Abolishers page 1 - inks

As Promised.. here is the pencil / ink wash to the first page of the Abolishers web comic which is scheduled to begin this Saturday. (Oct 10th)

In the meantime, Dr. Mortimer J. Torque has updated our site with a special little treat from our good friend and talented artist, Scott Gipson of RocketFuelConcepts.

See you after Saturday, when I will post some more progress shots... this time.. IN COLOR!

Apparition Abolishers

Well! Much has happened since my last post, most importantly, Dragon*Con. Over Labor Day weekend we packed a huge trailer full of droids, costumes and ... um "beverages of the fun kind" and headed down to Atlanta for the biggest convention of the South.. basically our version of San Diego Comic-Con.

One of our group costumes were the Apparition Abolishers or Steampunk Ghostbusters. Our costumes were a huge hit and we won the great honor of being "Best In Show" at the Masquerade Ball.

Here I am in my gear.

And a short clip of us on stage. (Thanks Zach)

The Abolishers were such a huge hit we have created our own site and now have character back stories as well as weapon descriptions. But most importantly, a web comic is in the works! Written by my awesome sister Jess and Illustrated by yours truly.

Here are the first three pages in sketch form, just to rough out the ideas and get a layout going.

Over the next few posts I will have progress shots leading up to the final art which will be available on the Abolishers website.... for FREE. ;)

We will be in costume at the GMX convention here in Nashville this weekend on Saturday, stop by our panel discussion at noon and say hi.

To see more about the Abolishers please visit our site or follow us on Twitter

Special thanks to bynk for the photo of me :)

Gone Fishin'

Well.. white water rafting really.. maybe some fishing, who knows.

Speaking of fishin' here's a fun little doodle I recently whipped up that actually ended up on my resume as the background image.

Great Lake Swimmers @ Grimeys

Last Sunday at Grimey's New & Preloved Music Record Shop, we had the absolute pleasure to meet and listen to one of my recent most favorite bands Great Lake Swimmers.

My good friend Lauren was much smarter than me and brought her camera to record this epic FREE event. here is one of the videos she recorded. I'll post the rest once she uploads them.

Many thanks to the Great Lake Swimmers,for excellent music.

Thanks to Grimey's for being the coolest record shop in Nashville.

And to Lauren for being generous enough to share her videos. :)

Review ReCap

Well, the review is finally behind me now. It was alot of hard work and frantic last minute scrambling to get everything together. I must say it was well worth it too, I met many great people and possible new clients. I took home Third place in best Table display (oh yippee.)

For a fun little giveaway item, I found a place that sold "Gummy Brains" in 5lb bags and I thought it would be a tasty idea plus a way for people to take my info with them. So I drew up a fun little tag for the individually bagged candies (that my awesome girlfriend individually bag for me: ) and here's a pic of the final product and the box I used to put them in. (thanks for the box Kyle) In the top right corner you can see I made some stickers as well.

(sorry about the poor iphone pic)

I want to thank all the friends and family that stopped by and thank you for your support. And to all the future clients and competition.... watch out! I'm on the prowl and I'm hungry!

With that being said. I'll leave you with a picture of my inspiration behind "Unklbee and Me" (a post for another day) That's me.. holding the Unklbee card, and Aiden, holding the Aiden card. :)

Now, off to the RollerDerby. Go NRG!

Freaks & Friends: My Portfolio Review

I will be having my portfolio review at the LimeLight. As I understand it, from noon to about 4 or 5 will be the time for professionals in the industry such as art directors and/or creative directors to stop by and view the latest batch of Nossi's finest.

Then, after 5 will be for friends and family to come. The award ceremony will begin at 6pm (i believe?) If your in the area please stop by and say hello!

:)

OZ : The TinMan pt.3 FINAL!

Tinman : ACCOMPLISHED

Part 1 - sketch & thumbnail

Part 2 - Details