Hello.

So I said I'd introduce myself this time. My name is Thomas Leigh, as of this post I'm 19 years old and studying traditional animation at the Academy of Art University. Though animation is my major, my true passion is and always has been comic books.
Roughly fourteen or thirteen years ago I thrust an issue of Action Man into my Father's field of vision, requesting that he draw the Kevlar equipped hero on the front cover. This is the earliest memory I have of both my love of drawing and comic books, and the more detailed version of this story is one I've told frequently to people who ask me about how I got started as an artist.
Currently, I'm working on my own comic book series, Black Star. Black Star is a superhero who harnesses the power of a pocket universe enclosed within his body, and can manipulate the radiation of this universe as well as the radiation of the environment around him. Here's an unfinished panel from the first issue.


As an artist, I'm still very much coming into my own style. I'm of course very young, and very inexperienced, but hopefully you'll see some improvements as I go along. I feel that developing your own style is a landmark achievement for an artist, and I feel a little burst of euphoria every time someone says they like the way I draw. I aspire to have my style recognized some day, when people will see my drawings and say 'Oh, that's a Leigh drawing', the same way people recognize Stuart Immomen, Alex Ross, Frank Miller or Jack Kirby.