Hey folks, I'll be signing at two Fantasy Shop locations in St Louis, MO this Thursday December 4th and Friday December 5th!! I'll be signing at the Fantasy Shop Florissant location (8232 N. Lindbergh Blvd Florissant, MO 63032. 314-831-5211) Thursday from 1pm to 8pm and at the Fantasy Shop South County location (0560 Baptist Church St. Louis, MO 63128. 314-842-8228) Friday from 1pm to 8pm. I'll have the usual fare with me: books, sketchbooks, original artwork, and a HUUUUGE stack of discount pages. I'll also be doing headshot type sketches for a smaaaall fee. I'll also be signing with some great area creators and friends of mine: Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt and Chris Samnee. For more information on the store and a map to the locations, check out http://fantasyshoponline.com/ . Come by, say hi, bring me some cookies, and chat for a while. Hope to see you there!!


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-Jeremy @ 5:51 PM 0 Comments

Hey folks, I thought I'd share a fun commission I did earlier this summer of Blondie from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" for one of my favorite fans. Not long ago, my buddy, the colorist Russ Lowery took a stab at coloring it for me. The original was done in pen and ink with ink wash on rough 8 1/2 x 11 Bristol board. I really enjoyed working on the original piece and I think Russ did a smash up job on the colors. Hope you enjoy it!


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-Jeremy @ 6:01 PM 0 Comments

Today's post are five of my artist proof cards from the recent Marvel Masterworks sketch cards. All five of them were done in one evening, start to finish. I decided to go with the standard characters, with the addition of possibly my favorite character to draw from the Marvel universe, Galactus (with a teeeeeeny tiny Silver Surfer to boot).

The cards were done on in pen and ink with Copic markers and a dab of Gellyroll white pen here and there. Aside from sketches at cons I really don't get much of a chance to work in color. While I won't claim to be great at it, by any means, I enjoy getting to dabble with the Copics now and then.

Alright, back to work for me. Hope you dig todays cards.


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-Jeremy @ 10:34 PM 0 Comments

Today's post was done just for the fun of it. My buddy Aaron is a big Star Wars fan and we've had a lot of conversations lately about the new Clone Wars animated show. One thing that came up in all of that was why haven't I done more Star Wars sketches or commissions. Out of it, just for shits and giggles I decided to do a quick piece featuring Aaron as a Jedi.

This piece was done in pen and ink on 8 x 14 in rough bristol board. Like the recent Starman piece, this one was done somewhere between my slick and rougher inking styles.

Okay, that's it for todays post! This one is on time and everything! :) I'm pretty happy with this piece and I hope you dig it too! Now go tell Star Wars editorial at Dark Horse what they're missing!!!


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-Jeremy @ 8:10 PM 1 Comments

First off, I just want to acknowledge that this post is a few hours late. Sorry. Today was my goof off day, so I spent the majority of it watching "Quantum of Solace" and playing Rock Band 2. I'm back at it and am kicking things of with part four of my daily sketchbook/commission posts.

Today's post is kind of a companion piece to yesterday's Jack Knight Starman piece. It was done as another preparatory piece for the Starman/Sandman commission. Much like Starman, the classic Wesley Dodds Sandman is easily one of my favorite DC characters.

This piece was done in pen and ink with inkwashes on 6 x 9 in rough bristol board. This one was done in a little rougher style. I love messing with drybrush and little tricks like thumb stamping when I get the chance. They always create great depth and texture.

That's it for today! Hope you dig the piece!! See you again tomorrow!


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-Jeremy @ 1:25 AM 0 Comments

Today's post is another Jack Knight Starman piece. I did this one for kicks as a precursor to the Starman/Sandman piece just to mess with my take on the character. Jack Knight has always been one of those "I'd give anything to draw that character" characters. The chances of Robinson bringing Jack back and me getting to draw him are slim to none, so get a little joy out of being able to do a Starman piece once in a while.

-Jeremy @ 4:49 PM 0 Comments

Today's post is a commission that I'd been dying to get to for a while now.  Swamp Thing is easily one of my all time favorite characters, yet somehow, up until now, I'd never gotten the opportunity to draw him.  As with a lot of characters, this one took a little figuring out as to what my take on him was going to be.  That said, I'm not really doing anything revolutionary here.  He's essentially the exact same character that has been drawn by a hundred different artists.  Still though, in my head there was a bit more, "Now how do I approach this?" than usual.  

-Jeremy @ 9:34 PM 0 Comments

Today's post is a commissioned portrait that I did for a friend.   It was done with pen and ink with ink washes and a slight watercolor tint on slick two ply bristol.  Another in my series of odd sized pieces, this one was done 10 x 10 in.  Once again I really feel like the square shape really set off the look of the piece.  I'm happy with the way the piece turned out.  While I feel that I'm good with likenesses, hell, I've done more than my share of them on books like "CHUCK", portrait work is kind of a tricky thing and not usually my cup of tea.  So if you're looking for someone to draw your kids for you...I'll kindly pass, thanks.

-Jeremy @ 8:03 PM 1 Comments

Hey folks, decided I'd do an experiment and post one recent sketchbook or commission image a day for the next week. I'll kick things off with a Starman/Sandman commission that I recently did for a fan. Starman and Sandman are two of my favorite DC characters. The chance to draw the two of them together kinda got me geek flag flying. It was done in pen and ink with ink washes on rough two ply bristol. I've been experimenting with working at odd sizes. This one was done at 8 x 14 in, which I think really helped the overall design of the piece. Overall I'm really happy with the piece. Hope you dig it too!



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-Jeremy @ 2:42 AM 1 Comments