After years of having an empty domain, I now have a website up! My DeviantArt site will still hold my latest artwork but at least I have a proper portal to send people to!



You can also now purchase any of my available con sketches or you can commission your own here.



Please also enjoy my new webcomic EGORAVEN at the link above

Thank you!

Welcome to November 22nd, where I manage to upload chapter four of my first book in my Egoraven series, Legend of the Silk Rose.

I can't believe it's been a month already and Thanksgiving is this week too! Luckily I have started coloring pages and have a cover for the first comic issue ready so I feel I'm on point with my schedule give or take. I just want to give a "shout out" to the one who got me a Cintiq12wx as quite the surprise prezzie. I don't think I would have gotten my page colored as quickly on a standard tablet. I've tried the Cintiq as a store demo and didn't seem that impressed by it. Of course, actually working on it with my own art makes it a completely different animal! :D

Thank you again and thank you all for visiting!

Welcome to November 15th, where I manage to upload chapter three of my first book in my Egoraven series, Legend of the Silk Rose.

I can't believe that it's been three weeks already. I better get crackin'. :P

Thank you for visiting!

Welcome to November 8th, where I manage to upload chapter two of my first book in my Egoraven series, Legend of the Silk Rose.

If I'm reading my site stats correctly, I have had 1600 visitors since starting. Or maybe 85. I'm not really sure how to read the charts. :P

Anyway, either number is a lot more than I was expecting so thank you for visiting!

Welcome to November 1st, where I am going to crib from nhaar in terms of formatting my announcements.

Announcements for what, you say? Why, for the opening of my webcomic Egoraven.

I will be doing an upload every Sunday and right now the site features the first chapter of the first book Legend of the Silk Rose. I'm cheating a bit with posting a prose story as opposed to a comic but I worked really hard on the spot illustrations and I'm happy they still hold up. Also the prose story will allow me to get a bunch of pages done so when I finally get to the comic I shouldn't have any hiccups in the schedule.

Also, I know I should have used something like Comicpress to do the archive but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to change the layout to match my website (a ton of thanks to daemionfox for the help even if it turned out pretty futile!), so the archive is going to be pretty old school html.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my work. I did it all by myself. :D

Felicia Hardy / Black cat from Marvel Comics
5 x 9 1/2, unerased pencil with pigma pens, colored with Prismacolor / Copic markers.

I am so not prepared for PITTSBURGH COMIC CON. :P

So I posted this to my Facebook:

Remember when Warner Brothers did that total Looney Tunes crossover with the DC universe? No? It's because it DIDN'T HAPPEN! So stop screaming there's going to be a Disney Princess invasion of the Marvel Universe! THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN EITHER! GEEZE! Although expect merchandising of Mickey Mouse dressed as Spider Man. THAT is going to happen.

I got this as a reply:
I love that you become outraged about things like this.

I wanted to reply with this:

NEXT TIME I'LL POST ABOUT "UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE" OR "RAPE IN THE CONGO" JUST SO YOU DON'T THINK I ONLY CARE ABOUT NOT-AFFECTING-ANYBODY-STUPID SHIT. AND I'LL KEEP IT ABOUT HUMANS TOO JUST IN CASE YOU THINK I TALK ABOUT DOLPHIN SLAUGHTER IN JAPAN TOO MUCH.

Instead I replied with this:
There are guys who really think Disney is going to Hannah Montana the X-men. That's retarded.

But that's the problem with not being able to read people's intentions in their text.

I am just in awe at this news. I never would have guessed this merger in a million years. I guess that's how people must have felt when AOL bought Time Warner - a match made in What The Hell?! I wonder how this is going to affect my Disney stock? 4 billion dollars is a lot of money but Pixar Disney would not have gone near that decision if they felt the properties weren't worth the money.

Of course, fanboy man-children all over are getting their panties in such a twist at the thought of their beloved boy-club being contaminated by icky princess cooties. It brings a warm, evil grin to my face really.

Disney most likely bought Marvel for it's movie properties and probably could care less about the loss-lead comics. In fact, I will put money that Marvel will run without any major changes so droolers will continue to get their monthly dose of testosterone poisoned male power fantasies without disruption. Marvel will become to Disney what DC is to Time Warner - a trademark factory for media. So don't worry your pretty little heads too much over this. And I really doubt we're going to see a Marvel/Disney universe crossover ala Kingdom Hearts (although that would be mad funny). I already find Mickey and friends cavorting in the Star Wars universe weird enough (and don't lie! I know many of you secretly own the slave princess Minnie statue!)

