013 – Behind the Shoot
Had a Power Girl superhero theme shoto today and decided to share a behind the scenes look of what a shoot looks like. The little frame with the background might seem a little less then what most people expect, but it works out pretty well in the end.
SPACE Con
By the time this posts I’ll already be on the road heading to Columbus, OH. I’ll be at SPACE comic show promoting my online comic SHIFT. I’ll also be selling hard copies of the first 2 issues, copies of the short story Liberty and Justice, and I’ll have some select photo prints available as well. I’m at table 92. So if you are in the area be sure to stop byand say hi.
Visit the SPACE website for more info.
SHiFT Update
After a 3 year absence I am in the works to bring back a comic I was writing called Shift. Tentatively Rich will be returning with brand new art work. We plan to start continue working on the comic Mid-November. My goal will be relaunching the site with new pages Jan 1, 2010. I will point out this is the plan. Any number of things could happen between now and then, but in the mean time it’s a good opportunity to reread the comic.
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.
Comic Covers – Resurrection Man
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about or posted about comics. I know I’ve posted from great artwork from some artists and drew my own, but the actual comics have gone by the way side.
I wanted to take a moment and give some attention to a couple of my favorite comic books covers. They are from a comic series called Resurrection Man. I picked up a couple issues at the end of the run, and I can’t say I was impressed with it, but I love a couple of the early covers of the comic. I know very few people have heard of it and I wanted to share them before they vanished entirely from the public consciousness.
The covers were drawn/inked by Jackson Guice. I like the element of the soda company in the art, were as it seems they have their own corporate superhero. I’m not sure what happens inside the comics, but I enjoyed the cover art.
Sketch – 08 – The Seamstress
I’ve been trying to find a little time here and there to practice my drawing skills and get them back up to par. I’ll share with you when ever I finish a small drawing.
This is a character I had in my old comic series. She was inspired by the costume shop I worked at when we were griping that with the new movie superhero costumes, that there is no way those characters could make them on their own. So The Seamstress is the hero that makes all the costumes for heroes and villains alike.
Chicago Comic-Con Sketches – Part 3
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Every year I hit the Chicago Comic-Con (formerly Wizard World Chicago) and one of the things I love to do there is get sketches from the people in artist alley. We like to give thema bit of a challenge and make a list of random concepts for them to draw. So I thought I would share some of the wonderful work I got from the talented people this year.
This set of sketches of various ideas.
Detailed info on the art/artists
Wash by Jay P. Fosgitt
Lamplighter Batman by Andy Price
Teenaged Hellboy by Rachel C Young
Tony Stark Mug Shot by Evan Shaner
Sketch – 05 – Power Girl
I’ve been trying to find a little time here and there to practice my drawing skills and get them back up to par. I’ll share with you when ever I finish a small drawing.
I’ve shot photos of Power Girl a couple times, but this is my first attempt at drawing her. I’m happy with her face and cape, but arms need some work.
Chicago Comic-Con Sketches – Part 2
Every year I hit the Chicago Comic-Con (formerly Wizard World Chicago) and one of the things I love to do there is get sketches from the people in artist alley. We like to give thema bit of a challenge and make a list of random concepts for them to draw. So I thought I would share some of the wonderful work I got from the talented people this year.
This set of sketches feature variations of The Doctor and some gender-swapped X-men.
Details for the artists I have information for:
Ninth Doctor by Rich A Molinelli
Female Nightcralwer by Jessica Hickman
Female Wolverine by Jose Johann Jaro
If I’m missing your information, please leave a message, and I will add it.
Chicago Comic-Con Sketches – Part 1
Every year I hit the Chicago Comic-Con (formerly Wizard World Chicago) and one of the things I love to do there is get sketches from the people in artist alley. We like to give thema bit of a challenge and make a list of random concepts for them to draw. So I thought I would share some of the wonderful work I got from the talented people this year.
This set of sketches feature characters from The Venture Bros. and a comic called The Pro.
More details and links for the artwork.
