Archive for June 2019
Grasscutter Artist Select edition
IDW edition Scott Dunbier stopped by my signing at Knowhere Games and Comics and gave me an advance copy of the 460+ page, over size Complete Grasscutter Artist Select edition. It is a beautiful slip cased edition with such attention to detail. It’s one of the most impressive book in the Usagi Library. Though black…
Read MoreHalloween ComicFest 2019
Here is a horrifying watercolor, the cover of a “horrifying” project. Usagi is participating in Halloween ComicFest, where you can buy packets of comics or mini-comics at a discount rate and give them out to Trick or Treaters. They will be available at participating comic shops in late October. The Usagi book will reprint a…
Read MoreHeroesCon Souvenir book and T-shirt
Among the guests at this weekend’s HeroesCon in Charlotte, NC are Mark Evanier, Sergio Aragones, Julie and myself. The con asked Sergio and me to come up with a design for their Souvenir book and T-shirt. We each came up with a design. Mine was horizontal which would not do for their purposes. Sergio did…
Read MoreGroo/Usagi vinyl stickers
Sergio and I collaborated on a couple of things for our upcoming trip to HeroesCon next week. This 3 inch reusable vinyl sticker is one of them. Mark Evanier and Julie Sakai will also be there.
Read MoreUsagi/Tomoe and animals 3
The art is 9×12 inches on 10×15 4-ply, 500 series, cold press Strathmore Bristol. I used a .3 2H mechanical pencil to do a rough layout and a .5 B for finished pencils. Inking was done with a Koh-i-Noor ArtPen with Platinum Carbon black ink. The art is finished with watercolors.
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They approved the pencils but wanted their dog and cat included. Then I took it to inks.
Read MoreUsagi/Tomoe and animals
This commission request came as, “Usagi and Tomoe, back to back, with swords drawn and smiling. There is a tokage in the background and small animals around them.” They did not limit me to non-fictional or extinct animals, so this is the pencils I offered.
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