Tools of the Trade Mechanical Pencils (Black Lead; Sketching and Penciling) Pitt Pens (Traditional Inking) Adobe Illustrator (Digital Inking and Lettering) Adobe Photoshop (Coloring and Finishing) Favorite Artists Max BlackRabbit MC Escher Ed McGuinness Jeff Moy Alex Ross Bruce Timm Favorite Characters Bizarro (Superman) Blaziken (Pokemon) Cheetah (Wonder Woman) Donetello (TMNT) Eevee & Evolutions (Pokemon) Gorebash (Flight of Dragons) Horridus (Savage Dragon) (Female) Pink Panther (Love At First Pink) Renamon (Digimon) Soccordillo (Short-Lived Power Rangers Villain) The (Cool) Spot (Late 80s, Early 90s 7-Up Spokes-character) Tomorrow Woman (JLA) (Shrinking) Violet (Legion of Super-Heroes; Post-Emerald Eye) X-51 (Earth X Version) Favorite Comics Amalgam Comics Anubis: Dark Desire Earth X Furrlough Genus Kingdom Come Omaha: The Cat Dancer (Early Stories) Superman / Batman (Ed McGuinness stories) Top 10 Backstory A-Go-Go I have been drawing from very a young age. I can remember one of my earliest experiences was drawing a heart out of a "3" and a "V" with help from a "Drawing Using Letters and Numbers" book. My main influence has been animation. My innocent little mind has been molded by the cartoons of my youth. My mother had been quite prolific in recording various child-oriented entertainment long before I was even born (Such well known properties as Fraggle Rock as well as increadibly obscure stuff like Pinnochio in Outer-Space). My favorite form of entertainment when I was young was the good old Saturday Morning programing. Beetlejuice, Real Ghostbusters, and Mario Bros/Captain N Power Hour were a few of my favorites. But the main cartoon I enjoyed was, of course, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I'm unsure as to how I initially got into the craze, but I sure as hell went crazy with it. The Turtles were the first subjects I regularly drew. In elementary school, I would draw these characters using mostly circles and ovals. In 1996, a set of twelve comics would blow my mind. These comics were put out by "Amalgam Comics" (DC/Marvel). The stories featured characters which were directly "amalgamated" from DC and Marvel Comics characters (example: Batman + Wolverine = Dark Claw; Spider-Man + Superboy = Spider-Boy). Because of these comics, the next few years of my artwork reflected this idea of taking established characters and merging them together. Slowly, but gradually, came a desire to create my own characters and by 2001, I began focusing entirely on all original works. I figure myself as a Character Enthusiast (though, more in the sense of character design). Cartoons, Superheroes, Mythological creatures, I enjoy just about any character outside the realm of the ordinary.