-June 29th

Some colored sketch ideas for House of Mystery 18..


..and what happened in the end.

I keep thinking,"pickles."

My wall is starting to be covered with printouts and here is a sample of that.


Also, for those of you that don't really come to this site regularly I have a humble youtube page of 3 non-painting videos.
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-Back from Spain.

I just got back from Barcelona and clearly there was just way to much sightseeing to sit around drawing for hours... Maybe next time though.

View from my hotel window.

I have a bunch of catching up, errands, etc.. to do so I apologize for the short post.
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-Traveling Masks

This will be for Vertigo's House of Mystery's Halloween Annual


Bunch of thumbnail sketches.. Venetian-mask inspired.




And here is the original painting, it will be framed and part of my show in October over at Thinkspace Gallery.

Oil on wood. 12"x18"

I'm going to Barcelona Spain today and will hopefully have a couple of sketchbook pages to show when I get back.

This spooky "microchibus phasma" was sent to me from Skeletal Dropkick.
Thanks Cris.

Ciao and Adios
esao

-Skate stuff

Thanks to Andrew Pommier, I did up a couple of wheels for Momentum.

No dogs were harmed in making them.

Also my friend Mu Pan has been doing some amazing paper sculptures and has a small, yet incredible sampling of them at the Green Onion toy store in Brooklyn.

Extra Also, I do skateboard designs too, here is a Cheech n Chong's Nice Dreams/Mario Cart spoof I did a year and a half ago. Even though some colors were lost in the final screening, it was fun making.

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House of Mystery #17

Another upcoming cover for Vertigo

thy doodles...

This story involves the poet writing a tragic play

My deadline for this cover got lost in translation so I had to make this quick color mock up as a stand in for their catalog.

Here's the finish painting

12x18 oil on wood.
with a detail.


Also, remember this painting below? Its for volume 2 (issues #6-10) of the series and just came out, the post of when I actually did the painting last year can be seen HERE.

Link to the book is right HERE.

Thanks!
esao.