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[cheeks-74]

WHEW!! Back from Wizard World LA. I carpooled with my buds Ryan Benjamin, and Eddie Choi, and we had a blast listening to some hip hop while experiencing Ryan not staying in his lane due to texting! haha Pay attention to the road, Ryan!!! HAHA

Thanx RC for letting us crash over at your pad!
And thank you John for taking us all out to dinner.

Thank you everyone for stopping by the table to say howdy, and sitting in on my panel. I hope I didn't bore ya with useless facts.

Thank you, too, for helping me sell out of my hardback sketchbooks! That was pretty unexpected. I brought 100, and they were gone by saturday afternoon. I'll have more for the Seattle Emerald City con, and Heroes con.

I got to sit with my pals Ray Height and his wifey, Todd Nauck, Joe Pekar, Alberto Ruiz, Stephen Silver, Patrick Morgan,Talent Caldwell, Joel Gomez and his wifey Beth.

I got to catch up with a bunch of my pals Paul Gutierrez, Howard Shum, Micah, Dave Bullock, Humberto Ramos, Bobby Chiu his lady Kay, Mark Irwin with wifey Amber, Dustin Nyugen, LeSean Thomas, Derek Fridolfs, Alex Sinclaire, Lauren, Phil/Tiffany, Bryan, Drew. Chris Copeland, his brother Justin Copeland, Dave Igo, and Alex. My drawing pals Ratna, Rick, Allen and many more.

Mark Brooks' nipples are probably still tender from the twisting I gave it during picture time with hime myself, and Ray-diggity.

Also I met new friends I've known and loved their works over the years such as Koy, Lilly, Dave Johnson, Jeff Johnson, Dan Panosian and his wifey, Andrew Robinson, Benjamin Roman, Art Thibert, Weshoyot, and many more, too.

Ok, now I can finally tell y'all what's been cookin lately, and what's been keeping me away from posting frequently. YAAAAAAAAAAY

Aspen Studios hit me up to draw a 24 page, Fathom oneshot story called "Killian's Vessel". My buddy Micah Gunnel (Artist of Shrugged) hooked me up to meet all those cool cats. Awesome dude, and talented writer Vince Hernandez is writing the story. I'll be drawing and coloring it, and I asked my pal Mr. Suave himself Howard Shum to join us with his beautiful flowy inks.

The release date is in June.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/302/fathomcoverrgbdsmch4.jpg
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Here are a couple of pieces I recently did in the past couple of weeks:

Pipe down, Snarf. You're causing a scene. Good, cat-dawg. ^^

Heya, peeps and peepettes! well imma start doing a series like this where the main character(s) are in color to keep the focus, and do up the rest of the characters in monochromatic hues. believe me you i'm gonna go down nostalgic lane to keep the theme going.


http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8218/thundercatslineup1bsmsa3.jpg

Here's a pin-up/commission of Destro and Baroness that I did for an old school animation mag of the 80's called Cereal Geek issue 1.

wanna know mo? http://www.cerealgeek.com/

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1474/baronessdestrorgbsmfr7.jpg

hope y'all do the dig thang.

[Carnifex]

so simple yet intricate. i love it.

[Justin.]

HOT STUFF :D

I can diggit!

[I.was.ink]

I tried to do the dig thang, but I tripped and hurt myself. ;)

Great images!

[Jonas Heirwegh]

Always a pleasure to watch your work!

[cheeks-74]

thank you, you all!
I. WAS. INK, are you ok? I didn't mean to push you. :)

Here's a cover I did for Chris Ryall, and Brian Lynch's IDW property called Shadow Puppets. It features Spike is his 'Crankyanker' puppet form alongside to aid him is Beta Geroge, and they're both fending off the villain only known as ratio.

**That dang fish was hard as crud to draw!** hahaha

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/7426/spikepuppetcoverrgbsmcl2.jpg

Hope y'all digs!

[ICH]

Amazing! I can't stop watching this pieces, Cheeks! Your style are awesome! I'm falling in love for the body poses, so dramatic and dynamic.
ThunderCats, G.I.Joe... oh...thank you man!http://www.ivanovich.it/avatars/emoticons/Smile2.gif

[Jason Rainville]

Cheeks, you own this style. It's all yours.

[Red_Rook]

Very cool stuff cheeks, I love the first one especially. Was very cool to meet you at megacon in orlando too (I have a awesome abe sapien drawing now :D)

[Hookswords]

You are the reigning Lord and Master of Making us feel the same thrill we had watching these characters when we were kids. That Destro and Baroness picture is amazing. It jumps off the screen. Please tell me there is a Snake Eyes VS Storm Shadow pic on the way.

[vest]

Man, inspirational stuff as usual. I like how you really push the amount of perspective in your drawings, and put a lot more credence into the layout and depth of the characters instead of using some over-the-top shading technique to establish stuff. I can't really find the proper word to describe such a style, but I guess I would have to label it (with my admittedly limitted knowledge of your craft) "efficient." In a good way. It's a design that maintains appeal, displays a strong knowledge of a character's flow, really gives the impression of movement...without going nuts with the render itself.

I also have a friend, Brett (my Spaz line artist), whom you met and gave a sketch to at Wizard World. He still keeps it near and dear to his heart. So just lettin' you know that he really does appreciate it, and that we at Ed Comics are always fans of your stuff.