I now have a TUMBLR!

I now have a TUMBLR!

In an effort to do more "daily drawing" I've decided I'll post "random doodles" and "warm up sketches" etc over on my Tumblr.  A lot of the original art on my Tumblr will then be available for purchase on my Etsy store.

Synergy!  Branding!  Business!

Visit (and follow/re-blog) my Tumblr page here:  drawsiness.tumblr.com

Commissions from San Diego Comic-Con

Okay, I know this post is LATE... but I've been busy.  Anyway, above is a bunch (but not all) of the artwork I did from my Artists Alley table at San Diego Comic-Con 2015!  It was so awesome to have a table there, I look forward to doing it again, if the Comic-Con Gods see fit to bring me back!

Sadly, I did not taking any pictures of the commissions I did from So Cal Comic Con in October.  I don't know why.  But if any of you reading this, got artwork from me from that show, or from San Diego Comic-Con and you don't see it above... shoot me an email, and I'll include it in a future post!

So Cal Comic Con!

I really need to update this thing more often, especially since it's the "hub" of my digital footprint... for now.

Anyway, uhm... TOMORROW, Sunday, Oct 18th from 10am-5pm, I'll be exhibiting at SO CAL COMIC CON, in Oceanside, CA!  It's a smaller show, but it's been growing steadily over the last 6 years, and the exciting part, is it's in my hometown!  So if you're in the area, or can get to it, by all means come out and see me!  Or come see Guest of Honor, ROB LIEFELD (creator of DEADPOOL, among many things).  Or come see Special Guest GEORGE PEREZ (a living legenary artist of too many things to count, but a LOT of classic Marvel titles...  INFINITY GAUNTLET to name ONE). Or come see KEVIN EASTMAN (co-creator of the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES).

And again... I'll be there too!

I'll have all the things I had available at San Diego Comic-Con International, as well as a BRAND NEW PRINT, that will be making it's debut tomorrow at So Cal Comic Con.

See you there!

Happy NEW Post / Commission / Year

Hello... anybody who still reads this.

Sorry for the absence...  Actually no, I'm not.  It's my blog, I do what I want!  HOWEVER, I don't like that I haven't really been as post-y on here as much as I should be.  So with a new year, comes new determination.  This blog was always intended to be a place of quantity over quality.  So I'm determined to post on here as close to daily as is possible for me.  So unless I'm out of town or unable to post, I'd like to post at least once a day on here.  *fingers crossed*

As I'm slightly hung-over from last nights festivities, and I have a long day of work at my day job ahead of me, today's post is a bit of a cop-out as I drew it in the middle of last year.  But, it's new to the blog so it's new!  Above is a commission I was asked to do.  What excited me the MOST about this commission was... I DID NOT KNOW THE CLIENT!!!

Most of the work I've done is for friends.  Which is fun and all, but I'd like to branch out.  So this particular commission is for a friend of a friend.  Who I did not know.  This was great, mainly cuz I could pretty much drop the "friends and family" discount.  I gots to get paid!  Anyway, the client saw the commission I had done for my friend, and she thought it'd be neato to get something similar of her and her man.  So she got my contact info from my friend and contacted me out of the blue and we got the ball rolling on what she wanted and how much.

One challenge was she wanted a print of this, and she wanted it LARGE.  24"x36" large!  That's huge.  I usually draw in pencil, and ink/color on the computer.  And most of the time I draw slightly smaller than whatever I want to print at (cuz my scanner is small).  But this was intended to be printed at 24"x36"!  I couldn't draw 11x14'ish and blow it up.  It'd look bad!   So what I did instead was....   DREW IT AT 24"x36".  I drew it on 8.5"x11" sheets of printer paper, taped them all together.  Drew the thing.  Un-taped all the paper.  Scanned each individual 8.5"x11" sheet into the computer.  Re-assembled them all in Photoshop... touched up lines here and there where stuff didn't quite line up, then went about my normal inking/coloring process.   A LOT of work.  If I had foreseen how complex that was gonna be, I might of charged more.  But live and learn, I suppose.

Anywho, the end result was quite impressive.  She got it just before Thanksgiving and was intended for a Christmas present for her man, but she liked it so much, he got it early for Thanksgiving.  And now I'm sharing it here.

Cool story, eh?

See you tomorrow.

