Progress!

Howdy blogfolk, I'm on a deadline so I'm posting as I go tonight to help stay motivated.  Pencils are all done, now to vanquish colors!

"Path of the Feather" Pages 2 and 5!

More colors for a short comic I'm doing, which will be part of the book Reality Not Included. Stay tuned!

Tentative colors for page 4!

These are the tentative colors for page 4 of Path of the Feather, my contribution to the upcoming compilation comic Reality Not Included.  I'm so psyched!

Character designs for a new comic

I posted these some time ago on the Reality Not Included blog, along with a complete script, but for some reason never put them up here :}  I figure that since I'm going to be posting the finished pages here over the next couple of weeks I had better get some of the concept up.  Enjoy!

Synopsis: A young boy is sent by a shaman on a spiritual quest to learn the nature of destiny

Whirlpool 51

This was originally a comic I did for my grandmother as a Christmas present.  She is an expert fisherwoman, and took my sisters and I on many fishing trips in the Big Horn Mountains when we were growing up.  That's her in the bottom panel :)

(note: Due to the limitations of Blogger, if you want to see the image better you may have to download it.  Just right click and hit "save image as")

"Easters"

Happy the day after the day after Easter everyone!  Here are some links that might interest you:

An interesting Wikipedia article on the "Flemish Giant", a dog-sized breed of rabbit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Giant

my favorite picture from the article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runt_and_Paxie.jpg

On a more serious note, a sketch from Sacrament meeting on Sunday:

Happy Easter, and God Bless!

Josh

First Editorial Cartoon published!

See the article here: Link
(dialogue written by Jenny Hamilton)

I recently did an editorial cartoon for a friend's aunt at the Hillsboro, Oregon school district, expecting it only to be viewed by the school board and the PTA/district employees.  However, I got a call yesterday from the Editor of the Hillsboro Argus (a local newspaper) asking permission to post it online and run it in their Friday Paper.  It was an unexpected, but welcome surprise :)

Apparently the cartoon and the campaign it supports have been having a positive effect, last night the school board voted on a new grading policy that will give students a better environment to grow and succeed. Woot!

Prehistoric Valentine

This was a sketch for the BYU Sketchbook Club (check them out here!). Whoa, exclamation point with a period after . . . am I allowed to do that?  Should the previous statement have been parenthetical? Should I concern myself less with the intricacies of the realm of grammar in a post on a concept design blog?  Mayhaps . . .

In any case, the BYU sketchbook club toured the Dinosaur Museum where I work earlier this month, and sketched afterward.  In anticipation of the event and a significantly more significant event to significant people in our lives (coming up significantly soon), they decided to make this month's theme "Prehistoric Valentine."  Inspired, truly.  Or at least fun to draw :)

Note: While it may have been appropriate in former times to present to a lover a deer skull with roses protruding from the nasal turbinates, such practices are largely frowned upon today.  Dead things make poor valentines.  Unless, well . . . they're roses.