Monkeyfeather

Mug

2012-01-24T10:17:00.000-08:00

1st mug of 2012

2012-01-03T16:32:00.001-08:00

Christmas 2011

2011-12-21T10:36:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year people of the internet.

CTN sketch

2011-12-01T07:59:00.000-08:00

Painting for Cartoon Art Museum

2011-11-14T16:31:00.001-08:00

UPDATE: You can bid on this painting HERE .

The Cartoon Art Museum has a benefit every year that takes place at Pixar. The story folks were asked if they could provide work for an auction and this is the painting that I did for it.

"Milton"
8" x 10"
Acrylic on Board

Trollhunter

2011-11-01T16:27:00.000-07:00

Trollhunter

2011-10-31T10:46:00.000-07:00

2 Doodle posts, 1 day

2011-10-28T16:31:00.000-07:00

Doodles

2011-10-28T09:12:00.000-07:00

More doodles

2011-10-21T17:42:00.000-07:00

Doodles

2011-10-20T14:16:00.000-07:00

Knight

2011-10-20T09:41:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-10-13T17:05:00.000-07:00

Rabbit Ears

2011-10-12T15:29:00.000-07:00

Mr. White

2011-10-11T16:03:00.000-07:00

So, this is weird...

2011-10-03T16:06:00.000-07:00

So my buddy Everett Downing was in San Francisco a couple of weekends ago and he saw some graffiti that he thought I should know about...

That space ape on the left sure looks like my avatar up in the right corner of this very blog.

I don't know what this means. If anyone knows where in the city this is, I'd sure like to take a closer look.

So weird...

THE NUN WITH 2 GUNS ARRIVES!

2011-09-30T07:29:00.000-07:00

I picked up my print run of The Nun With 2 Guns last night from the printer.

The book will debut tomorrow, at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco.

I will be at table 107 with the mighty Craig Berry, and the stupendous Kris Pearn. Kris will be selling copies of his gorgeous children's book, Edward the Tree Climbing Dog, as well as some prints. Craig will have prints as well, and if you ask nicely, he will give away hugs FOR FREE!

That's right, FREE HUGS from Craig.

We will also have copies of our comics anthology, ANTHOLOGY 451

Big thanks to all of the amazing artists/buddies that contributed pinups to book one!

Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Craig Berry
Daniel Chong
Jamie Baker
Luke Weber
Matt Jones (he is a liar, don't trust him.)
Mike Thomas
Octavio Rodriguez
Scott Morse

Still coming soon...

2011-09-20T07:13:00.000-07:00

Coming soon

2011-09-14T07:08:00.001-07:00

NW2G

2011-09-12T08:42:00.000-07:00

I've finished inking NW2G book 1. Half left to colour. Hopefully I get it to the printer in time for APE...

SOTD

2011-08-09T14:21:00.001-07:00

SOTD

2011-08-08T09:31:00.000-07:00

SOTD

2011-08-03T13:08:00.001-07:00

Sometimes mustachioed fellas wear pots on their heads.

NW2G cover thumbs

2011-07-28T16:33:00.000-07:00

Trying to figure out a cover design.

DOTD

2011-07-28T10:45:00.001-07:00

A little post-it doodle.

Red, White & U

2011-07-27T06:30:00.000-07:00

Here is the poster I did for KUPD's next big show, RED, WHITE, & U-FEST. This is also Holmberg's 10 year anniversary as the morning show. Pretty awesome.

Trickster piece!

2011-07-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

This is the piece that I did for the TR!CKSTER book.

I couldn't resist doing a drawing of the Monkey King. The original B&W ink on bristol board piece will be available for sale at the TR!CKSTER Art Show on Saturday night, July 23rd.

Hope to see you there!

HOTD

2011-07-14T10:42:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-07-11T14:29:00.000-07:00

Anthology 451 at TR!CKSTER!!!

2011-07-07T06:29:00.000-07:00

Our book ANTHOLOGY 451 will be available at Trickster in a couple of weeks!

We will also be doing a signing at TR!CKSTER on Thursday July 21, 2011 from 2pm until 4pm.

GO HERE FOR MORE INFO ON THE SIGNING!

What is TR!CKSTER?

TR!CKSTER is a retail space: specializing in CREATOR-OWNED wares including small run and limited edition books, fine art prints, toys, clothing, and more.

TR!CKSTER is a fine art gallery space: featuring the CREATOR-OWNED work of some of today’s most influential artists and designers.

