Bramble Vine Comics

The sketch in the middle with the guy pushing a little table with a spaceship model on it is a rough from a short story I'm currently working on. I hope to have that done within the next week or so. The other stuff is just mindless doodling. That character on the bottom bugs me since I put the thumb on his right hand on the wrong side. I hate it when I do that.

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Here you can see a page from a current project that I'm in the middle of inking. I am working on it at a local coffee shop during my lunch break, which is really how I get most of my comics done. Here you can see that I have penciled the page using non-photo blue lead and now I am iniking over top of that with a set of Micron pens. I should have this page done by the time I need to head back to my office.

I've been invited to attend a comic book show in Houston. I will be at the JMV Comic Book Show on Sunday, May 25 at the Crowne Plaza - Northwest in Houston. More details and directions to the show can be found on their web site, jmventertainment.com. I'm looking forward to it since I haven't gotten out to Houston yet to sell my books and this will be a great opportunity to check out the Houston comics scene.

This is another page I was working on this past weekend at the local sketch group and another photo out of the excellent Facial Expressions for Artists book. I like the wry, sideways grin she has on her face. Although, I will say I find it harder to draw pretty people. I tend to want to just fill my drawings with hatch work from my pen and that doesn't lend itself too well to a smooth face. Something I need to work on I guess.

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This sketchbook page I did while at my local sketch group over the weekend. I was drawing out of this amazing book I picked up called Facial Expressions for Artists, by Mark Simon. It's page after page of photos of people's faces in interesting expressions. The models vary widely in body type and the expressions they come up with are especially useful for cartooning and illustration. Can't recommend it enough. It's just a lot of fun to draw from.

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This past weekend I was selling my comics at the Dallas Comic Con and had a great time. I premiered my latest book, Gadgeteria, and was well received. I almost sold all the books I had and now I need to get another print run ordered in time for CAPE! next month.

While at the con I saw a lot of fun costumes. People came dressed as Boba Fetts, some Jedi, Ghostbusters and even a Speed Racer. My buddy and table mate Grant Sutherland did well selling his books for his first convention appearance, so congrats to him.

You can see a few photos I took of my table by clicking the image here, but to be honest I didn't get away from my table all that often, so I have very few pictures. My friend Luu from Space-Gun however took a ton of photos from the con, so check those out too.

I also want to thank a bunch of the other exhibitors that made the con such a blast:

Greetings from Wonderland

Space-Gun

Dorm Dorks

How it Should Have Ended

Bobby Blakey

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The idea on this sketchbook page of the cigarette pack and feisty cigarette characters has popped up under my pen before. I really need to get this formalized and into a short story or cartoon and just get it our of my head. There's a good idea there somewhere I just need to crystallize it. This page also has some early sketched out concepts for the City Park comic I finished up earlier. Lastly there's a little thumbnail down at the bottom of another full page comic I'm still working on.

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Here's a new one page comic I was working on this week. I did this to print up as a flyer to hand out during this weekend's comic book convention, so if you're in Dallas on Saturday and Sunday stop by my table and pick one up. I had them printed by Kinkos on yellow paper and they came out pretty good. I went with a looser style here and tried to play around with page layout.

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My friend and fellow Dallas area cartoonist, Grant, has related to me his nervousness about selling his work in person at comic book conventions. I've convinced him to come to the Dallas Comic Con this weekend to sell his stuff. So, naturally I created a cartoon to mock and ridicule his insecurities. What else are friends for?

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