Category Archives: graphic design

A closer look: the website update

As I mentioned yesterday, pretty much since the last version of this site went live, it was out-of-date. Now I know that this is the nature of websites in general, but I just found that no matter how much I … Continue reading →

jump 7

So today we get a little bit closer to the end of the “jump” section… I would think at this point that you’re probably realizing that I spent a good deal of time figuring out the “design” of this section. … Continue reading →

jump 5

I’m nervous that today’s spread doesn’t make as much sense in “web” format as it does in print. Here’s what I’ve tried: Michael jumps into the gutter on the left-hand page. I like playing with the design of things and … Continue reading →

jump 4

Today’s page went up on time, but my normal blog post to accompany it is running late through a combination of a holiday Monday and a post that was just plain hard to write… Anyway, onwards… Now this is a … Continue reading →

jump 3

Can I just say that this is the page I had in mind when I started putting this whole “jump” scene together. So far I’ve talked about the overall philosophy of my approach with this set of pages and page … Continue reading →

jump 2

Today’s art continues with this spread which I guess is as good an example of a “non traditional” comic page as I can think of… Page layout and design For this week’s post I really want to focus on probably … Continue reading →

jump 1

And here we go! I mentioned last week that I really wanted to start dissecting the upcoming pages and give you readers a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at what went into them. There’s a lot I want to cover … Continue reading →

influences

Influences are a funny thing. I mean everybody has them but if you point them out people sometimes take that as a slight. Personally, I’ve always found myself on the fence about them. I know I have influences and if … Continue reading →

Behind the scenes – making a pinup for reMIND

I illustrated a pin-up for the reMIND pinup contest last month, sent it off and it finally got posted earlier this week so I wanted to do a post to go behind-the-scenes of how it all came about. I was … Continue reading →

Shadows: page 2

Creeping in the dark… This page was pretty fun to do and I seem to remember saying that not drawing people really sped things up a bit. That’ll change, but for now it’s all about setting the overall tone for … Continue reading →