TR!CKSTER is a series of Symposia: focused, CREATOR-DRIVEN demonstrations and discussions of method, process, and theory concerning the act of creating new, uniquely-voiced works of art.

Where is TR!CKSTER?

Hosted at the San Diego Wine and Culinary Center

200 Harbor Drive, Suite 120

San Diego, CA 92101

When is TR!CKSTER?

Tuesday, July 19^th, 5:00 PM to 12:00 AM

Wednesday, July 20^th, 12:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Thursday, July 21^st, 9:30 AM to 1:00 AM

Friday, July 22^nd. 9:30 AM to 1:00 AM

Saturday, July 23^rd. 9:30 AM to 1:00 AM

Sunday, July 24^th, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

There is also a TR!CKSTER book that has some awesome artists in it... and me. I saw the book last week and it is FANTASTIC! I will post the pic I did for the book next week.

Hope to see you in San Diego! Drop by the signing and I will draw in your book!

I don't know what this is...

2011-07-06T15:07:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-07-05T10:22:00.001-07:00

HOTD

2011-06-22T10:54:00.001-07:00

HOTD

2011-06-20T18:09:00.001-07:00

What made her angry?

2011-06-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-06-15T14:58:00.001-07:00

Post It

2011-06-07T10:05:00.001-07:00

Post It

2011-06-02T08:47:00.001-07:00

HOTD

2011-05-31T13:09:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, the HOTD has a big nose.

HOTD

2011-05-25T17:19:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-05-25T17:18:00.001-07:00

This is what she looks like before all the photoshop and airbrushing.

HOTD

2011-05-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

Non-plural Ramones

2011-04-29T09:05:00.001-07:00

Last week there was a twitter sensation called Draw the Ramones Without Reference.

HOTD

2011-04-12T14:59:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-03-31T15:55:00.000-07:00

2 for the price of 1

2011-03-30T09:24:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-03-21T12:00:00.000-07:00

Anthology 451 now on iPad!

2011-03-20T16:03:00.000-07:00

This guy thinks you should buy a copy of Anthology 451, now available on iPad from the folks at Whamix!

Link HERE, or on the right...

HOTD

2011-03-17T20:34:00.000-07:00

HOTD

2011-03-09T16:17:00.000-08:00

Inks

2011-02-27T10:18:00.000-08:00

Trying to ink in a looser style...

HOTD

2011-02-24T14:36:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-02-21T11:40:00.000-08:00

Heavy influence from Bodart today.

Secret Sneak Peek

2011-02-20T17:29:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-02-18T10:51:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-02-11T13:50:00.000-08:00

Today's HOTD, my uncle.

HOTD

2011-02-03T14:57:00.000-08:00

HOTD Miyazaki?

2011-02-01T15:21:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-01-31T17:36:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-01-28T13:21:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-01-24T17:15:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-01-21T15:42:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-01-19T15:29:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-01-14T18:20:00.000-08:00

HOTD

2011-01-13T13:14:00.000-08:00

Head of the day. A little something I started posting on twitter again.

Merry Christmas

2010-12-18T08:26:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year internet.

This was 2010's Christmas Card.

I'll leave it up to you whether Santa is actually on fire, or pulling a prank on this little kid.

Lady of many hats

2010-12-12T10:24:00.000-08:00

Drove by a lady dressed like this in LA last weekend.

She may have had more hats on than I have drawn.

SIGNING THIS SATURDAY!

2010-11-30T16:05:00.000-08:00

Hello Internet...

Hey there everyone! We're having a book signing at...

Gallery Nucleus

on Saturday December 4, 2010 from 2-5pm!

Craig Berry

Kris Pearn

Viktor Kalvachev

Rodolphe Guenoden

and John Hoffman

will all be in attendance. Stop by, say hello. We'll even draw in your newly purchased book.

See you there!

Sweary Bear

2010-11-18T09:51:00.000-08:00

Warwick J C's Sweary Bear.

2010-11-10T13:39:00.000-08:00

I was lucky enough to board this commercial for Laika House after my time at Laika Entertainment was up working on their next feature.

The Commercial was directed by Ringan Ledwidge with awesome animation direction by Mark Gustafson.

Test post

2010-11-10T12:43:00.000-08:00

In honour of Toby Cypress' Luke Cage story in next month's Strange Tales I drew my own old school Luke Cage.

