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Poseidon's Mistress

Two weeks from today, myself and a dozen of my fellow illustrators from Drawing Book Studios will be holding an art exhibition of personal art here in Sydney, Australia. My contribution, 'Poseidon's Mistress' will also be on sale during the exhibition as a hand signed and numbered, A1 sized, limited edition giclee print.

Drawn in Photoshop on a Cintiq over a 24 hour period. 67 x 60cm (26 x 23 inches)

NetTrekkers Comic Yearbook #2 - COMING SOON!

Meg- The Megalodon

bit and run Volume Two, 5

Hey everyone, I wanted to give you guys a little bonus comic for today (see below) I don't think it quite makes a stand-alone comic but as a bonus it seems in my mind to work. It must be so difficult to eat or drink anything with those masks. How would you get around that? With a straw I guess, I don't know. Enjoy! - Cory


Oh, and as if that's not enough, I did a Flipnote version of the bonus comic as well. I just got a DSi XL for my birthday (I've worn my old DS into the ground) and Flipnote was the thing I was most looking forward to playing with. I hope to give you guys more of these in the future.

bit and run Volume Two, 1
bit and run Volume Two, 2
bit and run Volume Two, 3
bit and run Volume Two, 4

bit and run Volume One

V for Voltron
Wow... I haven't tried to tackle Voltron (one of my all-time child hood favorites), since I was in grade school.  He was always a challenge to draw, and now I remember why I steered away from it.  HAHAHA

One of the things that I wish Voltron could do was grapple more.  I always felt it was unfair to the villains that once the sword was formed, then the show was pretty much over.  HAHAHA

Here I thought it'd be cool to explore that the hands come out from the inside of the mouth, and then the top of the heads were for backslapping punks.  HAHAHAHAHAHA

Wrapping it up, this is a rough mock up for a Voltron pin-up I hope to finish in time for the Voltron art of book coming out next year.

WoW Sketches

World of Warcraft sketch commission = Epic fun! :D

Weird Night at the Fair

Me and “Weird” Al Yankovic

Some time back the lovely and extremely talented Sandra Boynton commissioned me into doing a caricature of “Weird” Al Yankovic for his 50th birthday. I was deleighted to do it because

1. Sandra is one of my favorite cartoonists and a wonderful person, and I was flattered to be asked.

and

2. “Weird” Al is to music what MAD Magazine is to comics, and I’m a longtime admirer of his.

Here’s the complete story if you want more details.

Shortly after Al received the artwork I received an email from him saying how much he loved it and how he was going to frame it for his home. He also said to let him know if I ever was in an area where he was having a show, and he’d get us some tickets and backstage passes.

Gabrielle, Anna and Tom show off their aftershow passes

Last night he played at the Minnesota State Fair, and I took him up on his offer. The Lovely Anna, daughter Gabrielle, son Thomas and I went to the show and met Al afterward.

The show was fantastic and he was a terrific guy, signing autographs for us and posing for some pictures in his trailer. I brought along some prints of a scan of the final artwork I did for him. The following will be framed and hung in the studio somewhere:

His show really was terrific, and I highly recommend seeing him live someday if you get the chance. It’s an evening of belly laughs and great parody with a lot of fantastic music snuck in there… Al is a highly respected musician even if he is better known for his humor. A great showman! Thanks, “Weird” Al!

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A prelim/sketch thing

an image I redo often, just for fun of it, like jogging/running around the same track, just to see if your best time can be beat. no pressure or concern.

Location x 3
Quickie 'on-location' thumbnails. Works also as blogger filler.

gifts
It was my birthday last week but in light of loosing our cat Kitty to a pack of dogs I didn't feel much like doing anything. If you like you can read Erin's post about Kitty and see a little better why we loved her so much in life. She was the best.

All the same Erin wanted to make my birthday great, and she did.

Here follows an account of the things I wanted to show you guys.


Behold! A new DS, my original one I've nearly played to death. The hinge is cracked and the top is loose, won't stay up, the speakers are going out and it no longer holds a charge. Not unplayable by any stretch, even so the DSi XL has a few pluses that make me very glad for the upgrade. DSiWare (downloadable games and content) almost 100% larger screens (and slightly system larger overall, better to hold) 2 cameras, and this little genius idea -- Flipnote. It's basically the thing I always wanted --


It's small animation program, think of it like an endless collection of digital post it notes that you can animate. I have a couple that I'm working on. Erin and my mom went in on it on the DSi together for me, thank you both.

He also gave me this little gem,







And this isn't birthday related but it is something just as cool -- this morning I got all my frames for my upcoming Alice shows. This whole thing is going to be so fun and so great. Of course as we get closer I'm going to post much about the shows.


Thanks very much for all your kind words about Kitty. It's one thing to loose a pet when they're old, it makes sense, it's just what happens. It's still very sad but they had a good run and you can think of that. But to loose a pet in such a violent way still makes me so sad and so angry. Kitty is the second cat I've lost to dogs. The first was my cat I had growing up, Friskey.

One bright spot is after spending a couple days going around my street and the surrounding streets and neighborhoods I've come to believe that it wasn't anyone's pet dogs that did this. There's a large subdivision near us called Montebello and they've had trouble with a pack of reportedly 8 wild dogs that live in their woods. They've hired a trapper and as I understand it he's already caught one. That's small consolation for me because if they had been more serious about catching these animals (after people had been chased and cornered in the last few months there) Kitty might still be here like she ought to be, stomping around the yard and sleeping on the porch.