Jonah http://twitter.com/biotwist on Twitter suggested ” Draw some thing Kirby” so I took that literally and drew the Thing.

Total time to complete about 2 hours when I sat down to do it. I was showing my daughter the finer points of drawing the torso muscles, hands and feet. She was having  problems with those areas. I told her artists never stop learning how to draw that correctly.

Here is “The Thing”…

Obama fights Zombies

I drew the cover for the new comic, President Evil.

It ships in July from Antarctic Press and will be shown in the May Diamond catalog.

But you don’t have to wait that long to see it. Here is the colored art!

I’ll be selling prints of these at the Emerald City Comic Con on April 4-5 in Seattle.

Stop my table, J-07 to pick it up while they last!

There are only 50 of these prints available!

I moved all the Illustrator tutorials over to illcraft.com along with all of my other posts I have made there since 2005.

I will put up a bunch of art and other news and happenings in my life at briandenham.com

It helps to seperate these 2 blogs into different sites. I think some people may just want tutorials and some just want to see my work.

More to come…

I moved all the Illustrator tutorials over to illcraft.com along with all of my other posts I have made there since 2005.

I will put up a bunch of art and other news and happenings in my life at briandenham.com

It helps to seperate these 2 blogs into different sites. I think some people may just want tutorials and some just want to see my work.

More to come…

I just found this picture today. 11 years after it was taken.

I cropped it close but this picture shows it was taken on March 15, 1998 at the Florida Mega-Con.

I was debuting my comic American Woman at the show. John Byrne sat across from us and he had a huge line the whole weekend. I talked to George Perez at the end of the show one day, we talked before at a couple of shows in Dallas and I felt comfortable around him. I asked if I could get a picture with him and John Byrne who was leaving and walking right toward us.

George said “Sure!” and yelled for John to come over. LOL I was so excited. George explained that I wanted a picture and John said a joke about kissing me on both sides. They laughed, leaned in and planted the smooches on me.

Funniest moment in my life ever.

I laughed a bit to myslef thinking of the time I met Jack Kirby. I told the King that I didn’t want an autograph, but I did want to shake his hand. As we were shaking hands I told him maybe his magic will rub off on me. He looked at me like I was a nut, of course I was a teenager at the time so I probably was a nut.

I wonder what kind of magic would rub off through these kisses. I shudder to think…

Here I am with my new Cintiq on March 14, 2009.

I’m drawing on the Cintiq and I have a secondary monitor set up with Illustrator stretched through both screens.

I have a second instance of the image I’m working on, opened on the other monitor.

This way, I have one big image of the art zoomed out and the Cintiq is zoomed in so I can instantly check what I’m drawing from a distance.

When I used to draw on paper I would place the art on the ground and climb on to a chair to get a distant view of the art and ensure my proportions were all true.

Uploaded by Brian Denham on 14 Mar 09, 8.46PM CDT.

As it was to be a cover for How To Draw I felt like instead of using generic superheroes I would make a back story for each of these characters. I loved the story and the group so I’ll work on this as a comic over the next year. Originally I was going to draw some public domain superheroes, but I felt it might be better to show what new and modern heroes would look like instead of looking at the past.

I hope you like it!