Entry 298: NOSEvember.

I have this really cool thing I do where I notice people doing a thing. I don't know what it is or where it came from, and instead of choosing to join in or not join in, I instead justify my not being apart of it by believing that thing to be stupid. HA Ha Pretty cool huh?

Anyway it's Inktober.

Entry 293: ECCC 2017 Commissions

Last time I had a table at a convention was in 2013. At that time I decided that I wasn't going to do another convention until I had a book of my own to promote. And with my creator owned series, PAKLIS, coming out this May, I finally have reason to get back on the comic convention train. So this year I went up to my favorite con, Emerald City ComicCon in Seattle, and of course I did some commissions. There's one just up above, and here are some more.

Entry 182: Comic Con' France

That is a picture of me eating snails, which could only mean one thing. I'm going to tell you all about Comic Con' France!

It's actually been a few weeks now since my trip to Paris and I'm sure everyone on the entire Internet has been waiting with bated breath to know how my trip went? Well un-bate your breathes because it's time for my full Comic Con' France report, complete with photos and my commissions! Plus I have an extra bit of something as a bonus. So strap on your strap-on's and lets get this party started.

Entry 172: MARIA

"WHO IS THE LIVING FOOD FOR THE MACHINES IN METROPOLIS-?!"

I am, guys. I am...

This is a commission I started at ECCC and had to take home.

This is one of my favorite commission requests. I really like this movie. And I love this actresses whole performance. Here in Periscope Studio I have two posters on the wall, one is an Akira movie poster and the other is Metropolis.

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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 164: FF #600 Sketch Cover Auction

Readers who have been checking my blog for a while might remember this sketch cover I did a while back.

Well now this sketch cover CAN BE YOURS! 

That's right. This sketch cover is now for sale on ebay. Head over and place your bid. 100% of the final sale price will support The Hero Initiative, which provides a safety net for former comic creators in need. The Hero Initiative is dedicated to helping creators with emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and entrée back into paying work.


Thank you!

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Entry 146:Open The Door, Get on the Floor

Everybody walk the dinosaur!

That's right. Bane on a dinosaur! IN YOUR FACES, EVERYONE!

This is the one commission I couldn't get to at this past Emerald City Comic Con. But I finally had a chance to get it done.

At first the idea of Bane on a T-Rex was pretty silly to me, but when I thought of it through a kind of Frazetta-esque fantasy lens, I got pumped on the idea. There is no doubt that Frazetta's Death Dealer on the horse image was in my head when I did this. I wanted to have a little of that bad-ass-ness in this image... It might undo any bad-ass-ness this image does have to know that that stupid "Walk the Dinosaur" song was echoing in my head as I drew it.
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Entry 144: ECCC 2012 Commissions

Oh, my brothers. Oh, My sisters. I drew till my fingers got blisters.

Not really. I just said that because it rhymed. My fingers don't have blisters. Calluses are what my fingers have, but that wouldn't have rhymed.

Anyway. So I'm back from the Emerald City Comic Con, and I've got commissions to show you!

Here's the first of the bunch.

Entry 143: Emerald City!

That's right! I'm going to be there. IN PERSON!
I'm not sending a proxy, or an understudy, or some kind of Avatar like body that my mind will inhabit while my body is at home. No. I'm actually going in my own physical form this time, guys. Guys, me in my own flesh with my own blood. You can smell me.

Guys, don't smell me, okay. That's weird. Do try to not be weirdos.

So yeah, come see me. I'll be there drawing away. If you want a commission, email me now. I've already got a list going, but I think I can take on a couple more. dustinpweaver@gmail.com

I'll sign anything you want me to sign, Except for body parts and pets. Seriously, stop bringing your pets to get signed, guys.

I'll have some comics that I'll sell to you, if you want them. Look, I got some books here that I don't want to carry around anymore. I'll give you a great deal.

Booth 222

For more info: Emerald City Comicon.com

The piece that I've used above is a quickly colored version of my contribution to the the Hero Initiative's Fantastic Four Sketch Covers.

Here's a look at that sketch cover.

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Entry 132: NYCC Report

ALRIGHT!
D-WE here, and this is my New York Comic Con report.

Entry 130: New York, New York

Start Spreading the News!
Hey, everybody-
Dustin Weaver here, you know the guy who "writes" this blog you're reading right now, just wanting to let you know that I will be in New York City this week for the New York Comic Con. (Also, what do you think of my new catch phrase, "start spreading the news." Catchy huh?) That's right, I want to be a part of it, and I will. I'll have a table in artist alley that I'll be sharing with my friend, Jeremy Barlow. We will be located at table L13.  If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere. That location, L13, seems as good as any. I'll also be signing at the Marvel booth from 11am to 12pm on Friday.

