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calgary comic and entertainment expo 2013 - recap

Me and a zombie

Last weekend I had a table in the small press section of the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. Although I've been to the con before (years ago when it was quite a bit smaller), this was my first time selling my work there. I wasn't sure what to expect, but the whole thing was a really positive experience.

This was a quick little commission I did at the con

I sold a lot of prints as well as copies of my book, Bye, Bye, Butterflies! I met a lot of really talented illustrators, comic book artists and other cool people in the industry. And the whole event was really just a lot of fun. The atmosphere was so positive and happy and there were tons of great costumes.

The highlight for me - Wil Wheaton bought one of my prints :)

I met so many friendly and talented people at the con that I wanted to take a moment to mention some of them.  Check them out:

Mike Bolt, picture book maker
Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots
Jennie, The Devil's Panties comics
Anthony Del Col, Kill Shakespeare
Scott Hepburn, comic artist extraordinaire

We've already booked our table for next year :)

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eyes & noses

I've been experimenting with different ways of drawing eyes and noses.

yabs confab

YABS, the Young Alberta Book Society, is an organisation that helps to facilitate school author and artist visits (www.yabs.ab.ca). I've been a member for about a year and last night there was a meeting for members held here in Calgary.

It was a mix of local authors, illustrators and one story teller. The meeting was great - really informative and inspiring.  We talked a lot about inspiration and school presentations while drawing exquisite corps pictures.  It was really fun, and the pictures turned out quite interesting. I'd like to try something like that again in the future, perhaps at my sketchgroup.

Take a look...

Thank you to Carolyn Fisher, who organized the meeting. Read her post about it here.

bride with feathers

the evolution of the darth vader & storm trooper portraits

This post is a continuation of the one I did last week about the Leia and Luke portrait paintings.

fillion

the evolution of the leia and luke paintings

These paintings started as drawings in my sketchbook that I did for fun last fall. I liked how the sketches turned out, so I decided to paint them.

The idea was to do my version of classic portraits of the actors from the original Star Wars movies as if they were nobility from the renaissance. I really liked the idea of combining finished, rendered faces with graphite line drawings of ornate frames.