Red Sonja and Bran Mak Morn





I took a couple of pictures of some sketches I did at Fan Expo -- I thought this one turned out well enough to share.  Red Sonja:

 

 

 

Also, I put all the pages from the first installment of Men of the Shadows for sale in my comicartfans gallery (here).

~R

Fan Expo 2012 Postmortem

Woot!

Still a little wiped out by the Fan Expo this past weekend.  Met a bunch of great people, saw a number of great friends I realised I missed more than I knew.  It's over for another year and the tired part of me is happy about that, but I'm also looking forward to next year.

Did a few pencil-only sketches I'm happy with -- the Wolverine above is actually an orphan piece left over after the con.

The highlight of the con was likely Darwyn Cooke's surprise visit to my table to tell me he thinks I'm an asshole.  I'm not certain whether he expected me to apologise or cower in fear, but I did neither.  I'm pretty certain these are the reasons for Darwyn's visit.

I do feel obligated to point out I've a number of mutual friends who have nothing but the best things to say about Darwyn.  I will gladly and enthusiastically support his work when it's not siding with a corporation against a fellow creator's (in this case co-creator) control over their creation.

Really miss having the time to do the weekly strips.  I'll be starting a new weekly strip in the Fall, but it won't be a return to Burning Itch since I'd rather turn to a serialized narrative and work toward a conclusion.  That's not something you can do when trying to be of the moment.

Back to work on ASHES and Bran Mak Morn!

Fan Expo Canada 2012

Hi all,

It's just a couple of days until the madness of Fan Expo begins anew!

First off, You can find me between the most awesome pair of artists, Dale Keown and Leonard Kirk here:

As usual I'll be doing sketches, selling original art and a few prints as well as signing books.  Speaking of signing books:

Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #5 is out (or will be out this Wednesday in Canada) with the Bran Mak Morn story I worked on!  In addition to signing this book I'll do a free sketch card of a Pict for you after signing the book at this show!

I'll the following prints available.  All are high quality prints on 11x17" Ilford Galerie pearl finish paper.

I'm retiring the Spike print after this show, so this will be the last time I'll have prints of this cover available for purchase.

Also, the 50% art sale ends at the start of the Fan Expo -- you can see the work and terms here.

Feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to answer as soon as possible.

Bran Mak Morn!

I've heard Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #5 is available at most friendly neighbourhood comics shops! It's strange how I'm only now drawing a Robert E. Howard creation when his characters were so instrumental to my desire to draw comics back when I was 12.

Here's the first appearance of Bran Mak Morn on the final page of Ian Edginton and my adaptation of Howard's Men of the Shadows.  Moose Baumann's colours are spectacular.

We've two more parts -- in Savage Sword issues 6 and 7.

FREE THE PICTS!!!

I'm very excited about this book being available just before Fan Expo Canada  (it's under a week away people!) and I think I need to share that.  If you bring a copy of this issue for me to sign I'll do a free sketch of a Pict on a 2.5x3.5 Bristol sketch card.  

If your local retailer hasn't ordered it you may be able to get a copy through Dark Horse's retail arm linked on this page http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/18-417/Robert-E-Howard-s-Savage-Sword-5

~R

Pre-Fan Expo Art Sale Aug 10-22

Two days ago one of my art shelves gave up the ghost under the weight of the work piled on it.  Nothing was damaged, but it made me realise I've too much original artwork in too little space in my studio.  I've decided to have a 50% off sale leading up to the Canadian Fan Expo this Month (August 23-26).

Process
Send an e-mail to richardpace(at)rogers(dot)com  (the (at) and (dot) should be replaced with the @ and an actual . for the e-mail) and I'll put the piece on hold until payment is in my Paypal account.

Payment
For this sale I'll accepting Paypal only.

Shipping
To keep things simple all large original art will default to $25 and any sketch cards will be $5 for regular shipping and handling for destinations in Canada and the US.  International destinations should drop me a note so I can check rates   Insurance, expedited delivery  and tracking for small packages will be extra. I'll combine shipping for multiple items.

Other questions
Please ask either in the comments below or drop me a note at richardpace(at)rogers(dot)com and I'll answer as soon as I can.

I've already been asked if I'll waive shipping and handling if you pick up the work at the Fan Expo.  I can do that, but I can't put the payment off until then; it'd be unfair to other potential purchasers and there's the risk of the stars not aligning properly and the transaction not occurring. I do realise a cash transaction is 'better', but it would run against the nature of this being a limited duration sale.

Comicartfans Gallery -- there's some work already posted at my gallery there, if it's still available and not listed here yet, consider those works on sale as well.  For example,  http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=649268&GSub=99774  is a part of the sale, it's listed for 300.00, but I'll sell it for 150.00 for the duration of this sale.

This will be a first-come-first-served sale, not an auction.  I'll try to update as quickly as I can as the work goes, but I am working on a few deadlines, so I'll be allocating my time to update the status to just  a few times a day.  Further, I'll be adding more pieces to the sale over the next week.

