The last week has been rather rough.  However nothing to the point of making life itself seem a terrible thing.  We all experience stress and hardship from time to time.  I've frankly had much worse things happen in my life, and while I have been a bit stressed lately, it hasn't been the sort of thing to make me lose sleep ...

so yesterday I had a REAL sore back, still sore today, but I realized it was likely a combination of having slept on it wrong the previous night, and also the height at which I was working with my new Cintiq.  So after getting some things done, I HAD to rearrange my entire studio so I could work on the Cintiq in a more comfortable way.  ...

going to attempt to find that artistic zone again today.  there's a lot of stuff going on this week here, kids are home from school for a few days I think, and have a couple half days as well.  I'm on the verge of having that "feeling" that you get sometimes as an artist, where you think you're about to get a ...

-i suck at math but when my kid needs help on learning how to draw dragons, I can help with that. a quick 15 minute color study after going through the basic dragon shapes with her so she could work on her own. Prismacolor markers, colored pencil and a tiny bit of ink. (see below)   -so dishes are done, garbage is at the road, homework help ...

Novelist C.E. Murphy (The Negotiator Trilogy,The Walker Papers) has signed a deal to produce her superhero comic series Take A Chance, with the Dabel Brothers! Issue 1 of the series is completely done, issue 2-5 will have art by the amazing Ardian Syaf, and I will be providing digital inks AND colors for this series. More news and updates to come ...

2008 is here, and I’ve gotten caught up enough with work, and taken enough time off to enjoy family and relaxation here, that I can look back on the great things that 2007 brought to me, and look forward to what this year has in store. I’m not a big list guy, but there will be lists in this post just to make it shorter. ...

So yesterday I got 4 boxes worth of comp copies in here, 2 boxes of the hardcover collected trade of the original Hero By Night mini-series, a box of the first issue of the new ongoing Hero By Night comic, and a box of the KISS 4K KISSmas special one-shot.  I'm going to run through my thoughts on them real quick here. Hardcover HBN ...

Been a busy morning so far it seems, I’ll get to actually working probably in a bit here though.  Have lots of things I’ve been thinking since I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t really go back to sleep. -Hero By Night hardcover is in stores today!  Still waiting on my comp copies to get here though.  ...