♬ Estuans interius / Ira vehementi ♬
(there is no villain i love more with my greasy twelve-year-old heart than this fucker.)

Now that it's been out for a bit, posting the full piece for Rebirth Dilemma, a NGE zine.

Yui's always been my favorite.

Started this IRON CROWN lineup last summer with good intentions; needed something that was easy to refer to for organization patches / epaulet consistency and also for a few design tweaks.

life, uh, had other plans.

Long story short is I never quite finished this the way I truly intended it too (gave up on the Butcher completely among other things, lol).  Still - it'd be a shame to leave this just on the laptop, so I'm posting it here for y'all to see. You may notice that Isandar went through quite a design change, and I added in a lovely dear that'll be quite visible in the plot, if a walking spoiler in some ways.

Excited to draw her in, and to come back to this.

Cropped version of a piece in the Hubert (FE:Three Houses) zine that'll be released mid 2020 - please refer to the update twitter for more info!

and done.

first zine completed, and being prepped for printing. happy to send this one off given it was started last August and has a lot of ghosts with it.

I was listening to an old favorite song from the soundtrack of the Brave Little Toaster and it makes me think about the type of horror that I love. Not as a genre, but the undercurrent you sometimes sense in certain media. Not even as a scene, scare, plot beat, or tacky symbolism - it's a subtle peculiar lived-in horror of the id that's most potent through poetry or lyrics. That sing-song (silent scream) aching familiarity you sometimes feel in your bones and makes old skeletons rattle.

That movie and Hellsing has a lot in common there.

More Eris/Helga shenanigans; amused and tickled at the chemistry with these two.

Sneak peek of my Yui Ikari homage in this zine that's available both in .pdf and print! One of my favorite works recently, if I'm being honest. :3c

AVAILABLE UNTIL 9/22 ► http://rebirthdilemmazine.bigcartel.com

real life's been a little rough lately so I've been utterly possessed with FE16 and a certain warlock.

It's fun.  give it a try if you disowned the series after FE10 (like me lol).

The folks behind Blue Valkyrie were the first ones to reach out for me for any comic freelance work, so this is a fun project to remember.  Did some concept art and 3 test pages as well.

Did a cover for the Super-Abled comic anthology kickstarter back in March - was apparently a wild success, and it was pretty cool going back to retro roots.

Inspired by classic horror and Evangelion-esque surrealism, CREATION MYTHS is a 8-page story featuring Frankenstein, the Steam Man, & a mysterious woman whose paths cross (and clash) unexpectedly in the cracks of time.
Written by Rowan Grover (@rowan_grover), and drawn by krad (@kradeelav),

Support and buy here!

Happy 30 years to Brave Little Toaster, one of the most morbid lil' films around.

They don't make movies like you anymore. <3

Don't know what made me remember about this, but a few years back, I was invited to a show called Spare Time Gallery; the whole idea was to show what artists at dayjobs did on the side, and as I had just started IRON CROWN ... it fit. 

(I also didn't have essentially any collection of original works - sometimes you just have to wing it like that.)

I'm not a very public artist (to put it mildly); so having my first official gallery was both as terrifying as it was exciting  (ironically, despite tabling at much larger conventions a few times before.  What gives?).  Went great, of course - meeting a bunch of my coworkers and us all letting our hair down by nerding over 3D printing models and on was the way to go.  I'd gladly do something like this again.

FF7 is the best psychological-horror game disguised as a JRPG.

(it's a pretty good monster story too.)

hellsing is a very serious show about a traumatized vampire and his vampire hunter master, clearly.

Just started playing FF7 for the first time last week.  Lord, I missed my polygons.

boy that death stranding trailer was something.