Dec13
This sucker took some time. It’s a 4 page gatefold cover. I love all the old Image characters so you know this was a treat for me to work on. Read more about whats happening with this issue over at CBR HERE!
Colors by FCO Plasencia, pencils and inks by me.
Ryan
Dec10
So draw night was awesome last night. 5 of us total showed up and sketched things up for a few hours. I had to do a little bit of work and then I jumped onto this sketch while While eating Sushi, which was so extra good this time. Man I wants more. After that we played Left for dead until 2am. WOW, this game is intense and so much fun. Those witches are my favorite, gotta kill em all! Thanks for the invite Alan, Jon, and Tom.
Ryan
Nov19
And Draw night pics! So I got tons of stuff for you today. I should really just post one drawing a day so my blog seems more active. Hmmm. Oh well.
I did this Star Wars pic for a my friend’s son who just turned 7. He kept bugging his Dad to have me draw something Star Wars for him, I gave him this for his Birthday.
And now on to pics I did at Draw night. I was excited to get to draw for myself, the last two draw nights I brought Invincible pages to work on. I’ve been super busy with this schedule we have going, so working at draw night was kinda necessary. Drawing whatever my mind wants to is always a pleasure, so this draw night was extra awesome because it feels like it’s been so long. First up was a monster thingie.
Then I moved on to drawing this wierd guy. Alan Tew said it looked like a real life Pacman and suggested I draw him eating oreos, I then let him draw the eye on top and the ghost trailing behind him. Thanks Alan!
I then started to draw more monsters and suddenly it turned into a bunny which then turned into a guy wearing the bunny costume and the rest fell into place after that. Carrots aren’t always good for the eyes.
Aaand while devouring Sushi I did my last drawing of the night, just a Hulk sketch.
Bye.
Ryan
Oct25
So 54 hit the shelves on Wednesday this week. Hope you guys liked it! I thought I’d post some pencils I did from the issue. As you can see these are super tight pencils because I have an inker now. Normally I pencil loosely and ink over that, but with an inker I gotta put more into it. Cliff Rathburn is doing a great job, it’s nice having that guy on board, we are getting issues done quickly and trying to fix this schedule of ours. Hope you are liking the new art along with the new schedule!
Oct22
Here’s a bunch of stuff for you all since I haven’t posted in a while. This is from a couple draw nights and the Ghostbuster was partly done at Comicon for a friend.
I think issue 54 of Invincible should be coming out today, I’ll post some pencils from that pretty soon. We are definitely doing better schedule wise, 55 is at the printers, 56 is half way done. So I hope you all are liking it! On time in 2009 is what we’re getting ready for, hopefully I can keep it up. Rathburn on inks totally helps out so we should be good.
This first one is of course a Ghostbuster. I just recently watched the first movie again and it holds up pretty well. I hope they make a 3rd.
Here’s a few random sketches, I don’t always have good ideas.
You could say the top left drawing here is Venom, he can change his costume right? The bottom one is Cosmic Spidey, he’s always close to my heart since I started reading comics when this Cosmic stuff was going down. Fun times.
And last and most definitely least, here is lil’ motorcycle boy having a gay ol’ time.
Thanks for stopping by.
Ryan
Oct1
So someone asked if I’d participate in some chalk drawing that was going on over at a nearby Elementary School. A couple local artists came by and did their thing to celebrate the contest the kids are going to be doing here pretty soon called Reflections. I use to do those art contests back when i was in School and I loved those things. So I had to go show my support and do some art. I’ve never done any chalk drawing before, it’s always fun trying new ways to draw. My Draw night buddy Jon Diesta gave me the tip to wrap my fingers with masking tape for the blending. It helped a lot and added quite a lot to the piece. It was a little intimidating at first laying down the chalk but once ya get a feel for what the chalk can do you just run with it. The knight is supposed to be wearing a helmet with horns, but yeah, it looks like a Cowboy hat, ah well. It took me exactly 2 hours start to finish.
A few people mentioned I’ll be giving kids nightmares with this thing, to which I said “BAH, whatever!” The only reason I chose to draw a Dragon was because that’s pretty much all I drew as a kid. So if I dug it as a kid, I bet these kids might like it too. Here’s some photos for ya.
Ryan
Sep24
So yesterday I was doing some serious figure work and when I went to draw night last night I was pretty burnt out. All I wanted to do was environments, it’s SO relaxing doing this type of thing from time to time.
Ryan
Sep17
I didn’t spend too much time on the sketches last night, not sure why. Just kept things pretty loose this time. This first one is random stuff, the one on the right is an Alan Tew sketch trade we did. We both quickly drew some sketchy anatomy lines and then trade and the other person finishes.
