Required Assembly

Valentine's Day 2011

2011-02-15T14:28:00.001-08:00

Valentine's Day 2011
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

Santa LOVES Snow Angels

2010-12-10T17:53:00.001-08:00

Santa LOVES Snow Angels
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

Self Portrait 06/10

2010-06-29T20:30:00.001-07:00

Self Portrait 06/10
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

Unfetter

2010-05-05T08:16:00.001-07:00

Unfetter
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

2010-01-21T10:16:00.000-08:00

new years

2010-01-21T10:15:00.000-08:00

santa

2009-12-18T22:06:00.001-08:00

santa
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

new

2009-09-10T08:26:00.000-07:00

michigan ave

2009-08-07T07:58:00.001-07:00

new frames

2009-07-30T09:05:00.000-07:00

coffee cup

2009-06-18T21:42:00.001-07:00

coffee cup
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

1st painting of the summer

2009-05-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

dimmer

2009-05-28T22:01:00.001-07:00

dimmer
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

new work

2009-05-27T07:29:00.000-07:00

The Rocketeer

2009-05-09T21:01:00.001-07:00

rocketeer
Originally uploaded by The Roderick

a work in progress

For Incurring My Wrath

2009-05-08T10:10:00.000-07:00

Here is an update of the Painting for the Square Foot Show. I added a few darker colors to pop out the woman in the painting.

wind up pitch

2009-05-08T09:49:00.000-07:00

Green Hornet

2009-03-21T19:04:00.001-07:00

before (circe 2004)
now (circa 2008)

better or worse?

2009-02-01T07:02:00.000-08:00

redo , or show the improvement from before college.

something like that, I'll let you work out the details

on holidays. .

2008-12-21T05:15:00.001-08:00

Kafka Tomura

2008-11-17T19:50:00.000-08:00

not exactly the effect i was hoping for but:

Kafka is a character from Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore

i based the image from the quote in the beginning :
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

Playing Catch-Up

2008-09-28T20:01:00.000-07:00

here's the one for Final Crisis.
He leads to suffering... ahem

New Theme

2008-09-28T05:04:00.000-07:00

Favorite Literary Character. as inspired by Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!

Catching a Bullet

2008-09-15T19:11:00.000-07:00

Or not. not really sure what's going on there yet.

Final crisis a little further

2008-09-15T08:51:00.000-07:00

Final Crisis bitches!!!!!!

2008-09-08T09:55:00.001-07:00

new theme

2008-08-07T11:18:00.000-07:00

SHOW ME FINAL CRISIS THEME!!!!!!!!!

Beau

2008-07-30T20:56:00.001-07:00

Horribleness

2008-07-29T15:39:00.001-07:00

Stress

2008-07-28T08:53:00.001-07:00

TRUE GRIT

2008-07-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

Theres a few...

2008-07-13T20:22:00.001-07:00

I have a few favorite books, heres the one I'm re-reading Catcher in The Rye. It's not fully done but it's a idea i'm working on.

the Once and Future King

2008-06-17T15:03:00.001-07:00

i'll do something new eventually .

new theme

2008-06-17T09:16:00.000-07:00

show me YOUR FAVORITE BOOK!!!! Do a illustration that represents your favorite novel.

Colossal

2008-06-15T19:28:00.000-07:00

I'm giving a nod to Andrew's B+W's. For shiny people, here he is:

Mark II

2008-06-08T17:46:00.000-07:00

ROBIN BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-02T14:16:00.000-07:00

civil war

2008-05-30T13:37:00.001-07:00

The Young Artist confined to a Symetrical Composition

2008-05-27T10:59:00.001-07:00

Scott Free

2008-05-22T20:34:00.000-07:00

Shiny People

2008-05-21T19:26:00.001-07:00

theme ^

WAVERIDER

2008-05-16T11:35:00.000-07:00

Nananananananananananananana... Azrael Batman!!!

2008-05-13T19:59:00.000-07:00

i used to like the costume, now that i have a better sense of what looks good what doesn't i know better.

