Bond. James Buh... Oh, wait...

So it has been a while.  Too long I think.  I had quite a computer meltdown and lost quite a bit, but I am back and here is some more artistic drivel.

This started as a piece of art for the Spill.com carousel as part of the find 'em challenges we sometimes have.  Unfortunately the challenge got tossed to the way side, so the artwork was never seen.  So, here it is, in all its unseen glory!  I present, the spill crew in 'You Only Spill Twice'!

I know, I know.  Damn, I'm clever.

Professor Jeff Meets Gears of War

Started this quite a while ago and now its finally finished.  I did this for a buddy of mine who runs "The Loading Bar" over at Spill.com.

3 Dollar Bill

This is strip #150 for the webcomic 3 Dollar Bill.  It was a fill in strip for my buddy Eric Matos and I had a lot of fun doing it.  Go check out his webcomic, its worth the trip.

Chuck 'E' Cheeeeeeese Meets Raccoon City

I never played Raccoon City and I have never been to Chuck 'E' Cheese before so imagine my boss' surprise when he asked me, several months ago, to draw a character from Raccoon City killing the "beloved" animatronic characters from Chuck's only to have me say, "Have who killing the who from what now?"  So I did my research pumped out a picture and this is what came out.  And after doing the research I have come to the conclusion that I never went to Chuck 'E' Cheese as a kid because my parents loved me.

Freakazoid

I made it mo' betta'.

 

X-ThunderMen

Just fooling around.  

Eesta Me! Ah Mario!!!!

This is actually off of an old picture I dug up from 5 or so years ago that my brother and I combined talents to draw on a plane trip to California.  I say combined talents, but the genius of baby goombas wearing chucks is all him.

Ironically I found this picture while trying to figure out what to do with old art so it wouldn't take up so much space.  Instead I ended up with a new warm-up project between work and insomnia.  So I threw on some inks and some colors and tossed in the BG I did for spill.com that was never used and voila!  A bucket full of sleep-deprived, Richlen-family awesomeness!!  ...Or something.

Martial Arts Throwdown

Another commission I did recently.  Karate Kid vs Judo Master!  As fun as it is to draw the Spider-Mans and Batmans of comics, sometimes drawing the goofballs is far more fun.  This was definitely the case with this piece.  Being able to escape my digital bonds and getting to do more traditional work is always wonderful.

Jungle Action!!

This is actually a lot less sexual than the title would lead you to believe.  A lot.

This is a commission I just got finished with, for the terrific Mr. Andrew Allen.  The commission is a cover recreation, based on the art of the legendary Gil Kane, of Black Panther #25.  Mr. Allen has several more such recreations on his page Andrew Allen @ Comic Art Fans.  He was kind enough to provide a little collection of work through shots, starting with how he laid out the titles, to my initial layout.  And then from Pencils to inks and inks to added titles for a preview of the finished work.

I had ton of fun doing this and it was a welcome break from all the animating and digital artwork.  Putting pen to paper is very challenging but far more rewarding when it comes out well.  When it doesn't, I am often left wishing I had command-z on my paper. Thankfully, this was smooth sailing.

I hope you enjoy taking a peak as much as I did doing the piece.

Punishernaut

As unimaginative as this is, I wish I could say had enough imagination to come up with the idea. Unfortunately, some drunk on Ten Ton Studios did. As part of their sketch challenge, each artist had to mix a character with the Stone of Cytorak(sp?), creating any number of strange and exciting combinations of Juggernaut! Mine? Imagine this... Frank Castle, the Punisher, gains the stone, turning him into the unstoppable force known as the JUGGERNAUT and uses these powers to more easily get at bad guys through big doors and shoot them! You may be asking why he still has guns. Well, venom has body armor and a rifle right now so I blame stupidity passed on to me by unimaginative writers at Marvel. ZING!