ASHES Chapter 6 cover

Chapter 6 is being broken down into two parts as Bill Sienkiewicz and R. M. Guerra are digging out from under rather large projects so Alex asked me to do a chapter cover for part 6A.

There's a very positive review of the first serialized chapters of ASHES over here, which includes links to retailers around the world that will carry the limited print run of this book.

Just found out there are still some retailer packages available of 5 copies with promotional  material -- probably best to contact Alex directly about that at the original ASHES Kickstarter page !

~R

Another ASHES teaser

Nice little splash page from my portion of the book.

Copying and pasting relevant info from previous entries below:


As I mentioned before, there's a great review of the first digitally serialised chapters of Alex DeCampi's 250-page original graphic novel, ASHES, over at Bleeding Cool, which also has ordering information if you missed out on the Kickstarter.

The above is from one of the nearly 50 pages I drew and coloured for the book.  It's an impressive collection of artists to collaborate with, including Dan McDaid, Mack Chater, Milton & Felipe Sobreiro, Carla Speed McNeil, Colleen Doran, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alice Duke, Alem Curin, RM Guerra and others. 

~R

ASHES, Dr. Van Meter painting

Wanted to try out the newer elements of CS5 after upgrading from Photoshop CS2 and realizing I would have to without Painter going forward, so I did a painting based on a character featured in my portion of Alex de Campi's ASHES graphic novel.

Alex liked it, so it's going to be a chapter cover in the trade collection!

Bram Stoker Vamps in progress

Well, got too ambitious and ended up not finishing this today, but I think I accomplished a fair amount for something intended as a quick sketch.

I spent the most time trying to figure out what to do with the background when I decided there had to be a background.  It'd probably only take a few more hours for the figures, but I have to teach tomorrow, so this will have to wait!

~R

Bram Stoker's Birthday Vampire (updated)

So, it's Bram Stoker's birthday and I'm thinking it could be a thing to make it an annual 'draw a vampire day"  sort of thing.

I started off with the sketch above and got carried away into a full-blow painting.  I'll post that as it's done!

Here's where I started getting carried away;  adding wolves and thinking of a larger composition.

I've already added a tree to the painting.

ASHES teaser panel 2

Actually, it's a two panel teaser. . .


As I mentioned before, there's a great review of the first digitally serialised chapters of Alex DeCampi's 250-page original graphic novel, ASHES, over at Bleeding Cool, which also has ordering information if you missed out on the Kickstarter.

The above is from one of the nearly 50 pages I drew and coloured for the book.  It's an impressive collection of artists to collaborate with, including Dan McDaid, Mack Chater, Milton & Felipe Sobreiro, Carla Speed McNeil, Colleen Doran, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alice Duke, Alem Curin, RM Guerra and others. 

~R

Self Portrait 2012 - Final

What a time to discover Painter X doesn't run on my new computer.

Engaged in a bunch of layers and blurring of the same to bury some really weak painting under a simulation of what my studio mirror looks like with all the dust and finger prints on it.

International Self Portrait Day 2012

Forgot until I saw a reminder quite late in the day -- it's the annual International Self-Portrait Day!  It's all happening over here http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?253050-SELF-PORTRAIT-DAY-NOVEMBER-1st-JOIN-!!!

I've managed a toned pencil sketch so far (HB sketch, 2B tonal smudge-fest, with a 4B outline and generall darkening), though I won't be able to spend near the amount of time I did last year I will try to make this into a painting by the end of the day.  So, hopefully this is just a work in progress.