Saturday, March 27, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 05, 2010
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Comic Book Opera
I was asked last october to do art work for an unusual project being written by my friend Cecil. It is basically an opera performed with comic book visuals, in French. I'll have more details on the project but for now just know that cultural mash-ups can happen anywhere at anytime. coming next month, rodeo, spoken-word, day camps.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Frankeinstein
Colours by Espen. Making clients think highly of me the world over. Thanks buddy.
I got to do a 6 page Frankenstein comic last month for Nelson publishing. You might remember Nelson texts from your grade school days. They make text books for impressionable youth and have recently started using comic art. I think its awesome, and wish I had comics in my english books when I was in school. With remarkable forsight I did like to add comic book art to my school books when I was 11. Mrs. Thede didn't share my vision, and punished me for my artistic expression. Who's laughing know Mrs.Thede. Unless of course she's dead in which case, thank you for your wisdom and guidance, (please don't haunt me).
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Monday, September 07, 2009
THOR
This just started out as a warm up sketch, but I liked how it turned out and desided to follow through with it. Thor, has always been one of my favorite heavy hitters. Giant hammer, controls lightning, kickass mullet. This is more or less what I thought I looked like when I was 13 and took the garbage out with my shirt off.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Darkstalkers tribute book
Hard to believe its been a year since the 25th anniversary Street Fighter Tribute book was put together by Udon. But here we are 2009, and its the 15th anniversary of Capcom's Darkstalkers, so Udon is doing it again with another great tribute book. This is my pic, obviously, of Morgan. Pretty straightforward, but i'm still learning with my colours, so i felt it best to do something simple that I could be confident in finishing.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
MOCCA 2009
So, here it is: the cover art to my long awaited (since earlier this week, when I told everyone I was doing it) sketchbook. It's a whopping 36 pages, plus cover, and, so that Cameron can still feel needed, I've included one typo. The book is filled with concept work for The Port, and has a 12-page excerpt of the comic to whet fans' appetites.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
MOCCA
Me and some of the TX crew will be setting up shop at the MOCCA convention in NYC this coming weekend, June 6th and 7th. This is one of the coolest shows of the year, and june in New York is always a good idea. This time around I've managed to get my act together and made me up a sketch book, and this new print, based on my web comic The Port.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
TCAF
Its TCAF time again. The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, is back this coming weekend at the Toronto Reference Library on yonge st north of bloor.
TX Comics is there again, in force. One of the surprises we have this year are 6'x3' banners featuring our webcomics. This is my banner art, big thanks to Ramon Perez who put this together for me and used some of his colour magic. It turned out so good that I'm gunna use this colour palette for any colourized Port art I do.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Wonder Woman
This is how awesome it is to be me. I did this blueline sketch of Wonder Woman a few weeks back, and thought it a pretty good start, if I do say so myself. So I left it out on my desk, as I do when I'm seeking approval from my fellow studio mates, and when I return to work the next day, friend and superstar artist Cameron Stewart has light-boxed and inked the piece, just cuz he thought it would be cool.
Somewhere in the multi-verse, there is an alternate time-line Scott Hepburn, who commutes into the big city to climb the ladder as a system analyst, and thinks back to a time when all he wanted was to draw comics. Thank god this Scott Hepburn, failed grade 10 math. Things could have gone horribly wrong.
Somewhere in the multi-verse, there is an alternate time-line Scott Hepburn, who commutes into the big city to climb the ladder as a system analyst, and thinks back to a time when all he wanted was to draw comics. Thank god this Scott Hepburn, failed grade 10 math. Things could have gone horribly wrong.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Street Fighter Tribute
Udon's tribute book, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Streetfighter, came out this past week at Comic Con 2008. The book features dozens of top flight artist from around the world like Adam Hughes, Cheeks, J. Scott Campbell, and my fellow studiomates Cameran Stewart, and Kalman Andrasofszky. I also got to do a piece for the collection, Which was great and terrifying, considering I,ve never really coloured anything before this. So I kept it simple and, with the help of the guys here, I think it turned out alright. After seeing some the other more stylize versions of the street fighter characters, I wish i had tried something more cartoony, but all in all Im happy with the results.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Stalking
This art for a Dark Stalkers card game that i did through Udon Entertainment last fall. Capcoms best kept secret, Dark Stalkers is the gothic step brother of the Street Fighter franchise. It never got the recognition that SF did but with its 15th anniversary coming up next year, maybe its time for a resurrection.
Monday, May 26, 2008
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.
Again, the inking was laborious, but drawing animals is always fun.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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.
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.