More Mountain Goblins

At long last, the second half to page three from my untitled comic.  I took the saturation down a bit for the colors and added in a texture for slightly more interest.  Because of the natural orientation of monitors these days, I'm thinking page 4 will be more horizontal to fit the ratio better.  Most popular web comics that have lengthy text are horizontal anyways.  I wish this comic was something people could enjoy more regularly, but so far it's just a fun thing I do on occasion.

More Progress and More Color

Well I received some positive feedback from the last comic I posted so I thought I would make better use of my free time and continue working on this story while I have the time and the desire. The third page was split in half, so here is only half of page 3 (plus it reads better when blogger enlarges it). I wanted this much to be in color so you could get an idea of the colors I had in mind for the goblins and what the sword would look like as well. I doubt I'll do all future pages in color, but for now you can enjoy the possibilities. Hopefully, I'll be posting the other half of this page soon. Just a heads up, the main characters of my intended story are not these goblins. They're merely setting the stage for what's ahead.

Secret Project Revealed!

So, the book covers that I have been working on are close to being printed so I have permission to post one of the covers.

This is the cover for the first in the Third Grade Detectives series of books. They're short reads and intended, I think, for first graders. Not a bad read as far as first grade material goes. I'm only redoing the covers of the books and the inside illustrations stay the same (drawn by a different illustrator, not me). The publishing company I've been working with is Simon & Schuster, and working with them has been great! They're kind, understanding and polite. It's been a great opportunity working with them and I'm glad I can finally share this piece (though I finished this cover a year or so ago).

Enjoy!

Trekking Along a Year Later

So I've decided that this story of the goblins in the snow will merely be a drawing and inking exercise for me since I obviously don't have enough time and desire to get these out in any timely fashion. A year. It has taken me a year to post a second page to the story. At this rate, I should easily have ten pages by the time I'm 40. What a goal!

Enjoy the drawings (I know I did. I inked these initially quite a while ago, and when I came back to finish the last square I was actually pleased with most of the inking).

Praying with Friends

This is another illustration I did for Friend magazine this year. I believe it was for September or October. It was a fun assignment as you can see. I typically enjoy drawing peoples eyes, but since this article was about praying all the kids had to have their eyes closed. I still think it turned out pretty good. I've also been busy in my free time illustrating 4 book covers for a young kids book series. Once they get printed, I'll be able to post a few as examples. Hopefully they print sometime before spring, if not sooner.

Marriage and Death

So after 6 months I finally found time to ink the comic that was posted back in February as a work in progress. Adding color takes even more time so I just stopped after inking. Nothing really more to say other than I wish I could post more, but I'm either too lazy or too distracted to find time to draw/paint or otherwise create something cool to post online. Thanks to those few who patiently wait for new posts though.

Long time no write

I think it's obvious to everyone that I'm not an avid blog updater. Sure, I could have posted lots of things in the past 6 months, but with Facebook taking up most of that energy, this blog doesn't get much attention.

This here is something I did for the Friend magazine earlier in the spring. Fun article, semi-fun illustrations. This one here is actually a combination of two illustrations that I thought would go well together as one. Want the whole story? Go buy your copy of the Friend in LDS bookstores.

Hopefully I can be posting more interesting things more often in the future. Thanks guys!