PSI: Page 5

Ah! the page without the punchline! JAn and I printed up an A4 page of tiny multi-coloured squares in the shape of acid tabs with the word, "YOURS" written on them. The tab was then glued to the tongue.

What I really dug was the number of people who read it and thought that we were handing out drugs or something! I'm thinking, "dude, if I could afford to hand out free acid tabs, we wouldn't be having this conversation."

Anyway, it achieved its goal. To get people to take comics so seriously that they were forced to question the reality of what they see. I had other people take the tab and later tell me it was the best trip they ever had. The power of suggestion, anyone?


LONDON: Day 3

Around midnight last night I suddenly bounced awake as my body thought it was 11am (my favourite time to get up!). I forced myself to sleep dreaming of warm weather and my fading tan.

Today my sister and I ventured off around London and saw some beautiful, amazing stuff. The thing that amazes me is the sense of history. Australia doesn't have anything over 200 years old. America is what, 400 years? You come to London and things go back centuries into millenia. It's incredible.

So this is what the traffic lights look like in London. It takes a while to get used to, but it's really quite straight forward once you get the hang of it.

Tower Bridge is beautiful. It's surrounded by these magnificent, grimy wharves and industrial islands in the middle of the Thames. What I love about London are all the pointless beautiful decorations on everything. Chains (kids dig chains), sculptures, reliefs, plaques, eaves, flaps and planks. All outdated and all oozing character.
I've seen some weird stuff, but this Starbucks really made me turn my head. Nestled looking over the St. Catherine's docks it looks like a mating disaster between a Roman temple and a gazebo.

I still wouldn't buy coffee there if you paid me.
Being a fighter, this is where I went to level up. They had a great deal on this awesome broadsword which they swore to me Aragorn used when he was my level.


St. Paul's cathedral was the most spectacular building I've ever been in. In fact, to call it a building almost doesn't do it justice. It's a monument to history, faith and art. One of the things that really took me aback was the honouring of the great national heroes, Nelson and Churchill. These great men rose up to combat great adversaries: Napoleon and Hitler and were revered by the country for doing so. we don't have great heroes anymore, even though we're surrounded by adversaries.

So I dragged my poor sister up the 434 steps to the top of the Stone Gallery of St. Pauls. See the spire in the last photo? Well this was taken on the balcony up there. It's really high. This is my favourite photo that I took up there. It's totally untouched by Potatoshop and I'm really proud of it.

This is my lovely, beautiful and amazing sister and I on top of St. Paul's. This is our favourite shot, except you can't see exactly how good my hair was today. =)

More shopping, an average coffee (Costas don't know how to do soy), more shopping and now, a beautiful dinner cooked by my sister (tuna steaks on roasted vegetable salad - I should really take a photo).

PSI: Page 4

Beaming at you live from Londinium, it's the all new 1000 Words, inspired by daleks, earl grey and bloody big standing rocks.

I'm going to divide this blog in half. The first half will be art and the second half, thoughts, observations and shout outs. I've got a bunch of people I really wanna let know what's going on here. So apologies to all those who came here just for artwork. Just stop before the self-indulgent crap. Those who couldn't give a damn about my art can just scroll down to my rantings.

PSI: page 4

The whole artistic approach of this issue of PSI was to move as fast as the story was written. It's minimal, incorporates photos and is a mixed media spontaneous mess. I like it. It has an immediacy to it that makes it really fun for me.

Those big dollops of liquid on the table are supposed to be tears. Don't even try and guess what they actually look like. Hey, it was 8 years ago! Go easy on me.

I have HEAPS of commissions and stuff to upload. Expect lots of pretty pictures to accompany my rants.

HDD Update: The best place in Melbourne said there's nothing they can do. So I left that village and headed to a real city. I'm hoping London can come to the party on some data recovery. It's just going to COST me. Hell, their service probably comes with mortgage forms. Better give me commissions. =)

THE FINAL DAYS

FRIDAY: I was up at 730am to accompany my sister, Linda into Melbourne from Daylesford (a small town an hour and a half drive outside Melbourne). I took care of posting commissions and banking. I arrived at Simbo's at 11am where he drove me to St Kilda so I could do my printing for Corey (Deathblow & Grifter), Andrew and Ash (Wolverine). I lamented to the printing place about my lost HDD and they managed to go through their archives and find everything I'd printed with them for the last 6 months. They burnt it onto a dvd for me, and I was blown away. I had lost the psd's to edit, but I at least had printing quality versions of everything. Ater that we headed to Chapel st. where I dropped off artwork to Ash and Andrew (hi guys - I will go into Wolvy more when I post him) and bought more limes and cocktail shakers for everyone who could make the pre-drinks going away.

