun to draw.

And Now It's Time To Pass The Mic...

Sometimes I forget how bloody good the Beastie Boys are.

They're really good. Check Your Head is a masterpiece. Listening to it made me draw this. I blame the band for taking my time away from other projects.

Yeah... blame the band.

What Can't Be Erased

So, one of the reasons I've been quiet has been work on a short piece I'm submitting to an anthology this weekend. I have no hopes or expectations that I'll be accepted, but this is another of those "the experience of doing a piece around an existing theme" is worth the effort kinda things.

So I'm giving it a go. It's a bit from my final year in high school... so I had to get used to drawing myself in Grade 13 again... this was a grey marker toned warm up I did along the way...

QUIET WORK: Kid Koala’s Music To Draw To

So, international superstar DJ and comic artist Kid Koala just jammed for 5 hours at the Central Tavern to close out TCAF. Sadly - my hand gave out after 3... but not before the impromptu mini-set by Lederhosen Lucil (a friend of Koala's who has toured with him in the past).

She presented herself as a live model (and musician) - and encouraged those in attendance to take a stab at drawing her... so I did. Her comment as she passed sounded appreciative - hope she dug it [smirk].

A great ecclectic way to spend a night drawing - and nice to get out of the house for a change...

Wet Moon... too much awesomeness

Ross Campbell (I posted a drawing I did of his Shadow Eyes character a while back) is the writer/artist of the excellent Wet Moon series. He put out a call for fans of his book to submit pin-up style illustrations of his characters for the latest volume (5)... and I did a little work, but couldn't finish it before I left for New York... thereby missing the deadline... well, I didn't bother throwing the greyscale on (it could use it to add a little "oomph", I think)... but I decided I'd post this here ANYWAYS...

Clearly the inspiration for the freckles on my cat girl 2 days ago...

Someone else's... cat?

So, Harvey James posted some weird cat girl pictures, and sort of threw the challenge out to draw them as real girls... which I have now done... and it was a fun little project.

Hey, Ho, Let's GO!

So - I've now come to the conclusion a couple million people share... New York is a pretty freaking cool place to visit. Not sure I could live there, but I'm definitely going back sooner than later...

I've been artistically AWOL for most of the month - and this, though not perfect, was one of the first things to jump from my pencil since returning... so I figured I'd best post SOMETHING... more soon!