Minisaurus!

2011-09-13T15:50:00.001-07:00

I just finally organized my desk and I wanted to gloat. XD

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Astronauts and Space Paramedics

2011-08-06T04:29:00.000-07:00

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Had this idea for a pitch a while ago, and I bought some new inking toys so I figured what the hell. I sat down and screwed around for a bit. I think the sponges are going to work out really well, and I've been experimenting with different brush tips too. The pitch hasn't fully gestated yet, so I won't talk about it for the moment.

2011-07-04T14:07:00.000-07:00

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A sketch of a friends character. Mia Goodwin (http://miagoodwin.artworkfolio.com/about/) knocked out a pitch for a story called Tomboy a while back, and we've talked about me drawing it. While I was visiting a while ago, I did this sketch.

2011-07-04T14:04:00.000-07:00

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More sketches and excerpts. The monkey is a study for another painting.

Rex

2011-05-22T22:44:00.000-07:00

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Screwing around with oils. I'll probably stick to monochromatic for a bit after this. I don't think I'm ready for all this fancy blending stuff yet.

Behind you!

2011-02-17T15:17:00.000-08:00

Another lunchtime special.

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2011-02-16T22:56:00.000-08:00

Another 1/8th pager.

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Ice Cream

2011-02-04T20:35:00.000-08:00

A quick 1/8'th pager about nine tenths of the law. (Hint: it's POSSESSION. HAW HAW.)

Another thing I put together in prep for summer cons.

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Shameless commercialism

2011-02-01T18:05:00.000-08:00

Convention products ahead of time. I'm trying to be smart about it this year. The baseball robots are a shirt, the skull is a magnet.
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Satellite Boneyard stuff

2011-01-23T16:50:00.000-08:00

Just some process stuff from a story I've been messing around with. The second one is something I worked on at work over my lunch break for several days.

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2011-01-23T16:44:00.000-08:00

A bunch of other random sketchbook stuff. I don't know what's up with the goblins mouth in the last picture- those could be either teeth or fingers. The third post is a bunch of sketches from a hiking trip in the Colorado Rockies, and the first two are just things I noticed around Grant Park.

www.minisaurusrex.net

sketchbook

2011-01-23T16:35:00.000-08:00

Just a bunch of stuff from my sketchbook, mostly. Some of this goes back almost six months now.

-www.minisaurusrex.net

Computer problems

2010-10-30T00:13:00.000-07:00

I am more than a little frustrated with Toshiba. I try to keep personal issues off of this blog, but I have SO MANY AWESOME things to scan (I spend a week hiking mountains in Colorado and sketching, and that was MONTHS AGO) and I can't scan them because the Toshibia depot is still waiting for parts for my computer. And they tell me there's basically nothing I can do, short of picking up the part and driving it over myself, which I would do if I wasn't two states away.

Grrr.

This is just a goofy self portrait. I scanned it at Kinkos while doing other things. Enjoy it.

Fixed.

2010-08-14T11:51:00.000-07:00

Fixed.

Burning Beast

2010-08-14T00:31:00.000-07:00

Another T-shirt design. I'm not sure if this one is finished yet- I think it may need some fine details in the fire. But after that I think it's done.

Website!

2010-07-22T14:59:00.000-07:00

I now have a website! Other than this and a million other institutions on the web I'm a part of.

http://minisaurusrex.net/

reversible submersible

2010-06-23T21:54:00.000-07:00

Just a goofy sketch. The visual equivalent of procrastination.

Persnickitous Paisley

2010-06-21T02:32:00.000-07:00

A fake band poster for Illustration Friday (http://www.illustrationfriday.com/index.php).

And now...

2010-03-24T22:17:00.000-07:00

Just a quick sketch of Henry David Thoreau.

Camus and a monkey.

2010-03-24T22:15:00.000-07:00

I did this drawing of Camus and I had this idea. It's kind of silly.

Also, a monkey in a monocle.

Sketchy stuff.

2010-03-24T22:14:00.000-07:00

A short strip and some sketches for another class.

Thirty Minute Monster

2010-03-24T22:13:00.000-07:00

At the convention I did an ink sketch of a monster every thirty minutes. I'm collecting them into a book for other cons now.

Oh man

2010-03-15T22:20:00.000-07:00

Okay, this is just a post to talk about other posts. I just got back from Megacon 2010, and there is some SERIOUS stuff that needs to go up here. It's late though, so I'll get some up tomorrow.

