About a year ago, I did a series of zombified movie and TV characters for UGO. Recently they asked me to do it again, but this time with celebrities, (with a few characters and memes as well.) Right now it’s on their main page, but the direct link is here . It was pretty fun, and I now know who Check Testa is. Check out the links and in case you are too lazy to click I am posting a few here as well. 
So back around August 2011 MC Frontalot came out with a new album, I am a fan, and got it immediately. One track in particular I enjoyed was I’ll Form the Head, which he did with two other rappers, and was about Voltron/Power Ranger-type pilots arguing about who is the bestest most important part of the team. I kept listening to it on repeat while I biked and walked and such. I started to get a real clear image of a cool animated video that could be done for it. I decided to pitch it to him, I got home one day and over the weekend did a bunch of work on it. (This is SO unlike me it’s insane). I had an E-mail, from a tweet he had previously put out asking for artists to help with another project, I had responded, but they no longer needed help. Any way I sent my resume, some samples, a link to my site, and the pieces I did for the proposed video. No response. OK , shortly after this I realized he was doing a kickstarter , where he specifically mentions he wants to do an animated video, I resent my previous email with some modifications. No response. Later There is a call put out via his web site that he is looking for animators to work on this video. I responded again, making it clear I was interested in any job big or small. No response. He was on tour and I saw him in Santa Cruz, great show, I decided to make sure it was not an e-mail snafu, or someone out of the loop running his e-mail. I gathered up my courage and handed him personally an envelope with my resume pitch ideas, and art. He was polite and thanked me. After that No response. SO I was holding on to this stuff on the off-chance I was going to ever be invited to work on the video but it has been months now so it is safe to assume I am not. It’s weird, this was one of those things where in my head it was a perfect confluence of events, and I was unreasonably confidant I would be hired on to make or at least help make his video. I have no hard feelings, but as with every job I ever try to get I really hate the lack of response. Well enough crying here are some of the preliminary designs and art I created for the video.
Here is a pencil drawing I did on the plane out to NJ back in Dec. I have a bunch of finished projects done to show, but some I am still waiting to be made public, and some I need to format to show here. Anyway enjoy this for now with added blue line removal.
Well a million projects at once, followed by a 3 week vacation to the East Coast, and now I can start posting up some of what I had been swamped with , as well as maybe putting up some fun-time-Gaz sketches as well. PS dig the snazzy new layout care of my awesome wife-bot Quelyn.
This is actually a project I did after the 5 huge ones, It was for an anniversary or wedding gift.
Still swamped with stuff I can’t show anyone until November, but I did this as a commission for a birthday gift, image was to be put on a zippo lighter for a cigar smoking dude.
Hey guys I have been super busy for a change lots of different projects big and small going on all at once, eventually I will be able to post some here but for now check out Episode 104 of the Ink Panthers Podcast on which I was the guest of awesome. Direct link is HERE, or you can find it on itunes.
image by Noah Van Sciver
The Madballs Aargh, Dust Brain, and Slobulus previously done separately now combined to use as a print. Done completely in Photoshop on my Cintiq.
Over at Mattycollector they are running a create-a-character contest, below is my fist entry. Part of the contest is to use mainly pre-existing parts from other figures.
Armor-Dillo: EVIL ARMORED WARRIOR
REAL NAME: PLATO D-FENS
One of the many denzians living in the lower mountainlands of Eternia. His thick hide, makes him impervious to most damage. Not officially affliated with Skelletor, or any other group, he generally attacks caravans or other easy targets passing through his territory. This can bring him into conflict with He-man and other forces for good . Armor-Dillo is also often manipulated into doing Skelletor’s bidding by Beastman.
This is my rendition of the classic version of the Madball Dust Brain, from the original first wave of the toys. Done completely in Photoshop on my Cintiq.
From the second, or third tier of 80′s toys comes the Madballs! Like many properties from that time, they have a had a recent Resurrection, and fittingly it had not done as well as it’s peers. Regardless, one cannot deny the gross over-the-top appeal of the disgusting characters as balls. This is my rendition of the classic version of the Madball Aargh, from the original first wave of the toys. Done completely in Photoshop on my Cintiq.
From the second, or third tier of 80′s toys comes the Madballs! Like many properties from that time, they have a had a recent Resurrection, and fittingly it had not done as well as it’s peers. Regardless, one cannot deny the gross over-the-top appeal of the disgusting characters as balls. This is my rendition of the classic version of the Madball Slobulus, from the original first wave of the toys. Done completely in Photoshop on my Cintiq.
