Genesis Coupe Finished!

(Digital Media)

Hey all!  Well sittin here in Connecticut during Hurricane Sandy has given me some time to catch up on a long list of projects. So I made sure to finish this drawing up while I still had power (fingers crossed that I don't lose it as the lights keep flickering around me). Anywho, I'm glad I had a chance to sit down and finally finish this over the course of the past week. Below is a series of work-in-progress shots leading up to the final product you see above, take a look!

24-Hour Comic Book Day work

Hey everybody! So 24-Hour Comic Book Day was awesome! It was really great to sit down for an extended period of time with no goal other than making some art - plus I got to work alongside some other creators and it was a really great time.  Unfortunately I didn't make my goal of 24 completed pages; however I did quite a bit done and mostly finished. I have some edits and small changes I would like to make in addition to adding text to the pages themselves, but otherwise I'm a few pages closer to another comic. I bet you're asking yourself, "What was the most challenging part of the event?" Well, aside from trying to stay awake for 24 hours, it was the actual writing/creating/planning. Usually when I'm going to make some work (or in the case of my last comic) I can spend weeks upon weeks just letting the idea sit and changing it until I come up with a final project. Working on this new story was part planning and part making it up as I went along (since per the rules we weren't allowed to start the event with any ideas or pre-planning). OK, enough talk from me, here's a few pages that I scanned in.  They're mostly finished.

24-Hour Comic Book Day!

Hey everyone, I know it's been a while - but I do have some new stuff to put up soon. Otherwise just a bit of news: I will be participating in 24-Hour Comic Book day tomorrow (or technically today as it's 2:00 in the morning...) at Legends of Superheros in Middlebury, Connecticut.  I'll be there around 10 or 11:00am until 10/11:00am on Sunday.  I'll be working alongside a few other local artists with the goal of each creating a 24-page comic book in just 24 hours... which is CRAZY.

CRAZY-AWESOME that is! Ok time to get some sleep!

30-Day Drawing Challenge! Group Six - DONE!

DONE! DONE! DONE! Last group! Well, it's been quite an interesting past 30 days, some days were definitely more fun than others, and some days I just had more time to work on it - but I loved the experience and learned a lot.  I think I started developing a really fun drawing style that I plan on working with in the future. My favorite out of this group was day 27 - mostly because I'm in it.

26. A Comic

(Slenderman!)

27. Last request if the world was ending

 (So if the world was ending - I'd just try to go to another world)

28. A MEME fight

 (It's going to be a quick fight)

29. A greeting card drawn with non-dominant hand

 (Brings me back to the days of poor motor skills...)

30. A banner celebrating being DONE!

(DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE)

30-Day Drawing Challenge! Group Five

Group number five! Ok so I've really gotten hooked on the whole colored paper with pen/ink and whiteout. I decided that doing a book cover to a book I've never read would be more interesting than redesigning one where I already know everything about it. Also, have you taken a re-read of Jack and Giant Beanstalk recently? In the version where the giant didn't kill his father and terrorize the village - it's just a story of a kid who is invading this man's home, stealing from him, and eventually killing him, ie: Jack's the bad guy! Anyways, points to anyone who knows who Lord Jabu Jabu is without googling it.

21. A Monument coming to life and wreaking havoc

(LIBERTY SMASH!)

22. Redesign a book cover

 (*I've never read it - but it's how I imagine they look the whole time)

23. A freaking baby

 (A freaking baby freaking out)

24. A fairy tale

 (Fi-Fie-Fo-Fum)

25. A doodle

(My doodle ended up looking like Lord Jabu Jabu)

30-Day Drawing Challenge! Group Four

Group number four! I had a lot of fun going back to prismacolor markers for the Jedi drawing, but I was saddened to find out I had quite a few drying out... which is unfortunate when they cost like $4 a marker.  The battlesuit is my favorite drawing of this bunch, I'm really liking using a colored paper with marker/ink and whiteout/white paint pen.  It's bringing me back to me drawing classes where we used colored paper with black charcoal and chalk/white conti. Well, that's all for now, see you soon!        

 16. Influential person as a Jedi Master

 (Socrates! Though it sort of just looks like Obi-Wan...)

  17. A battlesuit designed for a mundane task

 (Spreading "Iz Not Butter")

 18. Zodiac sign as a warrior or wizard

 (Warhammer-Beastman inspired ARIES ram warrior)

 19. A pirate

 (Come on! Come on! Let's go space truckin'!)

20. An elderly person doing Kung-Fu

(The retirement home was never the same)

"Your art has value"

Ok, I'm running a little behind on scanning up the next batch of drawings, but I'm going to try to get around to them tomorrow.  Until then I would like to share an article that a friend and fellow illustrator shared with me.  It's a great bit of advice to other illustrators (or really anyone in the art field) about how to avoid bad clients.  The message here is this, don't work for nothing or for cheap clients, many times I've had people ask me about some potential work only to be surprised/angry/confused as to why I would quote them a price that was more than the $40 they planned on spending. So go ahead, it's a quick read and full of some good information: A Steady Diet of Bad Clients