DNA replication

I made this image for our company's website last month. 3ds Max.

Dead Unit Zombie study

I made one more zombie sketch to try to nail down the look and pathology of deadfly-infested zombies in our story. Note the black lesions about ready to burst. Yummy! Adobe Photoshop art.

Dead Unit concept sketches

I'm collaborating on a new graphic novel series called Dead Unit. It's about the aftermath of a zombie plague that was spread by a new species of fly. Here is some concept art.

Chuck Norris Drama Club

Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d,
Bring with thee airs from OH GOD I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS OH SWEET JESUS AAAAAAAAAAAA
Yeah, not much else to say about this drawing. Pencil and ink, scanned and colored digitally.

Anatomy Studies

I've been making some new anatomy drawings in my Moleskine. A fantastic tool for creating a figure pose is DAZ 3D. I use the Michael character model with the muscle textures and morphs. It's a brilliant way to get a good photo reference. The body morphs are excellent as well. You can make your figure super muscular, skinny, obese, whatever you need. Then just set up your lights and render an image.

I made two versions of each; an ink and copic marker drawing, and a colored pencil muscle map drawing. Then I scanned the images into Photoshop, aligned them together, and set the muscle map as the top layer at Multiply with 50% opacity.

Kids these days...

I continue to be amazed at how astonishingly easy it is now to find and acquire new music. I just discovered a new band on Pandora after hearing one of their songs for the first time, looked them up on iTunes, purchased and downloaded their album to my iPhone... all in less than five minutes. I realize I'm going off on a "back in my day" rant, but teenagers, do you have any idea how goddamn difficult it was to find new music ten years ago?

If you were lucky enough to be in range of a hip (i.e. college) radio station and they happened to be playing a song you liked, and you wanted to find out the name of the song/artist, you had to either call the radio station or wait until the end of the song for the DJ to come on and (hopefully) tell you what they just played. THEN you had to find a record store (remember those?) that was hip enough to carry that sort of music, which usually only existed in college towns or largely populated cities. Good luck if you lived in a small town in Iowa; you might never hear that song again. And hopefully the store hadn't already sold out of that album, or else you had to be content with them ordering it for you and MAYBE shipping it to your house if you were from out of town.

THIS IS FUCKING MAGIC!!!!

Mexican Sugar Skull

This is a design I made for my friend Stephanie who skates on the the Mid-Iowa Rollers derby team. Her number is 311 and her derby name, celebrating her Mexican heritage, is Mex-Rated. I've always liked Mexican Sugar Skull designs and I thought this would be a fun side project.