The work:

Transmetropolitan Romans

11x17" on Bristol

SOLD

Listed 400.00 sale 200.00

Burning Monster

11x17" on Bristol

Sale 100.00

Bettie Page 11x14" card art on Bristol

Listed $200, sale $100

Jenny Greenteeth

11x17" on Bristol

Sale $100

Koj -- Mike Weiringo Tribute 2011

Listed $200, sale $100

Longshot pin-up

pencils only. 11x17" on Bristol

Listed $200, sale $100

Pitt: In the Blood

11x17" on  Bristol

Listed $100, sale $50

Pitt: In the Blood

11x17" on  Bristol

Listed $150, sale $75

Pitt: In the Blood

11x17" on  Bristol

Listed $150, sale $75

Red Sonja 

pencils only on 11x17" Bristol

Sale 150.00

Convict from Bad Planet

pencil on 11x14" Bristol

sale $50

Deep One, Hills Rise Wild Cover art

14x20" acrylic on paper

listed: $500.00 Sale 250.00 

Fire Witch

 11x14" charcoal on bristol

listed: $400.00 Sale 200.00

Hyperboreans for The Howard reader

11x14" on Bristol

Sale 100.00

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

11x17" on Bristol

Sale 200.00

Jill the Giant-Killer

Sale 150.00

Joker and Harley

Pencils 11x17" on Bristol

Sale 100.00

Mister Moore

11x17"  on Bristol

Sale $75

Odin, Classic Mythology card set

11x17" on Bristol

sale $200.00

Red Sonja

11x17" on Bristol

Listed 400.00, sale $200.00

Saurus, Pitt card set

11x14" acrylic on paper

listed: $700.00 Sale 350.00 

Burning Itch: Skyrim

11x17" on Bristol

Sale 100.00

Burning itch: Tentacles

11x17" on Bristol

Sale 100.00

Burning Itch: Vampires

11x17" on Bristol

Sale 100.00

That's it for today as I've got work to do!

I've some pieces to scan and other stuff I'll add to the sale as time permits.

Savage Sword #5 Preview

Dark Horse has put up the preview for Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #5 here:

http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/Previews/18-417?page=0

The credits blurb reads:

CREATORS

Writer:

Howardy Chaykin, Paul Tobin, Ian Edginton, Steve Niles

Artist:

Howard Chaykin, Francesco Francavilla, Richard Pace, Christopher Mitten

Colorist:

Francesco Francavilla, Jesus Aburto, Michelle Madsen

Cover Artist:

Raymond Swanland

That's DAMN fine company to be in, isn't it?

Not mentioned is Moose Baumann who does his best to make my work look prettier than it has a right to with his deft eye for colour!

Here are the two pages in black and white!

Another Cap Sketch Card

Another Cap card I did recently  -- I usually try to do sketch cards in small batches since they seem to get done faster that way so, while the other was a commissioned piece, this one is just sitting here waiting for a home.

 I like how the shield turned out.

Happy 4th of July!

Here's hoping all Americans at home and abroad had a great 4th of July!

Above is a Cap sketch done a while back!

~R

Queen of Neverwas & FCBD

I haven't been posting as much as I'd like these last few months -- there was a health issue as well as a work crunch, but the largest issue was this aging computer and my attempts to keep it going.  I've had to relent and order a new computer after losing far too much time fighting a losing battle in keeping my little XP driven box working.  All sorts of things fell by the wayside including several Burning Itches, which I really regret as some, I thought, were quite clever if not funny.

One thing that did come of all this was my rediscovering other things I'd put aside over the years while going through the archives in this hard drive as I start prepping for the new machine.  I'd started the above painting back in the August of 2010 with the notion of making a print of it for the FanExpo that month.  I wasn't happy with the progress so put it aside to work on it later, which turned out to be this evening after dealing with yet another computer crash.

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It's Free Comic Book Day this weekend and Dale Keown and I will be the guests at Comic Book Addiction in Whitby!  I'll do sketches and have prints (including the one above, though it'll be in the back of my print book since FCBD does skew toward all ages material).  If my computer allows I'll be able to finish the piece I was working on specifically for this FCBD.
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Not sure if or when I'll return to doing Burning Itch once I have a more stable digital working environment -- I already planned on ending it in October to replace it with something else, so I'll have to think about that.  If you really want them back, do let me know!

~R

April Life Drawing

Some of the life drawing I did in my classes this past semester, either as demonstrations or as the students were also drawing.

All are Prismacolor Art Sticks on white cartridge paper and the pictures were taken with a digital camera.

 Some of these were made with blue, orange and black, because I had them at hand.

Scarlet Witch -- Con Commission

Actually remembered to grab a pic of one of the commission pieces from today -- it's in coloured pencil on 11x17" grey Mi-Tientes.

Hopefully I'll get photos or scans of the pieces and I'll be able to share them later.

~R

Wizard World Toronto Conan

Been swamped the last few weeks with work and my computer has been giving me real problems, which is my excuse reason for not updating for a the last little while.

There probably won't be a new Burning Itch this week either, but I do have a pile of drawings and other work I'll be posting, like the in-process Conan sketch above I've been working on at this weekend's WW Toronto convention.  I've managed to forget to take pics of the sketches I've done so far (again), but I'll try to be more on top of things for the last day of the con today!

~R