I absolutely love 1950s/early-1960s sword-&-sandals movies. I was surprised yesterday to discover one I hadn’t seen before, called 79 AD: The Destruction of Herculaneum. I KNOW, RIGHT? It’s described on IMDB as “Intrigue at the Roman Emperor’s court prior to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for sketch of the day
The arm and hand are wrong—but it’s still a work in progress. Two versions: plain and fussed with digitally. There might be a final version sometime in the future.
These are the quick itty bitty sketches done for the Mus and Damon icons, tweaked for the banner images.
I was working on Domitian’s profile (and a few other random scribbles) while considering the arc of his growing religious intolerance. As one does.
I tried an experiment with a Photoshop plugin that’s supposed to make it easier and faster to do colouring, by isolating individual sections of line art (after the lines are cleaned up). It did NOT make it faster. Here’s as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

A few characters who’ve shown up in bit roles in the past have larger roles in chapter V. This guy appeared a few times in chapter II. Now it’s a question of how to draw an old character in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In case you didn’t see them on Twitter… The Felix is based on a Saga cover. Not quite finished. I’ll fuss with it a little more. Click image to see marginally larger.
I scanned the pencils then put in some digital colour. As always, I need to work on the proportions before I ink the original piece.
I’ve really been in a mood to get Felix into a fight lately…. Click image to see larger. I’ll probably scrap this Felix drawing and come up with another one for what I’d planned to do with this. (I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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