Bridman sketches - Aug. 31

Here's a few more Bridgman sketches I've done in the last few weeks. The last one in the post is my one-hundredth page of Bridgman sketches.

Ms. Magenta

I don't know the character's name, but I had to draw her for the "Draw My Character" thread at Penciljack. Here's the original character design, by Paulo Pereira.

Crunch time!

I just got word from Chimaera, the deadline for the first issue of the comic series I'm doing is September 15. I'll probably be hunched over my desk for the next month.

More Bridgman Sketches

One of these is from a Jack Hamm book, but the other eight are all Bridgmans. Click them to make bigger.

Free Chimaera Comics on WOWIO

The company I'm doing some work for, Chimaera Comics, is putting a bunch of their comics online to read for free. They're free to read or you can pay 99 cents to download a PDF. Check 'em out...

http://www.wowio.com/users/searchresults.asp?nPublisherId=214

Three more Bridgman sketches

For those that have no idea what these are, I'm making my way through George Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life and drawing every picture in the book. I'm about a third of the way through now and I've been working at it for a little over a year. Click on these to make 'em bigger.

Dead President page 3

Bridgman sketches!

Now we're all caught up on these Bridgman sketches.

Thoughts on Kung-Fu Panda, Guitar Hero on Tour

Kung-Fu Panda blew me away with how good it was. Considering it came from Dreamworks, I was expecting something more akin to Shrek, but if someone showed me this movie without telling me anything about it, I would guess that Pixar made it; it's that good.

Besides just being an entertaining story, though, in every scene I found myself just admiring how the movie looked. The opening dream-sequence, animated in a Samurai Jack-esque style, was an incredibly gorgeous introduction to the movie, and the rest of the movie had beautiful color and shot compositions. If you enjoyed Wall-E and want another great animated movie to watch this summer, do yourself a favor and see Kung Fu Panda while it's still in theaters. It needs to be seen on the big screen.

I played Guitar Hero on Tour today, which is the Nintendo DS version of the popular guitar simulation video game. It has only a fraction the number of songs the regular versions usually do, so after a few minutes it gets a little boring. Also, it hurts the wrist like crazy. I had a hard time finding a comfortable way to play it. It also seemed like they had a hard time getting big-name licenses for this game. The biggest songs on here are a non-single song from Nirvana's "Nevermind" album and a Red Hot Chili Peppers song from 1989.

Catching up on Bridgman sketches

I've been continuing to do these sketches since my website went down in December, but haven't been able to post them for obvious reasons.

My first published work is out today

If you were to buy a copy, I would consider you to be awesome. If not, you'll still be awesome, but you'll be $13 richer and have one less book on your shelf.

Hey everyone! The sincerest of apologies for taking this long to get back to you on this. The release date of Fat Chunk volume one was first postponed, then every week it was due to be released it wasn't appearing in the listings. So I wanted to make sure before announcing. But I'm pleased to say FAT CHUNK VOLUME ONE : ROBOTS is released TODAY! Please spread the word about our first Fat Chunk (cover attached), it really is a great little bundle o' comic joy. 144 pages, 80 artists, all crammed into a tidy little book. It's taken alot to get this sucker to print (traumas we need not list here!), so please tell everyone to go buy it! It lives or dies by word of mouth! The diamond order code is MAR083402 (this is the code to tell your comic book store, so they can order it in). Alternatively, it's already on sale on amazon.com, and will be spreading into various online outlets and comic/book stores over time.. On a personal note, can I just thank EVERYONE who contributed and helped make this such a great little project. I hope the results come out as you'd wished, and hopefully you'll find new audiences!

If you want to see the story that I did for FAT CHUNK, it's here: page one and page two.

And you can order it off Amazon here.

What's Been Going On

The website has been down for about six months now due to me being broke and not being able to afford to renew it. I have a little bit of money now so I've brought the website back, and there shouldn't be any more problems for a couple years.

Here's what's been going on in my life since this website was last up:

- I've been hired to do a four-issue miniseries by Chimaera Comics. I'm still working on the first issue, hopefully that'll be out late this year or early next.

- Flight of the Living Dead has been on hiatus for, like, ever, but I'm hoping to bring it back real soon.

- I've been seeing my girlfriend Cristina for almost nine months now and she's awesome. Amo ella con todo mi corazón.

Am I Back?

Testing. Everything should be back to normal now.

Merry Christmas

From a zombie.

To those that ordered FoLD #1

Again, I'm real sorry that you haven't received your issues yet. I've been emailing them and they hadn't responded until now. Here's my latest email correspondence with them:

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Flight of the Living Dead #1 has been on sale for almost two months now and nobody who has ordered a copy has received it yet.

I've sent multiple emails now asking when you expect these comics will be shipped out and have been ignored every time. I would appreciate if you could ship the comics to the people who purchased them or refund my customer's money if you don't plan on sending the comics out.

You can rest assured I will be using Lulu or Ka-Blam for future issues.

Thanks
Scott Ewen

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Scott,

We are doing everything we can to catch up on the backlog of store orders. After a busy summer convention season and a move of offices we've finally been able to settle in and tackle the print orders. Adding new titles and filling previously placed orders are now our focus and all orders will be shipping as quickly as possible. Older orders will be given a complimentary upgrade to Priority Mail.

And I'm sorry you're so disappointed in our service. We're a small group getting out an amazing amount of high-quality work. But if at any point you would like your book removed from our store just let me know and I can take care of that for you.


~Jodi D
ComiXpress Service Manager

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So there you go. Someday you will get your books. For the next issue I will order a bunch of copies from Ka-Blam and send them out myself so I can be sure you receive them. Thanks for being patient.

Space Koalas!

This is for a draw-off at Penciljack where you had to redo an old page of sequentials. I chose a page from "Infinity Vortex," a comic I did in 2001/2002. But I don't like the title anymore, so I'm changing it to "Space Koalas!" Maybe without the exclamation point, I haven't decided.

Here's the original page, for the curious. Click the page below to make it bigger:

Some more Bridgman sketches