Please come by our table and say hi. I'll sign comics. I'll have some comics I can sell to you. I'll talk to you. I'll be nice. I might be able to do a sketch for you, though my commission list is already booked up. Sometimes I can squeeze in some sketching. Jeremy will bath. It will be nice.

So come on by. Tell them that Dustin sent you, and by them I mean us. It will freak me out for a second until I remember writing this blog entry.

Anyway, I'm excited. These vagabond shoes are longing to stray! Same with my vagabond socks.

So, see you there!

Here's a page from SHIELD Volume 2 #3 which is out this week!

Entry 125: Edward Scissorhands

This is a sketch I did as a birthday present for a friend, who is also my hair stylist... Is that the right term? Hair Stylist? It makes me sound fancy to say that I have a stylist... Barber? That doesn't seem right. Why do I picture an old man when I think of a barber?...

At any rate, hair cutting person, Edward SCISSORhands. See the connection. He's got scissors for hands and hair is typically cut with scissors. That's one of the things Edward Scissorhands, the guy with scissors for hands, does. He cuts hair. He also prunes hedges. You know what, just watch the movie. Also, go get your hair cut. If you haven't done those things then your just not going to get it.

She also likes Edward Scissorhands.

Entry 117: FCBD sketches

I don't have as much to show you from this Free Comic Book Day as I've had in the past. Last year and the year before I spent the whole day signing and sketching. This year I was only there for a few hours, so I was only able to do a few sketches.

Still, it was a lot of fun.

Entry 116: Free Comic Book Day

Hey! So, this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day and as you can see I will be signing at Things From Another World on Sandy Blvd here in Portland.

Check it out. Also signing at that location on free comic book day: My friends and studio mates Ben Dewey, Paul Tobin, Steve Lieber, Paul Guinan, David Hahn, and occasional studio mates Terry and Rachel Dodson.

But it doesn't stop there. Periscope Studio people will be signing all around the Portland area. Ben Bates will be in Beaverton, Ron Chan and my co-creator of They'll Bury You Where You Stand! Jeremy Barlow will be in Milwaukie.

You could run all around town and meet all of them.

So, I had a couple left over commissions to do from this past Emerald City Comic Con that I was finally able to get done.
Check them out-

I've been experimenting lately with creating screen tones in photoshop and printing them into a drawing and I'm really liking the results. I've always been a fan of zipatone and this is a way to accomplish that look in a fairly simple way. 

Anyway, if your in the Portland area this weekend I hope to see you on free comic book day. Maybe I'll draw a sketch for you. It won't look as nice as what you see above, but it will be cool, I promise.

Entry 113: Tsunami Relief

The subject of this week's Periscope Studio sketch challenge is Japan. The idea is to have a week of pieces that we can auction off and have the proceeds donated to tsunami relief.

Edit-- This piece is now sold.Check out other pieces up for auction from other Periscope studio members here. All of the pieces are for tsunami relief. (I might bid on Aaron McConnell's piece myself.)
And a big thanks to everyone who bid.

I had pretty much told myself that I wouldn't be participating in many more Periscope sketch challenges for a while because I need to be focused on work. But when the idea of doing a Japan week was suggested I was immediately on board. There are probably a lot of artists who feel this way, but for me this is a chance to give a little back to a country that has given me so much. Many of my greatest artistic inspirations are Japanese. Which brings me to the piece itself.

I considered doing a piece directly related to the tsunami and everything that's happened there but it seemed so depressing. I turned to the idea of Japanese pride. I thought about all of the amazing and super cool things Japanese culture has brought to the world. I actually felt as though Japan itself was going to look at what I did and judge whether or not it was in the right spirit... I'm not sure what that means, but it made me think of the end of Akira (the manga).

---Spoiler Alert---

At the end of Akira, after Tetsuo has been killed and the UN can finally reach the shores of the devastated Neo Tokyo with supplies and medical aid, Kaneda is there. He's clearly assumed a leadership role-- after all, he was always a leader-- and he tells the UN essentially to beat it. We don't need your help. Just then Kei rides up on Kaneda's bike. Kaneda hops on, they ride off into the city, and you get to see these two strong characters finally joined together. Maybe things are going to be okay. What can stop these two? The ghosts of Kaneda's friends, Yamagata and Tetsuo, appear riding along side them. They zoom out ahead and vanish and we see the city start to rebuild itself. The last shot is of Kaneda and Kei riding into a perfectly reformed Neo Tokyo as the last bits of debris fly back into place. It's a beautiful and hopeful ending.

