Alex Heberling

A new commission for Andy, my friend Amanda’s beau, for her birthday, which was February 20th.  The chibis all around in this picture are Andy and Amanda’s various cosplays.  Clockwise from the top:

Han Solo, Star Wars
Ulquiorra Schiffer, Bleach
Alice, American McGhee’s Alice in Wonderland
Wa-lolita, Original Design
White Mage, Final Fantasy
Red Mage, Final Fantasy
Malcom Reynolds, Firefly/Serenity

I’ve come to [...]

I found it interesting that my life drawing teacher, Louise Captein, once said my work had a narrative quality to it.  I suppose such a quality is the result of my sequential art aspirations.  Even in a class that had little to nothing to do with my comics, a narrative shined through, enough that people [...]

Recent illustrations I’ve done for Garanos:

The first is another full-portrait of Garanos along the lines of the other two (Geilen and Garanos) I did recently.  I’ve always liked this particular pose, but didn’t think I’d be able to pull off the awkward hand positioning.  I’m happy with how cute and feminine she looks, [...]

I haven’t touched on my fitness goals lately.  I’m making slow progress, but progress nonetheless, and have lost approximately a pound per week since starting.  I haven’t gotten a whole lot of exercise in the past 5 weeks, but clearly portioning has had a LOT to do with my weight gain in the past few [...]

I finally got a large-format picture taken of it, so here it is.  This is the shirt I took with me to Connecticon last year.  Click through to see the annotations on Flickr, and full list of signatures.
The first two signatures on this were Scott McCloud and Jeff Smith, who I saw at OSU in [...]