TMNT Collaboration

It's a cowabunga collaboration! I was recently asked to collaborate on a coloring project by a good friend of mine, Drew Nunes. Drew is an incredible coloring artist, and chances are you have even seen his work in DC or Marvel comics, or even the work of many popular films and video games.

Drew is a close friend to me and fellow Jeb Kennedy members, Kyle Armstrong and John Spriggs, and he approached us with the idea of collaborating on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles piece with line art by his friend, Mike Bwn! The Ninja Turtles provided a fun way for the four of us to collaborate on one piece, together but separately.

Each of us chose a radical turtle dude to color, and went from there. It's really fun to see our different styles of coloring, all in one piece, ranging from water color to airbrush techniques.

P.S. For those of you who don't know, I am a big TMNT fan, so this was a lot of for me. (Look below the piece to see who colored what.)

Drew Nunes- Donatello

John Spriggs- Michelangelo

Kyle Armstrong- Raphael

Kyle Blair- Leonardo

Mike Bwn!- Original Pencil Drawing

The 12 Days of Jebmas

Well it's almost January, and another Jebmas has came and went. As a quick recap, I am part of an illustrator collective called Jeb Kennedy that consists of three other illustrators and myself. Every year we count down from twelve days until Christmas with a little twist on the usual days themes with themes of our own in the annual 12 Days of Jebmas!

Last year, my days were day 3, (3 Swine a Surfing), 7, (7 Spewing Silkworms), and 11, (11 Bahum Bugs), and my fellow Jebs covered the other days, with three days each.

This year we all moved our days up one, leaving me with days 4, 8, and 12. I'm happy to look back on this new batch of Jebmas art and see how much we have all improved in our art. Jebmas was really fun this year, you guys.

Below are my Jebmas days, but if you'd like to check out the other nine days, please please visit the Jeb blog here.


Day 4:

Day 8:

Day 12:

ALSO, we were so very blessed to have some of our best pals from the band, Bear Suit Sucker Punch, record the 12 Days of Jebmas song. I had the idea of asking them to do it because I knew they're craziness was perfect for the job, but the end result was so much better than I even imagined. Recorded on a laptop in a bedroom, you can tell these guys just had fun with it and the spirit of Jebmas really shows through. Thanks again, Hans, Drew, and Tyler.

Below is a video of the song with the Jebmas art to go along with it. Also, BSSP is a really rad punk band that actually has original material that's non-Jeb related. It's sure to knock your socks off and slap you with them. Check them out here or here or here or here.

The Magic of Jebmas!

It's getting close to The Second Annual 12 Days of Jebmas over at Jeb Kennedy, where we count down the last 12 days before Christmas with an illustration every day. It starts on December 14th, so check it out!

This year we chose Kyle Armstrong to illustrate the announcement for the event, and he did a fantastic job! He showed the character of Jeb Kennedy in a fatherly way that we haven't seen before.

Anyway, Kyle A. asked me to do the typography for the illustration and I was so happy to do so. Below is the illustration from Kyle A. with my typography to accompany it. It was a ton of fun. I love it when the Kyle's collaborate.

Illustration Collaboration

This is a collaboration-illustration we did at Jeb Kennedy. We all worked on this off and on in our free time over the past few months. It was fun to play off each other's doodles and create a scene all together at the same time. We had absolutely no plan of what we were going to draw when we went into it, but I think it gives a pretty good look into our minds.

It also makes a great wallpaper!

Kyle and Kyle Collaboration

Hey guys, here is a little something I did with my good friend and fellow Jeb, Kyle Armstrong.

I drew this TMNT spoof over a year ago, and nearly forgot about it (just the inked lines). Luckily, Kyle Armstrong is working on his coloring skills and wanted to save it from fading away into forgotten drawings land. So to clarify, I did the drawing, and Kyle Armstrong did all of the coloring. COWABUNGA COLLABORATION!