I was sketching and erasing for about ten minutes and realized I just had no idea what to draw, and I didn’t have the brain power to come up with anything. So I just started drawing the draw night crew. Most of these I drew at the Sushi place, Alan Tew wanted to draw me so I let him. He was pretty tipsy from the Sake and the bottom right drawing was the result. I look pretty. But yeah there’s Tom Scholes drawing his infamous backgrounds, then Dave Chisholm doing his “let’s go get Sushi” face, then of course Alan Tew with his Sake stare, and Jon Diesta on the bottom left lookin all tuff even though he gets all mushy and philosophical when he gets the alcohol in him. I didn’t get a chance to draw the two other guys at draw night, Jason and Jeff(I think) since they were directly to my left. Maybe next time. It’s definitely good practice to try and draw people every once in a while, I gotta do it more often.
Ryan
Sep15
Ifanboy said some nice things about Invincible 52 that just came out last week. They say some nice things about little ol’ me as well, Ifanboy are some good peoples. It’s a video, go watch it HERE!
Here’s the pencils for the cover to 57, I inked it myself but for some reason I like the look of the pencils more than my finished inks. So here ya go.
Sep3
I started the draw night with figures, just playing with movement and structure a bit, and then good ol’ Tom Scholes shows up. Tom can draw anything if he wants to but he is mainly a background artist at the game company he works at and that’s all he draws at Draw night too. Which is way cool, I never think that kind of thing is too much fun when I’m drawing comics but he inspired me so I thought I’d do some backgrounds. You can see Tom’s background blog HERE. He does collabs also, an artist will draw a figure or something in one of his backgrounds, they are all on the blog, I have a few on there too. Fun stuff!
So here’s the sketches I did, I’d have to say the cowboy standing on the Cactus was the most fun. Let me know what you think, don’t be shy. If you’ve never posted a comment before don’t be afraid if it doesn’t show up after you post. All first time comments need approval to cut down on Spam. I get a lot of spam but I think one of my favorites is “your blog is very important, you are the new media”. That one always makes me laugh. I can’t imagine thinking to myself “Aw man, what a nice compliment, I’m totally approving this!” Someone needs to teach these Spam Ad makers how people really comment, they’d trick a lot more people into approving their comments, thus making products sold, because everyone who reads blog comments are looking for good deals on jewelry and porn. Right? Anyway enough ranting, here’s them sketches.
Later,
Ryan
Aug27
The thing I love about just drawing for myself at these draw nights is that I have NO idea what I’m going to draw. I just start with some anatomy and while I draw it I get ideas, I’m not saying they’re GOOD ideas, but they are ideas nonetheless. And it’s always fun to let the mind wander wherever it may go. Here’s the sketches I did last night, I apologize if the buff dude shaving grosses anyone out, that was my intention. 
A self-portrait.
This dude loves shaving.
My new creation.
Thanks for stoppin by.
Ryan
Aug13
Had a good draw night last night, these drawings happened. And that’s all I gots ta say about that.
Ryan
Aug6
More sketches have been sent to me through e-mail, if you got one from me and want to share, send it my way! If it’s Invincible related it’ll probably end up in a trade paperback or Hardcover. I always do a variety of characters at these cons which is nice, it keeps things interesting for me. I’ll bet you can’t name em all!
Ryan
Jul31
San Diego Comicon was great! THANK you if you stopped by the table and talked with me or bought my stuff, I appreciate it all! I wish I had some great stories to tell but to tell you the truth I have no stories since I didn’t do much besides sit at my table the whole time. I drove down this year with Derek Hunter(Pirate Club), it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. 12 hours went by pretty fast, which was nice. We stopped in Vegas, stayed a night, threw away a few bucks then left. I think I wanna do that again next year Derek! Huh? Wanna? Maybe I’ll drive for a few minutes next year.
I shared a table with Rob Schrab in the Image section, he and his girlfriend are the nicest people. And for those that havn’t read Schrab’s work, you should check his stuff out. Scud is awesome, His Dvd’s are awesome, I can’t get that wooden leg song from Twigger’s holiday out of my head.
I really like collecting scans of sketches I did for people at cons, so if you don’t mind having other people see the sketch I did for you then just e-mail me from this site. Some of the Invincible sketches will probably go in the back of a TPB or Hardcover. I took photos of some of the sketches I did but not many. At the bottom of this post are the sketches I DO have. Now on to the pics!
Here’s a sketch I did at draw night last night. I apologize for the ultra violence but it’s all in good wholesome fun right? and as Dave Chisholm said when he saw it, it’s a very confused suicide bomber.
Here’s a photo taken at Comicon of me with Atom Eve!!! We were all super excited to see someone actually make a costume of a character of ours. Just totally surprising and completely awesome.
And here’s some sketches I did for people. I’ll post more of these when I get them.
Thanks again everybody! See ya later.
Ryan
