Nutcracker - Josh

Here's another attempt of a Nutcracker I've been doodling for a while in various past sketches (1, 2, 3).

This is further exploration into a story concept about the Nutcracker from ETA Hoffman's original book.

More Coloring!

This time I'm coloring for the presidential campaign of Axe Cop.
Axe Cop is an online comic sensation, illustrated by my friend Ethan Nicholle. Unlike his past Eisner Award winning comics of Chumble Spuzz, Axe Cop is not his original idea because it all came from the mind of Malachai, his kid brother. It's a really fun series because you have Ethan's great drawings telling stories that follow the logic of a 5 year old boy. I love it and it's getting a lot of attention in the online media! Not to mention, TV networks are approaching Ethan to make a cartoon series and even some movie studios are looking into make a feature film!
I've colored a few things for Ethan in the past but recently he asked me to color something for Axe Cop.


This design has become such a hit that already there are tons of requests for t-shirts and posters! (click HERE for more info)
I also made a small piece of "fan art" a while back for this great series.

I CAN COLOR!

Last November I got to be a Lead Colorist for Doug TenNapel's latest graphic novel called One Bad Island. This means that I established the color pallet for the book so that other Colorists could use it to color the entire book. I personally colored several chunks of pages myself. It was a lot fun to work under Doug and it was great learning experience!
There are no images that I can share from this book, but there are some drawings in this video:


For those of you who don't know, Doug TenNapel (WEBSITE LINK) is the creator of Earth Worm Jim, a great collection of comic books, some cartoon shows, and a few films. His latest film project is with Hugh Jackman and his company (CLICK HERE TO READ).

Surf’s Up In Print

The surfing coloring book that Josh drew a while back (see past POST) has been published! It got a plug in the OC Register, so we’ll see if that helps sales. You can get more info and order the book HERE.

Josh's Update

Hi everyone, Josh here! Long-time-no-post!

Much has happened or is happening.

I got to draw my first coloring book! It was a fun little project for a surfing themed book designed to resemble a surfing sport magazine.There is also a small project that I worked on a while ago but I forgot to post about it. I got to storyboard my first infomercial! This was done within a 24 hour period, in that I got called by the advertising company one morning and they wanted the storyboards done around the same time the following day. The infomercial was for a device called a Jog’R, which is a strap that’s designed to help you jog-in-place.Currently, I am wrapping up work on my Plato project! I’ve been slowly working on this for about a year now, mainly because I was unable to touch it for an almost two semester period. It’s so nice to finally have time to sit down and focus on this without other jobs getting in the way. I’ll create a post explaining all about this personal project as soon as it’s done.