For Cole.

Well, as previously mentioned, these Ninja Turtle drawings were intended to be "weekly" pieces, with the lineart being one week and the colours being the next. Well there as been a little "intermission" let's call it and now I think I am back on track. Originally I was going to draw Donatello next, because I am basing these poses off of wushu postures, I really wanted to draw Donny doing a "lance-stlye" pole form, but my nephew Cole was so hopped up to see Michaelangelo I couldn't resist.

Peace.

TMNT Coloured

my first weekly personal piece

A little while ago I went to the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle. There I ran into one of the hardest working guys in the business today and all around nice guy, Sean "Cheeks" Galloway. After talking for a bit he mentioned that he tries to do 1 personal drawing a week in and above his bread and butter work.

I thought it was a good idea. I did this one and then got swamped, so the next one is about 2 months overdue. I almost have the colours for this one done and should be able to post it in a couple of days.

Peace.

Sketch Night!

Be there or be square!

More unused Batgirl art

Unused Batgirl Panels

Here are some panels from discarded pages of my 2006 Comicon sample. I had to stop working on the sample and when I came back to it I had different priorities. I still really like some of the images so I thought I would post them.

Peace.

More comics

Here are some more pages. This time more recent, these were done for the San Diego International Comicon last year. It is a fiction "Batgirl" sample that I took to the con to show to editors and friends. Comicon has provided me with a lot of great opportunities (my first job drawing comics to be precise,) not to mention a lot of great friends. So while I am at it I gotta give props to Larry Brown and Marc Streeter, two guys who I have only seen for about a week once a year, but I think of as family, and to Juan Ferreya, who I haven't seen in too long and I am happy to say that it is because he is getting so much work published.

Peace.

Day one.

Hello.

After a long time trying to get a website going I have decided the start a blog instead. I hope that the ease of this process will allow me share more of my artwork more often.

I have been working as an artist professionally for the last 5 years, for more on that you can check out my bio. Since the majority of my most recent work is still covered by my Non-Disclosure Agreement with Propaganda Games, I will begin with some of my older work.

These are some selected pages from a comic that I penciled for a company out of Bermuda, called First Salvo Productions. As such all rights reserved Thad Branco and First Salvo Productions 2004.

I worked really hard on these pages and used a lot of reference. Almost all of the pages were drawn larger than normal (comicbook pages are usually drawn at 10" x 15", then reduced in size for print.) I still really like the way they all turned out and all the effort that went into them still holds up today. For those of you out there who are big comicbook fans you will notice that I was really trying to incorporate some of my biggest influences, Joe Madureira and Ed McGuinness. So those guys have to get props for inspiring me and pushing me to be a better artist.

Peace.