The Aquagent of Victorian England

Done to submit to Superhero Cocoa, a superhero redesign blog that's taking part in a redesign Aquaman month crossover with a few other sites. Their theme is to re-imagine Aquaman as he'd appear in a different culture/time, so I went with a turn of the century British Aquagent, protecting the waterways and the lost city of Atlantis' magics and riches from his rogue admiral half-brother Ocean Master and the deep sea plunderer Black Manta. Aquaman's pretty much my favorite superhero so I took the redesign to his supporting cast as well. Topo's still an octopus.

New Warrior Forest Girl Print

This is one of two prints I'll have available for purchase at the Toronto Comicon Fan Appreciation Event This coming Saturday and Sunday, June 5th and 6th.  It won't have the "Toronto Comicon" bit at the top--that's just there so you don't just download the smaller version, you hooligans.  The other print is still being coloured, but I'll post it here before the show.  Hope to see you there!

He's just a chill guy

The longer you look at the words house and mouse the less they look like they should be pronounced the way they are.

Business Card Illustrations

I started doodling this alien girl in my sketchbooks back in early 2008--K'yoot, the teal-skinned world conquerer in a bubblegum Jetsons dress. I whipped up this pinup shot to go on the back of my 2010 business cards, although I'm starting to worry about the loss of clarity at such a small size. Might get some tweaking yet.

Update (May 7th, 2010): And here's the illustration for the front of the card. More of this is going to bleed off than I intended (for some reason it was the only way I could get it to size right) so here's the full thing for the curious. Originally there was a robot sidekick but it was too busy for what's going to end up being such a small illustration.

Anthology Comic Sequentials

These are for an anthology comic being published by my old school, featuring the work of the graduating third year class.  A few of us did 4 pages each in a 20 page story (thereabouts?) about a girl going through a fighting game opponent by opponent.  My contribution is chapter 2.  It'll be lettered when it sees print

The Guardians - Nanook

The next promo pinup for Johnny Canuck and the Guardians of the Northern Light, Nanook is one of only a few original characters in the series.  The book is mostly a re-imagining of the forgotten superheroes of Canada's comic book Golden Age, but Nanook has no 1940s counterpart and stands on her own.  So, she was created by Templeton and Cutler I guess.  That's pretty neat.

Nanook's a snow elemental, a powerful Inuit deity who possesses the body of a mild-mannered government agent Thor-style, and has the ability to summon a... well, maybe I won't say, but it's awesome.

I should probably mention these garish little logos I've been doing are by no means official, it's just me trying to learn Illustrator for fun or profit.

The Guardians - Freelance

This is a pinup shot of one of the main characters in Johnny Canuck and the Guardians of the Northern Lights, from Moonstone Books, by Ty Templeton and myself.  Thought it might be fun to introduce the character and show off the update/redesign I did for him.  Freelance was created in 1941 by Ed Furness and Ted McCall, and he was the second Canadian superhero to pop up.  You can read a little more about the character here.

 Image courtesy of International Superheroes.

Freelance is a favorite of mine, and of all the revamped characters in the book, the one who sticks closest to the original design: blond hair, red shirt, L logo... We made him a little younger and a little more street-clothes, but the basic look has been retained, I think.

I started this as a warm up before doing a big Freelance heavy action sequence, but I kept going as it was pretty fun.  I'll probably do more of these as the release date approaches.

Acrylic and Gouache Illustrations

Jack Rabbit and Turtle Girl, a couple original characters in acrylics, I think.

Sea Monster in gouache, done for class. Trying some stuff.

DC Comics' Booster Gold painted in gouache.  Had fun going super cartoony with this.

This was from an assignment where we had to design a wrap around box cover for an original video game concept.  I came up with girl fight and populated it with some older characters of mine and random sexy nurse, cheerleader, etc.  Acrylic and China ink and a bit of gouache.

Digital Color Illustrations

Commission of Marvel's Deadpool.

Forest Girl, an original character I do a pin up of now and again.

Ray Fillet, a satellite character from the Ninja Turtles cartoon and Archie comic.  Redesigned him a bit.