Most artist I know have two main styles in their lives, I am no exception. I want to share a story with you in the hopes that if you are like me, you don’t fall into the same trap I did. The problem was that one style was holding me back from my true potential and it took a critique by Neil Adams to open my eyes. I did a lot of conventions back when I worked in comics, and then, just as now, I enjoyed getting critiqued by the artist I admired. One such artist was Mr. Neil Adams. I’ll spare you all of the gory details and just summarize what was said, some for your benefit, but mostly for mine ..read more

For todays blog I thought I’d explain how I create a character for my book. There are a few ways this happens for me some organic some not so much. Most the time I will have written a section of the book where I ask myself what needs to be, or can be explained more thoroughly ,in order to create character depth or add conflict to a slow section of the story. When this happens its usually during the outlining stage and I don’t have a complete vision of the story. Once I find theses spots and begin to expand on them the main characters usually run into other creatures and personalities. By ..read more

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