Free Comic Book Day Weekend is here!

This first weekend of May will have me and my Legion cohort, W.C. Carani appearing at Westfield Comics in Madison, WI on Saturday May 3, 2008. We'll be there to sign books and give away our new Legion print, so stop by and grab one. Upon looking at the print I can't believe I forgot that chicken hawk, Gates! D'oh! But I didn't put all the team members on there anyways, so there.


Then on Sunday, May 4th we'll be appearing at the Oconocon in Oconomowoc, WI, just outside of Milwaukee. Again, stop on by and say hi and get a free Legion print in honor of it's 50th anniversary. I'll also have books and prints and will be taking commissions to be done at the show. Hope to see you this weekend!

More life drawing...

While I've been working on commissions, I really haven't had time to produce much more aside from what I've been doing in life drawing so, here are some more. It's always nice to draw a model with some more muscle tone. I found myself using the side of the pencil like a chisel.

Catching up with the life drawing thing....

Here are the last couple weeks drawings from the figure drawing sessions. Only a couple more left to go... Pretty pleased with the way most of these turned out.

Legion print pencils

Finally got the pencils done today. Gonna hand it off to Mr. Carani for inks. Hopefully we'll be able to have it done before the SDCC souvenir book deadline.

Planet Comicon pics

Here are a few pics from Planet Comicon. Nice to get some more Legion commissions. I had about 12 sketches on the list covering both days and mangaged to get the first day's list done and started on the second day a t the hotel. We'll see if I can manage to get them all done before the show ends.

Toto. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore...

Oh wait. We are!
My brother and are are in Overland Park, KS attending the Planet Comicon on April 5 and 6. Sorry it's on such short notice. It would be great to see anyone living in the area come and attend the show and meet all the great guests! I'll be doing sketches and selling prints and sketchbooks, so stop by and say hi and take a look.

Head Games....

So here I was sitting in front of my computer trying to hack some information from the Master Control Program, when it detected my presence and shot a laser beam out that digitized my head and sent it into the virtual world.... hmmm... Why the hell would anyone put a computer terminal in front of a digitizing laser anyways?
This picture is of a 3 D scan of my head from last year. Raven is always getting new technology and I was happy to play guinea pig for it. As well as taking the scan, where you have to sit absolutely still for a few minutes, they also took several pictures at various angles of my face and head where, if character modelers and texture artists want, can use them as a base to start from. It's pretty spiffy.

Legion pic rough Take 2

So after doing the first rough, I thought it looked okay, but something still felt off. So I showed it to my partner in crime, Cory Carani and he suggested some layout arrangements, like moving the founders more center and kinda having Sensor bookend M'onel a bit. Also resized some other figures so the founders were more prominent. I think I'll go with this layout and hopefully get it done in short order seeing how the SDCC deadline for contributions to the souvenir book is April 25th.... BTW, this was drawn on the tablet at 72 dpi, so it's a little rough.

Ahhhh! It came from my sketchbook!

What do you do when you for get to bring your pencils to sketchnight and don't have one to borrow? Draw with a ball point pen. Interesting exercise. I've had to do this a couple times because of my brainfarts. Kinda like how it turned out, seeing how every line you put down is pretty much permanent. Unless you have white out. Which I didn't. Might drop some color in at some point.
Here's a work in progress for a Legion of Superheroes pin up that I'd like to get done for the San Diego Comic-con International souviner book this year. Might still mess around with the figures and composition. Of course the pin up will be of the our rebooted Legion, which seems to have been erased from the DCU now... >sniff< :(

Figure drawing flood....

Here are a bunch of drawings done over the last couple weeks for figure drawing studio. The medium is ebony pencil on newsprint. I'm trying to use the side of the pencil more for tonal work.