11:54 Pattern III

11:16 Pattern II

10:29 Pattern I

Woodcuts

Some woodcut jpgs which I collected this morning (for you).  A set of images with two similar images of a very unscary-looking demon sitting  on men.  This set includes the often-blogged about "mowing-devil" and although I am not really interested in crop circles I am very interested in woodcut from the 1600's that shows an explanation for them from a time when people believed in demons but had not the notion of life on other planets.  Also in this set is an image of Moses as he was often rendered with horns (image 5).  And a knight under water.

Leviathan Intermediate State

Screen grab of a leviathan image I am working on for a series of brackish water related screen prints. Not sure is the green is what I want or if the gray is too dark or too light.

Working on Leviathan

I am currently working on a series of four 9" x 24" drawings to make into 2-color screen prints. All the drawings deal with water and are somehow dark or foreboding yet beautiful at the same time. While working on the second one - a kind of cuttle-fish headed Leviathan - I took a lot of photos so I could show how I work and how cruddy my paper and pens are. I will post the scan when I get it all finished and will post the others drawings - one based on the Cthulhu, one based on bog bodies and one that is just an island in water at night that kind of makes me never want to go swimming again even though it will make a very pretty print - once I have them finished and scanned. I expect the series to be printed and available in early spring.

New Website Is Up

I have rebuilt my website. With better navigation, a better shopping cart, new artwork and the re-addition of the comics gallery, this website, in my mind, is much better and more enjoyable to look through. If you like what you see, let me know or better yet let your friends know.
http://www.cvicworks.com/

Mountain Light Deck State 1

Center part of the skate deck tryptych from the sketches I uploaded yesterday.

Skate Deck Sketchery

Starting to work on some skate deck designs.

New Pages

Submitting these new pages to a semi-annual book I am sometimes a part of called Bailliwik.

A Couple Things

A tattoo design (first state) that I am working on for someone very very close to me.


A bunch of brightly colored weirdos. May be evil.

Preliminary working of a new page

May end up being colored. Not too keen on the top font. Click to enlarge and read.

NEW YESTERDAY

This will probably become part of a set of random whiteline screenprintst that I anticipate releasing this year. Contents and title to be determined.

PRELIM NOW AVAILABLE at COAST CITY COMICS

If your are from the Portland, ME area and have not yet secured a copy of my recently published book, Prelim, it can now be purchased at Coast City Comics on upper Congress Street in Portland. Go there and say hi and spend a few.
If you are from far, far away, Prelim may be purchased here through my webstore.
Prelim is 96 pages of gorgeous black & white comics, drawings and sketches and is well worth the price of $9.95.

NEW TODAY

A new black & white drawing (Bow Savage):

And a new sketch testing an old color scheme:

NEMATODA COLORED

Five minute colorized version of image I posted this morning.

NEMATODA

I have been working mostly on comic pages for the Book of Ung, but took some time out yesterday for this dark beauty.

PRACTICE COMIC PAGE

I did this freestyle comic page last night to warm up before starting a new chapter in what I am currently referring to as "The Book of Ung." This was basically me just trying to free-up how I was making comics to make it more fun (& visceral), quicker and something that could be completed in a timeframe when the inspiration is still there. I think I am getting close to this goal and will post some work from the new book soon. I have a lot of started chapters and a lot of un-lettered pages so it will have to wait a bit.

C'EST BON Vol. 9 Out Now

Allan Haverholm, over at C'est Bon Kultur, was kind enough to reprint a chapter from my book in the larger format, slick anthology publication, C'est Bon Vol. 9. This is a really top-notch perfect bound large format book that comes out of Sweden, where they know about comics. You can get a preview and also purchase the book over here. Other artists in the book include Michel Ducourneau (SE), Mike Diana (US), Eliza Frye (US), Allan Haverholm (DK), Ed Homer (US), Jacob Rask (DK) and Hanna Pettersson (SE). Below is one of the pages of mine that appear in this new book. Go check it out.

ISO-URKER FEMALES (& MORE)

Vengeful Iso-Urker Females.
Every Urker has their own job to do against humanity.