Library Tour!

Greetings everyone!

The latest news, I'm taking my talents on tour! The public libraries in Alachua County have me scheduled to give lectures and workshops on comic book making! My hour long workshops include an overview of the history and nature of comic books as well as a hands-on chance to make a comic strip!

The Alachua County scheduled line-up:

Milhopper Library , Wed. 8/1 @ 4:30 PM

Newberry Library, Thurs. 8/9 @ 4:00 PM

Archer Library, Wed. 8/15 @ 3:00 PM

Tower Road Library, Thurs. 8/23 @ 5:30 PM

And I will be making appearances in Jacksonville, Flagler County and St. Augustine as well:

Flagler Public Library, Thu. 10/11 @4pm

Ponte Vedra Library, Sat. 10/13 @10am

Jacksonville Library, Sat. 10/13 @2pm

St. Augustine SE Library, 10/16 @12pm

Ask your local library to e-mail me at "arfstudios@gmail.com" if you're interested in me coming to your area. The workshops are for all ages so bring the kids, parents and the grandparents for a day of comic fun!!!

UF's College of Nursing Reunion

Recently was contracted by the University of Florida's College of Nursing to work on a promo illustration for their upcoming 2012 reunion. What do you think?

Coming September 2012...

Below are the first and second color rendered wrap covers for my upcoming graphic novel, The Lost Souls of Savannah, due out in September 2012 through Pineapple Press. Available for pre-order now!

Feel free to leave me a comment and tell me which one you prefer.

Dungeon Defenders: My take on the Aquanos cut scene

When I moved back to my hometown of Gainesville, Florida, I thought I'd be leaving the Sequential Art-rich world that was Savannah, Georgia behind. Imagine my very pleasant surprise to discovery that there was something even "trendier" waiting for me back at home.

Trendy Entertainment, the video game company that brings us "Dungeon Defenders" had apparently opened up shop in my hometown during my absence, and I was very lucky to befriend some of their top artists like Danny Araya, Jordan Kerbow and fellow SCAD Sequential Art alumni and Trendy Art Director, Ben Greene.

Thanks to Ben, I was given the approval to do a little test art based off one of the levels in their expansion pack, Dungeon Defenders: The Lost Eternia Shards. The original cinematic illustrations were done by Danny Araya, and are the set-up for the Aquanos level.

This is the first time I have EVER, EVER, EVER done digital illustration work. By so, I mean using souly the computer and my Cintiq 21UX to fully illustrate and render. Hope I did a good job.

Enjoy!

SCHOOLS OUT!

So school is out, and so ends the Spring semester run of The Independent Florida Alligator! But threat not! Allie, Herrinson and Skunkman return for the summer semesters in a two-day-a-week comic strip series posted in the newspaper!

Until then, enjoy this EXCLUSIVE, FULL-COLOR strip guest starring the amazingly, awesome Japanese punk band, Peelander-Z! I got a chance to catch their show at Double-Downs in downtown Gainesville last weekend! They have a great interactive show and at the end of it all, I scored a free comic book from them! They signed it andI just couldn't help but giving my own tribute to the coolest action hero band ever!

Check out their music! It's sweet!

Lost Souls of Savannah (revised cover)

Below is an image of the revised Lost Souls of Savannah cover. The original cover design (seen on the Amazon listing for the book) I did in sort of a rush for the publisher. It depicted a more Hoodoo-themed illustration, but my editor at Pineapple Press had requested something a bit more Savannah related. This is what I came up with, and I have to say, I think she was right to have me go back and do it again. I like this one much better.

In this wrap cover (not yet colored) we see Victor seranading the ghosts of Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. In particular, little Gracie Watson. Gracie Watson is one of the staple ghost stories in Savannah. She's also the first ghost story I would tell my tourists back in my ghost tour guiding days. While the story itself is a sad, but sweet one, the actual statue at her grave is rather creepy.

I'll post the color one soon!

Taekwon Tales!

Back in August, I was hired on to work on Esmeralda Kim's first book in her Taekwon Tale series. The series focuses on entertaining and educating children on the martial arts as well as cooperation, self confidence and all the other good wholesome stuff you want your kids to read about. The artwork isn't bad either. ;-)

They'll have their own website up and running soon, until then, go ahead and check it out on Amazon. Just click here!