I’m pretty sure that the illustration on the right is an earlier version of the horse position that I posted a few days ago. Certainly I like this version better than that.
The figure on the right is probably a simple punch.
Kung Fu Dictionary 3
More kung fu dictionary. A backhand punch and an elbow jab. I didn’t like that jab and redrew it later.
Kung Fu Dictionary 2
Another couple of examples of the kung fu visual dictionary from the unfinished Mandate of Heaven RPG. I believe that’s a palm strike on the left and (probably) a couple of leopard punches on the right. I did these back in 2004 and my memory on exactly what I illustrated is a little fuzzy.
Kung Fu Dictionary 1
Mandate of Heaven was a role playing game Derek Fetters and I tried to put together in 2004. He was the writer. I was the illustrator. One of the features of the game that Derek came up with was to be a visual kung fu dictionary. The intention was to provide players with a set of visual references so they could create more interesting action sequences. Here we have the basic “horse” position on the left and a left cross punch on the right.
Color by Swenson 4
This is the last of the art samples (that I’ve found anyway) from 1998 with Jeff Swenson digitally painting over my pencils. I don’t think that this was one of the pages of the comic. I think we did this one just to see what it would like to have him paint over my pencils. It’s … interesting. It’s always weird for me to have someone ink or color my work. Not bad. Just a little weird. I can digitally color my own work now but in 1998 I barely understood what Photoshop did, let alone Painter. And even if I did Jeff could paint far faster than me. Hell, he could probably paint faster then than I can now.
Color by Swenson 3
Another example of a comic art from 1998, penciled by me, digitally painted by Jeff Swenson. The company we were submitting to published “adult” comics – meaning there was nudity and violence in the stories. So we included nudity and violence in the samples.
Color by Swenson 2
Another example from 1998 of Jeff Swenson’s digital painting over my pencils. I don’t remember how many pages of samples we did. Probably 3. It was a brief vignette featuring some sort of detective investigating an old house in the sticks. I believe I drew the pages as regular comics and then Jeff created individual paintings of each panel and then put them back together as a page. If so, I don’t have the final digital pages. The samples I’m showing are scans of printouts that I had in my files.
Color by Swenson 1
The details of this are pretty fuzzy. Fuzzier than normal anyway. If I remember correctly, in 1998 or 1999 Nizzibet was contacted by someone she knew in comics who was looking for artists to work on some sort of color horror comic. She suggested that Jeff Swensen and I put together some samples. I did the penciled art and he digitally colored/painted it. This was long before I knew my way around Photoshop.
Storyboard 3
And here is the last of the panels that I’ve found for that Comcast commercial.
(If you came by yesterday you’ve already seen this and need to scroll down for the earlier panels. I originally posted them out of order. Not that it matters much.)
Storyboard 2
Another couple of panels from the storyboards I did in 1998 for a Comcast commercial. Don’t you want your cable? NOW?
