The Brush Off....

A Chubby Cheekers story to bid this blog adieu. More can be found HERE.

Brushpen Migration....

Yes, I've migrated to Tumblr. Ah, the march of technology! Come follow the Brushpen as it continues the journey on the latest(ish) free web platform.

As a parting gift, I will be posting the full Chubby Cheekers chapter from the upcoming "FUME" comic book. In the meantime, here's a brush-up from last weekend's Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon.

Chubby: on set, off camera. Smoke break (it was the 60's...).

From a current work-in-progress. Ladies and gentlemen, I present Mr. and Mrs. Chubby Cheekers.

You see, it's Chubby's birthday....

An unused sketch from my San Diego Opera excursion. Bought some new Tombo felt-tip brushpens just special for this trip--I had high hopes for these, forgetting that I'd used 'em before years ago and not got on with 'em. But I'd forgotten that, and in prep for this opera gig I'd dug up my old pens and did a few sketches--and I loved them! Real frothy with this ability to build up a line thru tone that is quite unique in my experience. They were old, (maybe 10 or even 20 years old??), basically unused all that time...so old that they were only good for a drawing or two before completely dying.

Here's an example of the OLD ones:

You can see the difference. Excited by this look, I bought six new pens...tried 'em out, but they didn't work at all. The new ones are way too wet, without any character to the line, and zero ability to generate tone.

So, a big dud.

Maybe I'll try and dry the new ones out by leaving the caps off for a while....

From drawing at the Opera Wednesday night. Check out the full story at the San Diego Opera Blog.

An off-the-cuff Kirby tribute that got out of hand....

Had a lunch-time sketch session today with the famous Joe Sanabria!

That's right...I'm just gonna post this as if I've been servicing this blog all along....