Akira is my very favorite comic series ever. The only thing that challenges it's #1 spot for me is Tezuka's Phoenix, also a Japanese book.

Click over to the Periscope Studio Tumblr to see the other pieces that will be available.

Thanks,
Dustin

p.s. click the "japan love" tag for past Japanese related posts.

Entry 110: ECCC commissions

Emerald City is now over. I survived. It was rough, but I made it through. And it's back to real work now.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and said hi. I signed a lot of Shield books and a lot of people had some really great things to say about the book. I really appreciated all the kind words.

I'm sorry to anyone who came up and wanted a sketch or a commission that couldn't get one because I was booked up. That's the first time that's happened to me. This was the first show where I actually had to make a real commission list. In fact, I over booked myself and I now have to get a few of those commissions done at home. I'm really sorry to you guys who have to wait a little longer.

Anyway, enough jibber jabber, to the art.

Entry 107: Super Powered Lucy/ Mad Men

Hello again! and welcome to another Live Web-log by me, Dustin Weaver.
As you can see, Lucy has begun to manifest her mutant X-gene powers. Normally they don't kick in till puberty, but she's an exceptional kid. The doctor says it's perfectly normal in some cosmic energy manipulating omega-level mutants. That's right "cosmic energy." All I can do is make my eyes glow, which only looks cool. But guess what, when they're lit up, I can't see. Completely sightless!

Moving on.
This week on the Periscope Tumblr we are doing Mad Men pieces. No, not pictures of crazy and or angry guys. Pictures related to the popular TV show set in the early 60's, Mad Men.

I must say that I had never seen the show when I saw that we were going to be doing a week on it and I defiantly thought to myself, "Screw that!" "I don't watch that show and everyone who does must be stupid." But then I thought, "Wait. not everyone who watches that show could be stupid. In fact, logic dictates, that there is likely some percentage of that shows viewers who are smart. That means that I could watch it too and I don't have to feel like I'm stupid for doing so."  So I'm giving it a try. I'm a little more than halfway through the first season and I like it.

Here's my piece

This show makes me want to smoke.

Check out the other Mad Men pieces at the Periscope Studio Tumblr.... if you dare.
...It's not scary. I know people say "if you dare" when it's something scary. If I scared you away from doing it, I apologize. Seriously, nothing bad is going to happen when you click on that link. It's not some kind of thing like in the movie The Ring where you'll get a message telling you that your going to die in seven days. It's nothing like that. It's just pictures inspired by the show Mad Men. So click on the link. It's fine.

Once again, it's time for the corner that is taking the world by storm! The corner that is making everyone say, "I didn't know a corner could be so good." Lucy's Poetry Corner!!!!!!!

In closing, I would like to share with you a revelation I had the other day: Justin Bieber is the bizzaro Dustin Weaver... Think about it.

Entry 93: Massive Sketch Dump

Like the subject reads, this is a massive convention commission/sketch post. I've done a few shows over the last couple month and I've managed to take pictures of a lot of the drawing that I did at those shows using my crappy phone camera.
So without any further ado-

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Entry 89: Free Comic Book Day 2010

Hi.

Yesterday I did a signing for Free Comic Book Day at Tony's Kingdom of comics in Keizer, Oregon. It was a lot of fun and I did a lot of sketching. This post is all the sketches I was able to get pictures of, but first I just want to take a little moment to tell you some other appearances I have scheduled.

First I'll be at Madness Games & Comics at 3000 Custer Road #150 Plano TX on Saturday May 8th.Then I'll be at the Spokane Comicon on Saturday May 22. Then I'll be at the Florida Supercon in Miami on June 18-20. After that I don't have solid plans, but it's not unlikely that I'll be doing San Diego this year and I'm determined to make it out to New York for a show. So if you want a sketch similar to the ones you see here you can get one from me at one of those shows.

All of these were drawn on glossy backing boards so the gray tones were a little hard to control.

The Wolverine, Wonder Woman, and Joker were ones that I didn't end up selling. They look a little nicer than the others because I was able to bring them home and scan them rather than taking a picture with my crappy phone camera. I'm thinking of selling these 3 on the Periscope Studio Etsy store.

 This Green Lantern was done for a guy who also came by last year and got this Rouge sketch from me.

Last year I did this sketch for the store owner, Tony.

It's him as Thor. This year I did him as the Silver Surfer and I gave him a more true to life physique. I'm not happy that the face is almost unreadable in this photo, but you get the idea.