Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Decided to try...


... a cool down sketch for the first time.  Interesting idea, but I think I will subscribe more to the idea of the warm-up.


In stores tomorrow...




Saturday, September 13, 2014

Dark Engine TPB


Volume one of Dark Engine will be available in time to make it a great XMas stocking stuffer.  More info on this to come.

Friday, September 12, 2014

Dark Engine #4 Cover



Cover for Dark Engine #4 in which flying monsters abound!  Order early and order heavy :)

Thursday, September 11, 2014

A post for the process junkie 001


For those that are curious, this is what my thumbing process looks like after I receive a script for Dark Engine.  On a lot of other projects I will do thumbs in a sketchbook so I can do them outside the studio in any downtime, Dark Engine has been all digital and all in studio work though.

Chrysalis




















Large scale comic piece done for the MCAD MFA fall gallery show.

Dark Engine #3 Cover



Cover for Dark Engine #3.  It's a story full of vikings & monsters, so pick it up from your local comic shop and enjoy!

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Dark Engine Issue #2




Cover to issue #2 of Dark Engine (B&W and Color) and a panel detail from the same comic.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

some unlettered pages











These unlettered pages were posted in a CBR interview
so I figured it would be fine to share them here. 
Help spread the word, and let your LCS know to order a copy or two.

DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. 
It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.

@rburton03 imagecomics



Sunday, May 18, 2014

Friday, May 9, 2014

Dark Engine is coming...


... and I need your help spreading the word about it.  The company low-down is as follows:

Sent to the distant past, Sym must thwart her enemies before it’s too late
Ryan Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.
DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it’s showing the stygian machinations of Sym’s creators or the harrowing vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters, it’s all there.”
DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.

The book is being published by Image Comics, and here are a few images from the first issue (and some process stuff):




Ryan Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.

DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters, it's all there."

DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.
- See more at: http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf















Ryan Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.

DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters, it's all there."

DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.
- See more at: http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf
Ryan Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.

DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters, it's all there."

DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.
- See more at: http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf
Ryan Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.

DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it's showing the stygian machinations of Sym's creators or the harrowing vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters, it's all there."

DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.
- See more at: http://imagecomics.com/content/view/in-dark-engine-a-savage-woman-seeks-her-destiny-against-all-odds#sthash.F29JXcjW.dpuf

Monday, March 10, 2014

SLAP!

Panel of inks from OLD WOUNDS.  Comic written by Russell Lissau and to be published by POP GOES THE ICON.

Inked Panels

A Couple of inked panels from the 1st issue of Dark Engine.

Process Animation


Process animation for the creation of a panel.