Star Wars - Return of the Funnies..

Found this image on the internet yesterday and got a big kick out of it...  Enjoy...

K

Lady Lex

Greetings fellow shopsters!  A new page has been set up for the Corpus Christi Experience.  Photos are in the process of being loaded and more will be added later..  Lady Lex is ready to view, along with all of her assorted aircraft..  Click the link to the right or click here to visit the site. 

Enjoy...

Malach Has Arrived....

"The ox became sorrow, the lion; darkness, and the eagle; terror...  Death came swiftly for those who would oppose Satan and his ultimate abominations; the Juggernauts.  One juggernaut in particular known as Malach the Destroyer was Satan's chief lieutenant.  Eons ago he was once known as the Messenger of Death.  In the Almighty's court, Malach was tasked with bringing the souls of the departed into the light.  But; on one fateful day he chose to turn away from the Almighty's light.  He fell from grace with eleven of his brothers, chief among them Satan.  As they fell deeper and deeper into the dark abyss, they became grotesque and disfigured.  They cut and maimed themselves first, then they learned to cut and maim others, until the legion of Satan was a thousand times a thousand fold and growing.   And this is how it was for many a millennium; the battle between light and dark raged..... 

Until the day when Malach the Destroyer longed to feel the glory of God's eternal light upon his face once again.  The juggernaut fought and clawed his way out of the circles of hell facing legion after legion of demons, betrayers, hexters and his fallen brothers.  He battled and bled black until he erupted onto the surface of the living world.  The Almighty saw him there, broken, beaten and bruised and took pity on him.  The Almighty sent Uriel, the "Bringer of Light and Wayfinder of Destiny," to meet Malach.  With Uriel's touch, and the power of God, Malach's wounds were healed.  The Almighty, all forgiving God, offered peace, light and forgiveness to Malach.  But, these things would not be given freely as God would have done for mankind.  No, for Malach they would have to be earned.  Malach would have to redeem himself in the eyes of both his brothers and his Creator.  Malach willingly and enthusiastically accepted God's terms.  Malach would become "The Redeemer."  His new task, redeeming those who have fallen from God's grace and fighting the corruption of Satan, wiping it from the face of the Earth, one good deed at a time.  For each good deed done the juggernaut would earn a golden feather, until the day when he would be complete again, spread his wings, and fly to the heavens from whence he fell so many eons ago.

And so, with the God's light, and weapons forged from indestructible obsidian, Malach wages war on the minions of Satan, saving as many souls as he can, and possibly gaining one himself....

I know what your thinking....  You read this little story and you think "This guy is nuts!"  Well, that may be true, but it's okay...  Nutty people come up with the best ideas..  i.e. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Michelangelo, and especially Leonardo Di Vinci, just to name a few..  So "HA!"  Take that...

Anyway, This is my final entry for the Superhero design competition that is being hosted by Smithmicro, maker of one of the finest drawing software packages that I have had the pleasure to play with.  Wish me luck world!

The Corpus Christi Experience... 2012

I just returned from a great business trip to Corpus Christi, Texas.  Sadly, I was unimpressed with the town itself.  It seemed to me that the town was really economically depressed and run down.  I don't know, it could have been that it was just the "off season."  Corpus is a big spring break town so maybe things liven up then!

Anyway, the town did have some great attributes that I really did enjoy and others that I wish I would have had more time to enjoy.  The Texas State Aquarium was fantastic as was the U.S.S. Lexington aircraft carrier exhibit.  There were also a few gift shops, great restaurants, and a boardwalk that spanned the length of the beaches on the north side of town where we were staying.  The beaches themselves were freshly dredged and re-created and the water was clear with a nice blue-green tint.

I have attached photos of some of the attractions that I visited for your viewing pleasure.....

Fun time at the Texas State Aquarium.  They had a great dolphin show!  Three dolphins made up the cast of characters along with two trainers.  The dolphins could actually bounce and dribble balls like they were playing basketball.

Scenes from Corpus Christi Beach.  There were great wild flowers growing right out of the sand.  The beaches were clean and the sand felt great between my toes, albeit a tad cold though...

More pics to come later...

New Year.... New Works... New Possibilities....

Well, its a whole new year.  A chance to do things over, to renew the spirit.....  and most importantly....  to DRAW weird and freaky new things! 

So, late in 2011 I revived some drawings from a few years back and began "renewing" them.  I began with a creature that I like to call Malach.  His name comes from the ancient Hebrew and means simply "messenger" or, another translation that I found, "my messenger."  Other cultures and languages have featured a very similar word, with a similar context, pronunciation and spelling, going back thousands upon thousands of years.  But the Hebrew version fit my character best.  I actually found an interesting character mentioned in the Hebrew Bible who's name was "Malach HaMavet" which translates as "The Angel of Death."  Pretty freaky huh?  Well, freaky is what we do best here in the shop!

But that is not even the freakiest part.  Another piece of mythology that I was able to pick up, while doing some research on fallen angels, was the concept of the "Tetramorph."  I know, I know, this sounds mind bending!  But, I assure you its not!  Catholics probably heard about this growing up in catholic schools.  The Tetramorph is an angelic being with four faces or heads.  The courageous and proud lion (always located on the right), the strength and honor of the ox (always located on the left), and the wisdom and vision of the eagle.  In many of the depictions, these three characters always surround the face or head of Christ (Christ is the center of all things).  These creatures are also highly featured in St. John's Revelations and Ezekiel's nightmarish visions of the Apocalypse as God's messengers of doom...... 

As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. Ezekiel 1:10.

Malach is one of the bad guys from my Liddieville Story.  There are many others.  He is one of many in an army of fallen angels lead by none other than Satan himself!  But I have given away too much!  So I will say no more on that subject.  Hopefully, as I develop some characters and rework some of the story, I will be able to make it unfold in its proper context on this website....

In the mean time, I plan on showing some of my sketches and drawings as they progress through production.  Malach is the first of many to come...

Malch in Pen and Pencils, still under construction....

A quick rendering to see how things are working visually...

The latest version as of 02/2012.  Still have a little more work to do on him, but he's getting there..

The latest version as of 02/24/2012.  Getting him ready for a super hero design competition!

HERE HE IS!!!  FINALLY FINISHED!  This fella will be my entry into a design contest for super hero comics sponsored by one of the software packages that I used to draw him.  Further posts to come!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL... AND TO ALL, A GOOD NIGHT.... AND A GOOD NEW YEAR!

I am truly sad...  Here I sit wishing that I was at home with my wife and boy.  Two days have now passed since Christmas day, and what a Christmas it was this year!  My boy, all of eighteen months old, summed it up very nicely, in one word...  "WOW!"  That is what he said when he woke up Christmas morning and we went to check out the tree and see what Santa Claus (a.k.a. Ho Ho, in the McCaffrey household) had brought him.  That was a pivotal moment in my life, made simply by my little boy uttering that one little word...  "WOW!"  Wow indeed is all I can say.  I will let the pictures do the talking from here on out.  All I can say is, what a day! 

Please visit the Link located to the right, or click here to visit our Christmas Page....

A Face You Can Fall in Love with...

Now this is the face of an angel...  Kudos to Kim for coming up with the poetic wording...