A Tour of the WCG Studios!

This article and photogallery was originally posted at the WCG Comics website in November 2001 and was moved/archived to this blog (with some light editing) in March 2020. 

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I always enjoy seeing how artists (and writers) have their studio/working spaces set up. With this in mind, I have put together this look at my past studio spaces.

The photo at right was taken sometime in the late 1980s (note the Back to the Future poster!) This was just after college and I was sharing a two-bedroom apartment in West Los Angeles.

The work area was in the corner of my bedroom.

I still use the same drawing board!

At left is my studio in 2001. My new wife and I were renting a three-bedroom house in West L.A., which gave me the opportunity to convert one of the rooms into a studio. Over the years, I have accumulated quite a bit of reference material. On the other side of the room (pictured below) was a desktop computer.

The taboret and art pen holder in the right foreground also date back to the '80s. (I have since replaced the taboret.)

A major addition to the studio at one point was a heavy-duty four-drawer file cabinet where I could archive materials, including business documents, reference materials, old scripts, correspondence, etc. I now have two filing cabinets that nicely fit into a large closet, so they're not an eyesore in the studio.

At right is the same space, on the opposite side of the room from my drawing board. 

The computer was purchased in 1998. I now color my own covers (using Photoshop 5.5), and produce all the lettering and text pages for my comic-book (using PageMaker 6.5) on this PC compatible.* Since this photo was taken, I have added an 11"x17" scanner (for scanning my art full-size) and a color printer for proofing my color work. My webwork and internet activity are conducted on this computer as well.

At far right, you can see the file cabinet. On the walls are large blow-ups of cover art, which are displayed at my booth at comic-book conventions.

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* 2020 Update: Of course, this was software I was using in 2001. I've since upgraded to a Mac system, using fairly current versions of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for postproduction on my comics! Below is a shot of me in my current studio space.