This is also a test for a new posting method. Experience the technology.

Sent from my diseased electronic brain

Anthology 451 for sale ONLINE!

2010-10-24T21:26:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody. It has been a busy month and a half since I last posted. I started a new job, copies of ANTHOLOGY 451 finally arrived, and I just got back from APE in San Francisco last weekend. It was a great time meeting everyone, and the launch of the book was a blast. Craig, Kris and I had so much fun as we experienced our first time behind the table.

If you're interested in getting a copy of the anthology yourself, please click on the book cover on the right side of my blog, or head over to Gallery Nucleus' site and pick up a copy.

Hopefully I can get back to focusing on Nun With Two Guns soon, and make some more comics!

I'll try and do a post soon on the different versions of the cover I designed. The final version was #61, so there are quite a few to go through.

Baby comic

2010-09-15T07:16:00.000-07:00

Eric and his wife had a baby, so I drew a comic. Usually things don't go so well for Eric in these little comics (other than the comic where he got to punch me in the face), but since he had a kid, I thought he should come out on top.

Interestingly, he gets to punch another fellow named John in this comic.

Trend?

I think this is the first comic I have done entirely digitally. Drawn in Photoshop, toned in Manga Studio.

INFLUENCES

2010-09-08T13:34:00.000-07:00

A fun and interesting INFLUENCES MAP Meme has hit the internet like wild fire, and I have totally jumped on the bandwagon.

It all started HERE (I think.)

Check out some other cool ones by

WJC
Jonathan Edwards
Glyn Dillon
Tonci Zonjic

I'd recommend hunting down more. I've even discovered new artists because this internet craze.

I spent WAY too much time on mine. I think I could do an entire OTHER map just for filmmakers, but you can see I crammed a few into the corner there.

For the most part, these are current influences, mixed with a few that have lasted from my youth. Some day, when I have more time, I'll gush about these folks, and the folks I couldn't fit on here.

ANTHOLOGY 451

2010-08-31T10:02:00.000-07:00

I am VERY proud to announce the impending release of ANTHOLOGY 451!

This is a comics anthology that I have been working on with some friends for the past 3 years!

It is 120 pages B&W interior art, with a colour cover that you can see below.

Artists involved besides me are:
Craig Berry
Rodolphe Guenoden
Robin Joseph
Viktor Kalvachev
Kris Pearn
Mike Thomas (MT)

You can see links to their blogs and sites in the links on the right of this blog. They all did an AMAZING job.

The anthology will be debuting at APE (Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco) this October, it will be available for online purchase soon after that.

Here's the WEBSITE and there is also a FACEBOOK GROUP you can join for updates.

Big Red Night of the Dead

2010-08-19T06:28:00.000-07:00

I did the poster for KUPD's BIG RED NIGHT OF THE DEAD show in October. If you find yourself in Phoenix, you should go, the DEFTONES will be there!

Hopefully they'll do another similarly themed concert next year, because 3/4 through the making of this one, I came up with a MUCH better idea.

Igneous Eternal

2010-08-14T18:25:00.000-07:00

My good buddy Jon McNally had a 15th wedding anniversary party and was nice enough to invite my wife and I to the festivities. This is a painting I did as a a gift for them.

Igneous Eternal
5x7
Acrylic on Board

NW2G Colour

2010-07-30T14:25:00.000-07:00

Finally got back to colouring the first issue. Here's a page, since I don't think I've shown anything "whole" yet.

Birthday

2010-07-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

There was a time when I did a tonne of birthday drawings. Not so much any more, but I did this for my wife's b-day today. This was inspired by my buddy Clarke Snyder, and my wife's current interest in cupcakes.

Goonies Never Say DIE

2010-06-04T09:02:00.000-07:00

It's the 25th anniversary of THE GOONIES and there's a big celebration in Astoria, OR all weekend.

I'm lucky enough to be a part of a group show in celebration of said Goonies at the LUNAR BOY GALLERY

So, check out THE GOONIES SHOW online, or come on over for the opening this Saturday evening.

This is the painting I did for the show. My first time using Acrylic Gouache. I had hoped to do a second painting, but it just wasn't in the cards.

Truffle No Shuffle
8"x10"
Acrylic Gouache on Watercolour Board

My dreams of Sloth and Chunk in a buddy cop film will have to wait...

Mugshots

2010-05-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

2 months, seriously? Never has this blog been so neglected.