The Monarch & Doctor Venture by Comfort Love
The Venture Bros by Adam Withers
Brock Samson by Jason Chalker
Action Johnny by Even Shaner
The Pro by Bald Guy Studios
Sketch – 04 – Punisher
I’ve been trying to find a little time here and there to practice my drawing skills and get them back up to par. I’ll share with you when ever I finish a small drawing.
This one started off kinda random with the head in the corner, but once I decided it was mounted on the wall, the Punisher came naturally.
Sketch – 02 – Riddler
I’ve been trying to find a little time here and there to practice my drawing skills and get them back up to par. I’ll share with you when ever I finish a small drawing.
Today is a sketch is another one I did during the last comic con while I was sitting at my table to promote the photos. Riddler has always been one of my favorate Batman villians.
Also this is my 100th post!
Sketch – 01 – Hulk
I’ve been trying to find a little time here and there to practice my drawing skills and get them back up to par. I’ll share with you when ever I finish a small drawing.
Today is a sketch I did during the last comic con while I was sitting at my table to promote the photos. I was always amused by those old Hostess Fruit Pie ads they used to put in the comics.
Wednesday Comics
Ok, I’m really excited about this. starting July 8th Dc is starting a weekly series called Wednesday Comics. Each week a variety of artists and writers are going to provide one page stand-alone(-ish) comics featuring a bunch of the DC heroes you know and a lot you don’t know. They are approaching this like the Sunday newspaper comics so anyone will be able to jump in at anytime without needing a lot of backstory and who everyone is and what’s going on. I think this is a great idea and gives a lot of exposure to different kinds of writing, artwork and characters.
Here is a list of the artists and characters that will be featured in the first 12 weeks:
- BATMAN, WEDNESDAY COMICS‘ weekly cover feature, by the Eisner Award-winning 100 BULLETS team of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso
- ADAM STRANGE, by writer/artist Paul Pope (BATMAN: YEAR 100)
- METAMORPHO, written by New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman with art by Eisner Award-winner Michael Allred (Madman)
- THE DEMON AND CATWOMAN, written by Walter Simonson (Thor, MANHUNTER) with art by famed DC cover artist Brian Stelfreeze
- DEADMAN, written by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck, art by Dave Bullock
- KAMANDI, written by Dave Gibbons (WATCHMEN, GREEN LANTERN CORPS) with art by Ryan Sook (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL)
- SUPERMAN, written by John Arcudi (The Mask) with art by Lee Bermejo (JOKER)
- WONDER WOMAN, written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell (Dare Detectives)
- GREEN LANTERN, written by Kurt Busiek (TRINITY, ASTRO CITY) with art by Joe Quiñones (TEEN TITANS GO!)
- TEEN TITANS, written by Eddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway
- SUPERGIRL, written by Jimmy Palmiotti (JONAH HEX) with art by Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL)
- HAWKMAN, written and illustrated by Kyle Baker (PLASTIC MAN, Special Forces)
- SGT. ROCK, written by Adam Kubert (SUPERMAN: LAST SON), ilustrated by legendary comics artist Joe Kubert
- THE FLASH, written by Karl Kerschl (TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE, THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE) and Brenden Fletcher, illustrated by Karl Kerschl
- METAL MEN, written by Dan DiDio with art by Ian Churchill (SUPERGIRL)
Check out some sneak peek artwork for the series below.
10 Best DA Art for 2008
Every year I like to look back at all the artwork that other people have made on DeviantArt and choose my personal 10 favorite pieces to help get some more attention for these talented artists. This year I decided to post it here on the blog. Also It helps me stall until I get new artwork to share. Hope you enjoy.
Marcelo Di Chiara drew this great rendition of Bizarro from the Superman comics. It has some great lines through out it, as well as some nice damaged textures in the background. Also Bizzaro attempting the classic Superman glasses disguise is just amusing.
Visit Marcelo’s Deviant Art page – http://dichiara.deviantart.com/
Visit Marcelo’s Blog – http://www.dichiara.blogspot.com/
I featured this artwork from Jose Johann Jaro (aka lazeedog) earlier in the year for Halloween and I still really love it. The expressions on the kids faces are priceless. The details in this work really stand out to me, like the Star Wars Pillowcase, and the poor knock off quality of the Wonder Woman costume.
