here is one of my favorite panels
And you can check out a preview HERE!
Monday, August 16, 2010
CBGB!
I was fortunate enough to be allowed to contribute to BOOM! studios four issue mini-series about the rock club CBGB. I got to work with Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters and had an awesome time. The work I did will be in issue 2 which will also feature some killer artwork by Sheldon Vella, and will hit stands this Wednesday the 18th! Here is the cover
here is one of my favorite panels
And you can check out a preview HERE!
here is one of my favorite panelsAnd you can check out a preview HERE!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
T-SHIRTS!
"Overpopulation" (men)
- It's been a long time. Been pretty busy with a bunch of stuff, some of that stuff being t-shirts. I was approached awhile back and asked to do some designs. Fast forward to now and these limited edition t-shirts from Ink Poets are available for order!
- Dan
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
a Jersey Gods pinup
Jersey Gods is an incredible comic and if you're not reading it you are truly missing out. While at Comicon I got to meet the writer Glen Brunswick (and hopefully next year I'll get to hassle the artist Dan McDaid). He gave me a copy of the first issue which I poured over on the train back home and after that and the awesome painting by Toby Cypress ( which you can see here ) I was inspired to do this...
I started with a thumbnail that is long gone and started drawing.
once I had that done and inked I wanted to start painting. I was a little nervous because I didn't know what I wanted to do with the colors so thankfully I scanned first then painted.
after I was here, I was a little dissapointed because I lost some of the linework. So I took the inks from the first scan, put them on top and dropped the opacity to what I wanted. I also adjusted the colors in photoshop, added text to and finished up the highway sign for Cherry Hill. I also added some color behind Barock to try and get him to "pop" a little more.
and that's it. On another note, I've been neglecting this blog for awhile now but I'm hassling alot of editors trying to find Comics, Cover and Illustration work and I think having more of an internet presence couldn't hurt. So I'm going to be making more of an effort to make this a busy place again. Till then, go check out Jersey Gods. Seriously.
The End.
-Dan
I started with a thumbnail that is long gone and started drawing.
once I had that done and inked I wanted to start painting. I was a little nervous because I didn't know what I wanted to do with the colors so thankfully I scanned first then painted.
after I was here, I was a little dissapointed because I lost some of the linework. So I took the inks from the first scan, put them on top and dropped the opacity to what I wanted. I also adjusted the colors in photoshop, added text to and finished up the highway sign for Cherry Hill. I also added some color behind Barock to try and get him to "pop" a little more.
and that's it. On another note, I've been neglecting this blog for awhile now but I'm hassling alot of editors trying to find Comics, Cover and Illustration work and I think having more of an internet presence couldn't hurt. So I'm going to be making more of an effort to make this a busy place again. Till then, go check out Jersey Gods. Seriously.The End.
-Dan
Monday, February 23, 2009
no ticket...
I gotta go to bed and I think this is all pretty self explanatory anyways, so...
For a new project you have to start with sketches and thumbnails,
and then I took those ideas and did some pencil and some paint on a 15"x20" piece of rives,
oh my god your so close to the action now!!!
then adjust (brutally) the levels and add some color...
and finally!!
the end.
-Dan
For a new project you have to start with sketches and thumbnails,
and then I took those ideas and did some pencil and some paint on a 15"x20" piece of rives,
oh my god your so close to the action now!!!
then adjust (brutally) the levels and add some color...
and finally!!
the end.-Dan
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Static Hudson
So I was just scribbling around in my moleskine and I came up with the idea for this sketch that in my mind is based on a comic character I came up with in school. I want to (and slowly am) doing a series of paintings based on this storyline because I was inspired by the World War Robot book by Ashley Wood.
So the next step was to blow this up and paint it. from 5.5" x8.5" to 15" x 20" and I traded the bic for acrylics. It was going to be a submission for the Spectrum art book, but because of other deadlines and personal restrictions I missed the deadline by two days. oh well, next time.
Here are some closer shots,
and a couple more.
And thats all for now...
-Dan
So the next step was to blow this up and paint it. from 5.5" x8.5" to 15" x 20" and I traded the bic for acrylics. It was going to be a submission for the Spectrum art book, but because of other deadlines and personal restrictions I missed the deadline by two days. oh well, next time.
Here are some closer shots,
and a couple more.
And thats all for now...-Dan
Saturday, January 3, 2009
A resurgence in the Galactic Empire
This is something I've been meaning to do for awhile now and never really got around to. But recently my roomate ( http://kajusx.deviantart.com/ ) has got me hooked on the new clone wars series on cartoon network. In all honesty, I talked a lot of shit when the new movie and then this show came out because I felt a kind of loyalty to the Tartakovsky shorts. But this show is fun and campy and jam packed with action so I made room for both.
Anyways, I took this piece from awhile ago...
and then I theoretically set it after the third movie, added text, graphics and photoshop effects and made this...
That's all for now, I'm not as "weekly" any more but I'll still be regular and whatnot.
-Dan
Anyways, I took this piece from awhile ago...
and then I theoretically set it after the third movie, added text, graphics and photoshop effects and made this...
That's all for now, I'm not as "weekly" any more but I'll still be regular and whatnot.-Dan
Sunday, December 14, 2008
WW3
This week and next week I'm exercising graphic design muscles on old work again so bear with me and enjoy the ride.
I had to do an assignment in school taking a "D" list comic character and doing an updated and hopefully more interesting version. Ultimately I used G.I. Robot.
In my updated version the robot didn't have artificial intelligence, it was an unmanned assault vehicle (UAV) piloted remotely by children. At the time I had been talking with friends about how video games are essentially training programs for this exact thing. The concept still interests me.
But in school I didn't have the time to work out the child and the scientists to an acceptable level, and honestly I was never to thrilled with the copy. Fast forward to now and I'm really interested in worn looking propaganda posters so I pulled copy from a similarly themed poster and covered the elements I didn't care for as interestingly as possible in illustrator. Then aged and distressed it in photoshop. In my head it's still a UAV but I didn't keep that element in the poster for some reason.
See you next week!
-Dan
I had to do an assignment in school taking a "D" list comic character and doing an updated and hopefully more interesting version. Ultimately I used G.I. Robot.
In my updated version the robot didn't have artificial intelligence, it was an unmanned assault vehicle (UAV) piloted remotely by children. At the time I had been talking with friends about how video games are essentially training programs for this exact thing. The concept still interests me.
But in school I didn't have the time to work out the child and the scientists to an acceptable level, and honestly I was never to thrilled with the copy. Fast forward to now and I'm really interested in worn looking propaganda posters so I pulled copy from a similarly themed poster and covered the elements I didn't care for as interestingly as possible in illustrator. Then aged and distressed it in photoshop. In my head it's still a UAV but I didn't keep that element in the poster for some reason.
See you next week!-Dan
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