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spare panel ideas

2012-02-11T17:01:00.000+01:00

lobster johnson warmup doodles- maybe they'll sneak their way into an issue somewhere?

from the sketchbook*

2012-01-31T23:40:00.000+01:00

*not that anything with that name exists anymore

redrum

2012-01-22T21:40:00.001+01:00

WIJE? original art

2012-01-20T19:13:00.002+01:00

I'm too slow in posting this here, but about a dozen of Who is Jake Ellis? pages are still up for sale over here.

the creep

2012-01-13T15:02:00.000+01:00

not secret anymore: a cover for Dark Horse Presents #11, out in April.

the burning hand, pt.2

2011-12-29T23:54:00.000+01:00

sooner than you think: a preview of issue two.

lobster johnson: the burning hand

2011-12-22T19:06:00.001+01:00

this one's been a long time coming - preview here

site update

2011-12-04T03:58:00.001+01:00

the main site, to-zo.com , has been updated with some new stuff and a slightly tidier look-- while i can't predict how it'll work on your iphone/ipad/new thing, it should look pretty good on your computer. hope you like!

unused cover sketch

2011-11-21T14:17:00.001+01:00

100% photoshop on this one, again.

sketchbook funnies

2011-10-28T14:27:00.002+02:00

they crack me up every time. my sketchbook is mostly filled with depressing, dour characters like this serious guy here:

peddling

2011-10-18T19:24:00.000+02:00

want to own an original drawing of mine? that Akira pinup I posted a while ago is now ~~sold.~~

captain vague

2011-09-07T04:02:00.000+02:00

jumping on the already past starwatcher meme- i also get extra points for generic vagueness, i think. then again, who can get any vaguer than moebius?

b.o.t.p.o.t.a.

2011-08-31T16:16:00.002+02:00

(with temporary logo there)

a recent cover for Gabriel Hardman and Boom! studios' new Planet of the Apes miniseries. also, that's proper sign language up there, saying "murder".

into light

2011-08-30T04:31:00.002+02:00

into darkness

2011-08-26T22:38:00.001+02:00

2011-08-03T19:45:00.001+02:00

185

2011-08-02T19:24:00.001+02:00

creeping toward 200...

g

2011-07-22T18:44:00.001+02:00

(instant t-shirt?)

kaneda

2011-07-21T18:01:00.003+02:00

(click for the full size drawing)

a warmup drawing from today. can't go wrong with akira.

old brushes

2011-07-20T23:12:00.002+02:00

old photoshop brushes, that is, from 2005. i have no idea what i was using them for, but they are fun to doodle with.

collected

2011-07-17T12:16:00.004+02:00

could possibly make a dandy wallpaper maybe?
here is a big version that should cover most screens (might need some trimming)

starborn

2011-07-13T14:07:00.002+02:00

this one's from a while ago, just realized i forgot to put it up here.

extras

2011-07-12T21:30:00.004+02:00

putting together the extra material for WIJE trade paperback...

pimp

2011-07-07T20:35:00.004+02:00

mockup of the book, with the spine. below, the finished cover.

three quarters of an inch

2011-07-04T01:57:00.002+02:00

sunday painter

2011-06-15T16:46:00.001+02:00

since all comics work is secret right now, more book cover stuff. a rough, this.

a book with six covers

2011-06-09T12:53:00.003+02:00

apparently all six will be printed, a hundred of the first and fifty each of the other ones.

1 2 3 4 5

2011-06-01T03:09:00.000+02:00

170

2011-04-14T20:20:00.001+02:00

motion

2011-03-12T06:51:00.002+01:00

issue five cover pencils

2011-03-10T00:17:00.001+01:00

wednesday

2011-02-23T16:58:00.002+01:00

out today, Who is Jake Ellis #2. there's a couple of previews floating around, too:

issue 2, five days to go

2011-02-18T18:18:00.000+01:00

the book that wasn't there

2011-02-17T03:39:00.004+01:00

more doodling from the other day, trying out a marker. anything else... well.

from gagarin's point of view

2011-02-12T06:00:00.001+01:00

(click to enlarge a bit)

slice of wife

2011-02-10T17:53:00.003+01:00

~~life drawing~~ wife drawing. wish i'd had a normal pencil, but it turned out well. been a while since i did any of this sort of stuff, too.

astro-not

2011-02-09T22:51:00.003+01:00

from the 'sketchbook'. nothing heavy, just doodling, with a bit of color in PS.

