Nice. Always like soviet characters

Thanks. I'm working on 2039a, Homefront, and it has been a challenge to stay in the fight...

Phrennzy wrote on Jan 29^th, 2015 at 2:06pm:

I should huh. I was maintaining a deviant art page. http://alabaster-knight.deviantart.com

I should drop more there.

I do too. They started out life in 1982 with different codenames, but eventually I figured them out. Thanks.

Thanks, John.

So here's the funny thing. That stretch (1982-1985) were my formative years in terms of style. And what was I doing?

Well for a few years before that and up through it, I was using (read: stealing) my brother's drafting pens (read: full set of Koh-I-Noor/retail big bucks at the time) to ink pencils inspired by comics, however...

I had my head in RPGs a lot and one of the artists whose work caught my eye was Jeff Dee. Dee's art tended to be a little cleaner than his coworkers at TSR and stood off the page by 1982 with a style his own. It was inspiring because it communicated fun pretty well.

Then spending as much time as I did with Pat Zircher. You know what the hook was for drawing me to Pat? When we first started hanging and playing and drawing (well he had been drawing for years-), I noticed his/his brothers' Champions stable of character sheets had a crap-ton of Marvel and DC character's in them that Pat had done original portraits. I was especially taken with Walt Newell/Stingray and - Pat gave him to me. That was it, I was hooked and had to up my game.

Funny how life works.

Done working in Photoshop for the day.
Bonus.

Thanks G7.
Most scenes I do for the adventure books (especially the covers/back/front) I try and support the narrative or allude to what is in the content without giving it away. I should do more straight combat scenes and panel flows in my interiors. I particularly like the covers for Sands of Time and Always Outnumbered.

Truth: I hate inking, but between having my digital pen to enhance my brush, it is more palatable. 
I'm always second guessing proportion and perspective, and often fly blind in composition with no ref material. I should be using more references because I simply don't draw often enough to sustain a consistent flow. But I'm getting there.

I see crazy amounts of Byrne pencil and build, and Byrne-Austin line influence in your work and enjoy it too. I'd be interested in seeing more of your work with finishes. I'd love to see a collaboration of you and Joe Singleton.

Joe's got similar influences and enjoys finish work. It's a bit loose and thick, but it works. I like it.