Chronos

2008-05-11T21:49:00.001-07:00

clearly time travelers have no fashion sense

AMAZO

2008-05-08T14:23:00.000-07:00

Really didnt want to work on Max Mercury anymore.

mercury

2008-05-06T14:04:00.000-07:00

Idea

2008-05-03T14:35:00.000-07:00

I propose a challenge.

take the worst comic character costumes and make them look cool.

note: i mean in execution, not by redesigning the costume.
i.e. electric superman. armor spiderman, jerry curl peter parker. .

I like him more than the new one

2008-04-28T15:54:00.000-07:00

2008-04-26T17:07:00.001-07:00

Green Lanturn Finished

2008-04-24T11:04:00.000-07:00

new theme

2008-04-23T08:44:00.000-07:00

GREEN LANTERN

2008-04-17T19:25:00.001-07:00

I randomly decided to take out any non contributing members, as well as bring it back to the original trio. If you guys are still interested we can start another blog with all of us.

Yet she takes you as her own.

2008-04-17T10:57:00.001-07:00

athf

2008-04-16T11:30:00.001-07:00

SAGE PENCILS

2008-04-15T14:00:00.001-07:00

adams/wabash

2008-04-15T07:14:00.001-07:00

Artstuffs

2008-04-14T18:11:00.001-07:00

sage cover

2008-04-13T16:41:00.000-07:00

lake/quincy

2008-04-11T12:15:00.001-07:00

lake st study

2008-04-11T08:28:00.000-07:00

wabash/randolf

2008-04-07T11:48:00.000-07:00

weekend paintings

2008-04-07T07:58:00.000-07:00

superman finishes

2008-04-04T10:03:00.001-07:00

re-do

2008-04-03T14:07:00.001-07:00

Command D

2008-04-01T19:14:00.000-07:00

A lil painting I did today. Wolf Pencil, Watercolor, and ink. All the good stuff.

All Alone...

2008-03-18T07:45:00.001-07:00

Here's a painting of the Lone Ranger. I've been seeing how tight i can get my style in a short amount of time.
-Mar

HUZZZAAHHH

2008-03-17T10:32:00.001-07:00

here's to keeping the blog alive!

la salle/wacker 3/14/08

2008-03-14T12:27:00.000-07:00

Proton: The Happy Robot! Pages 3-6!

2008-03-14T00:34:00.001-07:00

And the finish .

2008-03-02T08:46:00.001-08:00

I thought the photos didn't do them justice. Also, i love the photomerge option in Adobe. like a child.

Not Quited the Finished product

2008-02-29T22:01:00.001-08:00

spider-man

2008-02-29T10:01:00.001-08:00

How about a cover?

2008-02-28T22:24:00.000-08:00

Nothing but Flexible... Eh? Eh?

2008-02-28T07:11:00.001-08:00

Here are some photo's that i have taken for my photography class. Just some of the ones that have been printed. If people want to see more just know that eventually it will happen.

She's probably going to hate me for this...
And I know rod will love this one...
I'm working on a painting so i'll post a picture of the progress of that soon.
-Mar

Some Recent Personal Favorite Dailies

2008-02-26T20:16:00.000-08:00

The Threat.

2008-02-13T22:11:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day!

starman

2008-02-12T14:16:00.000-08:00

come on you know you want more star man

PROTON BEGINS.

2008-02-06T22:33:00.000-08:00

My web comic debut.

Chee-choo-cha-choo-chee

2008-01-29T17:34:00.000-08:00

On Dec. 26, the newest installment of transformers made its debut on Cartoon Network. Its taking our beloved robots in disguise to a level of entertainment (meaning its genuinely a good show, not some badly cgi animated, dubbed, forced anime nonsense) not reached since Beast Wars. Just thinking about it makes my pants tight.
The new show is done up in a post Bruce Timm style, which personally I'm very drawn too. (ooo, unitentional pun!) What you're about to see is what happens when my style and the new show's style make hott, sweaty love to each other for nights on end.

