My Trip to Disneyland... er I mean SDCC.

Well I took a left turn in Albuquerque on my way to San Diego (somehow I got off the 215) and before I knew it I was in Anaheim California?! Which ended up costing us an hour getting to the Con, but we got there and enjoyed preview night. We being Lynn Walker (inker of Ape Entertainment's Clipstick) and I. We met up with Derek Hunter of Pirate Club and "The Geek Show Podcast" fame. We talked a little about the podcast, Anime and other little what nots. Derek (at the time) was seated next to Ryan Ottley of Image Comic's Invincible. I let Ryan take a gander at my portfolio this year, in particular I showed him my homage to his Sea Bear and Grizzly Shark posts on his web site. Hopefully I'll be able to post the drawing soon. I have to get permission first, but with luck I'll be able to show it soon.

San Deigo Comic Con

Well its that time of year. Time to brave the unwashed masses in San Diego California in order to seek out future work in the comic and video game industries. I've been doing good since last year hopefully I'll double the amount of work I get this year. I'll try and post a nightly update of all the fun! Anyhoo... On another note it was Christmas in July this month. I got my share of the original artwork for Countdown to Mystery#5 and my comps from "Boom!" for Warhammer: Condemned by Fire issues 2 and 3. I did a cover for #2 and 7 pages for #3. The colors for #3 sort of covered up a lot of my work. Maybe I'll post my inks so you guys can see the Black and Whites. Anyhoo I got a ton of stuff to do before I go so I got to get back to it!

Laters-

Chad.

Fan Mail = Fan Art

Well I got my frist piece of Fan mail the otherday. So I decieded to respond with a token of my apperication with a custom sketchcard. Figured I'd post it on the blog so everyone could see. I have more stuff coming soon in preperation for SDCC. So stay posted.

School

Well I have tons of stuff I want to post but I'm super busy trying to get issue 22 of "The Spirit" out for DC. In the meantime here is a 6 panel story I did for a class I'm taking. I hope to have some Marvel Cards up soon too!

Another one bites the dust!

I can hear the late great Freddie Mercury singing his tune as I post the latest failed attempt for a DC cover. Atleast now I have 3 of 4 covers approved. I can't post approved sketches so please don't ask. I'll post them when they get published.

I'm not as let down with the rejection of this one as I was struggling with the concept. Its not as cool as the Superman one. But I feel its good enought ot get put up on the old blog. I'm going o try and do a weekly post. We'll see how it goes. Hope you like it!

DC Covers

I'm doing some covers for DC as well as other things. I felt like posting some of the rejected comps up here so at least somebody can see them. Here is a Superman comp that didn't make the cut.

Still More Marvel Cards

Hey Guys I'm trying to do better about posting more. here are some Marvel Sketch cards I did for Upper Deck. I tried to spend as little time on them as possible. None are over twenty minutes. Hope you like them, I thought they were fun.

More Marvel Cards

Marvel Cards

I am alive

One year my last post was a year ago? Holy moley. Well I must admit that things have been busy and exciting. Anyhoo. As soon as i get some stuff done I'll try and update everything. Big news is that I'm working for DC Comics WOOO HOOO! Check out my first big work in Countdown to Mystery #'s 5,7, and 8! More to come soon I promise.

The Mole Men Cometh!

I got my first Fist of Justice story done for the back of Dynamo 5. Here is a sneek peek. This is my first time doing both pencils and inks. Hope everybody likes it. I'm pretty happy with the results. I need to thank Ryan Ottely for his inking tips. I emailed him and asked for pointers when I got bogged down and he speedly replied. Ryan's tips helped me speed up some and I'm sure that the rest will come with practice. look for the whole story in the back of Dyanmo 5 #4.

Chad.

Comics Update!

Hey I know its been way too long sinse I've posted an update. But a lot has happened and I figured I would get my blogging at leat started for the year. I have quit my job of the past four and a half years to go out on my own as a freelance artist. My first full lenth comic is set to hit the stands in a couple of weeks and I'm really excited about it. Bloodrayne Tibetan Hieghts will be out in the first half of April. Written by Troy Wall and Pencilled by yours truely. I'm also really stoked to be working on Fists of Justice again. The pages I'm doing now are set to appear in the back of Image Comic's Dynamo 5 (Written by Jay Faerber and Penciled by Mahmud A. Asrar) so I will have some work published by Image WHOOT WHOOT! Anyhoo, I hope to keep the steam up I'll keep you posted.

Chad.

FoJ is done.

Wow, it's been a long while but I just sent off this Fists of Justice Cover to Ed and Mike. All together I pencilled 32 pages of art for Fists. I will be posting some of my favorite bits of each book up here so keep checking back for updates.

Also things are going along well with my top secret pitch I'm working on with Noble Causes writer Jay Faerber. I'm only one page away from having the pencils done. Wish me luck.

Yes I am a lazy bastard.

Okay, I know it’s been way too long since my last post. I've been busy cranking on Fist of Justice for Digital Webbing Presents#29. Now that it’s complete I get to turn around and start on the 16 pages for Issue #30! I'm not complaining though. Overall it’s been the best time of my life. I've also received a lot of complements from industry professionals over the few tidbits that have been posted up on the FoJ blog. Hopefully I'll get more when the comic is actually out in May. In the meantime I’ll try and post more of my art.

Finished Draw-off Piece

Here is the finished entry. You can see that I used the layout for comp #1 but added a few of elements that I liked from comp #3. I'm sort of blah about the piece but I sure did learn a lot.

Thumbnails for Angeline 43 Draw-off.

I entered a Draw-off again for Digital Webbing's Forums. This time the draw off was for Angeline 43. I did four small thumbs in ink so I could start building some inking skills. I also inked the finished piece. I definately need some more practice, but it felt good to do it. Overall I'm not to happy with the finished image but I learned a ton and I expect that each comic peice will get better and better as I do more.

Carving Pumkins

Well it's almost November and I still haven't gotten this thing quite figured out yet, but I'm trying. I spent the most of this month doing some long overdue chores and playing with the kids. Tonight we carved pumkins. It was fun. The kids were afraid to put thier hands into the pumkins and take out the guts so dad had to show them how it was done. Of coarse I also waved the pumkin muck in thier face which got quite a rise out of them. Next year they'll be doing the same thing I did to them to Tasey and I'll be yelling at them to stop. Where do they learn such behavior?

As for my art goes I'm still trying to figure out what I can post and what I can't. I'll start posting all my old stuff because I figure that will be safe. Plus I'll try to get some exclusive stuff up also, thing I do for draw-offs and such so stay tuned..

It begins...

Blog... Sounds like something my dog threw up. However, regardless the stupid sounding name and the risk of looking like anther trend fallowing moron, the appeal of a personal website where I can post whatever without knowing anything about html in undeniable. So thus it begins...