Anthology submission

2009-10-30T06:25:00.000-07:00

Yup. Just another submission for the SCAD Sequential department anthology. I did these in about two days, and they look better than anything I've taken my time on all quarter. Go figure.

Drybrush sketches

2009-09-29T13:32:00.000-07:00

Drybrush sketches. I love doing this stuff.

Innocent and Heartless

2009-09-26T16:50:00.000-07:00

So at the very end of the Peter Pan novel, it's said that children (specifically Wendy's children/grandchildren) will continue to go with Peter to Neverland as long as they are innocent and heartless. Which accounts for the melodramatic title.

This was for an assignment. We had to take an old character and revamp them for the 21'st century. So meet Peter the rich school drug dealer, specializing in pills, and Dean Roger Eton, who lost his left hand in a car accident.

I'd love to try and do this someday, when I'm feeling much darker and more brooding.

Sketches Mark II

2009-08-11T21:45:00.000-07:00

Just some experiments with pen, brush and marker. I'm really getting used to g-pens. I didn't think I'd like them, but they're a lot of fun. Marker too.

Sketches

2009-07-08T18:34:00.000-07:00

These are some sketches. One is of Zasters hat- I've slightly adjusted the logo, which might require some backtracking in photoshop. Here also are some initial sketches of Goddard, dad to Bad, Renny and Zass. More pages coming.

Inking

2009-06-12T16:25:00.000-07:00

A couple of quick inks done as an experiment. The characters are Riot and Baxter from my Dungeon Town concept.

Walking Dinosaurs

2009-04-21T22:57:00.000-07:00

This is going to go on the front of a postcard. It was done at 5x7.5 and will be reduced to 4x6.

I like it, but now people might start asking if I'M supposed to be Minisaurus or if Minisaurus is supposed to be some kind of pet. I don't really have an answer.

Pinup

2009-04-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

I'd never done a pinup girl before and I was curious. I had a lot of fun making her all spindly.

I ripped the watercolor look in this one from the original Winnie the Pooh books.

Ninja New York

2009-03-12T13:22:00.000-07:00

Yet another oldie but goodie.

Cans

2009-03-12T13:21:00.000-07:00

This is way old, but it's still one of my favorite things that I've done.

Run shirt

2008-12-22T11:34:00.000-08:00

A friend told me about the Critz Tybee Island Run t-shirt contest, so I did these two designs for it. I'll know if I made it in Jan. 6'th.

That looks like fun

2008-12-10T10:36:00.000-08:00

For some reason drawing water is a lot of fun for me. This picture had such an affect on me that I created a character made of water just so I could get to do this over and over again.

2008-12-10T10:26:00.000-08:00

Done for a class anthology. Firstly, I really like dinosaurs. (You probably guessed that from the blog title.) Secondly, I love working landscape! This was the first time I had the opportunity, but it felt so natural. It's too bad most comics are done vertically. Sometime in the future I'd like to do a bunch of silly dinosaur oriented short stories in landscape format and publish them myself. When I have some downtime from other personal projects.

Hellblazer

2008-11-26T13:33:00.000-08:00

These are pencils from the script of a Hellblazer book, "With a Little Help from my Friends."

Bank robbery

2008-11-26T13:30:00.000-08:00

This is a penciled page for a school assignment. Someone had to come out of a building and get into a car.

Troublemakers

2008-11-26T13:25:00.000-08:00

This was an early promo piece for a personal project called Troublemakers. Another one of my blogs is devoted to it.

Knuckles

2008-11-26T13:23:00.000-08:00

This is from a wonderful experiment called Self Central. I think the blog is still up. Members were given an assignment every month, and each assignment had to be a self portrait. For this one we had to insert ourselves into a story we liked and hunt someone down. I chose the Knuckles the Echidna comics from Archie, since I grew up reading them.

Love and War

2008-11-26T13:21:00.001-08:00

These are two pages from a submission I did to my schools anthology. The submission was called Love and War.

A4+ jersey

2008-11-26T13:13:00.000-08:00

These are a design I did for a bicycle team jersey for the team A4+.

Zombies!

2008-11-26T13:08:00.000-08:00

Yet another t-shirt design.

Minisaurus!

2008-11-26T12:25:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! Welcome to Zach Lehners portfolio blog! This one is the t-shirt design that spawned my moniker.