Landmine.

Evac.

Longarm.

Dropkick annihilating the new cartoon Bumblebee.

Leafless Nights

2008-01-24T19:50:00.000-08:00

Alright check out some recent art work done. A shot of the Phantoms Skull cave and a Magnus the Robot Fighter Piece.

Scorched

2008-01-24T14:58:00.001-08:00

something I did for my friend Eric Turner

I AM...BATMAN

2008-01-21T01:05:00.001-08:00

I was working on something else and this kinda just came out. There is no such thing as too much Batman: The Animated Series.

When I drew him I thought of you guys. I'm such a sweetie.

Also, as long as I'm here, if you ever wondered what Optimus Prime's girlfriend looks like, whallah! Wonder no more. Now if you're saying to yourself "But Nick, I already know about Optimus Prime's girlfriend. Her name is Elita-1!" Then congratulations. You're super cool.

Hands filled with Flames

2008-01-18T14:18:00.000-08:00

In one of my classes right now so this post is covert so far. Here are some sketches that I have done from old vintage photos, digit? Dig it.
-MAR

Er.. . yup.Fox

2008-01-16T20:26:00.001-08:00

The Shadow Knows.

2008-01-16T19:49:00.001-08:00

Latest painting

2008-01-13T22:51:00.000-08:00

More at my personal blog.

peter

2008-01-04T11:03:00.000-08:00

This is a finished painting that I did.

ESTABLISHING SHOTS

2008-01-04T10:59:00.001-08:00

Some establishing shots that I did for some people.
yes that is a Chevy Nova, Batman, and U.S. Cellular field
damn am I awsome.

Deckert

2008-01-04T10:57:00.000-08:00

My Blade Runner obsession.

yo yo yo

2007-12-21T23:26:00.001-08:00

happy holidays bitches. its a celebration.

2007-12-17T20:10:00.000-08:00

To All members, log in, and under settings> permissions> invite yourself through your own blog. or whatever. it'll make it easier for us all to post. also, we can then add more authors

Settings>
Permissions>
Blog Authors>
email address, invite. etc

thanks to mike mitchell and www.biscuits.com for being geniuses

A Few Sketches To Show The World

2007-12-11T21:42:00.000-08:00

Check em out, lest you wreck yourself.

Mar

Been Awhile.

2007-12-06T19:08:00.000-08:00

Just thought I'd give everyone a look at the work of this year so far and some excerpts from the end run of my Daily Paintings.

Mar's seen most of them, but hopefully I'm showing the rest of you something new and exciting.

COMPUTER FIXED

2007-10-17T18:08:00.000-07:00

I'm sure every one viewing this blog has noticed a severe absence of hot, sweaty Nick Leffler action. That was due to my computer totally giving up on life. Poor guy. But that's all in the past, our friend (my computer) has gotten some help with his problems and is good to go. So whenever everybody agrees on a new schedule for these things, I'll be jumping back on board.

Just a little heads-up.

-Nick

sage text

2007-10-02T10:40:00.000-07:00

FINALLY PG 5

2007-09-28T14:17:00.000-07:00

I DID THE SECOND PANNEL 4 FUCKIN TIMES

Busier than a Carbomb

2007-09-25T15:29:00.000-07:00

we have all been extremely busy with projects and work. So, as you may have noticed there has been a huge delay in some of the theme paintings. This will be fixed as we discuss changing the rules or something that will keep us putting artwork onto this site.
Just to show what I have been Working on here is an illustration for an ad for the Pearl Harbor Memorial fund.

Enjoy.

2007-09-18T19:05:00.000-07:00

I'm really late with everything. But oh well.

This is for controversial. It evolved from a fetus with a knife in its back, to this simpler image.

SAGE PG4

2007-09-13T09:22:00.000-07:00

FINALLY FINISHED, THIS IS THE SECOND STAB AT THIS PAGE, LET ME KNOW WHAT U THINK.

All F**ked in the Head

2007-09-11T15:26:00.000-07:00

Fuck Off Jack Thompson