For the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with Col-Erase pencils (those are a brand of erasable colored pencils, if you didn’t know). Initially, I wanted to use them to sketch out and build the compositions for my pictures, then tighten up the lines with a regular pencil. I started my experimenting with [...]
I was recently asked to design a tattoo. It feels odd… creating an image that will be on somebody’s skin for life. However, the person asking wanted a tat of Theodore Roosevelt going pugalistic on a group of classic monsters. Hang-ups be damned! How could I refuse such a project? I’m still working on the [...]
ugh. i’m horrible at blogging. i forgot that it’s something that you need to keep up with regularly, or at least i feel i have to. i’m also horrible at remembering things like letting everyone know ahead of time instead of the day that there’s a BEASTS! show at giant robot in san francisco. i’ll [...]
so i just finished up some work for hollywood entertainment, doing illustrations for the boxes of the used games they sell at their game crazy stores. the whole thing was pretty fun and i learned a lot from it as i had never dealt with a client this large before and i definitely had my [...]
so we ARE getting around to doing the calendar, though it will be a different format that we usually do. just thought i’d post a sneak peek. we’ll have more news about it real soon.
here’s some images of me finishing up the print. some notes on completion: there were some hitches here and there, but all things considered, i’m pretty happy with how it turned out. i’m really, really happy with the way the copper ink turned out. oh, and thanks to jason for taking pictures and helping out.
since jason got this blog going, i thought i’d go ahead and break her in by showing the parts of the process of me creating a silk-screened print for the upcoming BEASTS print show at the fantagraphics store in seattle next month. so the first step was coming up with the image. i did the [...]