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I just finished another commission.  This time it was Odin, the father of Thor,  according to Marvel Comics.  This has turned out to be one of my favorite commissions by far.  More than anything else I tried to focus on my composition and my inking style.  In the past year I’ve found I much prefer inking with a pack of Micron pens to a brush.  I like that flat dead line and thick chunks of black.  This piece is pen and ink, acrylics and colored pencils.

I was going through all my artwork that I’ve been meaning to post and I came across a few photos of commissions I did while at the Heroes comic book convention.  They’re not the best pictures but it’s amazing the corrections Photoshop can make.  I’m incredibly slow at conventions.  Over three days I only did 8 or 9 commissions and I only had the presence of mind to snap pictures of these two.  If anyone out there that received commissions from me in the past please feel free to scan them and email them to me.  I’d love to share them.

Here are a Poison Ivy piece and a Rogue piece.  Both were done on Bristol board with ink, acrylic wash and colored pencils.

I wrote and drew a one-shot horror comic a few years ago called “5 More Minutes.”  I would tell you all about it but my fine friends at “From the Tomb” Magazine have done it for me.  Check out the review and if you missed the comic the first time around you can still order it from indyplanet.com.  Click HERE to read the review.  Click HERE to order from indy planet.  They’ve got the first few pages online to check out too.  I even got a write up in the art magazine Imagine FX which was really cool.

I’ve got a bunch of cool content and post coming up.  Everything from new art to a series of posts on the basics of creating an illustration, so stay tuned.

Enjoy! I know I did.

Here is the Domino commission I’m working on after the first painting session.  I’ve probably got 3-4 hours into the whole thing so far.  I’d probably be a lot faster if I wasn’t trying to watch “Weeds” season 4 on DVD at the same time I’m painting.  I have to apologize for the pictures.   They are photos taken in low light so they are not the best.  I can’t scan wet oil paint.  I’ll take some good ones of it presently as I have some daylight left.

I just put the finishing touches on this last night.  It’s 100% oil paint.  I painted it to donate to the upcoming Heroes Comic book convention art auction.  The proceeds of which go to help Heroes comic book store owner Sheldon Drum put on the Heroes comic book convention every year.  It’s the best comic convention I’ve ever been too because the focus is almost exclusively on comics, the books, the writers and the artists.  It’s a great show and I’m very excited to be able to set up a table in artist alley there.  If you get a chance stop by and say hello and bid heavily on the painting at the auction Saturday night at the Westin Hotel in downtown Charlotte, NC.

I really happy with how Jean Grey, aka the Black Queen  came out but I hate to say that for better or worse the original looks so much better.  Most people don’t realize the short comings of photography and scanning.  They just don’t do the original justice.  I’m an amateur photographer but I often wonder what I might be missing that a professional photographer could do with my work.  Oh well, when my paintings  start making a lot more money I’ll pay for some lessons from a pro.  Until then you’re stuck with my Nikon D80.

I hope you like the painting and remember, I’m always open for commissions and job offers.