After a beautiful cafe lunch and drinks, Jay, Mitch, Beau, Nicho, Steve, Lee and Brett all settled back at Simbo's for my homemade mojitos (which rocked all over the cafe's). It was a colourful afternoon of mojito's and raucous debates inspired by the movie DOA as to whether Jaime Presley, Sarah Carter or Holly Valance (my vote) was cuter. We drank hard til 8pm then rushed over to my going away party at Cartel.

I couldn't believe how many people turned up! I should have taken photos. If I had to make a rough guestimate I'd say around 60-70 people turned up. It was unbelievable. I made a rule to myself - don't talk to anyone for more than 10 minutes and try to see everyone. I figured if I ignored everyone equally it would be quite fair. I ran into Jarrod from Classic Comics on Sunday and he said I looked like a madman; manically darting around, sweating profusely, wild eyes and vodka in my hands. Imagine going to a party where you knew everyone! It was wild and I wanted to be in every conversation. Huge thanks to everyone for the drinks and the presents! From there we headed to Q bar which was fun (thanks Rich!). We dragged ourselves home and I think it was around 6am when I got to sleep. I worked out I'd been up for 22.5 hours, drinking for 15hours and had around 18 drinks. Not bad for a little two pot screamer!

SATURDAY: I crawled out of bed around 1pm. I was staying at Simbo's so we dragged ourselves out to lunch and coffee. Much coffee! Did I mention we drank a lot of coffee? Eventually Lee, Steve and Brett rocked up and we had dinner from my favourite takeaway curry place. I booked a table at the Golden Monkey (vodka bar meets Chinese opium den) and we rocked up for drinks. Glenbo, Siobhan, Jacinta, Aurora, Clea, Beau, David and Jel rocked up. I kept sinking the vodka while everyone else tried the assortment of umbrella drinks they offerred.

Soon after we headed off to one of my favourite clubs, the total dodginess which is Deviate. We're talking an alternative metal floor downstairs (everything from Rage Against the Machine and Tool to Alice Cooper and Warrent), and a brilliant dorky 80's and 90's floor upstairs (from the Cure to MC Hammer). More drinking ensued. Finally around 330am I called it a night. I was exhausted. I said goodbye to my friend Kate who hugged me goodbye as C&C Music Factory came on. She grabbed my hand and said, "C'mon. One more dance."

We proceeded to tear up the dancefloor. It was easily the most fun I've had dancing with anyone. Exhausted, but with a massive grin we left the dancefloor to an unexpected applause. Beau commented, "That was the sexiest thing I've ever seen that I didn't have to download."

Here's to ya Kate. Get those dancing shoes on for when I call you out on my next visit back to Melbourne.

The guys and I shuffled back to Simbo's place like zombies after an apocalypse. Water took the place of brains and unconsciousness soon kidnapped us.

MONDAY

27 hours of travelling later and my lovely sister, Linda and I have touched down in London. 8 hours to Kuala Lumpur, 5 hours of standing around before finding a plug for my new laptop (17" Toshiba from from sister and parents! - 2.4ghz dual processor, 2bg RAM it's better than my tower!) then we watched "I am Legend" (thanks Chris and Lyn!) before jumping on a trying flight to London. 13 hours of extreme turbulence (having almost finished season 3 lost I had visions of being trapped on a mysterious island with Evangeline Lilly. I went from crapping myself to actually looking forward to the plane crashing). I watched Bourne Ultimatum (fun!), The Game Plan (I love the Rock!), Balls of Fury (Slapstick fun).

More on London next time! In the meantime I'm sooo-ooo tired.

Thank you for the lovely comments on the last post. I will get to them when my eyes can focus on my keyboard again.

THINGS TO DO: Start that bloody Facebook nonsense.

COMMISSIONS: Still taking them! I will start posting them after the final page of Psi next post.

SKETCHBOOKS: I took a few of them to London, so get in quick.

PSI: Page 3

A brief post as I'm cleaning and packing everything in preparation for my move. I fly out to London on Monday, and in the meantime I'm staying with my parents in the country.

The only anecdote I can remember about this page continues from the condom debate on page 1. I pointed to this page and said, "they ARE having sex! See?"

