The Bazaar

A Bazaar Process

As we slowly grind through our current section, Mike and I thought it would be interesting to show some of the paintings as they progress.  As such, here’s a small slice of the Bazaar, where the Witch searches for materials for her creation.   We won’t do this for every painting, but every now and again it might be neat.

The Beast Test Painting

The Beast

Our Witch has a variety of little minions to do her bidding, and one not-so-little one:  the Beast.  In the original text, the Beast was a big hyena.  I’m not terribly fond of them visually, and would rather not spend a lot of time painting them, so for my own sake I pushed for a more wolf-like interpretation.  We toyed …

preview page from The Counterfet

The Counterfet in the Graphic Canon

One day last year I got an email from the editor of an anthology called The Graphic Canon. It’s a collection of classic literature adaptations put together by Seven Stories Press. At that time, we didn’t have much concrete, but the editor (Russ) gave us a deadline we could hit. Eric proceeded to chain himself to his painting station and …

sketch of Briton (a.k.a Britomart) from The Counterfet

Britomart Begins

A few old sketches of Briton (a.k.a. Bitomart). The hooded and masked versions are by contributing artist, Evan Ramsay.