I Want That Rock! progress...

I'm finally digging in and trying to solidify some designs for characters for I Want That Rock!, an idea that I worked up a long time ago that I want to relaunch as a web series or comic book one day. Perhaps even something that could find it's home on an iPad one day too.

What an exciting opportunity that device offers for comic book artists.

Sketch Sunday Returns

Fresh off of a wonderful wedding, I called up Jeff (@AnimationCosmic) and we started SketchSunday back up in full force. I was a bit rusty, but chose to dive into designing a specific character I've been posting up here for a while. I'm starting to get more comfortable with facial proportions and just now starting to get into some expressions. He needs some more elements to break away from a generic character, and I'd like to get him a little more elastic, but he's getting there.

The other page is just some more heads. And a scary looking Uncle Sam.

Making Up For Lost Time

We missed out on a SketchSunday last week due to a Transformers intervention, so Jeff(@AnimationCosmic on Twitter) and I rocked it twice this holiday weekend. Wolverine made an appearance as well as the innocent bystanders of Starbucks, Panera, Borders, & Barnes&Nobles. Thanks all you unlucky and hopefully unknowing models!

By the way, if you care to know what I thought of Michael Bay's efforts on Transformers 2, you can actually hear them now. That's right, someone was crazy enough to point a mic in my general direction after I saw TF2. Check it out if you dare over at the Sci-Fi Partyline podcast.

Frank Danger

It's a toss up as to which comic book project will make it to the finish line: Frank Danger, I Want This Rock!, or a secret third project I haven't talked about with too many people. Here's some more Frank studies: I feel like he's getting a lot closer, especially with the bottom left shot of him looking with wide-eyed shock at two blogposts in one night. :)

Comic Book: Engage!

I'm starting work on the comic for San Diego: I'm still working through what the main character is gonna look like. I hope to have him tied down as much as I can expect to in the next few weeks, and then it's off to buttoning down the script & laying out the pages in thumbnails. It's been so long since I've done this!