Guybrush Threepwood Forever!

Ahoy! Of course it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day ya bilge-swillin', scurvy-infested, pox-faced sea-bass! Yarr! Here be a pirate greeting that ye can easily send to yer friends or foes:


Also, here's the original in big form, just because I think it looks cool in black and white:


Anyways, me buckos, Pirate Day always makes me yearn to play the Monkey Island series of adventure games, starring perennial "pirate wannabe" Guybrush Threepwood. They're pretty much the best pirate thing ever. Better than actual pirates, in my opinion. Here's two fantastic clips from the third game:

The Opening Titles (the music, animation and art is superb)



And one of the greatest parts in any game ever, the hilarious rhyme-tastic "The Pirate Song"



The games are where I get all of my piratey info and references for drawings (and I'm really influenced by the art style, see above). Also it was around way before all this Disney stuff, (so there) although the series was always a riff off the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride. Regardless, check them out if you get the chance, although I'm pretty sure they won't easily work on today's new-fangled computers...arrr!

Kung-fu Fightin'

I recently went to the Chinese Lantern Festival here at Ontario Place and watched a cool martial arts demonstration. It got me itching to draw some kung-fu positions/poses and work on drawing human bodies which I admit is not my strong suit. Here's a couple below:



Also, yesterday I visited the greatest comic book store in the world, The Beguiling, and picked up a great graphic novel entitled Tales Of Colossus, which i highly recommend. It's by Mark Andrews, who worked as a storyboard artist on Samurai Jack, The Incredibles and Clone Wars. What impresses me is that he drew it all on a computer, no paper at all!

Blue rocker

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?


A Travis Bickle I did a while back.

Here's a character sketch for a short story comic I'm working on about two gunfighters. You can see some clear Lee Van Cleef influences. I want him to be a very old and very gruff gentleman cowboy type.

The Blog Abides

Started this blog today! I'll be posting images, hopefully once a day or a few every couple of days related to projects I'm currently working on and random doodles of stuff I think is cool.