Emerald city con is this weekend. I’ll be bringing a bunch of original pages, a binder filled with original sketches, draw night sketches, and character designs, ALSO these Marvel cards I get to sell, posted below. I’ll be doing sketches also. The whole Invincible team will be there, Robert Kirkman, Bill Crabtree and I will be there both days. And we’ll sign anything you bring, so see you there.
Ryan
Some pics for you and an interview! Big Shiny Robot interviewed me about how it is working with good ol’ Kirkman and what kinds of things I drew as a kid, and a lot more, it was a fun interview. Go check it out, just click HERE!
I’ve never posted pics of me here. So here are some photos of me at the Toronto con last month. The first pic is me at my table, you can see behind me a row of other comic dudes who are GREAT guys and amazing talents, we got Bob Layton, David Michilinie(My first comics were written by this dude), Clayton Crain, and Mike Grell down the row.
And here are some photos of Clayton Crain, Karl Kershl, and I at a sketchoff. We sat for an hour and drew Batman while the crowd asked us questions. I’m no fan of public speaking so it was hard for me to be comfortable at all but it still ended up being a lot of fun. The guy at the bottom won the drawing in a raffle.
Ryan
Another draw night was had last night. It’s great that it’s getting bigger, more and more people show up bringing with them their awesome talents. Hangin with all these people can just make an artist better, it’s pretty cool. I highly recommend it.
So this first sketch I did for one of the draw night attendees, Dave Chisholm who draws Lets go to Utah. The character’s name is Leif, you can actually read the comics at his deviant page, they are flippin great, trust me.
And now here is Lobster Ladd! This is a sketch for my home dawg Derek Hunter who did a book for Slave Labor back in the day called Pirate Club. He’s working on this cool comic now about a ladd who fights albino lobsters to try and find his family, it is quite awesome indeed.
Spidey VS Silver Surfer! Yeah it might not REALLY go down this way but hey, its fun to imagine.
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Ryan
More draw night sketches.
Here’s the last of my cards I drew on for the Marvel Masterpiece 2 set. These original art cards will be inserted into random packs of cards.
Ryan
So my little one-shot comic called Death grub comes out in May. Hope you guys will get a chance to grab a copy, the graytones that Cliff Rathburn(Brit, Walking Dead tones) did on this thing look SO good. I wrote, pencilled and inked this comic in 24 hours but with Cliff’s tones it doesn’t look like a fast drawn comic anymore. So I’m pretty excited about it. Here’s 5 pages just for you! Later.
Ryan
Draw night was rad! My cousin in-law Adam showed up, and another newcomer was Dave who draws a comic called “Let’s go to Utah” and his girlfriend, and of course the regular folks. I really am enjoying that comic, you people should take a look, it’s totally surreal. Onto the sketches. I had a lot of fun drawing these faces, I just thought I’d play around with one characters face in multiple shots.
This next monster chick is a little freakish, kinda nasty. Sorry.
Don’t ever give a dragon a piggyback ride.
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Ryan
Hey everybody! Why didn’t anyone ever tell me how awesome Toronto is?!? Holy crap what a great place and the con was perfect. Torontonianites are the coolest people EVAR! Seriously I had a good time, Tiziano and Kevin and all the other guys that run the little Toronto con did one great job. I felt like a total rockstar the whole time. Thanks guys! And thanks to all you people who stopped by my table and got a sketch, if you want I’d love to get a scan of them to put in a future trade paperback or future sketchbook or even to post here.
I hope everyone was happy with their sketches, I had to rush a few of them especially at the end of the con Sunday night, I had to leave early to catch my flight. Sorry to those I had to cutoff, I wish I could’ve drawn for everybody that wanted something but there just wasn’t enough time. I appreciate you all stopping by and sharing your enthusiasm with me about Invincible. I enjoyed it! The con got me all amped up, People are really excited about Invincible and can’t wait for issue 50. Which should be out in May sometime.
Here is the cover for the Comics Journal issue # 289 featuring a HUGE interview with Robert Kirkman. Definitley a fun cover to draw, never tried Battle Pope or Rick from Walking dead before so it was quite fun to do.
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Ryan
Invincible 50 is DONE! So that means I could enjoy draw night last night and draw whatever I want. Wanna see what I maded??! Good. Page one of sketches, just a warm-up with heads and a guy with a cool power.
