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Fun Day at Comic Con Brussels, Saturday 10-Feb-2018.
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"Archie" Comic Book
Archie Series
August 1965
No. 157
Size: Standard 10" (25.4 cm) tall by 7" (17.8 cm) wide
Pages: 34 pages, full color
This comic is complete and looks good. It is a good looking copy that shows some wear around the edges and covers and one diagonal fold on the front cover. Good cover gloss. Copy is attached at both staples and is not loose in any way. No coupons have been cut from the comic. No newsstand date stamps, pen marks or pricing stickers are present on the covers. Pages are in great shape. Overall this is a solid complete nice looking copy that is ready for another read.
Comic Book Grade = VG
Grading Scale: M (Mint), NM (Near Mint), VG+ (Very Good Plus), VG (Very Good), G (Good), F (Fair), P (Poor)
This comic book would make a great collectible or could be put to great use in your scrapbook, collage, altered art, card or mixed media projects.
This one actually came out pretty close to my artistic vision. That's the test of a good creative tool... how quickly and easily can it take what is in your head and put it on the page? Comic Life passes with flying colors.
Damn my stupid digital camera, this should have been a good pic of Allison Mack, who plays Chloe on Smallville.
A comic book I put together in the time I wasn't allowed to work in Canada (immigration). This was an edition of 25 which I gave away to friends; I never really did know what to do with it once it was done.
Man, I hate marketing.
Lego stuff I've been doing, just to show I haven't slacked off. I've been so busy with these I haven't got to moc as much as I'd like, but I have been getting my recommended daily allowance.
This time on my comic book series, Wildcats! There wasn't a single person who wanted to see this one, but I had to do it. I fell in love with Wildcats because of the work Travis Charest did on V2. If you haven't seen them, he did the first 6 and a half (ish) issues if I remember correctly, as well as Wildcats/X-men: The Golden Age, which is the best drawn comic books of all time in my opinion. I also love Ladytron as a character. I'm a huge fan of the cyberpunk genre, and she's definitively got that appeal. 80's future is the best future! I was having so much fun working on this that I pulled an all nighter! I've never done that without the impetus of a deadline.
I've been wanting to make covers that directly illustrate specific issues, but in this case I read the last couple issues, and it seems to be in the middle of a multifaceted story arch that I just felt out of tune with. So I made up a story for this illustration, something along the lines of Ladytron fighting against the team in a good robot being turned bad scenario. In this case, the piece evolved instead of being spelled out completely in a sketch. There was a time where Ladytron was the only thing in the page, and it looked fine. A little background work and it could have been a cover on it's own. There's no shortage of covers with just a posed character (or 2, or 20), but I honestly believe that all illustrations should tell a story! Otherwise they are just portraits, and that's not very interesting. Even Gil Elvgren would tell a story with his pin-ups, like her dress is being pulled up by a lobster or whatever, and that's enough story to make the piece work, campy as it is. He also painted "girl laying there provocatively" as well, but I don't think those are as interesting. With that being said, I give cover artists a lot of slack, because often they are on a tight deadline, or not even privy to the contents of the book, so sometimes a character pin-up is the best solution.
The process I used for this was unnerving, and I couldn't get over how weird is was during the drawing phase. It's a pencil drawing. Like a fucking #2 HB pencil with shading and everything. I usually only use pencils for sketches, and drawings that will be inked or painted over later. I haven't done a polished pencil drawing since high school, and I couldn't get over the feeling that I was going backward. There's nothing inherently wrong with working in pencil, it's forgiving and versatile, but I associate it with amateur artists and the very worse kinds of art you can find, like that guy at the rib cook-off who sells photo-realistic pencil drawings from celebrity head shots. Somehow people who don't know anything about art think he's the next Michelangelo. When I was drawing, I felt like any minute I would have to draw a heavily referenced wolf with a dream catcher behind it. In the end, though, I got a result that I couldn't be happier with. The pencil give the drawing a nice texture that helps balance out the slickness of working digitally, and it was a fairly fast way to work. All the values were set up in the drawing, so once I got it into Photoshop, it was more like tinting it with watercolor than opaque painting.
I should also point out that these characters are not mine, they are property DC/Wildstorm comics, and I made this purely for fun and portfolio purposes.