Ok so I’ve decided to sell my sketch books online (don’t forget I WILL have these at SDCC for those of you attending) and there are TWO ways you can get them. You can grab your 20 bucks and:
PAYPAL me at ryan@ryanottley.com , make sure your shipping address is correct when you order.
Or
Send a cashier’s check or money order to:
Ryan Ottley
107 N Main #205
Bountiful, UT 84010
15 dollar sketchbook plus 5 dollar shipping makes TWENTY dollars total!
Sorry no international orders right now.
I will gladly sign them, no time for quick sketches though. Expect them to ship after Comicon(July27), some will make it out before then. Thanks!
Ryan
Finally! I’ve been meaning to put one of these together for a while. Finally feels like the right time now and I got a buddy of mine to do all the design work for me so that made it much easier on me, Thanks Derek Hunter! I got Kelsey Shannon to do colors for me, they turned out crazy awesome. I’ll be selling this book at San Diego comicon July 22-26. Come find me at Image island.
This is a black and white 75 page sketchbook, color cover, perfect bound, comic book size. Hope to see you at Comicon!
I hope to sell these online sometime for those that want one and are not attending. More on that later.
Ryan
Here’s a bunch of sketches I’ve done in the last while. Some of these you might have seen before but I finished them off with markers and such.
Ryan
Ok so I want you guys to know that while I draw Invincible I have ideas from time to time to put into Invincible, sometimes I call up Robert and let him know and he says yes or no, or other times I just go ahead and draw something in. And of course sometimes he likes them, and sometimes he dislikes them. Here are three examples from some newer issues where he wasn’t too fond of them and asked them to be changed. And I’m fine with it, it’s great working with Robert and I’m glad he puts up with me even though I do this kind of stuff.
1. First off is the designing of the Evil invincibles for issue 58. He said just go to town on them. Due to time constraints trying to get the books out on time I was just designing as I drew the panels.
The first one is household items Mark, his first costume. I thought it was a cool idea kinda like Flaxan mark, or the burned Mark from the Viltrum prison, it just shows the reader there is a back story without telling them the story. I thought Mark stuck in his first ever made costume would be interesting. Like maybe Nolan left much earlier than he did in our dimension therefore he hasn’t met Art the Taylor yet.
And now we have Prophet mask Invincible with swords. Yeah I agree with Robert, dumb idea. heh.
Mark with a baseball hat on I thought was cool, like he’s still working at burger mart and wants to advertise a bit, heh, ok dumb idea. BUT Robert did say in the script to draw an evil Invincible with a “cap” on his head. He meant have the costume cover his hair, not an actual cap. I’ve never heard the term cap for how he wanted it so I drew it how I pictured it.
And the last one I still think is a good idea, Zombie Mark! Robert wasn’t too into it because he’s done quite a lot with Zombies and he really doesn’t want them overused in his other books. I can see his point. But it still woulda been fun to draw him fighting.
2. Now below the Evil Invincibles is a panel where I broke the panel border with a butt squeeze! Revolutionary I say! Robert’s problem with it was it looked like the panel border was riding up Eve’s backside. I can see how that could be a problem, a papercut there would be super painful.
3. And now the last one, this one made it all the way to colors before it was cut. I love the mohawk evil Invincible, I think he’s nuts, just completely crazy and totally punk rock. He not only demolishes everything in his path like the other evil Invincibles but he also desacrates when he can, and I think he’d hate the world so much that he WOULD jam the torch up lady liberties bum. Robert thought it ruined the scene, just too distracting.
And that’s my most recent bad ideas. More coming soon, probably. 
Ryan
Some doodles for you.
Did this at Draw night last night. We had a nice big showing, lots of artists hangin out. The radical Derek let me borrow his home made watercolor set and I went to town on this Red Hulk sketch. The red Hulk comic was fun I thought, seemed like he could kill anybody. Of course the main reason why I liked the book was because of the art, the team of Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines was extremely pleasing to say the least. But why would I only wanna say the least? To say the most it was absolutely mind-blowing seeing what those two can lay down on paper. So yeah, this sketch is a little shout-out to the fun that was Red Hulk.
Ryan
Did this at draw night.
Hey! So I gotta tell you all about my new gig. I’m drawing Haunt for Image comics, I am STILL the artist for Invincible. I have an inker for BOTH titles so that way I can keep them both on time. Robert Kirkman is writing Haunt, Greg Capullo is doing layouts which speeds things up for me on pencils. And Todd McFarlane is doing digital inks, he’s also doing covers. Full info and interviews about it HERE!
Now you need to know that when I was a kid I had a huge crush on the stylistic lines of Todd McFarlane. I thought he was the BEST artist ever and I always wanted to draw comics because of the energy he brought to a page, and I wanted to bring that kind of energy to my art someday, seriously as soon as I saw Todd’s art it became a dream job to someday draw comics. So if my 16 year old self could see that I was working WITH Todd McFarlane NOW, my 16 year old bladder would probably release itself instantly. Just so you know what a McFarlane geek I was, here’s a photo of me at 16. Yes, my room was plastered with art that I copied from Todd’s and I signed my name to them passing them off as my own. heh.
When I got this new gig I did some Haunt sketches and mock covers just to try and get a hang of drawing this guy. I wanted to get a feel for how I would draw him, which is differently from how Todd does it. But I want to draw it in a way I’ll have fun doing it. And so far this stuff is tons of fun.
Thanks!
Ryan
For those that don’t know, I sell all of my original art. Most of it I send to my art dealer Mark Hay, who does all the business for me. If you are interested in some art of mine go check out my gallery at Splashpageart.com here> RyanOttley art here!
I have covers and pages from Invincible 9 though current, hundreds of pages to choose from. Buy your Mom a nice mother’s day gift for valentines day. Here’s some examples of stuff that is up right now for sale. Thanks!
And sorry I’m still not accepting commissions, I have loads of work that’s gotta get done. As soon as I am up for accepting some I’ll post and let you all know. Thanks again!
Ryan
Draw night was great! And no one broke into my truck this time, BONUS! I wasn’t going to finish this drawing, I was going to leave it pencil but I wanting to see what it would look like inked with a bunch of black added. I really enjoyed adding shade to it all, and the gray marker helped with that. ya gotta love drawin them creatures. I’ll post my other drawing I did at draw night later in the week.
Ryan
So draw night was fun except for when someone decided to bust my window on my truck and rummage through it. There was nothing worth anything in there so nothing was taken, not even my two old CD’s in the center compartment, rage against the machine and Metallica. Those poor bands won’t even be stolen anymore?! Ah well, I still love ‘em. So anyway I don’t know how much this will all cost me but I’ll probably get to go through being pissed all over again as soon as I get the bill.
At draw night I was working on an Invincible cover and then started this quick sketch here of what I think the perp looked like, and of course he totally shoulda taken that Master of puppets CD if he knew what was good for him.
Oh yeah, here’s Santa. I forgot to post this last month. Sorry.
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
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
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
Draw night! GO!