JAn just kinda gave me this sideways look like I really didn't get something.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Those of you in Melbourne who are interested should pick up Tuesday the 8th's Age Newspaper as it apparently will have an article featuring me! I'm pretty excited!

GOING AWAY PARTY: Details here again! It's sounding like it should be big. I can't wait to see everyone!

COMMISSIONS: Once PSI finishes I will show you what I've been working on in my spare time.

SKETCHBOOKS: Still hocking these.

PSI: Page 2

My 250th post!

C'mon, that's a pretty decent effort. Thanks to everyone for all your support. Checking in every day to see that people are dropping by and saying, "Hi" means so much to me.

I'm also blown away that I've managed near 250 pieces of artwork too. That's a fair amount of production. And that doesn't include the last 60-odd pages of my graphic novel I'm working on either.

Page 2. I apologise for not drawing the gods in the order they were stated. I just had this composition in mind. On our left side, Eris (goddess of Chaos) is top left, Athena is to her right, below them Aphrodite looks up to the left, and Hel has the covered face. Erzulie is down the bottom. On the right, that's Eve up the top, Bast underneath (harder than you think to make a cat look effeminate and noble), Isis in the head dress and finally Lilith down the bottom.

All the goddess' are water coloured. Yes, you heard it right! I actually painted something without a computer. In fact this page is entirely hand drawn.

The Girl's tattoo comes from a design I came up with ages ago when I was reading Grant Morrison's Invisibles. Her tattoo is a chaos magick sigil. As I understand it, on some subconscious level you're powering some benevolent subconscious intention of mine.

It's all a bit complicated and I don't want to bore you with the details. Unless you really want me to.

GOING AWAY PARTY: Come one! Come all!

COMMISSIONS & SKETCHBOOKS: I will be posting a heap of new ones starting next week.

PSI: Page 1

As is kind obvious, it's about drugs and love. I'm not really into drugs. My stance is that I've yet to meet the drug that's worth the time it takes me to recover from it. I just don't have a day or days to waste feeling like crap. I have stuff to do. So I stick to alcohol.

So the trick was to give it a contemporary feel rather than your 60s summer of love sorta feel. It's chock full of in-jokes. All the dvds are labeled with my favourite movies. There's also a Calvin (from Hobbs) that I used to put into all my comics at the time. The video player reads, "STOP 3:16" as a reference to my love (at the time) of all things pro wrestling. In this case, Stone Cold Steve Austion, the second greatest performer in the squared circle (after the Rock, of course).

The script is just the dialogue/captions you see. There were no panel descriptions, nor panel breakdowns. It was basically just a page of dialogue. It was up to me to break down this story into images that I thought were appropriate. JAn still goes me for putting the open condom packet on the ground in the last panel. I still maintain that they might have opened it then not used it. Hell, they're on drugs! Like this guy remembers everything clearly! Remember kids, don't do drugs or you're going to forget the great sex you had.

If you're old enough to have sex that is.


GOING AWAY PARTY: Here's the details! Hope to see you there.

COMMISSIONS & SKETCHBOOKS: Thank you for all the emails! Keep them coming!

PSI: Cover

I fired up the time machine and found a mini comic that writer JAn and I worked on back in 2000. Our goal was two-fold: to create comics that non-comic book readers could read, and to come up with a clever idea that would get people to take comics seriously.

PSI is my only foray into the world of mini-comics. And boy is it mini! It's a tiny A6 comic that could be slipped into your back pocket (A6 is when you get an A4 piece of paper, halve it to A5 then half it again to A6).

The title PSI came from the word/symbol/letter's versatility. I had to hit Wikipedia to remind me of all its applications to the themes we wanted to deal with:

1. A sub atomic particle: To us Psi would be an exploration of how things work.

2. The designation between a tangent and the x-axis: A measure of growth or decline over time.

3. It also stands for psychology, dealing with people's reactions to all these issues.

All the titles would be mis-spelled to include the word "PSI".

Unless I have to move out of my damn house, I'm going to try and post a page every day (8 pages in total including covers, inside and back covers).

GOING AWAY PARTY: Again, love to see everyone there!

COMMISSIONS: Still taking them! There's a bunch more like Batman incoming. I'm just waiting on my printer to get back from holidays. Email me for a price list.

SKETCHBOOKS: Still mailing these off every week. The pile is dwindling. If you want one, lemme know asap as I'd really like to not have to schlep any overseas.