So is this a good thing? I have no idea. I have no real emotional ties with the Marvel universe to care too much although I am curious if Disney will expand the line to include Disney properties as comics. This might end up affecting BOOM! comics more than it will affect Marvel. Actually, what I would love to see is comics of the X-Men drawn in the Disney style. I was always flabbergasted that Marvel never seriously released a comic based on the X-Men: Evolution series because I really dig the style and designs that they used (I've only seen them release children's type books). I would pick up the trades if they did either, because yo - Nightcrawler in X-Men: Evolution is OMG!HOT.

Now excuse me, I have to go draw fan art of Wolverine making out with Belle. >:D

Page 12 pencils of EGORAVEN #1

Drawing all these unicorns make me feel like I'm back in grade school. Luckily I have an actual story in this as opposed to a flimsy reason to just draw unicorns over and over. Believe it or not, that gets really boring really quick.

Also, a side note - what is it with cartoon horse artists on DeviantArt and their obsession with drawing their horse characters mating? And then drawing really graphic birthing pictures afterward? I mean, at least they're showing cause/effect but COME ON!

Edward Cullen from Twilight and Ponyo from Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo)
5 x 9 1/2, unerased pencil with pigma pens, colored with Prismacolor / Copic markers.

I think we can agree the Ponyo one came out so much better. I don't like fussing with pieces that don't work. I'll make it a point to do a better Edward at a later date.

Now off to do my Yoga and Jillian Michaels DVD before I forget.

Page 11 pencils of EGORAVEN #1

My groove really seems to be in my comic pages. Whatever con sketches and pinups I've tried to do just haven't been coming out well - that's why I haven't posted anything else new. Might as well stick to my strengths right now even though I'm questioning being able to get this done for Pittsburgh Comic Con.

Page 10 pencils of EGORAVEN #1

It's always satisfying to finally reach double digit pages. :)

"You can't wear tampons or else people will think you're not a virgin."

Oh look - TMI.

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Page 9 pencils of EGORAVEN #1

I love my new electric eraser. I had no idea it would be so handy.

Page 8 pencils of EGORAVEN #1

I find myself getting faster at these although drawing distinctive humanoids is still a challenge. It's a lot easier to fake differences with anthro characters! When I wrote this story, my main point was to not make it epic like TALL TAILS and instead make a manageable series I can actually finish in a reasonable amount of time. But to be honest that is more of a time management issue than anything else. So far I've paced the script into ten 32 page issues - I figure the whole series will be fifteen issues - twenty at most. I just want to finally tell this story and get it out of my head. Right now I'll settle for having a sketchbook #1 ready for Pittsburgh Comic Con.

Also, it's good practice for when Jose starts writing the second story arc to TALL TAILS. I don't want to take another 20 years to do that either!

I'm really liking doing these pencil pages although Jose is getting antsy about seeing actual inked pages. I know the pages look better inked (and maybe colored!) but I can't help where my groove takes me right now.

Page 7 pencils of EGORAVEN #1

This is pretty much what I want to see, which I know I won't.

I want health insurance to be the same as getting car or house insurance. I want to be able to shop around and find the best policy and best price on my own terms. I don't need IVF, WLS and Viagra on my plan. Why should I pay for it? I'd rather that money actually go to something benefiting me.

I want health insurance to NOT be associated with my JOB (when did this start happening?!). I shouldn't have to look for a job based on whether they provide health insurance. And conversely I should be able to take my health insurance with me everywhere. No one should be afraid of losing their job because they'll lose their health insurance. And I certainly don't want to be stuck at a sucky job because of that either.

I want to have the option to pay for my health care in cash. Some pharmacies have opened up small clinics with sandwich-board pricing. I want to know how much things are going to cost before I get them. I want to be able to refuse that $45 asprin and $5 bandage. If I can pay my dentist and eye doctor in cash why I can't I pay my GP? When I had my wisdom teeth pulled years ago, not only did we know exactly what it would cost but we paid the surgeon then and there. Why is general health care so complicated?

I want socialism a government health care option that anyone can buy into to get basic care as well as a private option that may be better for more serious conditions. Fedex and UPS function just fine in conjunction with the Postal Service and to say a government health care program would wipe out private insurance is retarded. And yes - I'd rather have an agency work like the Postal Service rather than Fedex. or worse - American Airlines. But you know what - I also want the choice of being able to use Fedex along with the USPS when I need it.

Oh, and Dear Private Industries - you can't bitch and moan about socialism and then turn around and scream for a government bailout when you run your company into the ground. But that's another rant.

