Sunday, March 31, 2013

Microvisions 2013








Microvisions (The Sink). 2013. 


Gouache, watercolor, and acrylic on bristol board, 5 × 7″.




Above is my contribution to Microvisions 2013, an auction of pint-sized art that benefits the Society of Illustrators Scholarship Fund (you can see a few of last year's pieces here, and my 2009 offering here). I used the opportunity to do a bit of concept work for my personal project, which has languished for the last couple months as I've battled deadlines. This is the first finished painting I've done of my main character, the Sink. It probably won't be the final look, but I hope it will one day look like an early McQuarrie Star Wars painting — familiar, but not quite what made the final cut. (I fully realize how high I'm setting the bar by saying that).









Character Studies. 2012.


Watercolor and acrylic on bristol board, 11 × 17″.




The remaining sketches are studies for Sink and 2 other main characters. Despite my experience with drawing comics, it's always been with established characters, so coming up with something original has been a real challenge. I'm excited to do more concept work for the story, but for now I'm concentrating on writing — something I'm picking up as I go along.



My eventual goal is a 200-page graphic novel, but I've already missed all the deadlines I've set for myself (been busy with other people's cool projects). Part of me hopes that by sharing it here, I'll have even more incentive to get the ball rolling. I've worked out the plot, scene by scene, which means I can move on to dialogue. The good news is I'm in love with the story and the characters, so I won't be happy until I'm able to extract it from my mind.









Character Studies. 2012.


Ink on bristol board, 11 × 17″


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Don't forget, if you want the chance to win FREE DISPLAY SPACE at Spectrum Fantastic Art Live 2, your submissions need to be in by the end of the day tomorrow! More info HERE.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Are You In?





The official SPECTRUM 20 ARTIST LIST has been posted! Congratulations to all who made it in!