Hope you all had a great new years! Mine was spent playing an unnecessary wing man for my best mate, Simbo at a party of total strangers. I had a great time and met some fantastic people.

DARK JESTER

Well, the date on this file scares me as it says 2005.

Amazing how time flies.

I have sometimes mentioned the talented writer I used to work with called, JAn. We did a bunch of stuff together that I've just found. It's old, but it's good stuff. Great stories that still resonate with me. There's a great chemistry between JAn and myself.

Well, JAn also runs nightclubs. This was a logo for a goth-industrial club him and a couple other of my friends ran called Dark Jester.

Despite it being 2 years old, I'm still pretty happy with it. It's one of my earlier Photoshop pieces, but it's still pretty damn solid.

There's going to be more new stuff to show you guys after Xmas. Heaps of it that I can't show as it's all presents. In the meantime we're going to go through my old archives and dig out some stuff that I'm still proud to show people.

Oh, I got interviewed for the Age newspaper (Melbourne's most respected newspaper) dipping their toes into the sordid melting pot that is popular culture. I'm curious as to how it comes out. I've got a photo shoot on Monday. I better shave...

EMPEROR B&W page 1

Sorry about the lack of bloggage.

I've been pretty busy.

Here's something that I drew a couple weeks ago. It's for the Proximity Effect anthology for Space Dog. The story is called "The Emperor and the Concubine." It's an incredible story by fellow Aussie, JAn.

I can't wait to see Annette colour this. I just know that it's going to be one of those pieces of art that's just going to step me up another level. I'm going to learn so much from what she does. Right now, I believe she is still in London.

I still have to do the HEROES portraits, and I have a feeling I will unveil them at San Diego. I will post them as soon as I get back.

In the meantime, I'm full steam ahead on Zero G. I'm swamped by the amount of detail. There are up to 8 characters in one panel! It's a nightmare. A total nightmare to draw. I'm also trying to pull out all the stops and not cut a single corner. It's brutal. But I'm very happy with what I've drawn.

Wednesday next week I head to the states. I have SO much to do!

As an aside...

Here's a bunch of miscellaneous stuff that I thought you might find interesting.

For the Heroes fans:

This was one of the shots I was given for part 4 of War Buddies. It's from episode 21 and shows a seamless bluescreen moment. I giggled when I saw it.

Secondly is a portrait of myself and my favourite angriest writer JAn:

http://nakedfella.com/blog/?cat=13

I recommend you start at the top. Have a slow look and just get the feel of what David is doing. It makes the portraits so much funnier. JAn is DEAD ON. I will leave it to other people to assess what they think of my portrait, but I think it's hilariously accurate.

Finally an "interview" with me by my friend Nicola. She wrote this in response to page 8 of the first part. Nicola is Lee's wife and is on my team who check all my art before my editors. I will actually post an actual interview she did with me in the future (regarding my stunt career). You will have to read part 1 to make total sense of this...

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS:

"So your power, you claim, is that you can draw the future?"

JB: "Yeah! Except that, like, that's really Isaac Mendez's power. His special deal, y'know. Mine's not quite like that."

"And so you can tell us exactly what yours is like, then?"

JB: "Well, I don't so much draw the future as make it come true!"

"Uh hunh."

JB: "So that's the nutshell. I mean, I can't make the impossible happen, of course. Just influence things, ever so slightly. A nudge here, a bump there. It'd be irresponsible to do anything more."

"Irresponsible. Of course. Much like why you're here, isn't it, Mr Badower."

JB: "Hey now, I still say you're taking things out of context. I didn't know... couldn't know!"

"You didn't 'draw' this happening, did you, Mr Badower. You, sitting here, with us? Otherwise you'd just draw yourself right outta here, isn't that right?"

JB: "Well I can't, now."

"Can't what?"

JB: "Can't draw the future. I drew myself out, you see. So I don't have the powers any more."

"... You drew yourself out?"

JB: "Is there an echo in here? Yes. I drew myself in. For the kiss. Ahhh, and such a great kiss it was too. Totally worth it, if you know what I mean. And so when I drew myself into Heroes, I turned myself into a hero. I gave myself the powers, right? But I drew myself out. So now I don't have the powers. I don't know what will happen next."

"Uhhh. I... see. Well, regardless of your so-called 'powers', you still need to tell us something, Mr Badower. Tell us how you knew about the intimate details of Project S---?"

JB: "Project what?"

