What I Learned After Publishing Over 100 Pages of Comics

Publishing over 100 pages of comics in my creator-owned series, The Realm Ethereal has taught me lessons about storytelling, consistency, artistic growth, and what it truly means to commit to a long-term creative project. I’ve learned quite a bit—not only about making comics, but about creativity, art, discipline, and myself. When I first began, I […]
Nor and Kor Ink Sketch

I carved out some time to get back into inks with a quick sketch of Nor, the Ethereal of the Merging Stars, from my Realm Ethereal universe. This piece revisits the closing moments of The Dream Awakens and points toward my follow-up arc, The Sky Dreamers. I worked traditionally—minimal pencils, then straight to a brush […]
Self-publishing your own comic book: Releasing The Realm Ethereal: The Dream Awakens Hardcover

Holding the Final Proof in My Hands It’s here—the final proof of The Realm Ethereal: The Dream Awakens hardcover. I’d opened it once already, so this isn’t a true unboxing, but it feels like a rite of passage just the same. An earlier proof had a placeholder cover while I focused on approving the interiors. […]
Being An Artist First and A Writer Second

It’s Been There All Along, Even If I Didn’t Really Know What It Was Exactly When I first started this world “The Realm Ethereal”, it was because I just got a new iPad Pro 2 sometime back in 2017. I was just messing around with a new app on the ipad called Procreate with the […]