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Yeah, so it's been a while and I apologize for that. Kinda been a bit crazy lately, professionally and personal life-wise. Trying to get back on track though, so deal with me a bit as I get my life back in order. On the plus side, I have just accepted a full-time gig as Character Designer over at 4kids. Not much really changes from what I've been doing for the past year, except for a title and some of the benefits that come along with being an employee to a major company. It's good to have some stability for once.
My main priority there is, as it has been for the past year, Chaotic card illustration and character design. I'd love to show you some of the stuff we've been coming up lately, we've really been hitting our stride. I feel like I'm doing some of the best work of my career right now, and it feels good, even though there's a lot of it (and never enough time to do it, lol). I also helped out on the new season of TMNT, which will be coming out sometime this month. I worked on the style guide and also did some illustration work for the show intro. I'll post those when I get the go ahead, they came out pretty cool.
I also recently completed this cover to a TMNT Season 2 DVD. Colors by Emilio Lopez.
More Upper Deck for y'all! Papi! David Ortiz of the Red Sox here was actually the first design I did for Upper Deck, about a year ago. Still one of my favorites thus far. Maybe it's a Boston thing, I dunno.
David Wright of the Mets.
Finally, you guys can peep some of the stuff I did for Wolverine & The X-Men, coming out in 2009. These are pics I took from San Diego Comicon, where they had this big set up at the Marvel Booth promoting the new cartoon. The Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Cyclops were all drawn by yours truly. :)
I got plenty more stuff I'd like to show you guys, but I just have to wait until the right moment to do so. I promise to post more regularly tho, you have my word. Holla back!
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The Kharupt World Tour continues, this time in sunny Southern California. The San Diego Comicon is July 24-27th. I won't have a table but I will be at the Chaotic booth (booth #3351) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 2:30, kissing babies, signing autographs and giving out my personal cell # to the groupies (ladies only, please). But for real, if you're gonna be there, definitely swing by and chop it up with me. San Diego is my favorite con and it's always a good time. But be on good behavior, because there will be lots of little kiddies (and my bosses) around.
And if you don't see me on the con floor, you can be damn sure you will see me at the hotel bar later on that nite. Holla atcha boy.
Melke is designed and drawn by yours truly, and colored by Tony Washington. And can I say, I've seen some stuff from Chaotic Season 2, and it is %$7;^ing AWESOME. Seriously, the show has changed up a lot from Season 1 to Season 2, and y'all are not ready.
Well dear friends, it is that time once again. I will be attending Wizard World Chicago (June 26th-29th) for the 4th consecutive year. I always have a good time at WWC, and I'm looking forward to it as always. I'll have the usual goods (Black Books, prints, watches, original art, yadda yadda yadda), plus I'll be doing sketches and commissions and the like. I'll be sitting with my homeboys Greg Titus and Eric Jimenez. So holla atcha boy, y'all!
And some more art, of course. This is Ultradur, from a recently released set of Chaotic cards. Art and design by yours truly, colors by Emilio Lopez.
Aight. So every con I've done in the last year or two, I always get the same question: What the hell have you been up to? Because since I'm not actively involved in the comic book industry and people don't see my name in a lot of places, a lot of people seem to think that I'm not working, or that I'm struggling or something. Well guess what kids, that is soooo, so far from the truth. In all honesty, my career has never been this good and I count my blessings that I've been able to be a working professional for almost NINE years. Crazy, right? The thing about it is, specifically in the last 2-3 years most of my focus has been in the animation industry. And unlike comics, the turnaround on projects is a lot slower, and ya just can't talk about stuff, it's all non-disclosure. And by the time I get to show you guys art, it's old news to me. But hey, c'est la vie.
My current gig, the job that I spend most of my time on, is Chaotic. I know I've mentioned it before, but just to recap, it is a cartoon and a card game. It's currently on Fox Saturday mornings, but that will be changing to the CW very soon, maybe already. My role on the property is as head card art illustrator. I get the descriptions, and then I design the characters and then illustrate them. The animators then take the card art and translate for animation.
I started this gig in late '05/early '06, knocked out the first set of cards, then took time off to work on Wolverine. I then came back in September of '07 and I've been working inhouse every since. It's definitely the most fun I've had on a job, and I'm glad I have it. And when I'm not working on Chaotic, I spend my other waking hours doing stuff for the new season of Ninja Turtles. Or Upper Deck. Or the odd online Spawn comic. And when I'm not doing THAT stuff. . . I sleep.
So there, full disclosure. No more secrets. Okay, that's a lie. I mean, I can't show my whole hand, right? ;)
Here's some Chaotic stuff you. The first card, colored by Tony Washington, the second by Emilio Lopez.
This piece was done a while ago, but I just got to see the finished version recently, and I figured it'd be fun to share. It's a bunch of artists, one to each character. From left to right, it's Batman by Dustin Nguyen, Man-Bat by Jim Calafiore, Batgirl #1 by Skottie Young, Nightwing by ???, Robin by Eric Canete, Alfred by Sean Chen, Commissioner Gordon by Chris Moreno, and Batgirl #2 by myself.
Yup, that's the official word. The network is Nicktoons, the date is Spring 2009. And just to show an example of how slow things work sometimes, put this in perspective. I started work on the show Summer of 2006 and finished up my obligations Summer 07. Crazy, right?
Anyways, here's another trailer to whet your appetite till next Spring. Enjoy.
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