Portrait-dex: Matri

MATRI is usually quiet, but the slightest mention of an interesting topic will cause it to involuntarily use Ramble and cause the sleep effect to all within earshot. On a more useful note, its Burrito attack can be used as both an offensive technique and a lunchtime supplement.

The Portrait-dex blog features self-portraits of cartoonists as pokemon in various stages of evolution. Some truly talented folks have made entries for it, so go check it out!

Salai repaint - final

Done at last! There's stuff here and there that could have been done better or more efficiently, but I'm still rather satisfied with the results overall.

Salai Repaint WiP

WiP as of 10/31. Going *really* slowly since I'm not completely sure what the heck I'm doing. Happy Halloween, everybody!

Adventuring "Food" Chain

Not really a true food chain, since there's only two creatures here that actually intend to eat their victim. The whole process on this was incredibly fun!

Prints for sale!

I've recently set-up an online store through Big Cartel! There are five prints up at the moment, each one sized at 8.5" x 11" and priced at US$5. Shipping is US$4.90 per total purchase, no matter how many items are ordered. Stop on by if you have the chance, and please feel free to leave some feedback!

A few WiP-ish shots

It's been slow going on this current project, but I'm really liking how it's coming along. The troll's head alone has been a blast to draw, and I hope the inking stage will fare just as well.

Sketches and Stuff!

I'm still alive, and here's some photo-referenced sketches to prove it! The source for each was from the September 2009 issue of National Geographic, though most are from advertisements therein.

Regarding future work, I've got an extra large sword-and-sorcery piece in the works, as well as a series of digital paintings. I'm a bit nervous about the latter, both because I haven't done any serious digipaints in a while and because I've learned that my monitor has crumby color accuracy, but, if successful, they'll be a great asset to the old 'folio.

In other news, I've found a fantastic Photoshop plugin combo for flatting comic pages! Developed by Boudewijn Pelt, they're simply named Flatten and MultiFill, and they reduce the amount of time spent slapping down base colors by a ridiculous amount. They aren't quite magic easy-mode buttons - the presence of grays, including those from resizing the image, will create some ugly artifacting, and the colors applied are a bit random - but they do free up more time for rendering and other adjustments. Very useful, and highly recommended!