A couple of roughs...

for the story with Costello:




getting to a particularly bloody part of the story, that will be a blast when it comes time for me to do the finished pages.

meet lil' charlie's buddy duncan

Meet BOB-O

Meet Bob-o, my Demon Buddy from Tibet, that I met at the field museum. I will be incorporating Bob-o into an environmental design illustration project I'm gonna be doing over the next couple of weeks, so yo will be seeing a bit more of Bob-o, or at least my interpretation of him.

Collected Lil Charlie...

if you wanna see all the Lil'Charlie pages I did for my graduation portfolio go to my Comics Space page: http://www.comicspace.com/john_bivens/

they are all put together in my comics gallery there.

Page in Progress--

I've been really sick the last week, so have accomplished next to nothing... but here's something I have inprogress. It's for the comic I'm working on with Sam Costello, and still has a long way to go to be finished. This shows just how rough my pancils are before I get to the inking stage, if I'm doing the inking myself.

Steam Man of the Prairies

a character remodel for The Engine.

So, what's going on this week...
Well, last week I received an offer to make a lil bit of extra money this summer doing a web comic with Sam Costello, which I am accepting so I will be doing some character development work and thumbnails this week.

Also, currently trying to put together a proposal to Adult Swim for my Lil Charlie character. Really don't know if anything at all will come of this, but I'm meeting with my writer friend, Devin Hansen, this week to go over script ideas. Devin is the guy I've been working with on a proposal to Image comics.

Oh yeah, and Thursday I will officially be another year older, and will most likely be hitting some bar here in DeKalb that night *sighs*

Then the week after this I start up my last two classes at NIU, a math class I've been avoiding since I turned 18, and an illustration class at the field museum in Chicago.

This is shaping up into quite the busy summer.

character studies

figured I'd try to put together a proposal package for Adult Swim with my Lil' Charlie character, so I'm doing a bunch of character study illustrations. This one is of God in all his alcoholicy goodness.

coloring done

Here's the colored page that will replacing a page in my Robert Johnson/Lil Charlie story.

ReWorking a page...

that I did over the last semester... it didn't fit with the story I had going as much as I wanted it too. This is the line work and shading I did today... coloring is tomorrow.

twisted sci-fi

Did this for fun to post on THE ENGINE, it's what I get for watching old sci-fi flicks late at night while I'm sketching.

a concept remodel for the engine

old stuff

some more old stuff... this page is from a practice group of pages I did a while back, I still enjoy this one a bit so I figured I would post it.

Quick update

just wanted to post a few things I've done recently