Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

This blog's been feeling a bit neglected with everything going on, but I aim to correct that in the new year, I promise.

In the meantime ... Happy Holidays to everyone, and here's looking forward to a joyous 2009! (Hope springs eternal, anyway!)

Elliott Ingonyama I

Just a quick posting to keep this blog alive. :) I recently discovered www.bloglines.com, which helps me keep an eye out for updates to a wide range of blogs out there ... there are so many terrific artists in this community who are inspiring to watch.

This was just a quick sketch I did for a friend, to help promote a party he's throwing later this summer.

Hopefully I'll be back soon with more to post. :)

Crowd Sketches from Wondercon, 2007

I attended WonderCon up in San Franciso this weekend, to help my friends at Sofawolf Press man their booth. Had a blast there ... among many other artists and fans, I got to meet David Colman and talk to him about his new design book, and sat next to Sean "Cheeks" Galloway at the next table, who I talked to quite a bit inbetween his customers about art and comics and the industry.

Overall the convention was incredibly inspiring for me, and made me realize I need to keep working and stop neglecting my blog and my DeviantArt account so much. So watch in the coming months for updates on both those fronts, as well as, hopefully, some revisions on my web site and some progress on some of my other art and comic projects.

In the spirit of sharing, though, I figured I'd post the four pages of doodles I did while sitting at our table during the con. (Slightly rearranged for composition after scanning.) When I wasn't busy I'd spend ten minutes here and there just scanning the crowd walking by, looking for interesting faces to try to capture with a few seconds of doodling. This is the total result; some are good, some bad, but all are included. Enjoy!

Welcome to Yammering Griffins!

Welcome to the Yammering Griffins!, the Griffin Park Studio Blog. (I'm hoping to find a more interesting title.) There's not much here now, but sometime soon I'll be using this as a place to post rough sketches and development art for projects I'm working on, discussions of art or story technique, and pointers to interesting art-related things I find on the Internet. So please, stay tuned.

In the meantime, here's a sketch I recently drew for an actor I had the pleasure of meeting, who had performed in Les Miserables.


EDIT: For now, I've made the name of the blog "Yammering Griffins!", rather than the lamely generic "Griffin Park Studio Blog."