I need to get moving on a painting, so this will be short.

First is a closeup of a quick b-day drawing I did for someone. I have been roughing drawings out in red ink, then going over them in black. I like how it looks.

The rest are a collection of mugshots that I have been trying to post daily on my twitter.

WTF am I doing on twitter?

Seriously...

They're just little head drawings done directly in ink on post-its. They aren't always good, but that's the way it goes.

Whoa, I have been gone so long that the blogger interface has changed.

Focus

2010-03-12T09:34:00.000-08:00

The blog continues to suffer as I continue working at this whole employment thing (which is awesome by the way.)

I'll catch up eventually.

Until then, here's a quick photoshop drawing.

I had a camera that used to prefer to focus on things in the background.

Now I have a new camera.

UFEST 2010

2010-02-23T07:18:00.001-08:00

Ouch, it's been over a month since my last post.

It has been a CRAZY 2010 so far. The biggest news being that I now have a full time job. Not scraping by freelancing has been a nice change. Lets hope it stays that way.

I'm slowly getting back on schedule and hope to get moving forward on NW2G very soon. Issue one is inked and scanned, waiting for colour. I think I'll thumbnail the rest of the story before I get back to pencilling.

You can see a sneak peak of one of the pages on my recently started twitter account...

jhmonkeyfeather

I'll post a different one here later this week.

Until then, here is a poster I recently completed for KUPD's next UFest. This is sans logos, titles, etc...

I was trying to do my best to paint like Alberto Mielgo. As you can see, I am no threat to his status of AWESOME.

Inks

2010-01-11T08:03:00.000-08:00

Inks in progress. There will be a pause for some paying gigs unfortunately. Pay is good though.

One last post to end out the year.

2009-12-31T14:40:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year.

The pencilling continues....

NW2G Pencils Part 1

2009-12-28T10:10:00.000-08:00

Christmas is over, and the nun was busy. The Vampires didn't do so well over the holidays...

More ApeekA Zoo

2009-12-22T09:47:00.000-08:00

New animals were added to the ApeekA Zoo app. You can find it in iTUNES.

Here's a few more designs that I did.

NW2G Thumbs Part I

2009-12-20T09:08:00.000-08:00

Here are some shots of the thumbnails I did for the first issue. I drew directly in the script that I wrote, and did them a lot smaller than I have in the past.

These will make no sense.

Enjoy!

This is a design sketch for a vampire security team. I've decided on a slightly different approach now, so this thing is obsolete. Good thing, because his right hand really sucks.

NW2G Development

2009-12-13T09:43:00.000-08:00

A few sketches as I prepare to draw the Nun With 2 Guns story.

First up are some explorations of the characters she encounters in issue 1.

Now onto the Nun herself. I realised that her design wasn't as clear in my head as I thought.

Ignore the top left of the image below. It was inspired by Patricio Betteo, and has nothing to do with this...

My goal is to treat her nun clothing as close to a silhouette as possible. I'm more interested in just playing with the shape. Of course, this is what I say now. I could get into the story and chicken out.

Okay, I'm getting closer with this last group.

The Naughty List

2009-12-10T07:43:00.000-08:00

This year's Christmas card.

The Nun With 2 Guns on the desk

2009-11-06T07:22:00.000-08:00

The above pic is what my desk looked like last month. It's only SLIGHTLY less cluttered now.

This one is a shot of a Halloween House I designed for another app. It should be out soon. Just in time for Halloween... 2010? You can't tell from the photo, but the drawing is pretty giant. I think it ended up being 17" x 20". I can never draw that type of stuff small for some reason. It's a bunch of 8.5" x 11" pieces of paper taped together.

The following pics are some sketchbook shots.

The Nun With 2 Guns

2009-10-19T10:54:00.000-07:00

This was a thing that started over in the comments section of WJC's blog.

I hope to do another one when I get a spare minute or two. This was a quick doodle in my sketchbook. The spelling of PREY is intentional.

If you haven't seen Warwick Johnson Cadwell's work before, go

HERE NOW

His work is AWESOME.

ApeekA Zoo

2009-10-13T20:07:00.000-07:00

It's a sea of apps out there folks. They're all the rage. I recently worked on an app called ApeekA Zoo.

I didn't do any of the technological wizardry, but I did get to design and colour all of the characters and backgrounds. A selection of which, you can see here.

The app is for toddlers I guess aged 2-4, it's designed to teach them their animals. The plan is to update the app with new animals on a regular basis.

