Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: A Zombie Walks into a Bar Teaser Art and Interview - Only 17 Days Left

Here's some teaser art from Jody Houser and Cliff Green story for Skin Crawling Comics, A Zombie Walks into a Bar. Here's a full Interview about their story at Fanboy Comics.

The Featured Creature 2012-13: Last Bites Part I, Candy Apple Heart

I began the Featured Creature posts only a year ago at the beginning of September 2012, but it now seems like an eternity has passed.  This has been a tumultuous and eventful year globally and personally.  My work on the Featured Creatures has followed a similar roller coaster path of development.

I had the idea of doing a weekly creature sketch percolating for several years and had never been able to actualize it before September of last year.  As soon as I began posting, the ideas and energy took off like a rocket.  I began the Featured Creature to help me keep my hand drawing skills moving forward.  It quickly evolved into something more.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Gallery Updates and My Perk - Only 18 Days Left

Check out the updated gallery from the Skin Crawling Comics creators at the Indiegogo page.  Also If you haven't checked out my perk offering for the fundraising, please go here.  I have ten original drawings available for the taking.  Also, be sure to thank Paul Chapman and Rachel Pandich for their hard work!

Psyche Delectus: Understanding

In darkness and silence,
mystery distills into understanding.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Kate Carleton Preview Art - Only 19 days Left

Here are some preview images from Kate Carleton's and Thomas Pandich's story for Skin Crawling Comics. 

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Heroes and Villains Podcast - Only 20 Days Left

Rachel Pandich and Thomas Pandich appear on the Heroes and Villains podcast to talk about Morbius: The Living Vampire and shpeel a bit about Skin Crawling Comics.  Listen to the podcast here.

Psyche Delectus: Room 101

I know I said I was only going to post only on Mondays, but I'm in here up to my eyeballs in Skin Crawling posts, so I figured I'd through this extra in.  I did this earlier this summer when the whole NSA mess began to unfold.  Enjoy.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Shortbox Podcast - 3 Weeks Left

At the Shortbox Podcast: Rachel Pandich, Ashley Lanni, and Thomas Pandich dish about Skin Crawling Comics and the Indiegogo fundraising campaign.  Listen to the podcast here.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: "Buried" Teaser Art - 22 days Left

Here's another bit of teaser art from Buried.  Buried is written by Bryant Dillon with art by Chris Thorne and colors by yours truly! If you like what you see here and would like to see more, support Skin Crawling Comics!

From the Archives: Purple Sharpie Portrait

This is me playing with purple sharpies again.  A quick portrait here exploring some P. Craig Russell style line work.  I think I'd just gotten some new sharpies and was breaking them in.  Not as much time to noodle things the way I used to.  I used to get lost in the lines for hours.

{Sharpie}

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Teaser Art for "The Appetite" - 24 days Left

Here are a couple of teaser images from Laura Bearl's and Carl Boehm's Story, "The Appetite".  You can read some more about it here in the interview with Fanboy Comics.  If like what you see here and want to see more, support Skin Crawling Comics!

Growing The Worlds of the Featured Creature

It's been awhile since I've felt like the Featured Creature images were only sketches.  The drawings and posts have mutated into something much larger than my original thought behind the project.  I feel silly calling them sketches anymore.

The production process for each piece has become quite involved, mirroring much of the process of creating a finished comic book page.  As becoming a comic book creator is one of my personal goals, I suppose unintentionally I've been moving in that direction all along.  So what does all this patter mean for the future of the Featured Creature?

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: No Place Like Gnome Teaser Art - Only 25 Days Left

Here's some teaser art from Josh Hoye and Paul Chapman's story No place Like Gnome.  If you like this and want to see more, support Skin Crawling Comics!

Psyche Delectus: Tea with the Seeress

Within her veiled alcove,

the geometries of prophecy are revealed.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Hoard Preview 26 Days Left

Here's a Free Download of Hoard from Rachel Pandich and Ashley Lanni through Fanboy Comics.  This is some of the original work that will appear in Skin Crawling Comics!  Enjoy and support Skin Crawling Comics!

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: My Indiegogo Perk Offering - 27 Days Left

As part of the Skin Crawling Comics experience, I'm offering original black and white art as one of the perks for Indiegogo fundraising campaign.  I'll draw and ink your favorite Skin Crawling Monster, Creature, or Killer.  Check out the Skin Crawling Indiegogo page for full details!  Below are just few monstrous examples of what I can do.  Also check out the Featured Creature page for more examples.  If you like what you see here and want more, support Skin Crawling Comics!

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: Crisp Comics Spotlight - 4 Weeks Left

Crisp Comics spotlights the Skin Crawling Comics Indiegogo campaign. Read more here.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: "Buried" Teaser Art - 29 Days Left

Buried is written by Bryant Dillon with art by Chris Thorne and colors by yours truly! If you like what you see here and would like to see more, support Skin Crawling Comics!

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: 081413 30 Days

Here's some Skin Crawling Comics zombie preview art from Aaron Hazouri!

From the Archives: Wounded Heart

Here's a quick sketch from an old sketchbook.  I used Sharpie and a ball point on this one.  I think I was at work when I did it.  If cleaned up and redrawn, I think this would make a decent tattoo design.

{Sharpie and ball point pen}

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: 081313 1 Month

More Skin Crawling Comics preview art here and here from Edmund Dansart!  Yummy!  Check it out!