MORE ladies and monsters.
A scury lady, with a freshly torn out heart still beating in her hand! Absent the gore.
Havn’t done much draw night sketches in a while, this Invincible issue 50 is taking all my time. It’ll be worth it though. This issue is freakin awesome. I’m doing some of these original art cards for Marvel Masterpieces card set, they are putting these original art cards into random packages of cards. I love doing these things, I have about 8 or 9 more to do. Here is my first 6.
Ryan
Good draw night! I felt like drawing some violence today, breaking necks is fun to draw. The She-Silver Surfer was just going to be a lady but she ended up with a stance that looked like she could be balancing on a surfboard, so there ya go. I wanted to draw a smiley dimpled Hulk again, poor She-hulk is trying with all her might to no avail. They always have She-hulk punching people in the comics but COME ON she’s a GIRL, she should be pulling hair all the time. Kidding.
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Then I thought I’d draw more females but again it turned violent. The monster didn’t have any hair to pull so she went for the flesh!
I wanted to end the night with MORE violence but for some reason the drawing turned into this. I don’t know where I went wrong. Maybe my subconscious was sick of fighting, he wanted piggyback rides.
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Ryan
So they interviewed me about my 24 hour comic called Death grub. I talk about Invincible in it also, updates and what I’m working on right now, that kind of thing. Go read it!> MY INTERVIEW!
Here is the cover for it, colors by Cliff Rathburn.
Lots of folks showed up tonight! It was a good night. This first one posted is a result of conversation with good ol’ Alan Tew. We were talking about how we both handle putting a figure down. I throw together shapes and lines to create anatomy, he says his method is more of a feeling for the outer line first, like a silhouette. Both are so different, I told him I would have a REALLY hard time doing anything foreshortened in that method. So I threw down an example of how I do it with that guy pointing. Then Alan came up with the idea of foreshortening something OTHER than what’s usually foreshortened. I said “How about an EAR?!?” So we got to work and did our own. That is pretty tuff I gotta admit. The sketches below are Hulk being happy. I like drawing the impossible sometimes, makes me feel rebellious and/or cool. Alan mentioned I should draw a pissed off Bruce Banner. I should have! GAH!
The first sketch on this next batch was fun, it’s like a before and after shot of a cocky guy getting punched in the face. And I havn’t drawn a monster chick in a while so there ya go. Just random sketches here, whatever I was feeling. And a shaved Gorilla was one of those feelings. I wonder what a shaved Gorilla would really look like?!? Hmmm.
More Hulk fun and at the bottom there is another pose swap that Alan and I did. He gave me the funkiest pose ever!
Thanks! See ya next time.
Ryan
We drew ladies! I need practice drawing LOTS of things but especially ladies. We had 8 artists show up tuesday night. Alan Tew, Jon Diesta, Tom Scholes, Derek and Rachel Hunter, and 2 other folks but their names are no longer kept on file mentally. Some people drew their own thing but Alan, Jon, Rachel, and I drew the ladies.
I don’t know if you can tell but the first sketches here feel very stiff to me. It’s crazy how one needs to warm up to get better flowing sketches. I should do warm-up sketches every morning. Hmmm. Anyway you’ll see my creepy version of Manga art at the bottom, Derek helped me out and added some Japanese.
These next sketches are more of those where we trade and add to each other’s art. I love doing this. You get a good feel of the other artists knowledge of anatomy, everyone learns anatomy differently so it’s great seeing and feeling those differences first hand. These are sketched by Alan Tew and finished by me except for the middle one. Rachel Hunter sketched that one for me. Oh and obviously that last sketch is NOT a lady, but he’s dancing a bit and is in touch with his feminine side at the moment so I thought to include him.
And this last one is another sketch by Alan and finished by me. And a scary face that was a scribble by Rachel Hunter, she wanted to see me make something out of it. Yes that is a lady, see the eyelashes? Come one, men don’t have eyelashes silly!
Thanks for comin by everybody!
Ryan
here’s my last sketches of the of the draw night. By this point I was all loosened up and ready for the stretchy and crazy stuff. then we stuffed ourselves full of Sushi and called it a night. yum. The end.
Ryan