A



Kate Adams

Jason Shawn Alexander

Mark Alfrey

Christian Alzmann

Richard Anderson

Kalman Andrasofszky

Mia Araujo

Steve Argyle

L.D. Austin

Tohru Patrick Awa

Chris Ayers



B



Tom Babbey

Daren Bader

Volkan Baga

Ana Bagayan

Scott Bakal

Andrew Baker

Anna & Elena Balbusso

Armand Baltazar

Paolo Barbieri

Jonathan Bartlett

Shaun Beaudry

Kelsey Beckett

Jasmine Becket-Griffith

Julie Bell

Steven Belledin

Rob Benevides

Rasmus Berggreen

Rick Berry

Ed Binkley

Pascal Blanché

Florian Bo

Paul Bonner

Sam Bosma

Noah Bradley

Andy Brase

Aleksi Briclot

Brom

Laurie Lee Brom

Tim Bruckner

Scott Brundage

Sam Burley

Chris Buzelli



C



Rovina Cai

Martin Canale & The Gore Group

Lauren K. Cannon

Antonio Caparo

Bill Carman

Chrystal Chan

Jason Chan

Soi H. Che

Colin Christian

Henry Christian-Slane

Bobby Chiu

Frank Cho

Donna Choi

Dan Chudzinski

Kali Ciesemier

Ciruelo

Conceptopolis

Sam Wolfe Connelly

Gordon Crabb

Kinuko Y. Craft

David Crust



D



Matt Dangler

Galen Dara

Michael J. Deas

Michael Defeo

Bastient Lecouffe Deharme

Cam de Leon

Mélanie Delon

Camilla d'Errico

Deseo

Peter de Sève

Eric Deschamps

Brian Despain

Joe DeVito

Zelda Devon

Peter Diamond

Sara K. Diesel

Julie Dillon

Daniel Dociu

Terry Dodson

Dave Dorman

Devon Dorrity

Dan dos Santos

Lee Dotson

Allen Douglas

Boris Dubrov

Jonny Duddle

Chris Dunn



E



Jesper Ejsing

Craig Elliott

Tristan Elwell

Jeremy Enecio

Jason A. Engle



F



Jason Felix

Aly Fell

Tom Fleming

Eric Fortune

Jon Foster

Tom Fowler



G



Randy Gallegos

Phroilan Gardner

Alex Garner

Mark Garro

Matt Gaser

Jesse Gee

Justin Gerard

Donato Giancola

Gary Gianni

E.M. Gist

Cory Godbey

Lucas Graciano

Lars Grant-West

Burton Gray

Tanner Griepentrog

Gris Grimly

Rebecca Guay

Scott Gustafson

Feng Guo



H



Wayne Haag

Brian Haberlin & Gierrod Van Dyke

Brian Hagan

Nils Hamm

Randy Hand

Ryohei Hase

Michael C. Hayes

John Hendrix

Kelley Hensing

Christina Hess

Stephen Hickman

David Ho

Johannes Holm

Bruce Holwerda

Levi Hopkins

Edward F. Howard

Te Hu

Zhao Huanhua

Kurt Huggins

Adam Hughes

Gus Hunter



J



Tyler Jacobson

Jason

Bruce Jensen

Arantza Jimenez

Android Jones

Jaime Jones

Patrick J. Jones

Eric Joyner

Lee Joyner

Joe Jusko



K



Ingrid Kallick

Jakub Kasper

Aldo Katayanagi

Agata Kawa

Nick Keller

Brian Kesinger

Paul Kidby

Tom Kidd

Edward Kinsella III

Ed Ko

Victor Koen

Michael Komarck

Karl Kopinski

Stefan Kopinski

J. Anthony Kosar

Kekai Kotaki

Vance Kovacs

Thomas S. Kuebler



L



Thierry Labrosse

Raphael Lacoste

Stephan Lambert

Herman Lau

Lauffray

Stephanie Pui-Mun Law

Vanessa Lemen

Matthew J. Levin

Travis Lewis

Yang Liang

Andris Liepnieks

Xiang Ling

Fabio Listrani

Francis Livingston

Todd Lockwood

Jerry Lofaro

Lindsey Look

Yoann Lossel

Melene Reynolds Laugesen

Travis A. Louie

Jeffrey Alan Love

Rodrigo Luff

Luodan



M



David Mack

David Malan

Serena Malyon

Gregory Manchess

Michael Manomivibul

Alexandra Manukyan

Maurizio Manzieri

Andrew Mar

Stephan Martiniere

Jonathan Matthews

Brian Matyas

Bill Mayer

Dan Maynard

Chris McGrath

Sean McMurchy

Meats Meier

David Meng

Fiona Meng

menton3

Petar Meseldžija

Jennifer L. Meyer

Chris Miles

Aaron Miller

Kurt Miller

Jeff Miracola

Bruce D. Mitchell

Christine Mitzuk

Christopher Moeller

Mark Molchan

Peter Mohrbacher

Jean-Baptiste Monge

Goni Montes

Sho Murase

Scott Murphy

Chris B. Murray

Sean Andrew Murray



N



Mike Nash

Nekro

Mark A. Nelson

Winona Nelson

Victo Ngai

Tran Nguyen

Cliff Nielsen

Terese Nielsen



O



Tim O'Brien

William O'Connor

Walter O'Neal

Dan Orizio

Karla Ortiz



P



John Jude Palencar

David Palumbo

Lucio Parrillo

Eduardo Peña

John Picacio

Natalia Pierandrei

Shane Pierce

Jerome Podwill

Mark Poole

Inga Poslitur

rk post

George Pratt

Dave Pressler

Jeff Preston

Theo Prins

Vincent Proce

Liz Pulido



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Joe Quinones



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Chris Rahn

Frederick Rambaud

Patricia Raubo

Omar Rayyan

Corinne Reid

Kirk Reinert

Wayne Reynolds

Paolo Rivera

John Rocco

Forest Rogers

Denman Rooke

Virginie Ropars

J.S. Rossbach

João Ruas

Greg Ruth



S



Lauren Saint-Onge

Steven Sanders

Ruth Sanderson

Dominick Saponaro

A.M. Sartor

Marguerite Sauvage

Marc Scheff

Lara Schneider

Dan Scott

Chris Seaman

Don Seegmiller

Dave Seeley

David Seidman

Cynthia Sheppard

Brandon & Jarrod Shiflett

James Shoop

Marc Simonetti

Jeff Simpson

Andrew Sonea

Soutchay Soungpradith

Nick Southam

Craig J. Spearing

John Stanko

Greg Staples

Matt Stawicki

Annie Stegg

Derek Stenning

Jim Steranko

Ivica Stevanović

Jason Stokes

Gus Storms

William Stout

Paul Sullivan

Raymond Swanland

Justin Sweet



T



Steven Tabbutt

Erica Taguchi-Newton

Katya Tal

Shaun Tan

Ben Templesmith

Thom Tenery

Andrew Theophilopoulos

Heather Theurer

Paul Tobin

Brian Thompson



U



Jan Urschel



V



Christoph Vacher

Charles Vess

Jeff Victor

Vincent Villafranca

Olivier Villoingt

Raoul Vitale



W



Jeff Wack

Ryan Wardlow

Sam Weber

Tony Weinstock

Steven Welter

Steve Wheeler

Michael R. Whelan

Patrick Whelan

Bruce Whistlecraft

Eric Wilkerson

Allen Williams

Jeremy Wilson

Ashley Marie Witter

Richard Wright

Bayard Wu



Y



Min Yum



Z



Jianbang Zhang

Lu Zhang

Pally Zhang

Chuan Zhong

Local Filmmakers Making International Waves

Married filmmakers Ashley Sabin & David Redmond are making a name for themselves under the title of their production company, Carnivalesque Films, where they produce stories united by the raw and startling sensibilities of transgression, spectacle, and variations of fiction and nonfiction.