Valentine's Commission: Colonial Cassie

Hey all, this blog needed an update... so here's a new piece.  One of my co-workers saw the pirate piece I did for another co-worker.  And commissioned me to do something similar.  The above art is what came of it.  Her and her man are into the simpler life of colonial times, it's their thing, so she wanted me to draw them in that era.  It was for Valentine's Day, for her man. 

This was a bit of a challenge, as I tend to lean more towards a comic-book/sci-fi/fantasy/cartoony kinda vibe, and i was like "Colonial times?  What?"  But I think it worked out.  And it was good to draw something besides spandex-clad, superheroes.  But I like the end result.

Commissions, Submissions, and other work drawn for others...

Okay, PART of the reason (besides laziness) that this blog didn't see much newness in June was that I've been whoring my talents out for others lately... here's 3 such prostitutions of my talent...

First up is Peter Pan as a doctor... This might take some explanation.  This was a commission from a former co-worker of mine, actually a SECOND commission, so I guess that makes her officially a "collector"?  Anywho, her fiance was gonna graduate from college and start on the road to being a doctor.  Kudos for him. He either like Peter Pan a lot, or he's her Peter Pan, either way they're associated, so she hired me to draw up Peter Pan as a doctor for a graduation gift.  When I went to have this printed, somebody suggested to me that Tinkerbell should have been standing on his shoulder in a nurse's outfit.  That was an awesome idea, but I had already been paid for the art, so... it didn't happen.  This image was also transferred to the face of a watch, and also given to the hubby to be.  When I get a picture of said watch, I will post that here, too.

Second, also requires some explanation.... Some mutual friends of my girlfriend and I are having a baby, due in like a month.  And they were gonna decorate the baby's room with a bunch of store bought art and such, but they have a lot of talented artist type friends, so they decided instead to turn to their artist friends to come up with art for the newborn's walls.  The father is a Jungle Cruise skipper at Disneyland, and the theme for the art was something jungle related, or Jungle Cruise related, or tiki, etc.  Not much else.  I was having some issues coming up with an idea I liked and wanted to pursue.  So my beautiful girlfriend came up with the idea you see above.  We call it "Playtime with Daddy", and it shows the father re-creating the jungle cruise experience at home with their daughter aged 4-6'ish.  I really got behind the idea, and made some changes and altered it a bit for my artistic sensibilities, and drew the above image.  Which I then handed back to my girlfriend, and she colored it in Photoshop.  The expectant couple LOVED the end result.  Hopefully the baby will too!

Lastly.  My "day job" is I work in the Photo Lab at a Target store.  In the break rooms at Targets all over this nation is "RED: The Team Member" magazine, and it's really just a magazine about Target, for Target, by Target.  But every month, it comes out and comes with stories about Target and team members and such.  It kills 15 minutes of time when you're on a break.  Anywho, for their upcoming issue in October, they are doing a story about the "Art of Target" and turned it over to the current team members to design the cover using that theme.  Above is what I came up with.  I kinda dig it.  Wish I had done maybe another parody or two of famous artworks, but... I think it works.  It was also a minor challenge leaving enough room at the top for the magazine logo and such... but all and all a fun project to work on.

Georgia O'Keefe I ain't...

Sorry for the poor scan quality on this, I was shading very lightly, as these are predominantly white flowers (I wanna say they're orchids?)

Anywho, I have a bad habit of not saying "No" when people ask me to draw something for them.  Instead of saying "sure" I should say "How much?"  That might be good.  Anywho, this is a work in progress (or "WIP" as we call it in the art world) for a co-worker.  She showed me a picture of these orchids? and said "Can you draw that and add the date of my wedding to it?"  And that was it.   A side note, if you ask somebody to make artwork for you... provide LOTS of information.  Never ask a guy to draw you something and they say "Do whatever you want."  I ain't Georgia O'Keefe, I don't usually do flowers.  Tell me how big you want it, how you want colored.  Do you want it realistic?  Do you want it cartoony?  What do YOU want for YOUR art.

Anywho, that's not what she did, there was a lot of "Whatever you want to do".  I want to sit on the couch, snuggle with honey and watch a zombie movie.  That's what I want to do.  I don't want to draw flowers.  But, I shall continue to work on this, I think I will go more stylized and cartoony/comic-book'ish as I continue to work on it.  And when I deliver the final product and she looks at it weird... and then says "That's not what I wanted"... I'll say "Hey, that's what I wanted to do, and you said whatever I want."