Visit Jose”s Deviant Art page – http://lazeedog.deviantart.com/
8. the Horrible and the Hammer
Visit Jeffery”s Deviant Art page – http://lastscionz.deviantart.com/
Visit Jeffery’s Blog – http://chamba-lang-ito.blogspot.com/
Visit Jeffery”s Deviant Art page – http://lostonwallace.deviantart.com/
Visit Nate’s DA Page – http://raede.deviantart.com/
Daniela Uhlig just
Visit Daniela”s Deviant Art page – http://lolita-art.deviantart.com/
Visit Daniela’s Web Site – http://www.du-artwork.de/
5. Something Wicked This Way Comes
As a photographer I don’t tend to look at that much photography as much as I look at comic books, drawings and paiLea Biljman here. It has a great mood, great colors and light, and has something beautifully retro and classic about it as well.
Visit Mariana”s Deviant Art page – http://marinshe.deviantart.com/
Visit Mariana’s Web Site – http://www.marinshe.com/
Pirates vs. Ninjas has been one of those ongoing internet debates/memes. I’m endlessly amused on how detailed an illustration Roboworks makes of the whole things. It takes a lot of time to makes those details so be sure to click to look at it in full size.
Visit Robo”s Deviant Art page – http://roboworks.deviantart.com/
There is seemingly nothing extraordinary about Dan Panosian’s Superman. But it’s crisp lines, bold colors, and pure elegance in it’s simplicity (thank you Middleman for that line!) that really make this image stand out and a great work of pop art.
Visit Dan”s Deviant Art page – http://urban-barbarian.deviantart.com/
Visit Dan’s Blog – http://www.urbanbarbarian.com/
I love the mix of the very unique hand drawn creatures interacting with real word objects in this photo by Lora (whom’s last name I can’t seem to locate. ) I had it up as my wall paper for a long time. It kinda creeped out some people who saw it.
Visit Lora”s Deviant Art page – http://lora8.deviantart.com/
Visit Lora’s Blog – http://www.bananca.co.uk/
1. Wolverine vs. T-Rex Parts 1 & 2
Ok, so the number 1 piece is actually two paintings, but they come together well as one work. Andrew Hou admits to painting the first one on a whim not really having any idea how Wolveirne could win. A while later the second image appeared on his site. I’m very amused by both and the quality is suprub. I’d personally love to be able to get a print to hang on the wall.
Visit Andrew”s Deviant Art page – http://njoo.deviantart.com/
Look! In the Sky!
More photos from a recent shoot. This time it’s Supergirl! While I like these images, I sadly have to report my shoot didn’t go quite as planned. We wanted to do the taking off the dress shirt to show the costume, but I miscalculated on the size of the shirt vs size of the costume and cape. Also I shot some images on a blue background which looked nice, but I really liked the way she pops against the black back ground.
Merry Christmas!
It’s Christmas Eve, and I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays. Unfortunately I don’t really have any Christmas photos, so I leaving you with a random Batman/Superman comic panel.
I Can’t See Her!
Time for superheroes once again. Tofay we have a shot of the Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four. One of the big things I wanted to do in this image was to let her put her hands infront of her and be partical invisible so we can see through them to the rest of her. Seemed to be something no one else really did much of in photo manipulations.
I still have more experimenting I want to do with this image, but I like this enough to share it.
Catwoman
A couple of weekends I went to a Halloween themed group shoot up in Wisconsin to do some special effect make up. Unfortunately I didn’t get to do too much make up. But in my down time i did get some time with a couple of the girls who were dressed up and take some photos while I was there.
The first shoot I was able to do was with Crystal, who was dressed up as DC Comic’s Catwoman.I got to make good use of the fantastic factory buildings around the studio for an urban look, in spite of being in the wilds of Wisconsin.
The Black Cat
Couple weekends ago MM had a weekend challenge to do a night shoot. I’ve liked the idea of the weekend challenge, but enever really got the chance to participate, so I took this weekend and ran with it. After working at the costume shop I took Renee and with some help shot her as Marvel’s Black Cat outside of the store. Enjoy.