"Don't play coy with me, Badower! You even drew the details on the gantry! Down to the last nut and bolt!"

JB: "... I have no idea what you're talking about."

Formal recommendation: Subject remanded in custody of the Chinese government, pending either demonstrable proof of his 'powers' (at which point he is to be conscripted to Branch X) or he reveals his source.

EMPEROR B&W page 5

Finally the fabled page 5.

Fight scene!

I still wanted to communicate a sense of the ethereal, even in a fight scene like this. I also realised that this is the height of my Ultimates/Bryan Hitch influence. Widescreen panels (look at the Ultimates, every panel is wider than it is taller). I'm only just starting to get over this fixation as I'm realising that they have pans and dolly's and we have tall panels etc.

To restrict yourself to only widescreen panels it to basically restrict yourself to a non-moving frame.

Also, a total lack of sound effects means that you have to work harder as an artist to communicate the power of things. I love comic art, you can go totally over the top with things at the cost of $0 to your budget. I love how extreme panel 5 is and in panel 6 where he looks out you're supposed to see a trench disappearing away with a smoking body in the distance.

ZERO-G: Got that page done! Now to hammer some more out...

EMPEROR B&W page 4

Yay! Page 4. Still one of my favourite pages. I would have loved the bottom panel to stretch across two pages. I'd love mountains disappearing away on both sides into the mist and the horizon.

Still, what you're really missing here is JAn's script. If this ever gets published, we will definitely let you know when and where. It's such an elegant story.

I feel hungover. It's my third day that's more than 12 hours long this week (13.5 today, 14.5 yesterday). I'm so tired I can barely pick up my pen, and blogging is hurting my eyeballs. I just want to sleep and I have to get up at 6am again. But I promised I'd finish the page tonight...

EMPEROR B&W page 3

It's funny, I was chatting to JAn the other day and the comment he keeps getting from people is, "You and Jason are just so lucky!"

He then mentioned a quote from (we think) a tennis player who said, "Yeah it's funny... The more I practice the luckier I get."

If practice was luck, then every piece that I have posted here is about 10 hours worth of luck. That's a lot of luck.

So yeah, I guess I am pretty lucky.

Here's page 3 in black and white. Give it a couple days and you will see page 5... Hang in there.

Zero G is going slow but well. It's easily some of my best stuff. Some innovative design work and I'm getting great feedback on the performance of the characters too. It's not up to these pages in terms of technical work, but these pages took twice as long.

EMPEROR B&W page 2

No, I'm not retreading old ground, I should have shown you guys this first. Unfortunately, this is like hitting someone with a jab after you've knocked them out with a big cross.

This is the black and white artwork which I have to Annette. There are two separate greyscale layers to communicate a different tonal range. There's a 50% layer and a 25% layer, and where the two overlay it's 75%. I did this because I really wanted to control my shadows. I personally love fill lights, and Annette wasn't big on them at the start. I started shading like this to show her what I meant.

Again, this is another reason why I draw on Photoshop, because it's almost impossible to do this by hand.

FALLEN SKY: Page 2 and 3

So JAn's script basically had us pulling out further and further on page one as they're flirting gets more and more full on. We see that there's some sort of destruction behind them. A fire... rubble. Then you turn the page and see this.

The only dialogue is from Girl:Fusion and she say, "So. You wanna f*ck".

In panel 2 (the inset) he obviously agrees and off they go.

This took me about 3 weeks. It's A2. While it's a nice piece... (it's a lot more impressive at real size) I find it underwhelming. Not enough bang for the amount I invested in it. But, it did set a new standard of work ethic for me. I started putting a lot more detail on my backgrounds ever since. I kinda went bananas drawing all those windows. There's probably almost a thousand windows on this page.

I'd colour it totally differently if I had to do it again... But this will do for now. Boy, I'd love to see what Annette would do with something like this. One day...

Ok, that ends the FALLEN SKY show. I told you it was unfinished. Just as I finished this splash page we started on the surfer Proximity Effect story. Although, I will show that later. In the meantime, some more wallpapers and poster art.

FALLEN SKY - Girl:Fusion cover

Don't worry, I don't count this as a "real" post. This is basically in response to Mike Nason's comment on my choice of colour. This is the artwork with the typeset for the cover. I like the layout and I think the choice of pallette draws the eye - especially on the noisy comic book racks. On a nice shiny paper stock it would look really nice.

I especially like the placement of the logo.

