Jeff Whiting is an artist, musician and gamer living in the Central Florida area.
With a background in the sign business and graphic design for more than 28 years, he's doneweb design, LED video board programming, logo design, blueprint work, silk screen t-shirt designs, comic book art, and more. Artwork is not just a job for Jeff - it's a passion and a life-long obsession.The first comic book Jeff Whiting ever plunked down 35 cents for was Amazing Spider-man #176 in 1978, and from there he was hooked on sequential art. He couldn't pass a convenience store without running in and checking the comic racks for new books. Before long, he was copying drawings by some of his favorite artists, like George Perez, John Byrne, and Jim Starlin, and knew that a career in comic art was what he wanted. He got started doing backgrounds for artist John Beatty, and then landed a job inking overBen Edlund's pencils for the original Tickseries at New England Comics. From there, Jeff went on to work for Malibu Comics, doing art chores on Street Fighter, The Ferret, and a slew of other titles in the Ultraverse line-up, including Prime, UltraForce, Rune, Prototype, and Hardcase, followed by a smidgen of work in Wetworks for Homage Studios.
Desiring to have more control over his art, and a bigger creative input, Jeff began self-publishing his own full color book, Shanghai, in 1997 under his own imprint, Durendal Comics. He wrote, drew, lettered and colored the entire project himself. Later, the imprint mutated into Brick House Digital, as Jeff began using 3D rendered art in sequential form. He self-published a second full color Shanghai comic in 1999 as one of the first completely digital art comic books on the market. He was able to hire cover artists Douglas Schuler, Quinton Hoover, George Perez and John Royle for the books. As the sales of printed comics began to decline in last decade, Jeff decided to take the logical progression and move his comic work to the web. He still dabbles in traditional hand-drawn art though, having inked some pages recently for DC Comics'World of Warcraft' book.
Jeff has many years of solid experience in the sign business, designing custom identification projects for large national clients, including NASCAR, Disney,Medieval Times, Sonic, Sea World, and many, many others. When he began in 1985, he used drafting tables and ink on paper, drawing sign designs by hand. He was there when the first graphics computers came in, experimenting with some of the earliest 3D programs. Progressing with the industry, Jeff has taught dozens of others how to use powerful programs like Adobe Photoshopand After Effects. He's spent the past few years creating animations and programming for large LED video boards all around the United States.
Having gone far in life, the Florida native lives a short piece down the road from where he was born, way back in 1964. Hobbies include playing the bass guitar,scuba diving, comic books and World of Warcraft.
