Sometimes Things Don't Work Out

Over the years I've started work on a number of projects that never progressed for a variety of reasons.  Some of them are bound by NDAs and so the work I produced will likely never be shared, but every once in a while I think I'll scroll through my files and share some of the bits.

Below are some developmental sketches for a public service comic out of Australia that became unworkable due to the work involved compared to deadline and compensation.

Not sure why the client wanted the nude teen figures when no one would be nude in the project.  

Thor Damn It!

Blogger hasn't restored the Thorsday Threesome and I wasn't able to upload anything yesterday so I'm posting five cards today and hoping they stay up.

Marvel Beginnings - Reed Richards

 Mister Fantastic!

And the last batch of the Marvel Beginnings cards . . . I think this is all of them, anyway.  I'll have to double-check later.

Blogger seems to be having a few issues; the Thorsday Threesome I posted yesterday is gee-oh-enn-eee gone.

~R

Marvel Beginnings - Elektra

~R

Five Times the Thor! FCBD

Seeing Thor today and it's Free Comic Book Day, so I thought I could go a little goofy and put five of the Thor cards up instead of the usual one.

Looking forward to the movie and taking a look at how things are going at my local comic shop during FCBD.

~R

Marvel Beginnings - Kraven

~R

99 Thor Heads 70

~R

Massive Marvel Beginnings Monday!

 Completely forgot to post one of the sketch cards yesterday!  Oops!

Here's yesterday's card along with the usual three I post from the set on Mondays!

Marvel Beginnings - Hogun

Who isn't a sucker for the Warriors Three?

It's pretty easy to guess who's coming up next after running Thor, Sif and Hogun, yeah?

~Richard

Marvel Beginnings - The Leader

Jiffy-Pop head hisself!

And the last eight cards as I worked on them in a batch.

~R

Red Sonja Inks

Inked!

Gonna try and colour it tonight to have at the con this weekend.

Red Sonja Pencils

Decided to do something more finished with the Red sketch.

The tree with skulls is based on a memory of a really cool water colour sketch of Red by another artist -- possibly Dan Panosian.  If I can dig it up I'll add a link here.

Yup -- it's Dan Panosian and you can see the gorgeous piece here

Red Sonja Sketch

Another woman with a sword and no pants.

I sense a developing trend. . .

Pants! NSFW

Why, yes, I thoroughly enjoyed SUCKERPUNCH.

Why do you ask?

Marvel Beginnings - Thor

Thor.

I know, right?!

Right in the middle of the 99 B&W Thor sketch cards I actually did a colour Thor card for Marvel Beginnings.

Actually, I did two

I like Thor, obviously.

~R

WizardWorld Toronto Sketches

Some people are great at taking photos of their con sketches;  I'm not one of them.  I usually end up never seeing the sketches again, however, at times, I get scans sent to me or end up finishing the work outside of the con hours and can get a scan made before I give it to the fan (like the Green Lantern/Sinestro sketch I posted over the weekend).

I met Marc Wolfe at the Toronto Fan Expo last year. He's a helluva great guy and a damn fine artist -- as you can see here. He started a sketchbook for his very young son, Ronin, and I got to be among the first to contribute to it!

And CONAN!

Did this one in the studio Sunday morning before heading in for the final day.  I think I hit all the usual Conan expectations with this one.

~R

Green Lantern and Sinestro Sketch

Sketch from Wizard World Toronto Saturday.
Penciled it at the show and finished it at home -- so much calmer in the studio even though I'm really enjoying being at the show sitting with the likes of Dale Keown, Agnes Grabowska and Andy Belanger.

Copics on 11x14" Bristol

~R

Devil Reef, Innsmouth

I've finished the first piece of promotional artwork for my adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

I'll have prints of this available at Wizard World Toronto this weekend.

~R

New Blog Header

Finally got around to finishing up a new header for the blog.  This is only the third one since I started it a few years back and, considering the idea was to do a new header every month or so, I'm only around 33 headers behind schedule.

I've actually got an idea file for headers, just not enough time to execute them.  The above is based on a crocodile, but as I didn't bother digging up any reference and made some odd choices here and there, I think it would be unfair to crocodiles to consider this monster among them.

Wish I was able to finish it a few weeks earlier as I've a mind to use this as the basis for a business card (which I never seem to get round to printing).

This weekend I'll be a guest at Wizard World Toronto along with fine folks like Dale Keown, Ty Templeton, Keiren Smith, Sam Agro, Ken Lashley and host of other awesome people.

I've been asked to bring along prints of the recent Transmetropolitan piece I did (which I will) and maybe a few other things.

Hope to see you there!

~R

Massive Marvel Beginnings: X-Women 8-card puzzle

Rogue, Storm, Kitty, and Emma.

I did a large number of puzzle-sets for Upper Deck's Marvel Beginnings and I was torn between putting them up a piece a day or all at once.  Since I'm rotating in Thor sketch cards as well, some of these puzzle sets could end up being strung out for weeks, so I decided I'd pop up a complete puzzle set every Monday until I run out.

I'm  saving the big 16-card puzzle for the last Monday I'll do this.

~R