Daily Deviation!
DeviantArt features something they call a Daily Deviation. Everydaytheir team looks through suggestions people send in and pick the best of photography, design, digital art, traditional art, etc etc. Winners are listed on the bottom of every page, and kept in the archive of Daily Deviations.
Monday morning I woke up and checked my DeviantArt account to find I had 237 messages. This was a bit higher then the typical 3 messages that I get. After a bit of digging through messages I found that one of photos was chosen as the Daily Deviation.
Here is the featured work:
By the end of the day the photo had been viewed 7,923 times, commented on 106 times, and have been placed into other views collection of favorite images 824 times.
Mid-Ohio : Con Sketches!
I like to get sketches at that shows I hit up. And though I’d share some of the ones I picked up at the Mid-Ohio show. Now, if you don’t have the space to show them all here, but I really did love all the ones my neighbors were kind enough to make for me. Also some just didn’t scan in very well, cause the person under them went really dark.
At the show I gave all of the artists a list of possible themes to draw, so they could be creative and have some fun. I’ll let you know what the themes they chose when we get there.
I’ll start off with Andy Price. The man has been at the cons doing sketches for as long as I can remember. I get a kick out of the style and he does some fun stuff. He also used to draw the Quantum Leap comic book. I’ve been tempted to ask for a Sam Becket sketch. Anyways, Andy’s choice for the Mid-Ohio show was “A Comic Book Character set in an other Time Period” for which he drew 1950′s Batgirl. Also at the Chicago show Andy drew a Girl Gambit.
Next we have Comfort Love. Her and her artist husband do a self publish comic series called The Uniquies. Comfort took the option of “Awkward Teenage Verson of Any Character” and gave us a super emo Raven. Also I’m including her Girl Gambit from Chicago (was the popular theme there).
Now we have a sketch from Adam Withers. He works on the Uniquies comic with his wife, Comfort. He also took the “Awkward Teenage Verson of Any Character” and gave us Power Girl.
There were a bunch of the comic pros at the show. Alan Davis, Joe Kubert, etc. But the one I wanted to see and was excited to get a sketch from was Chris Giarrusso. Chris draws Mini-Marvels and did short Bullpin comic strips in the back of the Marvel comics. Chris seemed stumped for a long time sitting there staring at the blank page, but ultimately took the “gender swapped X-Men” option and gave us a Girl Cyclops.
All for now. If I get a chance I’ll see if I can share more later on.
Mid-Ohio Con – Aftermath
I hit up the Mid-Ohio con a couple the previous weekend, and was selling some photos and comics. It was a slow show. Bit slower then I would have liked, but I made money back on my table and for some food, so it’s not all bad. Thinking how I could do at a show that actually has people at it on both days. Anyways here are some photos from the show.
The con was held at the convention center in downtown Columbus, OH. Much smaller of a venue then the Wizard World Chicago show I previously attended. The entire thing was about the size of the artist alley area in Chicago. But they still had some nice draws there like Chris Claremont, Alan Davis (don’t ask who he his cause I don’t know either. Basically, he’s a big shot who doesn’t normally come to shows), and the Batmobile was there! Lou “The Hulk” Ferrigno was there as well, but he’s at any comic book convention. So no shock there.
And of course we have people in costume.
Had to get a shot of the guy as the Tom Baker Doctor Who. He had a little remote control for K-9 as well. And when that wasnt fast enough just tied a string to him and fulled him. Also the bottom group won the costume contest. There were others there, but nothing too exciting.
All for now, I’ll have more to share from the trip later on.
I’m Still Here.
Ok, things have been a bit quiet the last few weeks. I’d love to have been posting but it’s been a bit crazy around here. I switched jobs. I started a play. Play ended. Started an other play. Play still going on. Etc etc. Things are getting under control now, and I’m back to regularly post on the site.
I have photos of a couple of the plays I’ve been working on. So that stuff will be showing up. Also in coming weeks I’m shooting a zombie (in the head of course) and a witch (burn her!) and hopefully some more cool horror themed stuff.