Here are the inked and color steps for the GI-Robot.

Here are the steps from loose layout to finished color for my GI-Robot. He will appear in my upcoming Gung Ho!: How To Draw Fantastic Military Characters book.

Here is a sample of Brett Booth's work for one of my upcoming books. Will it be the military book or the kung fu book? You'll just have to wait and see.

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we're into a brand knew trip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing

(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning

Amargasaurus was an unusual looking dinosaur. It had a set of double sails running down its back which may have continued up its neck or may have tapered off into a double row of spikes. It is one of those dinos which scientists and artists are working hand in hand to come up with a logical appearance for. This is what is so fascinating about being a paleoartist, it allows you to play mystery sleuth and piece together the clues to come up with a complete animal. Bryan Baugh knocked this illustration out of the ball park, as he did with everything he contributed to Thunder Lizards!: How to Draw Fantastic Dinosaurs.

Giganotosaurus by Brett Booth in its penciled/digital inked stage.The wonderful thing about working with so many great artists is I learn tons of tips and tricks in the process of putting my artbooks together. By the time a project is finished I look back at my early pages and think, "I could draw that better now." Brett was especially helpful with providing insight on how to apply details without allowing them to over dominate a piece. You can see how Brett seperates the underbelly from the rest of the dino by how much detail he puts in.

I sometimes get asked why I don't just do all the drawings in my books myself. If you had the opportunity to work with some of the best comic artists in the world wouldn't you take it? I was a huge fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was growing up. Besides their creators Eastman and Laird, Jim Lawson was the artist I loved to see draw the shelled butt-kickers the most. He put out a terrific sci-fi comic book mini series called Dino Island before creating a wonderful dino centric series called Paleo which he is still producing. I was thrilled to line Jim up for a couple pieces in my Thunder Lizards! book.

Brett Booth did a ton of work in Thunder Lizards! so I went easy on him for Gung Ho! There are about half a dozen pics from him in it. But the Kung Fu book I got cook'n now is wall to wall Brett Booth Kung Fu goodness!

Here is a wonderful Allosaurus example by my long time friend Bryan Baugh. I really learned a lot about how to draw dinosaurs from looking over his shoulder during our college years. I was so excited to get to use many of his stunning depictions of dinos for my book Thunder Lizards!

This is the first image you see in Thunder Lizards! when you open it up; this is the page I usually sign and do a quick sketch on. I've had tons of fun coming up with all sorts of sketches and stuff to goof off with around this guy. I should have saved a copy of the version with the party hat and noise maker.

Here is another picture from my upcoming book Gung Ho! This time I want to showcase the incredible coloring by Joseph Damon, an alumni from the Wildstorm coloring studios.

I'm going to try to alternate showcasing artwork from my current book Thunder Lizards! with a few sneak peeks from my upcoming book Gung Ho! This is a bad guy drawn by the one and only Dan Norton who did tons of work on Gung Ho! I know you guys are going to go ga-ga over all the great designs he did.

In Your Face! Here is one of the heavily armed troops from my next book Gung Ho!: How to Draw Fantastic Military Characters. It has tons of great artwork from me, Brett Booth, and the stellar Dan Norton! Check it out this October!

Here is a real treat. This is a Kung Fu character from next year's book Hi-Yah: How to Draw Fantastic Martial Arts Characters. This power kicker is by Steve Hamaker the colorist of Jeff Smith's Bone and my old cubicle neighbor from my Resaurus Toy company days. Steve is one of the best colorists I know and he is a delight to work with, hunt down his indie comic Fish'n'Chips if you want a tasty treat for the eyes.

This mammoth elephant man is for an upcoming super secret project. I designed him after I recently watched the Hulk movie again. I wanted to draw some sort of super muscled freak and this is what came out.

Quit surfing the web and get back to drawing! This is me in my army uniform, an illustration from my upcoming military How to Draw Book. I use this illustration along with various word balloons as motivation to keep me working.

In my book Thunder Lizards I ended up with way too many examples of certain popular dinosars like the T-Rex, so I left out my versions to showcase the work of my friends. Here is a rampaging tyrant lizard who will find his way into the next volume I'm sure.

Here is one of my favorite characters Brett Booth drew for my first book "Freaks!: How to Draw Fantastic Fantasy Characters." Brett owns 16 dogs, so he really knows his canines. He is one of the truly great artists to come out of the Image comics boom of the 90's. I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel or DC threw him a nice exclusive contract in the near future.

Here is an image from my upcoming book "Gung-Ho!: How to Draw Fantastic Military Characters and Vehicles." It should be out in October. This is a picture of an F-14 flying below the horizon line. The perspective lines go back to the two vanishing points, making this an example of two point perspective, pretty easy, huh?

Here are the original pencils to the Brett Booth Spinosaurus in Thunder Lizards! (page 52.) Spinosaurus is called "spiny lizard" because it had a series of large neural spines up to 6 feet (1.8 m) long coming out of its back vertebrae, probably forming a sail-like fin that may have helped in thermoregulation, mating rituals and/or intraspecies rivalry. Spinosaurus had a relatively flexible upper spine (these vertebrae had modified ball-and-socket-joints) so it could arch its back somewhat, perhaps being able to spread the sail (like opening the ribs of a fan).

Spinosaurus was bipedal (it walked on two legs). It was about 40-50 feet long (12-15 m) and weighed 4 tons or more (some paleontologists estimate it weighed up to perhaps 8 tons); it is the largest known spinosaurid (a type of large, meat-eating dinosaur). It had a large head with sharp, straight, non-serrated teeth in powerful, crocodile-like jaws. Its arms were smaller than its legs but were larger than the arms of most other theropods. It may have gone on all fours at times.