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Yelizaveta Mironova, was a Russian sniper during WWII. During her service she was credited with 34 confirmed kills and over 100 unconfirmed kills. The reference photo was pulled from her wikipedia stub.

I did this quick drawing last night, trying to get back into gear with inking again. Over the weekend I finished the pencils (finally) to the next chapter of Steam War. Here’s to hoping for a productive couple of weeks to put this one to bed. It’s been quite the learning experience.
The subject matter was [...]

The better part of this last week has been filled with earthquake/hurricane preparedness/hurricane/power outages/cleanup. Pretty much anything but drawing. As a result I’ve not only gotten behind on comics work. But I was also feeling really stiff/rusty. I really dislike going that long without drawing as it always feels like it takes days to get [...]

My parents were very patient with me during the years I spent in art school. Even with all that education, drawings like these still happen from time to time.
Sketch prompted by a message from Roberto Rubet (www.idodont.com)

This was done really really quickly to be used as a poster in the set for our animation this year. It also provided us with a way to have the line that was compulsory to the competition without resorting to dialogue cards since we’d pulled silent film.
The intent was to do a Russian constructivist style [...]

A couple portraits of the characters we used for this year’s 48 hour film project.
These were done over the weekend with the intention of having them added to the closing credits. Due to some communication issues, that didn’t end up working out. But I think all told they came out pretty well. Especially for me [...]

I’m working up some pin ups for an upcoming kids horror anthology through the illopond. I’m using them as a good means to play with different tools and techniques than what most of my comics based work is done with. I’ve inked with a brush almost exclusively for a number of years. It felt good [...]

This was a study warm up, for my participation in the 8: A Steampunk Anthology. An anthology being put together through The Illopond. I’ll be going into more detail as we get nearer to our print/pub dates on this. Until then here is the teaser image put together by contributor Lee Wiley.

I was laughing the other night about the fact that most of the time, I go to these figure nights, my drawings stink the whole place up. But when I come home all those bad drawings inform and improve what I’m working on. It’s good to draw without a real vested interest in the finished [...]