Creating a Graphic Novel : Art – Food – Photography

Featured artist Queenie is showcasing some of her sequential work from Small Chen (written by Kylie Chen). The story telling is amazing and it has a fantastic flow.
Page 15 – Inks

Page 16 – Inks

Page 17 – Inks

The same 3 pages with the tones completed. The tones add a real depth of the artwork and [...]

Showcasing a very cool Catwoman piece by featured artist Canadian Chrissie Zullo. This piece was done using Copic markers. Love the little details like the money raining down!

How long do you usually take to do a commission?
A few hours, most pieces take me like 4 to 6 hours depending on how fast I get a [...]

A Happy New Year’s Eve!
Counting down to the end of 2010 and the start of 2011. A big thanks to all the usual suspects who contribute to this including Sean Harrington, Dion Hamill, Dean Juliette, Frankie Washington, Michael Bridges, Frank Kadar and Pasquale Qualano. (I really hope I haven’t missed anyone, please yell me if [...]

For some nostalgia, I have put up the various featured artists’ impression of Phoenix, one of Marvel’s iconic characters. Would love to hear your thoughts on which ones you liked! You can click on the heading to see the original post it appeared in.
Phoenix – David Enciso

Phoenix – Frank Kadar

Phoenix – Pasquale Qualano

Phoenix – Kirk [...]

After an amazing Galactus showcase by featured artist Rémi Dousset, I thought it would be great to showcase more of his works. All three below showcases are fantastic, I especially the Tygra (Thundercats have a certain nostalgia with me) bust.
Darth Vader :

Phoenix :

Tygra (Thundercats) :

During the interview with featured artist Gwyn Perkins also drew a little Batdog sketch for me (modeled after Murphy the Beagle). A few days later, he emailed me a coloured version of it. Thought it’d be great to share this amazing piece!
Original Sketch :

Coloured Sketch :

Gwyn is an amazing illustrator who lives in Northern Sydney on Scotland Island with his wife Marie and daughter Georgia. I had the utmost pleasure to meet him and even take a sneak peek into his studio! His works have a fantastic level of detail in them. The below showcase was from one of his [...]

Zombie vs Cheerleaders is anthology featuring stories by different creators every issue. It is currently on a bi-monthly schedule and can be ordered from April 2010 Previews (Diamond). I read through a preview copy and it was hilarious. Combine some teen angst, cute cheerleaders and oh . . a zombie invasion and it’s a very [...]

French artist Cedric Poulat (whose other interests include drawing, painting, comics, girls ,music,video games and horror movies) is showcasing an absolutely amazing Witchblade piece. Absolutely tremendous detail in this showcase, the final colours are absolutely sublime.
Witchblade Showcase :

Cedric has been awesome enough to show the breakdown of the piece and showing the details in the [...]

Jason Brubaker is working his way through creating his first graphic novel (or comic). He’s provided a process piece as his showcase starting from a small thumbnail to the final image. The detail on his work is amazing and really shows up in the crop images (inked and coloured).
Full Process :

Inked Zoom :

Colour Zoom :

So [...]