Sour Candy

 

I watched my niece make this then asked her for it then made a frame for it. I feel like it represents eating sour candy

Christmas Presents 2024

 

First design them, then cut them out of a table leg, then sand them on an inverted belt sander in a vice, then chop them on an ancient band saw, then burn them, then paint them, then seal them, then keychainify them!

The Back Burner

 

"It's on the backburner," For me there is only one burner, and making The Satan Killers was the first time it had even gotten warm in years. After writing this chapter with Dr. Kasamov and the test reactor I looked back through my scans and found exactly 8 years to the day was when I developed the concept initially.

The God Labs Rough Script Begins

 

Finally, finally finally, after 8 years, I've been able to go ahead writing the rough script for The God Labs. It consists of all the writing and thumbnails of the illustrations and is already about 250 pages having just started writing part 5. It starts just after the events of The Satan Killers, at Satan's funeral. This is going to be a lot of work. Originally I was going to paint in photoshop from my ink drawings, as I did in The Satan Killers, but this proved too taxing to my hand so I'll be doing another refinement of final sized pencil drawings before the digital painting, like I did in Red and the Wolfe. Finally.

Monster High Coffin

 

Finally found something to do with this coffin and monster high dolls.

Pedal Box Omega

 

Remade this anti-dust pedal box for the third time. I accidentally dropped a pedal on the second iteration and broke it but I was considering throwing the whole thing out anyway. Having to take the extra step of removing the lid made me not play as often, but I think this side mounted piano hinge will work out. Also has the benefit of blocking some of the loudness from the amp/speaker right next to it.

Lighted pedal case

 

Made a lighted display case for pedals and such. I didn't know home depot has big sheets of clear acrylic, this is the new future I've been waiting for.

The Girl, The Snake, and The Soda. By C.S. Lewis

 

Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop CS5

 

My hand still hurts after doing the photoshop paintings for The Satan Killers, so I've been trying to figure a way to spend less time on the tablet. I thought I'd try Corel Painter to see if it is any faster for what I'm doing and I did these for a comparison. I haven't used it since v9.5 and my opinion is still the same. Cool for some things, can never seem to make a set of brushes that do everything I want. I always thought of digital painting as its own medium, so I was never super on-board with the 'it feels like traditional media!!!!' thing. It has always seemed to have problems Adobe ironed out ages ago too, the one most annoying to me this time was how slow brush resizing is and that it requires two taps to start working again, often making a mark I didn't want. Then you hit ctrl+z, but it didn't actually register the mark so it deletes the layer you just made instead, etcetera etcetera.

Two catgirls enjoying hamburger sandwitches

 

Balletarinas 3

 

Final Balletarina studies testing ink. The ink wash worked fine with sumi ink but didn't play nice with Lamy cartridges so I decided to forsake them. I think I just finished the first draft of The God Labs 01, finally, after all these years, using said cartridges. At 3 panels per page I counted it to be about 70 pages which is nice because any more and it has to be compressed as all get-out to even submit it to Kindle. Part of the reason The Satan Killers is 47 pages, also because I was desperate to release something and wanted a short project that would lead into, finally, The God Labs.

The Satan Killers!

 The Satan Killers! Graphic novel on Kindle, prologue on youtube! You have now bore witness the the extent of my ability to self promote, congratulations!

 The Satan Killers on Kindle

Balletarina 2

 

This I was just trying to use up the pen so I could change the ink.

Ballet a rinas 1

 

More ink and pen testing for the next graphic novel

Guy

 Ink and pen testing for the next project

The Satan Killers Promo #1

 The Satan Killers on Kindle

The Satan Killers Prologue on Youtube 

Bunnygirl

 

"The corrosive saliva of the Bunnygirl dissolved his bones as she devoured him like a carrot."

Haven't just randomly drawn in the sketchbook in almost two years.

New Blog Header

The Satan Killers Release

 The Satan Killers is available only on Kindle!

The Satan Killers on Kindle

Also the video prologue is now live on Youtube:

The Satan Killers Prologue 

The Satan Killers, 2022 November 8th - 2024 Septembre 16

 

First drawing of The Satan Killers, 2022 November 8, and I think you can call it all buttoned up 2024 Septembre 16. About two years working on it every day. After doing the Kindle layouts I didn't like the readability of some pages so I went back and changed 12 of them. I didn't want the text to be intrusive but it is intrusive in a different way if it is difficult to read. I wanted to wait until October to upload both the graphic novel to Kindle and the video to Youtube, we'll see if I can wait that long.

