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Faber Castell Pitt Pens and the new Pentel GraphGear 800 0.7mm mechanical pencil I’m trying out. As always, I use… read more Jason Voorhees

I’ve been using the Pentel GraphGear 800 (PG807), 0.7mm mechanical pencil, and inking with Faber-Castell Pitt Pens. This is an… read more Titans Return Optimus Prime

I used to think “Night Gallery” was just a Twilight Zone reel dropped in a bottle of Jovan Musk, but… read more The Night Gallery Dastardly Dozen

I don’t own a lot of third party figures, but it was hard to pass up the solid deal that… read more DX9 Invisible Review

I’ve been fascinated with the tales of The Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship never allowed to return to port. It… read more Flying Dutchmen

One problem transformers get as they age is loose joints. On a lot of the older figures, this can be… read more How to Tighten A Ball Joint on A Transformer

The ’88 Transformers are odd to me. They started using big areas of solid color depicted in plastic rather than… read more Transformers of 1988: Targetmaster Quickmix

Have you ever seen a nice, vintage, Transformer on eBay and thought “most of that aging looks cosmetic?” Well, here… read more How To Clean And Remove Labels from A Transformer

Sometimes I use photo reference, if the photo is good enough…  

Best Deluxe Class in the whole set in my opinion…

      This is Insecticon Bombshell from Transformers Generation 1, I pencilled it with a Pentel P22 and inked… read more Bombshell

This guy is from the new Combiner Wars Transformers set, one of the Aerialbots.

I’ve always loved the Brainiac from the 80’s DC Comic Super Powers (successor to The Super Friends). He was a… read more Brainiac

Generation one Decepticon Kickback, I was trying to use a lot of black on this one…

This is from a couple of years ago. Faber-Castell brush pen on the red

Here is the inked version of the Alpha Bravo piece, done with Faber-Castell Pitt Pens.

First, it’s pencils on paper (Pentel P207): Then Faber-Castell Pitt Pens over that: Then, color in Photoshop…

Faber-Castell Pitt Pens as always. More about fan-favorite Gigan here.  

    The Combiner Wars Optimus Prime is actually a really great mold. He’s a little short and stocky, but… read more Transformers Combiner Wars Autobot Optimus Prime

CW Alpha Bravo in pencil (Pentel P207)

I love the old Brainiac from DC Super Powers in the 80’s.

Dragstrip showed up as the odd man out in the Combiner Wars series. I decided I would get in on… read more Transfomers Generation 1: Dragstrip (Decepticon Stunticon)

I never know where to start these things. How about here? Optimus Prime climbs from the rubble. Pencil on paper.