Vids and Press
The Graphic Canon comes out later this month and The Counterfet appears in a Wall Street Journal blog about the anthology. We’re super excited and honored to be getting this exposure. It’s been a prompt to try and update more often. Eric is currently working on designs for Marinell, Glauce and Britomart, as the battle between Marinell and Britomart is …
Archimage re-made
Back in 2009 we did a photo for the Archimage character summoning the spright that animates False Florimell. Three years later, with my Master’s degree behind me, I have more time to play around with this photo series that accompanies The Counterfet. A big thanks to Dan Abraham of Alchemist Studios for setting up and taking the shot (I’m the …
There’s the Rub….
During our little hiatus between sections, I thought I’d share a portion of the construction of False Flora that I drew a while back. She’s a little more masculine than I’d like: I blame the shadow of the back edge of the jaw and the line of the neck for that. It’s graphite shavings rubbed into mat (matte?) board with a tissue …
A Silent March
…Or at least nearly silent. While the keyboard was lax this month, the brush was busy: beyond a few touchups, painting for our next batch of pages is finished. The work of nailing down scripts, layouts and characters for the next section continues, and some of our characters’ pages got a little bit of love. Check out The Beast, The Witch, …
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
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 …
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 …
Britomart Begins
A few old sketches of Briton (a.k.a. Bitomart). The hooded and masked versions are by contributing artist, Evan Ramsay.
Ivory, or The Littlest Witch
I plan not to have to paint the Witch that small again. Preferably, no on who should be recognizable will be painted at that size. It seemed like a good idea during the sketch, though. I love painting deserts, for some reason. Maybe it’s the (apparent) simplicity, the feeling of expansiveness, or the desolation. Or maybe it’s just a passing …
Blending Tests
A collection of old blending tests using models and costumes…some bearing the mark of my old Monsterdoll server.