 

Their latest documentary, Night Labor, premiering at the Visions of Reality International Film Festival, follows a forty-six year old 6'6" Downeaster during his transition from an independent and rugged clam digger by day to manning a factory at night.

Their award-winning film, Girl Model (2011), showed at dozens of film festivals around the world and continues to screen on campuses and in communities throughout the country.

Having completed a total of 8 feature-length documentaries, Carnivalesque has screened their films in Sundance, SXSW, Toronto, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Human Rights Watch, IDFA, CPH: DOX, Rome, and the Museum of Modern Art. The Sundance Channel, Documentary Channel, Link TV, Free Speech TV, NHK, Current, Scandinavian, New Zealand, European, Middle Eastern, and Australian television stations have broadcast their films.

Night Labor will screen at the Visions of Reality International Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, April 19-26, 2013.  To learn more about Carnivalesque Films, visit http://carnivalesquefilms.com/

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Friday, March 29, 2013

In Progress Demo: Zombie


-By Mike Butkus







On this project I started on a Crescent cold pressed illustration board that I prepared with a mid value mixture of paynes grey and gesso. I applied the mixture using a 2 inch nylon brush. Once the ground dried thoroughly I projected my drawing using a black prisma pencil for everything except for the girls face and hand. I used a red prisma pencil for those to keep her features softer. At this point I use my sketch as a guide making adjustments on the board as I need to.







At this stage, I make sure to keep the painting very transparent. That means using a lot of water in your acrylic pigment. The key is not to lose your drawing. The opaque paint should be reserved for the highlights. The colors I started to lay down with both brush and airbrush are blue greys and reddish tints. A medium sized round white nylon brush will do if you don’t have an airbrush, just be sure to keep the paint transparent.







For texture I splatter the zombie with reds, blues, and greens with an old toothbrush. This tool works great for this.







After laying in a little color and texture I start to define the shapes using transparent flesh tone washes with nylon brushes. A blow dryer always comes in handy to dry the layers quickly as you start to build them up.







Once I have enough transparent layers of paint down, I follow up by drawing back on top with more prisma pencils. They work great on top of the acrylic washes. To create some of the translucent washes I mix gesso with acrylic to give it that creepy wet look.







Finally, I add the finishing details with small nylon brushes and well pointed prisma pencils. For opaque highlights you can use white gouache or acrylic. Hope that helps!

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Fhtagn: Part 1


-By Serge Birault



Here's the first part of my next personal work.









Here's my photo reference. Once again, my wife and my muse, Chloé, is gonna be my model.





The sketch is quite simple. I'm not sure for the design of the little Cthulhu ...







The sketch is on a Multiply layer (about 20% opacity) . I'm painting under the sketch.







I'm starting to work on the volumes and the contrast. The black parts are another layer. As usual, I'm working only with the soft round brush and very low opacity.







Finding the good contrast is the most important part when you try to achieve realistic rendering. I'm adding a little bit of red in the darkest parts and and a little bit of cyan on the brightest ones.







I'm creating a lot of layers, at least one for each part (eyes, mouth, ...).









The eyes are finished.







First step for the lips.







I'm adding the glasses.







I'm painting a flat black area on another layer for the hair.







I'm fixing all the little details : the freckles, the skin texture (with the "dry brush"), the reflection on the hair, the edges of the face, ... For the colors adjustments, I'm creating four different layers on the top.




Next part in 15 days :)






Thursday, March 28, 2013

Filmmaker Kris Byrnes Elected to Compete for NBC Exposure

Congratulations to Kris Byrnes of Brooklyn, NY for being nominated by the Brooklyn College Film Department to participate in a competition organized by OUT@NBC and the LGBT Center of New York.  For its 30th year anniversary, the LGBT Center invited film and journalism schools throughout the city to nominate filmmakers and journalists to take part in a contest involving the creation of 2 minute spotlight videos about LGBT history.


