DREAM JOURNAL EARTH

11" x 14"
#2B pencil, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush, Dr Ph Martin Bombay black India ink and Faber Castell brushes in Pro Art sketchbook
In this dream I was taking part in a meeting with three other beings. I'm explaining why comic art and the sequential art form are wonderful ways to tell a story. These beings are looking at my like I know what I'm talking about so then I feel like I know what I'm talking about. Pretty soon I'm laying it down like it's the gospel!
One of them asks me where I'm from and I said I was from Earth, "How interesting," the being said but clearly he had no idea where Earth was. "Virgo Supercluster?" The being still had no idea. "Milky Way Galaxy?". Still no clue.
I realized I had no identity, no pose. Nobody to impress. Then I woke up.

STUDY OF STEVE DITKO DR. STRANGE

11" x 17"  #2B pencil, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush and Dr. Ph Martin Bombay black India ink in Canson sketchbook

PHOWA

14" x 11" #2B pencil, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush, Faber Castell brushes, Dr Ph Martin Bombay black India ink and white ink in Pro Art sketchbook
A man sitting in an airport began having chest pains and was in great distress. Suddenly he collapsed and died. A monk happened to be passing by and quickly took the man's hand while whispering in his ear. Quickly the man revived but then slumped again. This simple monk was qualified master in the practice of phowa, or transference of consciousness at the time of death. According to practitioners his quick action eased the man's mind and transferred it to a Buddha realm or toward a good rebirth.

RORSCHACH BODHISATTVA

14" x 11" Pentel brush pen and Kuretake Fude brush in Pro Art sketchbook

KINGPIN

 11"x 8"  #2B Pencil, Pentel brush pen and Faber-Castell brushes in Canson sketchbook

McDONALD THEATRE EUGENE, OREGON

14" x 11" 
#2B pencil, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush, Faber Castell brushes, Dr Ph Martin Bombay black India ink and white ink in Pro Art sketchbook

WHO AM I?

11" x 14"    2B pencil, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush and Dr Ph Martin Bombay black India ink in Pro Art sketchbook

Trying to learn to use the brush and ink by varying strokes and pressure.  The comic panel concept is from Steve Ditko but I changed the figure of the man and the brush strokes.

CONFESS

18" x 24"  Pastel on paper

JERRY SINATRA

18" x 24" Acrylic on board

STUDY OF SETH'S BUSINESSMEN II

 11" x 8 " Pentel brush pen in Canson sketchbook

STUDY OF EISNER'S SAN DIEGO EXPO 2000

11" x 8" #2B pencil, Pentel brush pen and Faber-Castell brush pens in Canson sketchbook

STUDY OF EISNER'S LIFE IN PICTURES

11" x 8 " 2B pencil. Pentel brush pen and Faber Castell brush pens in Canson sketchbook

STUDY OF EISNER'S CONTRACT WITH GOD

11" x 8" #2B pencil, Pentel brush pen and Faber Castell brushes in Canson sketchbook

ROOFTOP STUDY OF EISNER

11" x 8 " 2B pencil, Pentel brush pen and Faber Castel brush pens in Canson sketchbook

STUDY OF SETH'S BUSINESSMEN

 8" x 10"  Pentel brush pen in Moleskine sketchbook

ANOTHER STUDY OF OLLMANN'S SEABROOK

8" x 5" Pentel brush pen in Moleskine sketchbook

DRAWING BOARD

11" x 14" #2B pencil, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush and Dr. Ph Martin's Bombay black India ink in Pro Art sketchbook

Thank you to all my family and friends who wished me happy birthday.  I was overwhelmed by the love and didn't realize I knew so many people!  I tried to say thank you to everybody, but in case I missed thanking you I drew this to say "Thank you and I love you all." And as Clarence Oddbody said:  " No man is a failure who has friends."

SLIPPERY PETE AND SCHLOMO

8" x 10" Pentel brush pen and Faber Castell brush in Moleskine sketchbook

STUDY OF SETH CHARACTER

 8" x 5" Pentel brush pen in Moleskine sketchbook

STUDY OF AN OLLMAN CHARACTER

8"x 5" Pentel brush pen and Faber Castel Brushes in Moleskine sketchbrook