Rehearsal

Back in 1980-81 I worked as one of the lead designers on Nelvana Animation's feature film "Rock and Rule"...recently I was digging through a box of old drawings and unearthed this rough from that time. It was from the sequence when the band in that film was rehearsing...

Robot

An unused robot design from an animation project...

Hollow Man-Page 5

Hollow Man-Page 4

Hollow Man-Page 3

Hollow Man-Page 2

Hollow Man-Page 1

The black and white art for page 1 of a 5-page backup story which I drew for an issue of Mister X. If I recall correctly, the script was written by William Diamond. ***CORRECTION: SCRIPT BY ROB EGGLETON...sorry, Rob!

Animation Rough 2

Animation Rough

Working

And Now...The Air Defense!

"BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM..."

Futuristic Park Roughs

These were a series of rough sketches exploring design ideas for a scene in an episode of Batman Beyond.

Prison Corridor

The line and tonal versions of another design from the same project as the previous post...

Design Rough

X Drawing

Factory Design

Animation BG Design

Animation Design

Generation X

In the late 80's, before Doug Coupland became world-famous for writing the book "Generation X" and a series of subsequent novels, he was a staff writer at a startup publication here in Toronto called Vista Magazine. It never found an audience and died after a few years of struggle, but it served as a springboard for Doug to test his ideas out: he first wrote an article for the magazine about "Gen X", and then I was hired to join him in creating a series of short comics for the back of the magazine. In these comics he further explored and tested his ideas which soon after he was to include in his books. This is one of the first ones, a one-pager...we crammed a lot in because that's all the space we had.

The Floating Man

A rough from about 1981, for a personal painting.

Alien Artifacts

A rough conceptual design for an animated series...

Brave Old World

A rough sketch for cover #2 from the Vertigo series "Brave Old World".

Book Cover Rough

A rough for one of the book covers which I did for Byron Preiss, for the "Interplanetary Spy" series in the mid-80's or so. Pelikan ink over a photocopied pencil drawing.

Mister X and the Robot

The Battle Trooper

Hot off the scanner, I bring you more pseudo-Kirby, blasting at you from 1972...as page 2 will inform you, it's "a story of running, of hiding, of escape..." No doubt you can tell that I was deep into Jack Kirby's New Gods series at the time, and loved every Speedball-pen-dragging moment of creating this. As usual, though, it fizzled out, and I moved on to the next one...

Gosh, everyone's so...abusive to each other, aren't they?

Robot City #1

The first in a series of "Isaac Asimov's Robot City" book covers which I did for Byron Preiss Visual Publications, back in the 80's.

Castaway

A scan of an old, tiny acrylic sketch, for a painting I wanted to do.

Mister X and the Hoverbus

Befuddled

BG Design

Rough and clean versions of an animation background design.