Art of Tom Columbus

Heard y'all wanna float!

2007-01-26T23:13:00.000-08:00

These are my floaters. I did one each day of the week. It was intresting to see how the style progrssed a little bit each time.

Friday

Thursday

Wednesday

Tuesday

Monday

Catching Up

2006-12-25T01:05:00.000-08:00

After all the debate and self loathing, this is the cover that I went to press with, and I have to say that I am happy with it. Hopefully I'll have some comics in my hands by the end of January. Comixpress is a little slow, but I truly am at their mercy. They are the cheapest short run printer I can find.

I'm working on adding this guy to my website. He'd be a reward that you get for winning on the slot machine. Also, I've added an animation of the bird flying in and landing on the telephone pole. I've been wanting to do that for a while now. Finally found the time.

My website

Still don't want to say much about this project, but here's some art

Front and Back Cover

2006-12-06T00:47:00.000-08:00

This is the image I originally intended to be the cover. Below is the intended back cover. Any input as to if I should swith them around is greatly appreciated. I'll be wrapping everything up this weekend and sending the whole shebang to the printer next week. I can't tell you how happy I am to be at the end of this. Finally, I made a full color comic.

Yet an other attempt

2006-11-26T23:34:00.000-08:00

Well, this is attempt number 5 at a cover for my comic. I don't even want to tell you how many hours I have into this already. I'm still working on the hair, and the overall background is not done yet either, but I thought I'd show my progress. I'm sure I still have several more hours to log on this one. Below is the initial sketch I started with. It's hard to pull of a good digital painting, when the drawing isn't all that good to begin, but I need to finish this. I can't expect to be a good artist if I never get over the fact that I'm still working at it. So I'll continue to press on.

Also, I've finished work on my Aquarium website. You can visit that site by clicking this link.

Aquarium website

The little guy

2006-11-21T09:36:00.000-08:00

I don't want to say too much about this guy yet, but you will be seeing him again in the near future.

Lithium Lettering Continued

2006-11-06T00:22:00.000-08:00

I took the sketch recreated it and manipulated it in illustrator. After a bit of screwing around this is what I came up with.

2006-10-19T00:03:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted in a bit. So here's what I've been doing. Above is was a cover concept for my comic that I rejected. It's just not as strong as some of the work inside, so I couldn't let it slide. On to the next idea...

Below is some Typography that I'm doing for a Freelance job. I don't claim to be a great letter-er, but it turned out pretty good. I'm sure I can clean it up a lot on the computer as well. Expect to see it again later...

I've also been working on a website for a local aquarium company. Expect to see a link to that soon as well.

Sequential Practice

2006-09-13T11:37:00.000-07:00

Just some random strip for practice.

One more for ya

Here are some more finished pieces.

2006-09-10T16:54:00.000-07:00

This is a pin-up for the comic Save the Babies. It features the main character Teddy wrecking some evil babies.

This is a comic strip I did for the art jumble group. The rules for this piece was to incorporate a park, superhero, and beer.

Sketches Mommy! Sketches!

2006-09-01T11:28:00.000-07:00

Ambien is a sleep aid. If you take one, then stay up and draw, you produce crazy things like a one eyed chicken house gobbling up dominos with it's forked tongue.
Yeah, take it and just go to bed.

Next we have a friend of mine, Charlie. If you know Charlie, then you know that by simply placing the word "epic" next to any sketch that some what resembles him, instantly makes it a sketch of Charlie.

If you like the sketches, give Death some knuckles.

Who are you?

2006-08-27T22:38:00.000-07:00

I think you know damn well who I am.

My first post

2006-08-23T14:54:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody!
Here are some sketches I did lastnight and tonight while watching my kid.

As you can tell, the subject of these two sketches is very closely related

Thanks for stopping by.