who is jake ellis #2 cover sketch

2011-02-09T20:32:00.003+01:00

that is, a sketch for the cover- pretty much all digital for this part. used the same process on all of them, can't post more at the time, though. maybe some of it makes it into the trade paperback, or later on here--

another bit of pencils

2011-02-08T22:09:00.000+01:00

a thought completed

2011-02-06T00:18:00.000+01:00

rough layout vs. finished art

cover rough

2011-02-05T10:43:00.001+01:00

several more heads

2011-02-03T20:28:00.003+01:00

portraits: i haven't been posting these regularly, so here's some favorites from the past year, in no particular order:

2011-02-02T00:09:00.002+01:00

drawing cover for issue 5, but i see that issue 4 is in the previews, so here's that one--

influence map

2011-01-30T19:40:00.004+01:00

from a while ago, but might be interesting to some. hopefully there'll be some surprises in there! it follows the rules of the meme, hence the omission of a number of important people. also, looking back, these "influence maps" in the end turned out to be more about "things we like (and hope have influenced us)", didn't it?

#162

2011-01-20T20:01:00.001+01:00

head start

2011-01-18T18:41:00.005+01:00

a doodle, after months and months! haven't done these since 2008, but i did one today for warmup. might be interesting to compare. (about eight and a half centimeters high in real life; probably much larger on your screen.)

jake ellis says:

2010-12-31T06:57:00.002+01:00

lights out for 2010, cue 2011. it's been a great year by all accounts.

is

2010-12-16T18:16:00.002+01:00

who

2010-12-13T18:30:00.001+01:00

156

2010-12-02T18:54:00.003+01:00

yup, still there: three full years of these portraits. if someone told me that when i started, i probably would've called them insane. the printed version has shrunk to about 40% of its original size, so let's see if it makes it to the next good round number.

43 days to go

2010-11-29T08:39:00.001+01:00

bigger version here

tricky

2010-11-24T13:14:00.001+01:00

who is jake ellis - black and white

2010-11-18T22:22:00.002+01:00

no spoilers, since this one was in the preview, just thought i'd post it in black & white...

who is jake ellis?

why don't you-- part three

2010-11-03T00:44:00.004+01:00

from the "sketchbook", a while ago-

miniature people

2010-11-01T17:25:00.000+01:00

book cover - slightly less rough

2010-10-27T23:40:00.000+02:00

book cover rough

2010-10-21T01:00:00.001+02:00

(for a bit of a change from the usual)

october 13th

2010-10-13T18:03:00.003+02:00

out today- JSA 80 page giant #1 and Heralds HC.

who is jake ellis?

2010-10-11T14:47:00.004+02:00

more information in an interview here. obviously, i'll be posting more about this!

there

2010-10-01T15:35:00.001+02:00

two bits

2010-09-15T13:51:00.007+02:00

one thing crossed off the to-do list (yay). it's a part of this, which comes out the same day as the heralds hardcover (for anyone keeping track). colored this one myself -- more such stuff coming soon, as it's about to get announced.

negative space

2010-09-09T21:54:00.001+02:00

wee hours

2010-09-08T05:11:00.005+02:00

alas, just another cropped bit... thanks for the comments, everyone! hoping to get something more interesting up soon, when the deadlines allow. exciting things in the works, in any case.

keep on cropping

2010-07-30T03:16:00.002+02:00

splash

2010-07-16T02:36:00.003+02:00

sure hope we get to the sea sometime soon!

bright hand of doom

2010-06-30T18:30:00.004+02:00

one of the rare finished-looking things from the sketchbook. probably 1:1 on the screen. drawn around 6 or 7 am, while winding down before sleep.

there's drawing involved

2010-06-25T14:57:00.004+02:00

...a better idea often looks like this.

alternate take

2010-06-23T01:30:00.001+02:00

same difference

2010-06-22T00:21:00.004+02:00

tossed out some six-eight months old pencils today and redid them. total lifesaver. nothing worse than inking over old pages. it never works out.

one shot

2010-06-15T18:31:00.002+02:00

(now clickable)

time to start reminiscing

2010-06-10T18:07:00.004+02:00

hey, remember when i was drawing heralds?

colored by nathan fairbarn, who did a terrific job!

k.i.s.s.