The Overseer's Throne

 

Finished the last couple pages, working on covers and title pages now.

Hidden Layers

 

Sometimes I find hidden layers of something random I thought of while working.

This Frame.

 

This frame again... I deleted the layer from my last go around with this frame and started over. Spent a while staring at it not so much looking for things to change but to convince myself I was fine with it, and I like where it's at now.

45 Satanic Killing Pages Done

 

I finished the original 45 pages of The Satan Killers. Before I do the last two pages I'm going back over everything one last time, then I'll do the guided view and format it for Amazon's thing. Hopefully at only 47 pages I won't have to resize much, Kindle only lets you upload 600 megs as opposed to ComiXology's 1 gig, then they compress the hell out of it anyway.

Dental Masque

 

He... put on his dental masque...

Teeth Replacement

 

This man, he sent me a flyer... asking if he can remove my teeth.

Chihuahuas...

 

My niece enjoys making horrible depictions of Chihuahuas, as she knows I am loathed of the animal.

Rog Mirror

 

Don't want to post too much from the last few pages

Bad to the Balls

 I... definitely came up with way more pornos from Hell than I can use.

Beelzaboobs

 

What sort of pornos do you suppose Satan would have in hell?

Touchdown!

 

Touchdown! Speaking of bathrooms, I found a breathtaking spot to host my ball, I only poked myself on it two or three times!

Roger enters the Satanic Lavoratory

 

Radioactive Bikini Men from Mars!

 

Reworked this to use as a poster in the bathroom background, then went with something else instead. Inspired by the Hollywood Burns track Saturday Night Screamer

Satanic Lavatory

 I'm embarrassed how long I've been working on this one background

Feetball

 

My football stopped holding air so I cut it open and stuffed it with the entire contents of one pillow and stitched it back up. It's like a nerf ball now

Pedal Box

 

Made a box for pedals so they don't get so damn dusty. It was better with the original acrylic lid but it broke in the process, so now it's just pallet wood. Made a switching junction box thing so I can just plug in pedals I'm testing without having to take one out of the chain.

40+ Guitar Pedals

 

I started years ago by bringing a board from an old squire amp to my dad (an electrical engineer) just to identify components: resistors, capacitors, transistors, opamps, etcetera. I've built 40+ effects now, and a few amps, thanks to tagboardeffects, dirtboxlayouts, aionfx, and generalguitargadgets. I just used a bunch of them to do the soundtrack for The Satan Killers video, which I'll hopefully be releasing this year along with the graphic novel.

Roger Sculpture

 

My niece gave me an early birthday present of a sculpture she did of Roger, also left a drawing on the chalkboard

Censored Preview

 

Don't want to spoil [i]too[/i] much

More Pen Tests

 

I ended up ordering a Lamy M and Lamy 1.1mm calligraphy pen as these flowed the most consistently for me. I don't recommend getting a Jinhao, they make a lot of knock off Lamy/Parker/Pilot pens, but with poorer quality steel for the nibs. At least from what I can tell from my now bent nib.

Trying out pens

 

A Satan Killer

 

Tube Amp House

 

Finally made a little house for the little tube amp kit I constructed a while ago. The goal was to completely enclose it so it didn't get so damn dusty but I couldn't think of a convenient way to do it.

The Satan Killers Origin

 

2015, first drawing of The Satan Killers, just a random page in my sketchbook that I wouldn't revisit until November 2022 when I wrote Roger's confrontation with Satan and have been working on it everyday since. It became clear that it fit nicely as the first installment in The God Labs world, which I've been working on since 2017. Currently on page 31 of 47 of The Satan Killers, hope to release it and the video I made for it this year.

The desk of... Satan!

 

Roger peekin

 

Satan's Door, Interrior

 

Been working on backgrounds for the next few pages. The inside of Satan's office door.

Christmas 2023 Presents

 

Christmas 2023 presents. Sculpted a present in a present. Cutting the mitres on the outer boxes was difficult and dangerous with my table saw and its lack of throat plate support. I was going to sculpt a different thing for each box but I couldn't think of a good way to afix the clay to the base wood for the other items I envisioned. M.D. Geist.