Here are 4 sample pencil pages I did form a Mark Waid script for 52.
My contribution to the third pic on the Awkward Faces Facebook group.
I made an image of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Raphael as one of the Misfits, for the wall of Illusive comics and Games, a CA Bay area comic shop. I decided to make it into a print. Inked with Japanese brush pen on Bristol, greys and color added in Photoshop.
Years ago Brian Lynch and/or Brian Sadecki asked me to draw a zombie burrito for some reason. I forget why, and I don’t know what I did with the doodle I did. But, I felt like doing a new one. Photoshop over pencil sketch.
Been in a TMNT drawing mood, this is a rough version of an April re-design I am working on. Photoshop over pencils.
I have busy with an animation project, and a few illustrations, none of which I can share yet, but in the meantime, I sketched this up with my double sided grey-black Japanese brush pen, and the atomic energy bands in Photoshop once I scanned it in. ENERGY!…ahem I mean ENJOY!
So Big wow has come and gone, I had a pretty good time, sold some stuff, and socialized with old friends and new pals. It was a relatively small show which suited me just fine, as it was my first time tabling in years. I was a bad tabler however because I completely abandoned my post for both of Frank Cho’s art demonstrations, and the Adam Hughes copic tutorial. *pssst* it was worth it! I still managed to sell some prints and do a couple sketches, my favorite was this one of Deadpool, for a guy’s 12 year old daughter, she apparently loves Deadpool and gore and horror movies, he’s raising her up right!
Hey guys, last minute update if you are in the San Jose, CA area this weekend I will be at table 58 in artist alley at the Big Wow ,(formerly super con), conventions selling prints, doing sketches, gabbin and sitting behind a table a lot.
Here is the site, there is a lot of other cool stuff going on there besides me if you can believe it!
Bryan Cranston as Walter White from Breaking Bad. I did a bic sketch on a piece of scrap paper by my computer, then scanned it and did the rest in photohop. A little more designey than my usual style for this one.
Poetic licence of the meeting between Carl Kolchak and the Zombie, from the classic episode of the Nightstalker series.
Roughs in Photoshop, inks on Bristol, digital clean-up and color in Photoshop.
Just a quick sketch I did in-between computer art jobs for pay today.
Last night Q ans I were talking about how we should make a Sci-Fi cartoon.
That is the vague inspiration for this chap.
Another Kolchack sketch, cleaned it up a little in photoshop. I think this is closer to how he should look. Hard to make him look older and haggard, without making him look old and tired.
Did two more sketches during 2 more episodes tonight, used blue pencil with regular #2 graphite over it, scanned and blue removed. Tried using a lap board for the first time, felt better on my back but worse on my stomach.
Kolchak the night stalker again, more than a sketch, but still not perfect. From the short lived cult 70′s show that was a fore runner to the X-files. Done completely on my Cintiq in Photoshop. I used a new brush for the inking, still included with Photoshop, but new to me. I also experimented with the coloring a bit mixing it between the lasso technique and freehand brushing.
Heard about this show a while ago, and when I listened to an episode of the Retroist about it recently I decided to Netflix it. Sketched this with a bic while watching. It was one of many I did, but the only one I am not too ashamed of to show.
Pin up done for the upcoming French edition of Mike Dawson’s Aceface the Mod with the metal arms.
roughs done of my cintiq in Photoshop. Inks done on a sheet p of 11×17 Paris bleed proof paper, with a combo of Japanese brush pen and .08 and .01 pigma pens.
Scanned in and then digital white out, revisions, and grays done in Photoshop.
Below you can see the progress and changes made along the way:
Date: 07/16/2008
Zombie Jobs come back from the dead!!!News from the Front.Plane old drawing.Off the road again...
Oh yeah...Ink Panthers the Return!
Madballs: group shot
Armor-Dillo
Madball Dust Brain
AARGH! MADBALLS!!!
Madball: Slobulus
4, 52 pages
Awkward Faces 3
Raphael joins the Misfits...again.
burrito del zombi
An April for June.
Captain Atom
Big Wowed.
Little Big Head Productions at BIG WOW!
Dead on Revival EP art
Breaking Bad
Kolchak vs. the Zombie
SpaceSplosion
Another Kolchack sketch.
Kolchack 3
Kolchak: the night stalker 2
Kolchak: the Nightstalker
Ace Face Vs. the S.T.A.F.F.
Prisoner. Hunter.
BEBOP from TMNT.
