BUBBLEGUMROCKZ!

So i'm alil' scared about this one. My bud Jason says i should post it and see what kind of feedback i get from it.

This was a big decision to take on inking the original penciled board- but i was feeling pretty brave a couple nights ago and went for it.

I used real ink! Brushes and the whole nine on this one. I went with a 3 step process on it.

The media used are:

Pencils.Ink.Ball point pen and white out.

I think this is pretty much the final on how BGR is gonna look. I'm toying with doing the book in watered down ink washes and ball point completely.

This will probably be my last post for a bit.I have to pack up and split San Fran for a bit to head back home to deal with some serious family health issues that are not looking very good at the moment.So i'm sure i'll be seeing some of you @ home and thanks for your support it's very much appreciated.

So with that said- i'm gonna be putting a lot into the drawings now even if it's only alittle bit of them now- because as a good friend of mine once said...

"Therapy. Man. It's my therapy from the bullshit."

Too true.It seems it's the only thing keeping my sanity anymore. It's weird like that- my drive to create elevates when times get like these...

Peace before you Feast.

M.

WAH-LAH!

WAH-LAH! is (was) a commissioned piece i picked up from a nice gent in LA during Wizard World.

Charles thank you for your patience. It's on it's way. It was a fun piece. I don't do alot of DC stuff- so when i do get a chance to do a good one like this- I like to put a lot of thought to them.

I usually make copies of all my works and practice my inking on them. So here's the piece both in original pencils and coffee shop inks.

Feast.

INKIN' BURNZ

Burn.

(all ball point bic pen)

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M.

SURFING WITH THE ALIEN (AGAIN)

Still playing around with inking techniques.

Feast.

M.

STORMY HIGHLIFE

The Recipe:

2 cups of Dio's "Man on the Silver Mountain"
4 tea spoons of the chorus to Black Mountains "Stormy High"
2 grind rounds of a yummy breakfast courtesy of Trader Joes.
1 Cup of Gallery Coffee. splash of cream 5 packs of sugah.
1 stick of sandlewood incense burning.
a spice of Chris Cornell and Tom Morello telling to "Dah do dah- A dah- DO dadda do dahhh" on "Exploder"
1 dash of the girlfriend out of the house and @ the gym.
1 round of Bob Dylan telling me that "everyone must get stoned"
1 load of laundry spinning out of control.
1 shitty scanner.


Feast.

M.

THE POWER IS COSMIC

Yes.

Today is the power cosmic day.

Surfs Up.

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M.

FWAP! (Jus' Like Dat)

WHew.

I really really really like those Rock Star energy drinks.

I've had this image in my head for idunno...a month? I was flipping thru some old BATMAN ANIMATED stuff and i came across Bruce Timm's BANE.

FIrst of all--- I LOVE Bruce Timm...and I really dig BANE.

Like chocolate and peaut butta i suppose.

And i thought...It would be cool to draw Bane kicking Venom's ass...Because BANE rocks.

Feast.

M.

MERCY

The man himself...Johnny Blaze.

A little Ghost Rider snapshot from the book i'm on.

It's called MERCY.

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M.

REMIX

Still working on my inking sensibilities here and there.

I'd like to get wayyyy more comfortable with it so i can basically start inking myself. As a penciller in this "rap game" you can get steam rolled or butchered at the inking process. But in all fairness- sometimes the penciler (me) can sometimes not make things so clear and evident to any inker who comes along.

I look at these exercises in two ways. Improve me inking abilities...And create more definition for any inker to make my artwork more understandable and clear.

So i whipped out this old Bloodrayne Alt. cover and did a re-mix on it. Experimenting with lines and textures and blacks and all that jazz.

I'm also going thru alot of old artwork because i'm going to be putting them up for sale on a gallery website soon enough!

Hint Hint.

Until then...

Feast.

M.

SHE RIDES THE NIGHT

dadda-dah-dadda-dah-dummmmmmm...

BATman...And the OUTSIDERS!

Rated PG13.

...

Anywayz.

This is not the original piece...it's just a copy that i wanted to drop soem inks on during a warm-up session before pages.

I did this for a would be cover thing for DC that never got the green light. Which is cool- now that i look at it...It wasn't my best work. I hate alot of things about the piece yet- i do like a some of things going on in it. I wish i played more with the field depths and so forth... But i was under a two day turn around for this.

So there you go.

I showed this to one editor over @ DC and he emails me back and goes...

"What's Catwoman doing on top of Batman?"

I said...

"She's riding that bitch like he knew she would."

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M.

A FAMILY AFFAIR

Still working off and on my inking skills.

Old school Bloodrayne stuff in mix. This was an alt cover for the Plague of Dreams book i did back in the day that never got printed.


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M.

RIDE THAT LIGHTNING (with AUTHORITY)

Coffee shop madness.

I wish i centered it a bit more...Was going for quickness and gesture and the lighting @ the shop was horrid.

I love these characters.

Feast.

M.

JUS' BLAZE

He who walks in both worlds.

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M.

SUCH HEROIC NONSENSE

So been busy gearing up for alil' Johnny Blaze action.

Skute and I were watching a friends 8 year old the other day.His name was Tim.

He was into the robots in disguise badly and wanted to color one with some of his crayons.

I kept trying to show him the original Transformers animated movie and he wasn't into it...just that crappy new one.Whatever.

I did this on the fly from a pic i googled online- and i'm pretty sure it doesn't match up well with the original...

But i said screw it and doodled it out anyways- it was fun after i got into it. He seemed to like it. And took it with him

to color at home because we ran out of time there.

I told him id post it on the blog and then post the colors the next time.

Feast.

M.