027 - LABYRINTH

I don't usually post the pencils to these as they usually aren't much to look at (not that this one is) but I figured I might as well show both. Here's a creepy guy from PAN'S LABYRINTH - Guillermo Del Toro is one of my favorite directors... although I have to admit HELLBOY 2 is like a warm glass of milk to me, 10 minutes in and I'm out like a light. Anyhoo, these are fun to do and are relaxing in the sense that they're just for me and it doesn't much matter how they turn out so there isn't too much stress / anxiety involved.

MORE UPDATE '09

Here's an inked panel from the aforementioned book I'm currently working on and can't tell you anything about... basically because I'm superstitious and I don't like to jinx things. These nice officers are contemplating a door.

UPDATE '09

Here's a page of pencils from the book I'm currently working on and can't tell you anything about... basically because I'm superstitious and I don't like to jinx things.

026 - HARLEY

This is about as 'cheesecakey' as it tends to get 'round these parts... I get a kick out of it but I just don't think it's something I do especially well. Drawing Harley Quinn is always fun though.

025 - FIRST SIGHT

Love at first sight... or at least that's what I was trying for.

024 - INCREDIBLE

Happy New Year Everyone!! I wanted to get '09 started off strong with a big update... get it? 'strong'? 'big'? HA! Whatever... here's the Hulk.

023 - PROJECT ALICE

022 - SPIDEY

Have a safe & Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

021 - HELLBOY

020 - LEELOO

So on my last trip to BINDERS I picked up this funky new sketch book - it's a 6 x 12 Aquabee 'Tree Free' Hemp Sketch Book... it's only 20 sheets so I figure I have no excuse whatsoever not to be able to fill it. Leeloo (The 5th Element) here is another piece I'd been wanting to do for a while.

019 - ELLE DRIVER

So early Friday I finished up a commercial project that I was working on, having wrapped on both DEMON'S REGRET and SALEM: QUEEN OF THORNS prior to that, Friday was the first time in a year where I could take the weekend off and not have something hanging over my head. It felt good... so good in fact that I didn't draw anything all weekend and spent most of Sunday, cleaning my workspace and re-organizing all of my clutter. I figured I would draw something just for fun and settled on my favorite Deadly Viper, Elle Driver.

SERIAL

Here's a look at a cover I did for a book called SERIAL - Written by Mitch Brown (DEMON'S REGRET) with Art by my pal Don Thomas and Colors by Matthew Warlick

SALEM / REVISITED

They'll miss me when I'm gone...

DEMON’S REGRET # 3 IN STORES

Demon’s Regret – Issue # 3 Preview

By Mitch Brown, Wilfredo Torres, Matt Warlick, Nate Pride, cover by Michael GoldenIn the thrilling final issue of the mini-series, Asmodeus recalls his involvement with history’s most infamous criminals and war mongers. Then, under suspicion from Lucifer, Asmodeus finds himself in a predicament where he must deceive the Great Deceiver himself!! This issue contains an exclusive interview with the creator and writer of the mini-series, Mitch Brown. Also, character designs are included from artist Wilfredo Torres.

http://blog.digitalwebbing.com/2008/10/demons-regret-3-preview/

Issue # 3 Hits the stands on WEDNESDAY 10/29!

DR3 / The Wrap-Up

So if my guess is right, DEMON'S REGRET Issue 3 should be on its way to the printer right about now. It’s been a lot of fun working on this book and a real learning experience for me being that it was my first professional work. While attending HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC the year before last my buddy Don Thomas introduced me to the very talented Sanford Greene who is really one of the nicest guys I’ve met in this business. Sanford looked through my portfolio and said to me, “I know a guy that you should meet”. He then introduced me to Mitch Brown who at the time had a couple of different ideas he wanted to produce but was looking for an Artist… I just happened to be one and the rest as they say is history.

