23rd Archive

01/06/2025

10/08/2024

Here's some early unfinished work for the illustrated novel. The word balloons are placeholders and the novelization text will be added in later with Adobe InDesign.

09/30/2024

ATTENTION: I sold my web design company and spent the last year trying to figure out what I wanted to do for income. Art and writing are my passions but with bills, life, and missed opportunities a career as an artist and a writer has thus far evaded me. Money is tight, prices are high, and I can't sideline my responsibilities any longer.

Over the next few months I will be launching a Kickstarter featuring and LGBTQ+ story. It will be an illustrated novel, a hybrid of a novella and a comic book. I am unleashing my art in a new way, a ferocity that I have rarely touched. You will see examples of it here.

What I will need from you is support. Help fund my Kickstarter so that more people will see it. Your support can lead to thousands of others seeing my work.

This is for me, to be sure, but this is also for Anthony Roldan. He needs a sold win this year and some extra income in the house wouldn't be a loss.

Jo

09/13/2024

Work in progress. This is a Pride piece for a web series I'm working on.

08/27/2024

If you don't zoom in and pay very close attention this looks exactly the same as the last time I posted, but I assure you there is about five more hours of work in it. But it's done!

08/15/2024

Look at my portfolio; www.23rdarchive.com/portfolio
Let me know your thoughts...

As I child I dreamed of long-lost horizons. I would stare at works of great artists and become lost in their visions. Today, I try to recapture that feeling in my works. Comic books and science fiction novels have had the greatest influence on me, and my work is often a hybrid of the two. I am also....

07/23/2024

Your thoughts are requested: I have a rough draft script I wrote for an animated movie / graphic novel. I would like to do a read-through with a few friends on a Friday night. Beer Wine and food will be provided. You will need to participate in a group discussion at the end. Before I set this all up I wanted to know who might be interested in something like this?

04/16/2024

UPDATE: BRP Chaosium Challenge. I have only a few weeks left to build out this RPG submission for Chaosium. I have decided on my cover and two color paintings for the interior. I will use some existing art to flesh out the rest. I may create a few more black and white art too. Wish me luck.

04/12/2024

I'm entering a RPG game contest for Chaosium. This is my basic page design.

04/07/2024

My nephew said he was interested in the military and wanted to be a ranger. I asked which color.