Just a warm-up sketch from today, of everyone’s favorite (currently deceased) elf. We miss ya, Kurt.
The current contest over at Project Rooftop (which ended yesterday) was to design a new costume for Captain America. It could be for anyone who’s held the title, so I went for a new outfit for Bucky Barnes, the original Cap’s sidekick and most recent shield bearer.
My attempt was something a bit “retro-superheroic”, with some influence from his old WW2 outfit. The cape is meant to be a nod to the costume original Cap Steve Rogers wore for a while when he went by Nomad. Something about Bucky following in Steve’s footsteps while also forging his own identity…
These Project Rooftop redesign contests are always fun – and one of these days I won’t wait till the last minute to come up with my entry.
Tags: artwork, project rooftop
I’ve been doing some lettering work for a couple of comic pitches, and also working on an original comic short for an anthology the Spokane Comicsmiths Guild is putting together. It’ll be a collection of several stories, most around 4 pages long, showcasing the skills and diverse styles of our little group. We’re hoping to have it printed up and ready to distribute by the end of September, in time for the Jet City Comic Show in Seattle (which a few Guild members will be attending) and the next 24 Hour Comic Book Challenge at the start of October.
Last month we had another fun event – members of the Guild taught a class on making comics at a week long day camp for kids. It was a superhero themed camp, and over the course of the week the kids created their own characters and made a comic featuring them. They also had classes in costuming, pop art, and even culinary arts. It wrapped up with them putting on a stage presentation, with the kids dressed up as their characters. It was an awesome experience, a lot of fun, and hopefully we’ll get to do something similar in the future. You can see more about it on the Guild’s website, including video of the presentation and pics of the comics the kids made.
Jenny’s been crocheting a whole bunch – she’s made a few larger tote bags and just made me a new hat. She also recently got back to work on her superhero novel she started writing some time ago. Otherwise she’s mostly been working – while her job at the law firm ended a few weeks ago, she has been able to pick up a few extra hours here and there at the library. But she’s still happy to have two actual days off per week again.
It’s also been ridiculously hot here recently. It’s still about 80 today, but there’s a tiny bit of a breeze and it’s overcast with a slight chance of rain, so it’s relatively comfortable. We’ll take what we can get, I guess.
Tags: Comics, Comicsmiths Guild, crafts, job, weather
A semi-appropriate warm-up sketch of The Unknown Soldier for the holiday.
Hope everybody has a safe and fun weekend.
This last Saturday was the Spokane ComiCon, which was (of course) awesome. I shared two tables in Artist Alley with my friends Matt and Jesse, representing the Comicsmiths’ Guild, and we had fun and met a lot of cool folks. We all did pretty well sales-wise too, selling prints and art and drawing a ton of sketches for people.
After the convention we headed over to fellow Comicsmith Levi Skeen’s place for the after-party, where we could wind down and fill ourselves with some delicious BBQ. A big thanks to Levi and Heidi for the party and to Nate O’Brien for putting on an amazing show! Remember to mark your calendars for the next convention – May 21 2011 will be the 5th annual show.
I did a lot of sketches at the convention, but unfortunately only got pics of these 3. The Gambit & Iron Man went to a couple who ended up getting 5 (!) sketches from me and bought 9 of my sketch cards. The bottom one is of a critter from The Maxx comic. I don’t know what it is, but thankfully he brought some reference along for me to draw from.
Tags: artwork, Comicsmiths Guild, convention, sketches
