More fun theme sketches for the DA group. Again I’ve been drawing stuff based of quotes that pop in my head when I hear the theme. This time around was Spike from Buffy & Angel watching a stripper and saying, “Is that right? Funny, thought I knew exactly where I was. Place called the Peppermint Stick. Prima ballerina up there’s Sunshine. Though I’m fairly certain that’s not her real name.”

I had to look that up to get it right. Thanks you obsessive fans.

Also you may notice that this sketch is color vs. my normal b/w. Well, I got new pens for christmas and since I left the old pens somewhere else, this is a good chance to play with color until I can get my old pens back.

WEEK 2 – REFLECTIONS

On DeviantArt I’ve started contributing to a group called #weeklies. Mainly the idea is that they suggest a topic each week and everyone draws something on the topic and sends it in. It’s a good way to keep drawing and try new things.  The theme for this sketch was “Reflections”.

I went the Simpson’s quote routeand attempted to illustrate the like of “I always knew I’ll kill you in a hall of mirrors” Most of this was done traditionally. I have a couple spots that were blank when I cropped it into my square and I drew them in with the pen on the wacom tablet.

You can find more of his art here.

Read Conan’s Statment on the show here.

• Working with Rich on Shift. We are expecting restarting that comic on 3/1/09.
• I’m writing an other comic that I’m drawing a well. It’s a love story.
• Booking my conventions for the year to promote Shift and my work.
• Making a comic for one of the conventions Due Jan 24th!
• Plenty of new shoots on the way as well!

That’s what’s on the agenda here. Hope you all stick around to check it out.

I’ll start off with the stuff we did on Friday. First we had a Frankenstein monster using one of the kits from Rubies. It took some work trying to get all the elements to come together for this, and still have a edge from the thick forehead appliance, but otherwise I think it came along pretty well.

Next we had a cyclops. It’s a nice latex application from Don Post. Don Post makes some nice and very creative items, but sometimes there tend to be some slight issues with the design that I’ll mention more of next time. The cyclops was a bit think so it was a little harder to hide the edges with a normal skin tone, but did the best we could on it.He did change into a costume before leaving, but I will say I’m always partial to modern day clothes with demons and monsters. Who says a cyclops can’t be a Cubs fan.

Next we have a repeat customer from last year which give Ellwyn a chance to show off her great skill with the air brush. This year our fairy wanted more of an autumn look and colors to go with her costume. I started of her base, and Ellwyn went to town on the details. The stencils for the leaves were made by the clients significant other. One of the thinks we do miss out on sometimes is that we often don’t get to see people in their complete costume as she is pictured in a dress she wore just to have the make up done in.

I’ll go ahead and jump to Saturday where I got to work on a customer that generally has come in every year for a long time. Every time I get to do something different. This time we just kept it simple with some horns that were blended in with blood as they burst through his skull.

That’s all for today. I’ll have some more images from Halloween next time.

It does occur to me that this may not be the best way to reach everyone who was reading the comic, so please feel free to share this post with others and spread to word. I’ll do my best to not disappoint.

So we have a before and after images. Enjoy.