The App can be purchased from iTunes HERE

You can also see the apps in action at THIS youtube page.

So pick your little one up a fun little app, and if you like, leave some positive feedback on iTunes.

THANKS!

Jersey Gods #8!!!

2009-10-07T14:49:00.000-07:00

A while ago I was lucky enough to be asked to do a pin up for Jersey Gods, an Image Comic by Glen Brunswick and Dan McDaid.

This is that pin up.

Go pick yourself up a copy. It's a fun read. Really fun.

Seriously.

More fun than you're having right now.

Especially if you're still reading this blog.

Why are you still here?

You should be half way to your local comic shop by now!!!!

Save the TATAs

2009-09-15T07:02:00.001-07:00

I recently did a poster for a breast cancer charity event associated with their END OF SUMMER SCORCHER concert.

Concept Art

2009-08-17T08:01:00.000-07:00

This is a piece of concept art I did for a personal project. The initial idea is to make it into an animated TV show, but that most likely will never happen. Instead, I may repurpose the idea into a short film some day, if I'm feeling ambitious.

B-DAY time again.

2009-08-11T09:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a dump of a few recent birthday drawings...

This one (above) I did for my wife. I drew it in photoshop but then printed it out on this nice textured blue paper. I was happy with the final result so, I scanned the card for your viewing pleasure.

Igneous

2009-07-17T08:36:00.000-07:00

IGNEOUS
9x12
Acrylic on Board

My latest painting. It has been months since I've had time to do a new painting. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going...

I think this is the first in a series.

Radio Banners

2009-07-01T13:22:00.000-07:00

Here are a bunch of banners I did a while back for the 98KUPD website redesign.

All of the artwork for these banners is 100% digital. An approach I usually don't take, but for what was needed, I think worked best. They were all designed to have transparent BG's since there was a pre-existing BG for them to be placed over on the site. I threw some flat colour into the BG's on most of them for this post.

These first two were tests essentially so that I could dial into a style that they were looking for. In the end, I ended up using a different style for almost every banner. It was actually quite fun.

Here, I was attempting a kind of photocopied, high contrast look similar to the opening titles for the TV show CHUCK. It instead ended up being a little more tonal than I wanted. Doesn't matter, they didn't like it.

Feeling the portrait approach for the Morning Sickness was odd since I usually draw the morning show as very cartoony caricatures, I attempted a digital painterly approach similar to the awesome work of Kevin Dart. Only Holmberg got into this attempt because the test was shot down by everyone.

Unsure of where to go next, I moved on to some of the other DJ's.

Larry McFeelie loves Star Wars so, it was a no brainer to attempt a Drew Struzan look for his banner. I'm relatively happy with the outcome. I was concerned I wouldn't be able to capture that look using 100% digital, but I think I did a decent job of pulling it off.

The banners on the final website, http://www.98kupd.com are quite small and on some of the portraits I worked a lot bigger initially, like the McFeelie image so, here's the full version... I wish the hands were done better. Initially they were going to be cropped out of the banner entirely, but then the final dimensions were changed. Hopefully I won't make that mistake again, and make EVERYTHING as good as possible, just in case.

Next up was Fitz. For his banner I went with an image based on an artist that drew a Henry Rollins SPOKEN WORD shirt that I got at one of his shows. If I knew the artist's name, I would certainly credit his or her inspiration. I think I saw that they smartly changed the graphic on his shirt to 98KUPD for the actual banner.

The Shan-Man was just a quick painterly sketch. Just seemed to work for this one. Don't know why.

And then Bret Vesely; some refer to him as the overnight girl. My approach for him was Shepard Fairey. I looked at his Obama Portrait amongst other things. At this size you can't see that the tonal treatment is actually all lines, but it is. Most of these styles were quite a stretch from my normal cartoony style. I haven't had to do actual portraits or realistic drawings since art school.

Now it was back to THE MORNING SICKNESS. Even though they had said they wanted something different, I think I went too far from what they're used to. This time I went with the same style I used for the FITZ image. It was different enough from how I usually draw them, while still echoing what they've come to expect from me. It was approved. Success!!!

It's the small victories folks.

City Girl

2009-06-16T08:33:00.000-07:00

So, I wanted to do something kind of like those photos you see on blogs like The Sartorialist.

I did a quick digital sketch of the background from one of those photos, but the girl is not from one of those photos.