Entry 171: AVENGERS #7 Notes + ECCC 2013 Commissions

AVENGERS #7-- is there anything I can say about it? Do I have any concept art?

Emerald City Comic Con. I went there. What commissions did I do, and can I show them to you? 

Also, LOVE. Is it real, and is there such a thing as a soul mate?

ALL of these questions, and more, will be answered in this blog entry!

So lets get started!

Entry 123: S.H.I.E.L.D. Volume II # 2 Is COMING!

Hello, folks. How's it going? Are you doing good? What do you think of parmesan cheese? Somebody told me if I want to get more responses on this blog I should ask more questions. So, what's going on with you? See any good movies lately? What about crushed red pepper, you like that?

I'm not really trying to drum up more responses, but I do actually have a question for you. So this is a brand new blog. I'm still working on it, I guess... So what do you think? Is there anything that is just bugging you about it, something that looks bad. Should I change the fonts? Was it worth leaving live journal for. I'll tell you this, just 2 days after my last post on live journal a bunch of my LJ posts were spammed. That helped me feel justified in the move.

 What do you think of the slide show thingies on the side over here on the right? I still want to make ones for my Star Wars stuff, X-men stuff, and even my King Kong stuff. Oh and I want to put all of "They'll Bury You Where You Stand!" on there too.

And what about SHIELD? Do you like SHIELD? Specifically SHIELD Volume II #2? You haven't read it? Well allow me to show you some pages from it. Actually, you know what, it's really not up to you. I'm going to show you the preview whether you like it or not.

Just click the "read more"...  do it.

Entry 122: The Face of Leonardo Da Vinci

This is a sketch I did a while back of my version of Da Vinci without the beard. I thought it would be interesting to see him this way.


With all the character designs in Shield I'm not really aiming for a true likeness to the real person. It would be a little pointless for most of these people anyway since the only depictions of them are paintings or drawings and are already another artists interpretation of them and they vary from image to image. So I've tried to create my own take on these characters, kind of in the way an actor playing a role another actor has played tries to create that role for themselves. Of course, I do research and get reference. I try to base my version on what there is for me to see, but ultimately they are my versions of these people. I think it helps to think of them that way. It means I can loosen up. I only have to stay consistent with myself. I don't have to continuously refer to photographs and I certainly don't need to achieve any photo realism.