Still no news on when or how the next Green Monk will be published. This will probably be the last pages I’ll post until something is figured out. You should be able to get a good idea from the story, if you’ve been following along. By this time I’ve started to work with a combination of brush and micron. I still love brush for larger shapes, but microns really come in handy when I want to fly on drawing smaller objects.

Some more pages for Green Monk Volume 1. I’m starting to get more comfortable with using blacks. Still some things to figure out, but I’m certainly learning a lot about full-page layout in the process. I need to start being much more disciplined about paneling as I’m inking. I spent too much time cleaning this up in post to make them fit in the panels.

So, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about when the next Green Monk will be coming out. The best answer I can give right now, is that I’m working on it, but I haven’t yet nailed down how I will be publishing the next book, so I can’t really say yet when it will be released.

That being said, I have been working on the next book. As proof, here are the next couple of pages.

Enjoy, and I hope to be figuring out the next step soon.

Thought I’d take a break from the Monopoly art to show the start of Green Monk Book 1. I’m making a big departure from the mini comic in a couple of ways. First of all, I’m relying much more on brush, and only using microns for detail work. Second, I’m trying to use a lot more blacks. It’s been fun. Hopefully, I’ll figure out what I’m doing as I go along.

You can see the rough pencils here.

Well, 2010 has been a crazy year to say the least. I did a little bit of traveling, trying to figure out the convention scene and to promote Green Monk.
The high light of this traveling was meeting all of the awesome artists and radical comic book fans all over the country, and discovering that there are quite a few in my own backyard. I tried some things out that were fun but didn’t quite work like writing a weekly theory blog and doing live art demos.  I even found a little bit of time to complete a short story.

Lastly, I ended this year saying goodbye to my dear mother, Susan Dayton, after a courageous battle with breast cancer.

I’ve gained some insights on where I want to go this year as I’ve reflected on this last year and particularly as I’ve reflected on the good life that my mother lived.

The main thing is that I want to refocus on my life’s work. Seeing the fragility of life has been a stark reminder of that things that are most important. I would like to do something everyday of my life, that I can look back on and be proud of when my time here is done. I dedicated much of my time in 2009 to complete a book that was the beginning of my journey in to comic storytelling. In 2010 I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to do with the finished book. This year I want to return my focus to doing the work of making art and telling stories.

I’m cutting back on the conventions. I’m cutting back on writing about theory and I don’t plan on doing any regular video demos. Instead, I’m going to be spending my time at the drawing table working on the follow up to Green Monk (I’ll also spend some time trying to pick up a publisher). On top of this, I’m going to be posting to my blog at least once a week, and it will always be a post with art in it.

That being said, I want to finish this post with a couple of rough pages for Green Monk Volume 1. I hope you all have a great 2011.

Enjoy!

A monster design for the new Green Monk story. Also trying out my new 000 brush I picked up from the art store for all the little details.

Just finished up the exclusive print that I’ll be making available at the Phoenix Comic-con this weekend.

I’m going to be sharing booth 422 with master of cute,  Greg Ham. I’m also finally going to make prints of my two favorite Aang paintings:

So if you’re going to be in the Phoenix area, make sure to drop by and say hi.

I continued the work form last week, designing and painting an exclusive Green Monk print for the upcoming MoCCA festival. We also had a visit from fellow concept artist Xavier Garcia and had a chance to talk about art, comics and all sorts of stuff.

Here’s the beginning sketch followed by the in-progress painting. Still much work to do to figure this thing out.

Live TV : Ustream

Stuff mentioned in the show:

The Visual Story, Second Edition: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media

Project Waldo

Bernie Fuchs

What better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day then dropping the price of Green Monk to 2.99? If you’ve been thinking of getting a copy, now’s the time to do it. The only other place you’ll get a copy at this price is directly from me at a convention.

The price only lasts through this weekend, so don’t wait!

Here are the pencils for the first two pages of Rainmagic, the short I’m working on for the Sunstone comics anthology.

I’m trying to get accustomed to this larger format. As you can see it would be nice if I had a large format scanner. I also have totally obviated the usefulness of my blue line paper by using red pencil on page 2 (but I got it so I got to find some way to get rid of it). After working on Green Monk, I totally prefer using Borden and Riley Bleedproof paper . It’s cheaper, and I like the surface better. I’ll start working with it once I get rid of all of my old Bristol.

You can also tell that I re-worked the face about 5 times. Bristol is not so forgiving of so much indecision. I finally got wise and made this style sheet for the girl’s face.

Overall, I’m liking where this is going. You can see some video of me working on page 2 below (before my camera malfunction). I can’t wait to ink this stuff.