the chumline

Sharkhouse.

2011-11-20T23:38:00.000-08:00

This is a twelve page comic I've been working on for a while. I wrote it mainly because I wanted to draw sharks, shipwrecks and stuff. One of the main inspirations was a photo I saw of a sunken schooner up in Canada. You can read it page by page below, view it in Google Docs, or download the pdf.

Walking Robot.

2011-11-04T13:38:00.000-07:00

Basehead.

2011-09-21T19:53:00.000-07:00

His head's a base.

Shark vs. Technoboat.

2011-08-03T09:23:00.000-07:00

Happy Shark Week folks.

Barefoot Robert.

2011-06-21T20:30:00.001-07:00

I had a 3 post streak going of drawings featuring "guys smoking pipes". Now it's broken. Really puts that Cal Ripkin thing into a whole new perspective for me. Pencils here.

Captain Head.

2011-06-07T05:10:00.000-07:00

Suicidal Sea Captain.

2011-05-22T19:31:00.000-07:00

Pipe Beard Hat.

2011-04-14T20:03:00.000-07:00

This is a panel from this thing I've been working on. It's a guy lighting a pipe.

Monkeyface.

2011-02-20T00:25:00.000-08:00

Pencils here. Inks here.

Board Test.

2011-02-07T19:30:00.000-08:00

A drawing done while getting used to new comic boards.

Kevin's Trip to the Aquarium.

2011-01-30T22:58:00.001-08:00

I had Jaws 3 in the back of my mind on this one. Inked version here.

Karate Bear.

2011-01-18T21:06:00.000-08:00

When the first Kung Fu Panda came out I worked on a few books based on the property. When there was some downtime at work I drew some of the characters just for fun.

Commando 2.

2010-12-05T19:56:00.000-08:00

Wrinkles McGillicuddy.

2010-11-14T14:22:00.000-08:00

Bloody Hammer.

2010-10-25T16:13:00.000-07:00

The idea for this picture came from a song by Roky Erickson called 'Bloody Hammer'. The visual doesn't exactly match the lyrics of the song but it's what came to mind the first few times I heard the song. It ended up looking like a cross between a muppet and a madball. The song is actually about three fraternity pledges who were told to spend the night in a haunted house where a man had supposedly killed his wife and, as Roky tells it:

"The first person went in, he didn't come out. The second one went in and he didn't come out and the third person came in and he didn't come out. Finally the other fraternity members went in and went to look for them they couldn't find them. And they heard this tapping in the attic. When they went in the attic there was one of the pledges there and his hair had turned stark white and his eyes had rolled up in his head and he was hammering the attic floor with a bloody hammer."

Happy Halloween.

-Rough

-Pencils

Nordik.

2010-09-08T22:32:00.001-07:00

A Helmet, Swords, and Viking mitts.

Demon Space Viking.

2010-08-10T21:50:00.000-07:00

This is a demon space viking or something. He has a sword. Rough version here.

The Varmits.

2010-07-14T23:14:00.000-07:00

Pencil versions for the first, second, third, and fourth Varmit.

New Shark Picture.

2010-06-14T20:32:00.000-07:00

Old shark picture.

2010-05-09T13:34:00.000-07:00

This shark picture used to be the front page of my website. I recently shut down my site and I'm pretty much just doing this blog. Since I don't have an official site anymore I added a gallery to the chumline.

Robot Hermit.

2010-03-14T20:39:00.000-07:00

Otis.

2010-02-28T09:31:00.001-08:00

This moose head is the first really big (30x30) painting I've ever finished. I made the moose blue because I've never seen a blue moose before and I wanted to see one. I think it came out alright but there's still some energy or something that didn't quite transfer from the original sketch.

Spawn.

2010-02-01T23:38:00.000-08:00

Sam the Snowman.

2009-12-22T20:08:00.000-08:00

"What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a talking snowman before?"

I like listening to Burl Ives all year round but he can sing christmas songs like no one else. His voice makes the Rudolph special in my opinion.

-rough

-pencils

-inks

Robot Dog.

2009-12-02T20:51:00.000-08:00

This is one page comic I did mainly because I wanted to draw a robot, robot dog, trees and a spaceship. The story isn't real heavy. Pencil version here. Rough here.

Deadball.

2009-11-17T21:16:00.000-08:00

Another sticker. This one started as a Jon Wheat idea. He likes football.

Dethklok.

2009-11-09T15:33:00.000-08:00

New Metalocalypse premiered last night.

Robot in the Woods.

2009-10-27T17:23:00.000-07:00

I drew this today. Along the same lines as my last post, robot and trees. Technology and nature stuff is cool to me. How cool would it have been if Bob Ross threw a few robots in his paintings?

Landscape robot.

2009-10-21T20:02:00.000-07:00

This is a big (about 3ft. by 2ft.) picture I did to hang on my wall. I tried to do it as quick as possible with just markers and pens. I like robots in nature settings just for contrast, it looks cool to me. I've got a one page comic about a robot dog that I'll be putting up sometime soon that's basically the same idea.

Chigurh.

2009-10-15T21:32:00.000-07:00

"No Country for Old Men" is either my favorite movie or my second favorite movie of all time. It's either that or "Jaws" I can't decide which. If 'No Country" had a shark it would be no contest, but either way Anton Chigurh is an awesome character. On a conceptual and a visual level I'm a fan. I drew this picture a while ago when I had a bit of free time.

Stickers!

2009-10-13T21:10:00.000-07:00

A few months ago we did a project at work involving Halloween stickers. I got to come up with ideas for different stickers with a spooky theme. It was really fun and I ended up with more spooky ideas than I needed. I also had a bunch of ideas for non-Halloween type stuff that I thought would be fun to draw. So when I got a few free minutes that's what I started doing. I wasn't the only one who enjoyed the project, Jon Wheat was in charge of inking and coloring my drawings and when he saw the extra stuff I was doing he asked to ink and color those as well. I was all for it and the stuff he came up with fits the spirit of the whole thing really well. Below is the first batch of my ideas that I put on paper. For a look at some of the color versions head over to Wheat's blog.

Prophet.

2009-10-07T20:06:00.000-07:00

I'm a big fan of Stephen Platt's Prophet stuff from the 90's. I can't pull off the rendering as well as he does but I still like giving it a shot once and a while.

Big Gun Commando.

2009-10-01T20:57:00.000-07:00

This is a commando guy I drew a while ago. Drawing giant guns is fun. Shooting them probably rules as well.

Facebones: the pencil version.

2009-10-01T20:54:00.000-07:00

Dethklok.

2009-09-29T19:08:00.000-07:00

The new Dethklok album came out today. I spent the bulk of my day drawing Facebones to celebrate.

Jabba the Hutt.

2009-09-21T19:45:00.000-07:00

This is a sketch of Jabba I did a few years ago for fun. Jabba's palace and the Sarlacc Pit scene are probably my favorite parts of any Star Wars movie. There's a cool article about the construction of the Jabba puppet here.

Few more.

2009-09-15T18:06:00.000-07:00

Here's some more. This blog might end up being a bit shark-heavy folks.

Another Shark.

2009-09-15T18:02:00.000-07:00

Here's another one.

Shark.

2009-05-04T20:54:00.000-07:00

This is a shark I drew.

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2009-05-03T17:17:00.000-07:00

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