Terracotta Warrior Part 2

Here's more in-progress shots of the sculpture. After using the Hotwire tools to remove the larger planes, I then turned to power sanders and sandpaper to continue refining the form.

The Terracotta Warrior

Sorry I've been away so long everyone, but I've been pretty busy with some interesting projects lately. Sifu Michael Matsuda, a friend of me and my wife is opening The Martial Arts History Museum in Burbank, whose Grand Opening is going to be on June25th, asked me to create a sculpture of a Terracotta Warrior for display. What? Of course I agreed! (I've never done anything like this before). I was just about to go on hiatus from the Simpsons for a few weeks, so that gave me a little time to work on it, although two weeks was pushing it in terms of getting it done! Here is a series of "making of-" shots I took as I was creating it. ( I LOVE "making of-" shots, don't you?) This'll be the first in series of pics on making this. The whole thing is carved out of EPS foam (Extruded Poly Styrene) with HotWire Foam Factory tools, power sanders, and elbow grease. Enjoy.

New Sketchbook

I just finished another sketchbook yesterday, and bought one of those Moleskine sketchbooks. I broke it in last night at life drawing at the studio, drawing one of the most amazing models, Joe Gatt. Drawn in cheap ballpoint pen.

Squirruls

Squirrulls. 'Nuff said.

Frazetta Tribute

Hi Everybody, sorry I've been away for a while, but the holiday season always has me up to my eyeballs with stuff to do, and it leaves me little time to update my blog. The first entry for this new year is a piece I just did for my Comic Club's self-published Fanzine back in Hawaii. The theme is a tribute to Frank Frazetta, and I decided to pay tribute to those old men's magazine illustrations he did. Those ink drawings are just amazing!

Blacksad vs. Catwoman

Here is another in the series of drawings that play around with the juxtaposition of different but similar characters from different comics. This is one that crosses over Juanjo Guarnido's Cat-Detective Blacksad with DC's Catwoman.

On MSNBC

Check it out! I was interviewed by a crew from MSNBC at the Comicon talking about my friend Stuart Ng's book business. I get all of my best books from Stuart exclusively. You should, too! ( stuartngbooks.com) See the piece on MSNBC. http://www.openforum.com/yourbusinesstv