Kris was one of five nominees chosen by the organization.  She will present her 2 minute video on the LGBT movement at their annual fundraising Gala on April 11thwhere guests will vote on their favorite.  The winning filmmaker/journalist will be asked to expand their video into a 20 minute documentary to be broadcast nationally on NBC.

Kris Byrnes is a North Carolina native now working in NYC. Her recently completed undergraduate thesis film, “Bind”, focuses on human rights in a dystopian society. Politically influenced themes are evident in much of her work.

Kris spent a year as a videographer/editor in the New 42nd St. Apprentice program, where her interest in documentary and non-narrative subject matters were cultivated. She has since started working as an Assistant Editor with the international health and wellness channel, Veria, and plans to continue her work within both fields while still writing politically charged films.

Established in 1983, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York is at the heart of the LGBT community in New York City, providing quality health and wellness programs in a welcoming space that fosters connections and celebrates cultural contributions. The Center hosts arts and entertainment events, advocacy groups and family gatherings to offering youth, recovery and overall wellness programs.  Their annual fundraising Gala – the Center Dinner – will be held on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.  Special guests include Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka. For information on tickets, visit http://bit.ly/VczXDx


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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A Trip to Middle-earth


by Donato



I have been reading and rereading passages of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion over the past few months for various reasons, from research for work on private commissions to explorations in the freedom of expression to inspiration for drawings within my limited edition books.



Over the course of my career, I have created very few images along a single theme, preferring to bounce from one concept to another as I seek out challenges to keep my interests fired.  But as I began to draw and paint more from Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, the issue of inspiration was never lacking.  A large body of work has now been generated which a few years ago I never thought to undertake!  A series of images was born with out my awareness.



I  share with you here the work created for the limited edition version of Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth .  Each book features a tipped in toned paper plate upon which I have filled with a drawing, one for each letter of the alphabet.. With 22 now finished, there are just a few more to go!



What I have thoroughly enjoyed about these creations is that they need never be brought to full tonal color.  I am free to explore the lines and designs restricted only by pencil and chalk.  Of course a few of these will see a color final as I find myself falling in love with more than just one composition!



Enjoy.







Limited Edition 'B'  Eowyn








Limited Edition 'D'

The Departiure of Boromir








Limited Edition 'E'

The Phial of Galadriel







Limited Edition 'F'

Inside Information






Limited Edition 'G'

Flight to the Ford






Limited Edition 'H'

Eowyn and the Nazgul-Swift Stroke






Limited Edition 'I'

Gollum - the Debate





Limited Edition 'J'

Gandalf and the Balrog -you cannot pass






Limited Edition 'K'

Aragorn on the Trail of the Uruk-hai






Limited Edition 'L'

Nienor and Glaurung






Limited Edition 'M'

Zirak-zigil : I threw down my enemy...






Limited Edition 'N'

The Ents Roused






Limited Edition 'O'

The Greatest Deed - Beren and Luthien in Angband






Limited Edition 'P'

Riddles in the Dark






Limited Edition 'Q'

Beren and Luthien





Limited Edition 'S'

Aragorn in Arnor




Limited Edition 'T'

Escape from Orthanc





Limited Edition 'U'

Legolas : On the Banks of the Anduin






Limited Edition 'V'

Earendil and Elwing approach Valinor




Comic Con Curves


By Jesper Ejsing






Image © Andrew Hickinbottom 

I fell over this 3D image and it kind of settled in me. It is a personal work called "Comic Con Curves" by Andrew Hickinbottom. I am his new fan.



Well its funny and sexy and its got boobs right in your face. That is an obvious "like" in my book.  But what really impressed me was the perception and setting of the scene. I instantly remember all the time I have stood in lines waiting to talk to one of my idols at a comic con or an art show. Being from Europe and most of my idols being Americans also meant that I had travelled very far to meat them. Standing there in line with my pre prepared portfolio eager and at the same time afraid to show it to anyone is a real sore feeling. the first time I attended a convention I was blown away by all the people who had taken the opportunity to dress up. First I thought it was childish and ridiculous but when I noticed the reaction of the crowd as someone, wearing a greatly put together costume, I realized that it wasn´t stupid at all. these guys were behaving like kings of the world, staying in character acting it out, for a day or two. And I had to admit, it would take a lot of guts to dress up like that. I wouldn't dare it.



Back to the 3D. I simply love the stylized style. it looks so much like a cartoonist drawing turned real life. The super naturalistic pens lend credibility to the scene. The best thing is the card board material used for her check armour and weapon. The attention to details and setting up the scene makes this the true homage to Cos-players.





Check out Andrew's blog, to see more of his work.