Featured Creature: The Wound

I'm not completely back on track yet with the Skin Crawling Comics coloring I've been doing for the Serpentine Cure and everything else that's happened since July first.  Regrettably this means the Featured Creature is still on hold for awhile longer.  However, I didn't want to let August pass without getting at least one creature in the mix.  I apologize for the absence of any creepy fiction to go with this piece.  Maybe something will come out later.  I could certainly see this thing showing up in The Devil's Square.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: 081213 32 days

Here is some delicious preview art from Edmund Dansart.  Enjoy!

Also - Rachel has asked that we remind everyone that the Indiegogo is a FIXED funding crowd sourcing, much like Kickstarter.  This means that we only get funded if we make our funding goal.  Otherwise we have to try again.

Psyche Delectus: Comes The Yaga

Through fog and mist,
cross the plains of knowing,
in twilight moments,
comes the Yaga.

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: 081113 33 days

I may have posted this link before, but we're fundraising, so if I haven't I need to.  Check out Fanboy comics for the Skin Crawling Comics Press release!

Skin Crawling Comics Countdown: 081013 34 days

Here's a fresh post about Skin Crawling Comics on Deviant Art from Chrsitine Brunson with some excellent preview art and links!  Check out the goodness!  Also check out the excellent QR Code below that Buried Artist, Chris Thorne created to help everyone get to the Indiegogo page.  Scan, share or click!

Skin Crawling Comics Today: 080913

Until the Indiegogo fundraising deadline I'm going to focus the majority of my posts on Skin Crawling Comics promotion.  I know its a little "one note" but there's an army of creators in this project and I'm happily involved so I REALLY want it to succeed!  I'll be posting about Skin Crawling as often as possible between now and September 13th with links and news to let you know more about the project.

From the Archives: Azazel

Here's a more recent sketch, but this one has a digital twist.  I developed this image while playing in Photoshop and exploring paintbrush options.  I was very pleased with the painterly style that emerged.  There will be more of this style coming and with greater color exploration.

{Created in Adobe Photoshop}

 

Psyche Delectus: Child of Darkness

Born of darkness,
grown in the deeper shadow,
his eyes were always clear in the glint of twilight.
The light, when it came, was not relief,
but only greater pain
on flesh too frail to bear the illumination.
Hailed as thin skinned,
he retreated to the only safety he'd known.

Skin Crawling Comics Update: 080113

Everything this week has been abruptly put on hold.

The heavy continuous rains of the past few weeks have driven local yellowjackets, who nest generally in the ground, into the wall outside my studio.   From there, the pesky critters found their way into my studio through the molding.  I've been moving furniture all week to try and find their entry point while simultaneously avoiding getting stung.  A challenging week to say the least.  Hopefully, before this time next week I'll be back on track and yellowjacket free.

From The Archives: Devil's Square, Screwworm

Psyche Delectus: His Mother's Ghost

She knits her black cloth by the light of television static.

Skin Crawling Comics Update: 072513

In her recent post, Crossing the Line, Skin Crawling Comics' Editor-in-chief, Rachel Pandich, talked more on the Hoinsky Book controversy at Kickstarter and the direction of  SCC fundraising.  That leads me to this weeks big news: the fundraising issue has been resolved and Indiegogo is now the host for fundraising for the Skin Crawling Comics Anthology!  WAHOO!  Just click here or the Indiegogo logo below to check out the fundraising page. The Indiegogo will run until September 13th, 2013.

From The Archives: Memory

Sketches of a panel sequence from my notebook inspired by a young man I met at the time.  His immense feelings preceded him.  This was to become a layout like some of my other sequential poetry work.

{Ball Point Pen}

Featured Creature Update: Delays

Sorry to be the bearer of delaying news, but any new Featured Creature posts are on hold until I can finish my coloring work on The Serpentine Cure for Skin Crawling Comics.  The coloring process is pretty much full time and I have to give that precedence for the time being.  As soon as that is finished, though, I have several creatures waiting in the wings to creep forward.

On a happy note, comic book coloring is the kind of work that I've been working towards and it may become financially viable for me. It would be a dream come true.  Sorry again for the delay, but hopefully this will allow me to get a bit ahead when the Featured Creatures do return.  :-)  See you soon.

Psyche Delectus: Knights of Valzoth

The bringers of Death,
the armored puppets of Doom,
the Knights of Valzoth are never slain.
They only slumber until called upon
to rise once more from their coffin stables
and raise their blood soaked hands
in mechanical fealty to their dark master.

Psyche Delectus: Kali

Though she goes by many names,
the devouring mother
is always recognizable.

Preview: Jimmy's End

Skin Crawling Comics Update: 071813

Between world events, several personal challenges, group ethical and moral clashes, and one of the most intense astrological summer's on record, I feel like I was shoved underwater at the beginning of June and am only just beginning to surface.  With the record nonstop rains we've had for the past three weeks, underwater isn't far from the truth.

Slowly but surely the pages for the Serpentine Cure move forward.  The process for full color imagery is a bit more involved than what I've done before now. I'm in the process of whittling down the rough edges on this very steep learning curve. I'm picking up speed, but only very slowly.

I've finally got all the pages for the story 'flatted'.  Flatting is the process of putting in all the flat base coloring for a comic book page.  Once I got knee deep in flatting The Serpentine Cure, I realized why colorists pay other colorists to do it for them.  It is extremely exacting and time consuming.  Flatting has been the biggest time consumer in this whole process so far.  Like I said, a steep learning curve.

The Serpentine Cure

Tatiana Christian - Writer
Jenay Gordon - Artist
Rachel Pandich - Editor
Gerald Rathkolb - Editor

In the meantime, here's the color version of the Skin Crawling Comics cover.  I don't know if this is the final version, but very cool regardless. I hope you enjoy!

 Skin Crawling Comics on the web

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Cover ~ Cover in Color