Along the way this book has had some great folks involved that through their contribution have made it that much cooler. Big thanks to Inker Nathan Massengill who championed this book from the beginning, our Publisher Ed Dukeshire over at Digital Webbing and also Cover Artist extraordinaire, Michael Golden. As always my gratitude goes out to Brian Stelfreeze who always takes the time to look over my stuff and provide me invaluable direction and feedback on how I can continue to improve my work. I would also like to thank my wonderful collaborators, the man with the hat Mike Kilgore on Colors for issues 1 and 2. Matthew ‘Soulcore’ Warlick for jumping in for Colors on issue 3 and Nate Pride on Letters – Last but not least Writer, Mitch Brown who took a chance on an unknown and let me play with his toys.

DR3 / Progress Report

Here's a look at a page 17 from the last installment of Mitch Brown's DEMON'S REGRET in pencil stage.

SALEM: QUEEN OF THORNS # 2 IN STORES

Salem: Queen of Thorns – Issue 2 is in stores and BOOM! Studios has provided CBR with advance looks at new comics on sale this week - September 10, 2008 -- including "Blood Bowl: Killer Contract" #3, "Challenger Deep" #1, "High Rollers" #2, "Necronomicon" #1, "Salem: Queen of Thorns" #2 and "Warhammer: Condemned by Fire" #4.

Check it out!

DEMON’S REGRET # 2 IN STORES

Demon’s Regret – Issue #2 is in stores Tomorrow (WED. AUG 27)

Words: Mitch Brown, Art: Wilfredo Torres, Colors: Mike Kilgore, Letters: Nate Pride
Cover by Comics Legend - Michael Golden
The fallen angel, Asmodeus who has come to regret his path to evil but is powerless to change it, causes two great evils to collide… to Lucifer’s chagrin! Asmodeus assists a satan-worshiping serial killer in a breakout from his imprisonment for the criminally insane, only to direct his brutish violence towards a sex-trafficking — and heavily protected crime lord... hilarity ensues!

You can check out a 5 page preview HERE

DR - Update 3

DR - Update 2

Mmm... more hand lettering.

EELIAAAAS!

Brian Stelfreeze once told me not to hand letter my artwork and while I make it a rule to do everything Brian tells me to do, bad habits are hard to break.

DR - Update

A couple of panels from Issue 3 of Demon's Regret - Issue 2 is due out in stores this month.

Doctor Horrible - Part II

So I went back into the piece and added Penny, which as I got into it I realized that the reason I didn't draw her in the first place was that I didn't have a very good handle on her look. I mean Captain Hammer was easy, Nathan Fillion already looks like a superhero so all I had to do was beef him up a little bit. The good Doctor was easy too although I went away from the Neil Patrick Harris likeness a bit in order to 'funny book' him up some. Penny was another story. I've always found drawing women more difficult then drawing men and Felicia Day has this very pixie-ish look to her which I've never been able to really get right. The fact that I drew her singing probably didn't help me either... anyway it occurs to me that this piece was supposed to be just for fun and somehow I turned it into work...

G4 / Attack of the Show

So apparently Mr. Chris Morgan, Co-Writer of Boom! Studios SALEM: QUEEN OF THORNS was a guest on G4's Attack of the Show coverage of the San Diego ComicCon and just couldn't stop gushing over my artwork... well, actually I never get mentioned and he spent most of his time talking about that little independent film he wrote, WANTED as well as his next project, a film adaptation of GEARS OF WAR but they did some nifty close ups of my covers for Salem... so I think we all know where it's really at!

SNOOCH!

Doctor Horrible - Part I

Okay, so if you don't know who Dr. Horrible is I strongly suggest that you get to know him as it is quite possibly one of the funniest and most inventive things I've seen in a good long while. Being a huge Joss Whedon fan it was an easy sell for me. It seems like forever since I sat down to draw something just for me, just for fun and I had been itching to do this one so once I struck on a bit of breathing room I put it down. Anyway, here's the first pass at it -I'm still kicking around some ideas in as far as what to add. Penny will need to get in there for sure. In the six-degrees of separation department, until I found out that my favorite MLB player Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez got traded to the NY YANKEES today (woot!) the highlight of my day had been getting an incredibly generous and kind comment on my blog from one of my favorite artists - Eric Canete, who coincidentally did a Captain Hammer short titled, BE LIKE ME that is featured on My Space / Dark Horse Presents... how's that for a coinky-dink?