Second Round Con Prints for ya!!!

For Heroes Con in June, I was able to knock out two more Prints.

This first one, a Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn pin-up, went through a couple of different incarnations.  I really wanted to try to get the whole chummy, slightly goofy "Thelma and Louise" dynamic down between the two.

I also really wanted to work on the basic color theory stuff that I was too brick-headed to get when my old professor Durwin Talon was teaching it back at SCAD.  It took a Q&A session with Brian Stelfreeze at last year's Baltimore Con for me to finally get what I should've learned a decade ago.


Next up was something I'd sketched in one of my sketchbooks more than a year ago.  I finally revisited the idea and gave it the old once-over...

I love, and I mean LOVE the movie "Office Space"!!  I made sure to add to everyone who saw it at the booth in Charlotte that proceeds from sales of this print would go to the hunt for a red Swingline stapler.  (Believe it or not, they've been impossible to find since the movie came out!!)

Con Season Prints, Part Three!!! (WARNING: Spoiler Alert for those who've been under a rock for the past few months!)

This Print was the last of the pieces I finished for April's Awesome Con DC (along with the Jon Snow and Deadpool prints.)  As viewers of the "Walking Dead" TV series know, it's a shot of perrenial fan favorite Darryl Dixon and his scummy brother, Merle (a perrenial Steve favorite!)

I was laying down the inks on this piece while watching the next-to-last episode of Season Three.  As the episode began, I remember thinking, "This piece will KILL during the Con season.  The Dixon Brothers' subplots can carry all of next season...!!!"

As the episode ended, I literally thought, "All they both have to do is stay alive until--ARRRGGGHHH!!!"

Dammit, Merle...!!!

Con Season Prints, Cont.

This is my favorite Print to date.  (And everyone else's apparently!)

It's basically an homage to the movie poster for Brian Depalma's 1980's Scarface remake, with Marvel's loud-mouthed comic assain Deadpool in the place fo Al Pacino's Tony Montana.

I learned quite a few lessons during the 2012 Con season, tabling with my friends Tom Kelly and Jay Potts.  One of them is this: People of all ages love Deadpool.  Why? Who knows.  Tom offers the most sound theory, that his popularity has transcended comics thanks to his being one of the most played characters on the "Marvel vs. CAPCOM" video game.

Whatever the reason, I swear I'll always try to have a Deadpool piece ready for every con from here on...

Con Season Prints!!

I really liked "Life of Pi."
I love "Game of Thrones."

'Nuff Said.

W.O.W DAY, 2012 Style!!

So I was so busy getting ready for NYCC that I'd forgotten that the Women of Wonder Day Charity Auction was almost upon me once again!  I was able to throw down a couple of pieces, and get them off to Andy Mangels just in the nick of time.

Inspired yet again by my fellow art hooligan DJ Jackson's ridiculously awesome drawing of Cheetara (of Thundercats fame) in my sketchbook, I decided to show a little love to the other two Thunder-chicas, Pumyra and Wilykit.

Started off with a couple of roughs:



                                                    

 

From there, I fleshed the ideas out to semi-tight blueline pencils:

                                                       

 

And from there to tight, clean pencil lines:

                                          

At this point, I started with colors.  (I'm still on training wheels as far as non-digital coloring goes, so every new piece is a sort of experiment for me.  I used Prismacolor Pencil on the skin, and Prismacolor marker on everything else):

                                                            

 

A couple different hues for depth, lightbox-doodle the TC logo in the background, and Voila!!!

                                               

I'm never able to follow the live auctions, so I always wonder how well the pieces do.  Not that it matters, because it's all for a good cause!

SDCC Re-cap! (Braaaaiinssss...)

I had a BLAST at Comic-Con this year!!  Reminisced with my old friends, met with some new ones (shout-out to Jeracl C. and Lee Davis... welcome to the fold!)  Talked shop with some industry folk, picked up a knicknack or two (free markers from the Sakura folks!)  And tried my damndest to wrangle a job (Thanks for the praise, Cartoon Network.  If you guys were hiring, I'd be in Heaven right now!)

I even hung out with the Walking Dead...!

 (See that expression on my face? The chick with the sword just told me she's into necrophilia.  SHAZAM!)

All jokes aside, It was one of the better Cons for me and my mob out of the 13-odd years we've been going.  It gave us a bit more energy to carry on into this Fall, and 2013 beyond.  Next stop: NYCC shenanigans with Tom Kelly!!

GRAMPS Model Sheet

This is part of the latest set of model sheets that I've done.  (It's actually one of my older characters, one I've been using in storyboard samples for years.  I've just never done an actual model sheet of good ol' Gramps until now!)

I think I'll delve a little further into Gramps' universe.  Maybe another set of Model sheets, and a new set of boards.  Hell, even an animatic if I can swing it!