SPRINGCON 2012 is here! May 19th and 20th.

If you happen to be in the Minneapolis area and would like to attend this great comic con, featuring over 200 artists and lots of vendors, then drop on by the State Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday!  I will be attending and will have prints for sale, original art from the Star Trek/ Legion of Superheroes Crossover, my run of sketchbooks, and will be doing commission as well.  Just click on the link in the convention box to the right for more information.

Pixel Art

Here are three characters I concepted for a pixel art test.  Each character was to fit in a  20 by 20 pixel box.  You might have to really blow them up to see what detail is there.  Pretty fun as I've never done it before.  So if you need pixel art and like what you see, feel free to get in touch.

I worked on them at a 1:1 ratio.

Star Trek/ Legion of Superheroes #6 Pencil Highlights

Suped up agony booths!  Heroes tortured!  Oh my...

Brainy channeling McCoy.  Me channeling De lancie

Nice caveman shot.

The Amalgam Fatal Five return.

Nice group shot.

and we're back to normal timelines.  Snuck Q into panel 2.  Seemed appropriate.

Not sure if it's canon, but Trelane was from the Q Continuum as revealed in the novel "Q Squared", I believe.  So that's why Q has a Trelane type get up.

Not sure when it takes place but wanted to sneak in as much reference from "Requiem for Methusela".  The robot, and whatever might be on the table, under the sheet.

And a nice shot exploring the wonders of the universe!

Star Trek/ Legion of Superheroes #5 Pencil Highlights

It was nice shifting between the two timelines and drawing posh places and then places like their cell.

New character designs based off the alternate universe uniforms and their originals respectively.

Flint Flashback.  Montages are fun.

...and for Vandal Savage.

Joke Chris Roberson put in, but the Cham tongue was me.  Only place it felt appropriate to this point.

The host joins us.  Wanted to see some familiar faces for the girls in front.  The one on the right is suppose to be Shanah from "The Gamesters of Triskelion"

Another visual joke put in for Brain and Spock "thinking".

Forgot to tell the colorist that's Kono in panel 1, so she just looks like a human and Kirk looks to chasing tail.

Original captured time machine room.  Different from what's in the book.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2012 SKETCHCARDS!

Here are the 40 sketchcards I am donating to the Free Comic Book Day event Saturday, May 5th, 2012, where I and many talented artists will be attending in Madison, WI.  I will be at Westfield's west side location from 10am to 6 pm.  You donate money for the Hero Initiative Fund and you pick a card from the collected cards at random.  And this year, I will be doing additional custom cards for a $5 donation to the fund.  So please come out and join us or go out to your local comic book shop, bring your younglings and get take part in the festivities!

EA Art Test

Recently did an art test for Electronic Arts where I had to pick two genres and then create a costume for each that could crossover between a male, female, and male brute body type (so no skirts or bare chests).  I picked Superhero and Fantasy.  Each one needed color realistic and cartoony design, then throw in an anime version and a turnaround for any of the designs.  This is what I came up with in the two day time allotted.

Come on out to C2E2 !

The weekend is nearly upon us and the Chicago convention known as C2E2 is upon us. My brother and I will be attending and setting up in Artist Alley at table C2.  That should be easy to remember.  :)

I'll have sketchbooks, prints, and original art from Star Trek/ Legion of Superheroes for sale.  My commission list will be open on a first come first serve basis and I'll be taking a limited number of names each day, so if you miss out on the one day, please come back the following.

No new sketchbook for this year, but a couple new prints of color covers I've done will be available in 11" by 14" size.

Looking forward to seeing you out there!

Some online commissions

Here are some commissions that I did at home through email.  Some were more standard commissions but if you're looking for something more complicated as others were, you'd want me to do it at home.

But if you were looking for something sooner and are in the Kansas City area, drop by Planet Comicon this weekend.

Star Trek/ Legion of Superheroes #6 out with a bang

Here it is folks.  The last issue of the meet up of the Enterprise crew and the Legionnaires.  It was a great ride for me and my brother, Philip, and I can only hope I get to work with them again in the future, so let those editors know.  As a treat I got to do one of the last covers variations which can be seen a couple posts down.

Thanks again for checking it out and if you're in the Kansas City area, bring the set along to get signed by Philip and I.

Live long the Legion and Prosper!

Diving into 3D modeling

The program I'm using is ZBrush.  I signed up for a class at the local community college and after a few hours I started feeling comfortable using a couple brushes to create a fairly nice body from a sphere.  (I'll post some pics of that in a bit.)  But seeing how it's an intermediate class and I've never used this program at all I guess I was getting a little ahead of myself and was instructed to focus more on sculpting a head or less complicated object than a full figure.

The subject I chose was the space pirate figure I started sculpting only focusing on her head.

When I started sculpting her I kept going back to a more realistic proportioned style, and when drawing it relies on more indication of features rather than structure, so in sculpting this head I had to think a bit more about how the shape of the nose is formed, how eyelids go over the eyeball, getting the shape of the lips to be pleasing and getting the proportions down right.  All in all, I'm having fun and will continue to post pics of the progress.  This was done using about 4 brushes.  You can really get a lot out of a couple brushes.