MELLON

Writer/Director/Storyboard Director/Artist. I make music and comic books for myself. Atlanta by way of Kansas City.

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SWIM - music video

i directed a music video!

i had the pleasure of meeting Kate Cosentino at a KC chamber of commerce event right after i moved back to KC last fall, and she was down to make a music video with producer Greg Turcotte and myself. so in December we took a few days and shot this at HMXLive.

i’ll post some more BTS when i have a chance, but for right now enjoy this incredibly catchy song and i hope you like the visuals as well.

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pre-order is up for my new ambient guitar album. comes out 1/27/2023

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timelapse and final!

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done in clip studio.

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started in Paper app and finished in procreate

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done in procreate

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done in procreate

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i haven’t checked here in a long while. didn’t realize my blog posts were not posting images. that sucks. sigh. will have to sort out what the deal with square space is.

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Hit-Monkey 101 storyboards/animatic

hey gang, hope you’re well. in my infinite laziness with social media and blogging i am just now getting around to posting some of the few boards i fully did for Marvel’s Hit-Monkey. if you follow me on socials, these went up in various places a couple weeks back, but not everyone sees everything, so here you go for those who missed them the first time around.

as the art Director on the show, i didn’t get the chance to fully board a lot of sequences, mostly noting and red-lining others work, but at the very outset of production, i worked on the opening teaser to episode 1 to set the tone for what we would be looking at doing (and surpassing!) the rest of the season.

here’s the final animatic:

and here’s the animatic and final animation side-by-side:

these are also up on my site in the GALLERY section

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tv doodle: WHERE'S THE REMOTE, NATHAN.

started this one in the dining room. then moved to the living room. inked it in the basement. it’s a full house doodle.

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Hit-Monkey Sketch Cover Timelapse

i’m not currently taking commissions, but you can get a sketch on my 2021 sketchbooks!

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The Maxx Sketch Cover Timelapse

for the process addicts out there.

get your own sketch cover here!

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Big Barda sketch cover timelapse

i’m not taking commissions right now, but! but! but! i WILL do what you request when you order my 2021 collection of sketches.

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Carnage Sketch Timelapse

forgot to add this when posting the sketch. enjoy!

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Dr. Doom / Judge Doom commission

this was a tricky one to figure out, but i went with a sort of rap cover idea. the mandate was judge doom and doctor doom wearing the green lantern rings of power and the infinity gauntlet. that’s a helluva sentence still. anyways. was fun to do, i hope the person who commissioned it liked how it turned out.

i’m not currently taking commissions, but will always take sketch cover requests when you order the physical copy of my 2021 sketchbook collection in the shop.