Battlepug Daily Sketch

One of the strongest concepts any of my friends have ever come up with is Battlepug by Mike Norton. A warrior riding a pug. Seriously, come up with something better than that.

6x9 bristol, pen. SOLD.

Bone Daily Sketch

I think it is near impossible to draw Jeff Smith's character BONE without it looking like Jeff Smith drew it... only not as good as if he would have ACTUALLY drew. I call that having a Death Device built in. This is a style and design so solid that if anyone else touched it, they explode and it just looks like the original. Bone is one of those Death Devices. The design is so... BONE, there is no really making it your own. There are some other characters in his universe that lend themselves to a bit more freedom. But Bone is Bone.

So Bone is today's daily sketch. There's a lot of adventure in this book but I always loved the crush Bone had on Thorn and his desire to share his poem with her.

6x9 on bristol. Brush and ink. UPDATE: SOLD

Brobee Daily Sketch

My son won't watch anything but Yo Gabba Gabba and I use the word WATCH very loosely. He basically just runs around the room dancing and will randomly check the screen to see if he's doing the dances right. He's 2.

So here's Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba

6x9 bristol, brush, pen, color pencil. UPDATE: SOLD

Earthworm Jim Daily Sketch

Doug Tennapel is a big inspiration to me. He's shared a lot of ideas about how he goes about producing so much work and striving for more. He's a creative guy that puts out a graphic novel ever year, if not two.

The thing that you all probably know is Earthworm Jim. If you didn't know, this was Doug's creation. So here's my quick tribute to my friend, Doug Tennapel. Thanks for the advice and encouragement.

6x9 bristol, brush and ink. UPDATE: SOLD

Invader Zim Daily Sketch

A few years back I did a month of gag cartoons called THE ADVENTURES OF BERNARD THE WORLD DESTROYER.  A little alien that came to earth, confused by our ways but didn't care much because his mission was to take us out. I thought I was so clever.

Then I discovered Invader Zim. Ok, so I spent too many hours slinging burgers at Ed Debevics in 2000 to notice this little gem of a show. I found it on Netflix and devoured every episode in a few days. First I laughed at it's genius and then cried that I had just about ripped the entire concept off without knowing it. Only IZ had done it much better.

So today is my tip of the hat to one funny show. Invader Zim.

Pen on 6x9 bristol. You can buy the original in MY STORE

Super Mario Bros. Daily Sketch

I can still remember my friend Chad explaining that he got a thing called a... NINTENDO. What was this word? Who were these Super Mario Bros. he was talking about. I manipulated my way over to his house and was stunned by the amazing world I had discovered. It wasn't long before I had my own Nintendo and was saving the Princess like nobodies business.

Here's my tribute to those fun days of mashing that A and B button until I had what we labeled NINTENDOITUS.

9x12 bristol, pen. UPDATE: SOLD

Daily Sketch: Year of the Dragon

Someone suggested a little Chinese New Year piece since it's the Year of the Dragon. I'm probably nowhere near the culture stylings of the a Chinese Dragon but I celebrated in my own Fairyland style way.

9x12 bristol, pen.
UPDATE: SOLD

Thanks!

Snow Day

Illinois usually starts getting snow in late October to mid November. December is usually a complete whiteout for as long as the eye can see. It's around this time that I always start getting hit with story ideas that puts a character running around in all that snow.

The snow came much later this year, but when mid January came and the snow finally fell, so did the sparks of inspiration. Trying to keep with my 2012 manifesto, I won't say more than that because I need to actually DO something before I get too excited. 

But here's a quick sketch I did when all that now started falling. I just pulled out the brush and drew. No pencil, no underdrawing. Just started drawing with that brush to get the idea out. Then I threw in some very basic color to give it a little life and we have a piece. 

Something may be out there.