2010-06-07T19:38:00.001+02:00

on borrowed time

2010-06-02T15:00:00.000+02:00

two posts in one day? so it goes. (i know what you'll want to point out, but it's not a mistake. story thing!)

pre-flight

2010-06-02T01:42:00.001+02:00

last ten

2010-05-31T01:56:00.005+02:00

somehow i switched to posting on sundays... maybe because the internet is empty on sundays? this week Heralds wrap up! can you guess what's next? (not really)

almost there

2010-05-21T15:43:00.001+02:00

here's the thing

2010-05-16T00:14:00.000+02:00

monday abstract

2010-05-10T13:29:00.002+02:00

at this point (issue 4) everything's a spoiler. maybe i can cut out some panels with the fantastic four next... hm.

color comprehensive

2010-05-04T23:17:00.002+02:00

rough from last year on the left, new comp on right

a monday

2010-05-03T18:53:00.000+02:00

hope to put more stuff up soon!

ink spots

2010-04-19T15:05:00.003+02:00

two more. the first one is out today so if you're in croatia and reading vecernji list, check it out! (the other three will be published daily in the next three days.)

drawing?

2010-04-16T17:38:00.003+02:00

spot illustration done 1:1, after chasing the deadline across half of the country. i wonder if it gets published. if it does, then it's three more to go...

90 percent

2010-04-11T17:49:00.002+02:00

...of drawing is erasing, or so it seems. today i've been redrawing some panels, trying to put a bit more life into it and hopefully make it more interesting.

2 out of 4

2010-04-08T21:30:00.001+02:00

two bits

2010-04-04T15:12:00.004+02:00

very busy being slow! (and again, pages consist mostly of spoilers)

in other home manufacture news is the lalashoes givaway, here , check it out!

the eye

2010-03-28T01:35:00.003+01:00

uncropped:

might make a good wallpaper?

dot com

2010-03-26T19:37:00.004+01:00

...is up and running, finally. a lot of the stuff was posted on the blog, but there's a solid amount of unseen stuff, presented in much more organized manner. click the image to jump there:

it's a running version, but not final- content will be added as i go, and if you notice any strange behavior or errors, please let me know. hope you enjoy rummaging!

p.s. all this has no effect on the blog- posting will continue as before.

guest star

2010-03-25T01:10:00.002+01:00

another bit of something for something by someone else!

crop rectangles

2010-03-24T14:07:00.003+01:00

while i'm doing thumbnails for the next two issues, here's a couple more bits from this one. and hello new visitors- i hope you enjoy your stay!

天皇 / tenno

2010-03-23T18:41:00.004+01:00

exactly one hundred years ago, akira kurosawa was born. try to watch one of his movies today if you can- each one is excellent. this was also a chance to try out some paints i never used before- i switched it from ink to paint midway, poor planning!

two step

2010-03-22T20:55:00.002+01:00

this issue had so much fun stuff, but alas, i can't show much- even this had to be cropped.

pig doodle

2010-03-21T17:40:00.004+01:00

scarce updates, busy with being late! but another sketchbook is finished and tossed under the desk, and a new one is up with 96, clean, A5-sized opportunities. no anatomy in this one, or random heads, only useful stuff!

three years in limbo

2010-03-14T19:51:00.001+01:00

extras

2010-03-10T21:37:00.001+01:00

(some of the bit players from the pages at hand)

heralds

2010-03-09T11:37:00.004+01:00

"the next thing" has been officially announced, so here's a few pages:

you never get those hours back

2010-03-06T22:49:00.002+01:00

(click on the pic to open a larger version)

who doesn't love the yellowed, rough paper and the way zip-a-tone looks on it? this is an old sketchbook joke recycled solely for that purpose.

black, white and black again

2010-03-01T17:13:00.000+01:00

week 116

2010-02-13T02:29:00.001+01:00

a raw bit of the portrait from today's papers

memories

2010-02-11T16:48:00.002+01:00

still drawing stuff i can't post so here's something i drew before superman:

it's probably the oldest comic page i have- from 7th grade (maybe?). no books on drawing, no internet, just a fountain pen, straight, over panel borders printed in microsoft word. i wasn't one of the kids who drew entire episodes of things in their biology notebooks, so this page, with maybe a few scattered other ones, is about it until...2004?

ever upward

2010-02-06T16:17:00.006+01:00

well, enough time has passed (year and a half), so here's the story i did for Popgun 3, in its entirety. documentary near-haiku comics! hopefully there'll be a chance to do more of these soon.