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Justice League: Endless Winter
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Captain Marvel - Hellfire Gala 2023
Variant Cover + Costume Design! 🔥
DC Pride 2023 - Night Variant
Thanks to the number of pre-orders on my gold foil Harley x Ivy Pride 2023 variant cover, DC reached out to me about doing a 2nd version in a different colorway, and I decided to go full on bi-lighting with a nighttime version! Both covers will be available at your LCS this June.
Marvel Women's History Month Variants
Covers celebrating the fashion of each character's debut year 💗
WonderCon Promo Art
Program Guide Cover + T-shirt Designs
SUPERMAN BLACK - Shoe Design
DC/Puma Collaboration
The Baroness
G.I. JOE Action Figure Box Art!
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I work for a technical support company, and they leverage AI for the initial chat-bottling amongst other things. What I found amusing is that they sent an AI generated email to a for feedback on the company, and then kept following up to encourage people to engage with the AI, which obviously means no one wanted to. One thing thatâs struck me is that at the core of what AI does to recreate art and what humans do isnât super different.
March 2023
Remember how I said I’d be staggering posts out this month? Welp, what a total fail on my part. It’s been a super busy March and somehow it’s already about to be spring and I’m still trying to find time to take down some last remaining xmas decorations, so that’s where I’ve been mentally.
DC PRIDE - 2023
DC reached out to me for a 3rd consecutive year to do a Harley x Ivy variant cover for their annual PRIDE event, and this time around we decided on a tarot theme! The actual cover will have spot foil on all the gold areas. π€© Here are my DC PRIDE covers from 2021 and 2022..! Very thankful to get to join for a third year. ππ
DC TITANS - Starfire
That hair is looking pretty groovy!
DC TITANS - Nightwing
Nightwing street style variant concepts! As you can see I hadn’t figured out the cover dress yet—normally that part is handled in-house but I wanted to incorporate some graphic elements in addition to the corner boxes on these so I decided to do it myself. 🤓
Space Girls
Reminds me of Tara Mcpherson! Beautiful as always!
Tifa Undress
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She-Hulk #14 Cover
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Wonder Woman '84 Illo
This one actually never went into production, but it was originally created for an exclusive collectible pint glass. I would have loved to see how it turned out had it actually been made, but looking back through my work from 2020 and beyond, the pandemic just made things way too unpredictable. Ah well. I figured I’d at least share it, especially given the news about Mondo.
She-Hulk Spiderverse Variant!
Featuring She-Hulk's Spidersona 🕸
She-Hulk #14 Cover
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She-Hulk #13 Cover
I was really happy to get to draw Patsy Walker aka Hellcat on this one! Love her friendship with Jen 😼 As you can see, for concept C I included a “romantic option” because this issue was meant to introduce a new love interest for Jen, but he hadn’t been designed yet! Sometimes when you’re the main cover artist for a series, even if you want to include references to what’s happening on the interior pages, you can’t always do that because of how far ahead covers are solicited.
X Lives of Wolverine Variant Cover
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Demon Wars Variant Cover
Peach has been creating some of the coolest books at Marvel, and when I was contacted about doing a variant cover for her Scarlet Witch story, I jumped all over it.
AAPI: Lady Shiva & Cheshire
This was a super fun set of covers I got to work on a while ago—originally DC approached me about drawing both characters, but I of course had to take the opportunity to drag Kevin into it 😂💖 We knew we wanted to do a set of pinups featuring new looks for both characters on a backdrop of lanterns to tie them together, so after discussing some basics and sharing a mood board, Kevin sent over an initial thumbnail that I then worked off of to create a couple concept sketches.
FF7: Lifestream
πππ is there another game that has impacted my childhood as thoroughly as ff7?! Probably not! I feel this in the depth of my dark soul!
Hey, Sugah!
Still the best Rogue design to this day, imo. ππβ¨
M-O-M Variant Cover
A variant cover I did for Emilia Clarke’s book at Image, M.O.M - Mother of Madness! I didn’t have solid reference when I originally did the concepts, and only had some unfinished interior art to go off of when I did the first pass at final art (sweatshirt version), so this one ended up being a pretty weird situation where I was asked to basically redo almost the entire cover after the team was able to provide me with the final character design.
Predator Variant Cover
I’ve done a lot of “face covers” throughout my career, but I never thought I’d be hired to draw this particular face, lol. I’m always excited for the opportunity to do something outside of my comfort zone though, so I obviously had to take the gig. I had a lot of fun on this one, especially since I put a few of the movies on in the background while I worked on it. The original truly was ahead of its time in terms of meme material 😂
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Red ❤️
I’ve been noodling away at a few different sketches between covers to help me mentally reset this past week and I thought I’d add a little bit of color to this one and share with you guys :)
300: 25th Anniversary Variant Cover
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300: 25th Anniversary Variant Cover
A while ago, I was approached by Frank Miller’s team to do a variant cover for the 25th anniversary of 300. I believe this cover was available at NYCC in limited quantities, but I have yet to see it in the wild! Submitted Concept Sketches
BATMAN - Cass Cain Pinup
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THE GOOD ASIAN Variant Cover
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ARKHAM CITY Variant Cover
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THE WITCHER - The Last Wish
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[Black Bag] Moneyshot Variant
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IMMORTAL HULK - Variant Cover
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Black Cat 1-Pager from MARVEL PRIDE
I never posted this online anywhere, but last year I contributed a page to Marvel’s PRIDE anthology, featuring a lighthearted short story about Felicia, aka Black Cat, written by Preeti Chhibber. I don’t actually have a version of this with the final lettering, but I thought I’d include my layouts so you can at least see how I would have placed various elements.
FCBD Shirt Design for Zeppelin Comics
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STAR WARS - Sana Starros Variant
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BATMAN - Cass Cain Pinup
Really digging C the most. D being a close runner-up. π₯
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