Nelson

One of the many perks of sharing a studio with other working artists, is getting contacts with clients and work you would have otherwise never of been exposed to. Like this job for Nelson publishing. The page is going to be part of an illustrated dictionary targeting 8-13 year olds.
Again, the inking was laborious, but drawing animals is always fun.

Hulk

I did this Hulk image for the upcoming Paradise Toronto Comic Con. This was good chance to work on my colouring skills, modest as they are. Mine is one of, I think 8-9 hulk images used for the badges this year. The show is July 12-13 at the metro convention centre. The TX gang will be there again this year ,so come down if your in the Toronto area this summer.

Port Sketches

A few more early design from the Port. You can probably identify Ellie and Rayne but the skater girl in the middle is Ruby. She hasn't shown her face yet, but will be a regular in the port eventually.


And this piece was done for a White Wolf monster manual. I think the bg is pretty sloppy, but i had fun with the pirate character. My inking is also kinda weak but all in all I still like this pic.

Vector #4

Issue #28 of Knights of the Old Republic came out today, marking the end of my run on the book. So I guess its safe to show some pencils from the issue.

grossology 2

This is another round of design i did for grossology last year. I think the work is a clear influence on my TX Comics series, The Port. the chucky shapes and broken perspective make everything look solid and based in reality but simplified and definitly funner to draw.




One last thing here. A bunch of earlier Port sketches. Ive tried to go more simplified or cartoony with the final pages but i still like these earlier sketches.

grossology

I worked on an animated series last year called grossology, for Nelvana as a location designer. The day to day worker bee feeling of being in a big studio got old pretty quick, but the people i met were great and it gave me the motivation to get back to my focus as a comics illustrator.
The original designers of the series, Nick Sung and Daniela Strijleva based the look of the series on the work of Saul Bass. They were a real source of inspiration for me in my time on the show. Daniela espiecally taught me a lot about composition and design and maybe more importantly showed me that, for our own sake as artists, to take pride in the work we do. Even under less than ideal circumstances.

Where I left off

I'm just gunna jump back in here and hope to make the blog post habit stick this time. The project i started when i last posted was Knights of the old Republic issues 25-28, which are part of the Vector crossover story published by Dark Horse. So i guess thats a good place to start today with some of my pencils from the series.


This 2 page spread was the reveal of sith lord Karness Muur and his evil talisman during a jedi vision in issue 25.


and here we have the first appearance of Celeste Mourne, heroine of the vector arc



One last image for today. This was a commission i did last fall of the Sandman. It was a lot of fun drawing out of my comfort zone and inking is always a challenge for me so having a reason to ink something other than the Port is good for my art skills health meter.

Birthday Doodle

Its birthday drawing time again , so here's this years installment. Ive cleverly used my online comic "the port" as a back drop for teenage Nicole and her love of cats. It must be hard for all the girls whose boyfriends dont think they deserve lovingly crafted drawing on their birthday.

TCAF

Its the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend and everyone here at the studio is going all out with the displays and what not. So tell your friends to bring their families to the Victoria College building at U of T this Saturday and Sunday(august 18th and 19th).
Heres a little preview of some new Port art ill have up, and a pin up of Magik just for kicks.

con season

It seems like going to comic conventions is a full time job in the summer, but im trying to get some drawing time squeezed in when i can. Here's some stuff ive done lately. The first is a cleaned up girl friday sketch i did for www.horhaus.com a few weeks back and the others are for an up coming exalted manual.

blue beetle

i was playing around with some blue beetle drawings. i like the black and blue patterns especially on the face but after drawing it a few times id prolly want to streamline the scarab backpack.

spidey vs rhino

and heres the spidey samples pages in full.

catwoman meets poison ivy

just home from nyc and the comic con this weekend. i drove down with my new studio mates and some frineds in a supersized budget van. took us 14 hrs or so to get there all said and done but with some super nerd toys like ds game boy and a laptop for movies (watched the host, which is awesome) it was a pretty fun ride.
i wrapped up these 2 pages just before leaving thurday morning. i did a couple small revisions that arent on these scans but its more or less the same.

spidey vs rhino

This is the first page finished of the sample portfolio im putting together for the new york con this month. its not accually the first page of the sequence, but i had some trouble getting loose with my first page and moved on to the second before i could do too much damage. ill get to it eventually , and the clock is running out , so it'll have to be soon. wish me luck.

spidey - old tymer - grievous

ive been workin' hard lately on getting some new samples together for the new york con in feb. so most of my spare time is focused on that. nothing accually finished yet but i'll post the pages as i get them done. in the mean time heres some warm up spidey doodles and the ol' tyimer is a bg character from the sample pages.

































i drew grievous, here, for my little cousins at christmas. i didnt have time to get a copy before giving them the original so all i have is this rough.

NYNY - streetfighter pics

i just got back from a long weekend in new york city. it was great . i saw lance armstrong running the marathon. i went to a concert in dumbo, which is an awesome neighbourhood in brooklyn on the waterfront. had a lively conversation about how juliani is a doucebag with the ladys behind the counter at manginaro's. saw a real live broadway show, the drousy chaperone. im not usually a musical theatre kinda guy but you gotta support canadian, and it turns out thats its quite funny.
going to new york always makes think about moving there. im not sure about the legality of just moving to another country on a whim but im looking into it.


it was an eight hour drive which isnt bad espiecally with some company to share drive time and help keep you awake, or if youre nicole to just look cute and fall asleep.
big thank you to tim and lisa for the accomedations and good times and thanks to elliot for the insiders tour of manhatten, and the inner sactum of the new york times offices.

oh, and here are some streetfighter pics i did last week for the streetfighter card game .

female characters

im back a week late and a buck short, but ill try and make up for it with extra drawings. lately ive been trying to work on getting more comfortable drawing female characters. its a bit of a hole in my portfolio right now, that i hope to correct.
these are mostly drawings ive done to loosen up before getting down to business at my day job (ive been working at an animation studio doing location design).





the grass always looks greener in other departments. ive never worked as a character designer but ive always wanted to try it. unfortunately once you start your career in one direction you tend to get type cast. not that i dont enjoy location design, id just like to spread my wings alittle. so the above pic is an attempt at a portrait of one of my new studio mates , perry. who was to one who motivated to start this blog in the first place.



and this last illustration is one of a handful of pics i did last week. ive tried to keep myself working as an illustrator after hours. the extra money helps but mostly i dont want to lose the momentum i felt i had going this last year drawing comic books.

first post

hello interweb. thank you for accepting me to your blogging club. im excited to get things rolling here, so ill keep this brief for tonight. my plan for this ride on the art blog band wagon is the same as everyones. to show my drawings and ideas to anyone interested , to get some feedback and hopefully alittle helpful criticism, and to keep myself motivated.
to get started ive posted a handful of pics from my portfolio and sketchbook. the dr strange piece was done with the blog in mind but the rest are just odds and ends. most are work ive done in the last 6 months to a year.
i ll try and post at least once a week, so check back in soon, or dont,... whatever.......please come back.

scott