FALLEN SKY - page 1

Here's page one. It's an interesting colouring technique that I played with. It's drawn on Photoshop, printed, toned with watercolours (ie. black, whites and greys), scanned back in and coloured in Photoshop. I like it cos it's quick but also doesn't look too sterile, which is my problem with most computer colouring. It's one of the things I'm most jealous about Annette's work. It's totally digital, but it has a slick organic quality to it also.

In the script, they're basically hitting on each other. Well, she's hitting on him anyway.

FALLEN SKY - Girl:Fusion

Many years ago, JAn and I were hard at work on a superhero comic called "Fallen Sky". It was totally buzzed about it. I love superheroes, and with JAn's insanely, laterally creative brain, I really felt we were doing superheroes that were widely accessible to anyone. It was the superhero at its best: as metaphor. We had an incredible freedom to discuss issues like the media, celebrity, sexuality, stereotypes, music, selling out and buying in. There is an elegance to metaphor not afforded to the direct attention of an issue.

Girl:Fusion was one of these characters. My idea was to create characters and names for characters that looked real. Superheroes who would wear cool stuff and be the cutting edge of celebrity. Gear that people would wear.

Our current publisher isn't too big on superheroes. He's leaving that to the other kids in the sandbox. But one day JAn and I are going to come back to this idea and knock some socks off.

For those who are wondering... she wears bike pants underneath to protect her modesty while flying.

TECHNICAL: Lineart drawn in Photoshop, printed onto 150gsm watercolour paper. Painted with watercolour and then scanned back into Photoshop for colour adjustment and airbrushing.

NEXT: More FALLEN SKY art...

EMPEROR Page 4

The fourth and final page of the new version of the Emperor.

I love Annette's subtle colours here. She uses colours I wouldn't even think to use.

My favourite bits (besides the big-ass dragon and his massive Spawn-like robes) are the mist that Annette did and the trail of bodies running down the mountain, implying that he killed his way up there. Her clouds are incredible too! She does the best clouds ever.

ZERO-G: I'm currently chatting to models about what I need from them. The problem is, I'm going to have to keep hassling these poor people because I'm only getting one script at a time. I would love to shoot everything in one sitting, but it's just not to be. I am planning on getting a kick ass camera phone so I can shoot ref photos on the fly and do pick up shots when I'm hanging out with people. You all might find yourself making more appearances in my comics this way!

EMPEROR Page 3

Here's more of Annette's gorgeous work. I asked her to play with a different pallette in each scene. An idea inspired by HERO, the Jet Li film.

Just to give you an idea of how long it took me to do these pages... If you flick back to page 2 panel 5... That panel took me all of Xmas afternoon. That was a LOT of work. Page 3 was fun. This was where I got to go crazy. The idea of the Proximity Effect is that you get ONE power. JAn wanted to embody Chi, and had the idea that the Emperor can manifest his chi like the heroes of Hong Kong action comics like the Storm Riders. Roger (our editor) decided that this was too general a power. How can one power stop arrows, help him leap up buildings etc etc. So JAn came up with the idea of his chi manifesting as a forcefield, which in my first draft of this story looked like something the Invisible Girl might have done. In this second draft, I decided that his forcefield looks like a huge Chinese Dragon. It can carry him and protect him. The dragon is also a common anthropomorphic representation of chi also.

Today: More art direction. Approving pages for David Nakayama's Revved #3 and going through Bing Cansino's layouts for Innocents #3.

Tomorrow: Start drawing Zero G! Yay!

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

They say to never begin with an apology, but I'm hardly beginning. I'm continuing. Forgive me father for it's been almost two months to the date since my last post. And that one hardly counted. It was like trying to pass off holiday snaps as art.

Anyway, I'm back with a HUGE backlog of stuff to show you all. While I haven't been posting, I sure didn't stop drawing.

I've got my new project ZERO-G with Alex Zamm (dir. Inspector Gadget 2 - go see it if you loved the cartoon. It's honest, faithful, has great heart and is a bucket of fun). It's a ripper of a script. I've got a bunch of character sketches from that to show you.

In the meantime there's a bunch of old stuff to post too. Wallpapers, birthday presents, old comic pages, character designs, band illustrations, paintings, mockups and pinups.

First up, I just have to show (what I think) is Annette Kwok's and my highlight to date. This is for a Proximity Effect story called "the Emperor and the Concubine" by JAn. This is page 2. I have pages 3 and 4 also drawn before we both got waylaid by other projects. Somehow, someday I will finish it.