Author: Chris
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Marvel Strange Tales #3
Much like the first two issues, I colored the introduction page to the new issue of Marvel Strange Tales #3 which is at your local comic book store today. Unlike the pages posted here, those versions have exciting dialogue! Look for this cover: But wait, there’s more! For this third and final issue, Nick Bertozzi…
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Travel Sketches: St. Petersburg
Charcoal on Paper, 8″x10″ I went to St. Petersburg, Russia a couple of years ago on my honeymoon. We did a lot of tourist stuff (including a marathon tour of the Hermitage) but also had a couple of days to relax and lounge about in our favorite places. This sketch is of one of the…
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Figure Drawings 7
Pastel on Paper, 18″x 24″ Since so much of cartooning is straight line drawing, I was trying to break my habit of doing mostly line drawings of live figure models. This style, which I made by smearing my finger with pastel and then smudging the paper accordingly, is sort of the antithesis of line art. …
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ACT-I-VATE Primer Is Released!
A while back, I posted about a short story I colored for the ACT-I-VATE Primer book (read about it here). Well that book is finally available for sale. Get it at your local comic book store (or failing that, there’s always the online bookstores.) And for those of you that live in New York, come…
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Five Minute Figure Sketches
Five minute sketches can be a good way of filling the paper without getting too precious. I have a tendency to dwell on my mistakes which is most often counter-productive. A short time limit forces me to embrace my errors, and in the immortal words of Tim Gunn, “Make it work!”
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Marvel Strange Tales #2
I colored the introduction page to the Marvel Strange Tales #2 which is on the stands today. Not only is The Watcher once again featured but also the full likeness of She-Hulk and Nick Fury (complete with an ear-stud)! Look for this cover at your local comic book store:
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Travel Sketch: London
Charcoal on Paper, 9″x12″ I recently got back from a fantastic vacation to New Zealand. While looking through our photos, I was reminded of some of the sketches I did on past vacations. Last year, I was lucky enough to have a spare hour during a nice Fall day to sit down and sketch a…
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Stuffed! Is Released!
I spent a couple of months last year coloring Stuffed! a 120 page graphic novel written by Glenn Eichler and drawn by Nick Bertozzi. I share co-coloring credit with Mr. Bertozzi, who showed me the ins and outs of selecting the best color palette for a specific scene. We based the coloring style on Hergé’s…
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My Marvel Debut: Strange Tales #1
My last post touched on some uncredited work I did for Nick Bertozzi‘s story in the Marvel book Strange Tales. Since that post, the editor asked Nick to do a last minute introduction page for the book for which I did the coloring (except for The Watcher’s underoos which are tighty-whities, naturally). The book hit…
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The Learning Process
When I decided to make a career change a few years ago, there was a lot I didn’t know about the comics industry. For one, the creation-to-print time can span several years. Some of the projects I first worked on are finally coming out, and it has helped me realize just how much I’ve learned…
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Cape Testing Poses
Every week, I have the pleasure of working a shift at the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. Anyone that has visited Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. can tell you that our Capery is one of the finest, and therefore, one of our main attractions. So while I was proud to be employed by the largest supplier of…
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Band Sketches
The folk-rock band I’m in is putting out a CD in a couple of weeks. When we were brainstorming about album cover ideas, I did these sketches of Kyle and Corbett, the two songwriters of the group. I was exploring a new style (a la James Jean’s sketches) of simple line drawings done in pencil…