ad4ad2 : Another set of buns and an *ulp* sword

Poster crop size and a postcard crop size. So far so interesting...



Gotta run out to do birthday stuff, so no more updates but I'll try to get on this when I can.

-- there's a perfect spot on the postcard for "Visit Mars!" text or something goofy like that. "Wish you were here..." "Greetings" "Come for the volcanos, stay for the executions!"

whatevs. you get the picture.

be seeing you,
#6

ad4ad2 : Volcanos and chains? You've got to be kidding me.

Frazetta is awesome. I don't aspire to be like him - he's too damned good. When I was little all I wanted to do was paint bloody swords, sparkling scorcery, and women dripping with sexuality. At some point I realized that my conan was shit and I had the drawing abilities or a blind chimp.

I do love it when I get a chance to ape fantay artists and I think this may be one of those opportunities.

I retooled the sketch now that I've had more than 30 minutes to make it. I think this is the one, and if it's not, it's damn close.



be seeing you,
&Rew.

ad4ad2 : Dejah Thoris , Stone Angel, Giant Lizard sketch.

super rough. I'm just trying to get the idea down. Something like this:



And I think I wanna make it into a postcard or something. Good? Bad? Ugly?

be seeing you.
&Rew.

AD4AD2.0 winners

I picked the winners and I have a really good feeling about this piece. I'll throw up a thumbnails as soon as I get a chance to pull it off.

William Vega:
sexy Dejah thoris princess of mars

Clear:
Stone Angel

Anonymous:
Giant Lizard

*you have to tell me your name so that when I make prints I can sent you one, BTW!

And Nicole ZG:
Prebarbarous Centaur

I was going to go with that but the other seem to fit into something I have a really good idea about painting, so I'm using them, but you get the honorable mention.

I've got to get cracking right after comic con is over! Some see me if you still haven't!

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Ad4ad2 and comic con

I'm at the san Diego comic con if you wanna swing by and say

Booth is i-3. Here's a map I hijacked:



The booth is called brand studo press. I'm the white kid in the red shirt.

I got all the emails about art director for a day 2.0. I'll post the winners shortly so stay tuned for a wacky painting.

Be seeing you,
&rew.

Art Director for a Day 2.0 Contest: 3 things painting

Hey kiddies, it's time for Art Director for a Day 2.0

¿Do you like my art style, but wish I'd paint something really specific to your tastes?
¿Do you wish that I'd paint what was in your head instead of what's in mine?
¿Do you see my doodles and think, "You idjit, why didn't you do it like THIS?"

The offer this time:
Email me or leave a comment on the blog with a noun and an adjective. For example: Radioactive Patnies, Expensive Wristwatch, Overweight Samurai - whatever, some thing you like. I'm going to pick 3 people's ideas and integrate them into an illustration of sorts - then I'm going to make prints of that image and send them out to you for free. Just like I did last time, i'll make a few extra to sell on the net.

Send an email to: genie (at) fourthwish (dot) com

Tell me "a thing" you'd like me to paint by leaving a noun and adjective in the comments field or in my email this weekend. As usual, if it's something super fcuked up, i'm going to have to pin the responsibility on you.

I'll pick the one that I think is the most interesting for me to work on

I'll accept emails entries until July 19th
The painting will be done as soon as I CAN, but I'm hopinh mid August

I'll post my in progress shots of the painting, so you can see how the process works.

1 left.

Thanks again you guys for picking up the posters. I'll mail them out tomorrow - the packing material came in today. 1 Tron poster at my place up for grabs is anybody still wants.

Oh - one more thing. Anybody want me to do another art director for a day contest? or was that a complete fail?

be seeing you,
&Rew.

Pirate Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl

Hey guys and grrrrls,

thank you very much for the orders. there are only a couple posters left, so if you want em, jump on it. i'll be sending them out shortly, once the uline tubes arrive. (as well as those two books that were ordered).

I whipped up this sketch because i'm working on a random pirate girl design. i have about a dillion paintings in my head, but this one crept out tonight.

be seeing you,
#6

sTRONg Finish?

Ok.

So here's the piece in all it's nerdish glory:

The poster is 18" by 24" and it's printed on really nice stock.

I popped it into a show at Gallery1988's crazy4cult4. It was a really rad show.

I have 5 of them for sale. They come signed and numbered. If anybody would like one, there's the link. I'm limiting the printing to only 30 pieces. And 20 of them went to the gallery where they showed - 5 of them have already been spoken for and I haven't even put the link up yet! If you buy them directly through me, they're discounted, BUT there are only a few left. So if you like it. Act fast. It looks real purdy in person.

Now that took a freaking long time. I'm thinking of doing another art director for a day. BUT I want to push a deadline on it for myself. Cuase it's no fun to watch grass grow. Right?

Ryon, youre free print will be on the way next week once I get the poster tubes and protective sheets in the mail!

cheers,
&Rew.

Hell or Highwater (or Failsquad)

Fail.

I have been working for months on a book for the san diego comic con. When I say months, I mean that I've been coming home from my dayjob and working till the wee hours of the morning to move colored pixels around.

I had known it was a bad idea to start something so late and push so hard. If it would have come together it would have been allot of luck in additional to great skill. Now, I know I have decent skill, but nowhere near what it would have taken. I also have some luck, but not enough to pull this project together.

It came down to the final days and a printer's proof. When the proof arrived in the mail, it was so terrible, that I have to seriously question the printer used or I have to question my ability to see and order a new pair of glasses. There were so many problems.

Let me list them fo ryou to see.

Bad art - the art is fucking terrible. rushed and ragged and ugly.
Bad layout - the layout had glaring inconsistencies. things that looked like they were thrown together just to get the job done. it's offensive to look at.
bad print clarity - maybe it was the paper? IDK - fact of the matter is that everything had a fuzzy edge. I have to question the art at that point EXCEPT for the fact that the number of the page were fuzzy.
strange artifacts - there are stepped edges to many curves - even curves in the text which should be vector and thus have no problems.

The project was chaos.

So.... I'm putting it in the can. Right now, after a week and a half of mixed anger and sorrow, but mostly sorrow, with a clear head I can see that anybody who saw what I had and wanted me to push it forward was a little too eager. So to my close buddies helping me, don't take offense, but maybe you were being too complimentary to my art to see how bad everything was coming together. It touches me that you're so kind, but don't let friendship get in the way of goodness!

I will pick up the project and arrange it into shape in the future, but it's going to be ALLOT of work. 120+ pages does not go down quickly.

Good news is that I can move back on to things that I actually LIKE to do... like sleep. :-) and also like THE TRON PAINTING. Which is now finished(ish). I'll post it up later this week, but I had to get that fail out of the way because it hurt and cost me allot of life. It'll all be worth it when I wrap the f_cker up, but I'm not making any promises. This may take me a decade. (*___*)

be seeing you,
&Rew.