It was probably 2 years ago, when I had some down time from Film work, that I wanted to keep busy with something new. Enter comic book coloring.

I've done a lot of film editing and FX shots for local bands, working on music videos for them. As for my own personal art, it runs the whole spectrum from Abstract to Poster Art to Flyers and Magazine print work. And now I have comic book coloring to add to it.

First and foremost, the Line Art is the determining factor for how excited I get when coloring it. Everything from the pencils to the inks, the action that's taken place within the drawing itself. You get all 3 and you can not help but be inspired.

Well, some of my biggest idols in the Comic Book world (back when I was drawing that is and still are to this day) were artist like Jim Lee, Adam Hughes, Whilce Portactio, J. Scott Campbell, Art Adams, and John Byrne to name a few.

But in the coloring world, the list is shorter, only because I'm still new to this and I'm still discovering great talent that's out there for me to learn from. Edgar Delgado, Brian Reber, and Alex Sinclair are some of the colorists I look up to. I'm a huge fan of Joe Chiodo. Very inspiring work all around

Video games (Rock Band 2, GTA IV) seems to occupy a lot of my down time these days. I find myself from time to time stopping work to play a game or two if its really addicting. I need to stop that. Counter productive. Also, I like to hang out with friends and do road trips from time to time to destinations unknown. But I'm seeing a pattern developing...we always seem to end up in Vegas. That's always a blast.

Music. Plain and simple, its music. When I write short stories or full fledge screenplays, I always have music playing on my headphones. What's playing at the moment dictates what I write. Same thing for when I draw or color. I find that if I have something playing, it keeps me at the computer, getting a lot of work done.

Started off as a chosen profession. Then when I got back into it was nothing more than a hobby. But now that I'm invested 100%, it's both a hobby as well as a business.

Doing the same thing I'm doing now (Film/Writing/Art/Coloring). But I have other things that I want to add to my repertoire: (Clothing line, Designing and starting a magazine, as well as some other things I have in the pipeline)

I just love the process of grabbing a page of Line Art and taking it from white to finished color. Each page is like a marathon. All that white, you feel like its an uphill battle. But then as you get closer to the finish line, the excitement grows exponentially and it starts to snowball faster and faster. And then you start the process all over again with the next page.

Recently I found some old pages I had drawn 15 years ago, that I thought were long gone (I had moved twice). So it was a hoot to find them again. It's funny how these pages marked my desire and enthusiasm for being a penciller way back then. And now, these same pages have me feeling the same as a colorist. Everything comes full circle. So, I'm currently cleaning the pages up and laying down flats for them. I can't wait to see them fully colored after all this time. Longest project ever. Haha.