Promoting Baseball, Captains Style
I'm partnering with the Lake County Captains once again this year. I'll be doing three promotions for them.
1. In previous years, I've arranged to have my Free Comic Book Day issue of Love and Capes available at Classic Park on FCBD. 
This year, I'll be doing an original eight-page Lake County Captains comic.
I've already committed to be at Four Color Fantasies in Rancho Cucamonga that day, so I won't be there for the giveaway. But it'll be a great time, regardless!
And I'll be posting some art and the cover soon.
Free Comic Book Day: May 1, 2010.
2. I've designed a Skipper "Bobble Belly"with Skipper as a rockin' guitar player to celebrate Cleveland and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Skipper's playing a specially designed Fender Stratocaster.
Rock-n-Roll Nght: July 3, 2010.
3. And, to tie in with Cleveland and the A Christmas Story connection, we're going to be doing a Skipper Leg Lamp. Yup, you read that right. Hot electric baseball action that will look great on your desk. (It's not full size.)
Christmas in July, July 25 2010.
Click on either to see them embiggenated!
Shiny New Postcards!
Here's my promo item for the new Chicago C2E2 show, and probably my item for the rest of the con season: Local postcards. Here, classic Super Powers Cyborg and Braniac (two of my favorite figures from that line) look on at the first three cards. There'll be one given away every day, and then they'll be available for purchase on the Love and Capes site later.
Get To Know Me, Good Things Happen
So my friends at IDW are now a Diamond Premier publisher. Among other things, it means they're now in the front of the book, starting with the new catalog of Stuff Shipping in June, which comes out this week, I think.
In a completely unrelated story, among those first premier publishing solicitations is the second Love and Capes collection, Love and Capes: Going to the Chapel. Now, I'm not saying there's a connection, but those two events seem oddly connected, don't they? I mean, come on!
When you get your Previews catalog, be sure to order item APR10 0387, the snazzy new LNC trade. It's also available for pre-order on Amazon and you never know when they're going to have some crazy glitch sale, do you?
Wayback Wednesdays: Fish
Here's a poster-sized piece I did in my second year of art school. As I recall, the assignment was to draw something with multiple animals. I've always liked fish, so I did those. The piece was done in Dr. Martin Watercolor Dyes on a 20x30 piece of illustration board. I used to really like working wet like this. 
I remember being pretty happy with this piece, but looking at it now, I think it needs much more contrast. Maybe some of the inks faded in the intervening years.
With Friends Like These
My proofs for the Free Comic Book Day issue of Love and Capes came today. I'm checking it out now, but it looks good. You can see for yourself on May 1st!
Of My Own Volition
It's no secret that I hate drawing horses. I just can't figure out their anatomy, especially how their legs work. But, when I got a request to draw Valkyrie, something in my head said "Draw Aragorn, her winged horse." I'd already drawn Val once, so I definitely wanted something different. So I went for it.
Admittedly, I cropped the image so you couldn't see much of the legs, but I think I still did some okay work on Aragorn. Val's not bad either. The temptation with her is to draw her in warrior, so itwas nice to show her in a softer moment.
And, as always, click to embiggen!
Hellcat-- in Technicolor!
Sometimes jobs just get away from you. I didn't mean to finish this one so early this morning, but I got up and couldn't help myself. So here's the finished, full-color Hellcat.
Okay, now to draw some Love and Capes. Really.
Who Doesn't Love Patsy Walker?
Today started out with such grand intentions. I was going to draw stuff. But then, pretty quickly, things went off the rails.
It took my forever to dialogue the new Love and Capes page. Then I dealt with some client logo designs and burned some data DVDs for another client. It was sunny, and I felt the siren call of my first Convertible Day. There were a ton of e-mails to return. I finalized Love and Capes #13 with my printer. 
I met with a client. I got an awesome present in the mail. Whew!
I'm only disappointed because yesterday, I put out a call on Twitter for commissions, and I got a bunch of them. It was great, and I was looking forward to tackling them. I figured I'd draw at least three of them today. But life gets in the way, and I managed to do the pencils for one.
But, 
since I don't post a lot of work-in-progress stuff, I thought I'd share this Hellcat commission that I'm working on. I don't do a lot of profiles, but I thought it caught her sense of movement pretty well. If you look, you can see where I originally had her left leg lower. Moving it higher accentuated the pose.
I'll transfer it to good board tomorrow, I think. I should have a new page of Love and Capes on the schedule tomorrow, too. We'll see if I can handle them both.
Anyway, the first image is my col-erase pencil rough (man, I love those things) tightened with mechanical pencil. The second one is the tight pencils, which will be transferred to bristol for inking. And then scanning and coloring.
No Idea Ever Dies
This could almost go into "Wayback Wednesdays", but not really. Here's a scene from an upcoming Love and Capes scene. In it we see the Crusader and Windstar. Windstar's been seen in #4 and #8, and mentioned in #12. He's a character I created back in my teen years, and some of the slice-of-superlife subplots I created for him have found their way into LNC. This issue is the first time he's getting 
any serious screen time, though.
It's nice to be able to work him in. I don't know that I'll ever do a Windstar series at this point, so it's nice to be able to use him somewhere.