And Dear Congresscritters - I really have a hard time taking you guys seriously when you scream about the evils of socialized health care when you guys get gold-plated health care thanks to American taxpayers. And Death Panels? Really? Hey Sarah, I don't remember anyone giving you grief about the Downs baby you had on the public dole. But I do know people who had to forgo cancer treatment because their private insurance wouldn't cover them. I know people who don't even bother to go to the doctor because if the doctor found anything their insurance wouldn't cover the treatments anyway so why find out? And it's because of government programs that my father lived 27 years on dialysis when the average is 5. (tthose programs was later dismantled by Reagan but my father was able to stay on because he was grandfathered in) My grandmother with leukemia was completely taken care of by the Spanish system until she died - and Spain also has a government system that takes care of the cost of the funeral. So please excuse me if I'm not easily convinced about EVIL GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE or just evil government in general. And by the way - is it still a death panel if some bean counter at the insurance company decides to deny you life-saving treatment which there are plenty of reports to say that they do? Yet Canada and England are still filled with old and disabled people.

Government has its place and private industry has its place. One can do things better than another but this is not a zero-sum game.

And you know what else my bourgeois ass needs? A Swarovski crystal covered pen. What's sad is that is a more realistic goal than any of the above.

That's all I got for now.

Loser in yellow hat decided it would be hysterical to harass Rob Liefield at a con and upload his antics on youtube like he's the new Tom Green.

Dear Loser in Yellow Hat,

How clever of you to find a barrel full of fish and here you are with a shotgun! Oh my! Rob Liefield's art  has wonky anatomy? OMG! I haven't heard that one in, I dunno... fifteen years? Your timeliness is astounding! Congratulations though in succeeding in being a troll in real life. There was always that pesky complaint that people who bitch about Liefeld's art (or anyone's art for that manner) would never go and tell that person to their faces how much their work sucks. And here you are, bucking the trend! I'm SURE in his entire career, Lefield has never heard that before! How to Draw the Marvel Way! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! You sure gave him the what for!

And the fact that Rob Liefield didn't have your pathetic ass thrown out of the con! You would have though he had class or something, something you obviously lack in astounding quantities but congratulations on your frat prank that only assholes like you will appreciate. Because now I hope you won't be able to show up at a con without people pointing and saying - Hey! There's that douche in the yellow hat!

And Rob Liefield will still have his name intact.

And in spite of what a lot of people really do think of Rob Liefeld's art, he's doing what he loves and making a career of it. People - except you of course - can at least give him credit for that. And I hear he's a nice guy too. Too nice according to your own video. That's two things already that people won't be talking about in reference to you.

And I don't think Attention Whore is a proper title to add to your resume which I'm sure is illustrious in its own way.

And don't get me wrong. I myself have a whole list of professional artists whose artwork I absolutely hate (worse than Rob Liefield even!). But you know what I do? I don't buy their stuff and I worry about improving my own art instead. And in the end, why would these guys give a shit over whether I like or dislike their stuff anyway?

Boy! I can't wait to see who you target next! Maybe Greg Land? It'll be hysterical to yell PORNFACE at him! He'll have no idea what you're talking about! I can see his monocle popping off his face now! What a knee-slapper! How about going up to some random inker and screaming TRACER! at them over an over! C'mon! We haven't heard that one since 1997! It'll be fun!

So in closing - thanks for making conventions just a little bit more uncomfortable and making the people who go to them look a little bit more like potential douches. Like us behind the tables don't have enough to worry about.

P.S. Tom Green isn't funny. And he's the famous one.

Edit: After reading some blogs from other professional artists on the matter, the main theme was Dude! You're making professional artists rally behind Liefield with your antics! You can hear the "eeeeeewwww" tone in a lot of these posts. Kinda makes me wonder which IS worse - some guy being a dick to you at a con or finding out your "peers" feel like they have to hold their noses to defend you. :P

Alice Cullen from Twilight
5 x 9 1/2, unerased pencil with pigma pens, colored with Prismacolor / Copic markers.

I'm not familiar with the series except for the gnashing of teeth it seems to cause. After seeing the frenzy for myself at SDCC I figured I needed more Twilight art in my box. After reading the synopsis in Wikipedia I pretty much understood why the story resonates with 14 year olds. If Twilight was a Shojo manga no one would have batted at eye at it. In fact, I'm surprised they didn't make a manga. The story seems perfect for it.

I can still say "I don't get it", though. But then again I don't "get" Harry Potter either.

Molotov Cocktease from Venture Brothers
5 x 9 1/2, unerased pencil with pigma pens, colored with Prismacolor / Copic markers.

I need to put together a website where I can sell these online. Also, I hate finding mistakes AFTER I post everything and think I'm finished! Well, technically I am finished because I can't go back in to fix anything. That's original art for you. No UNDO button!