Back from a much needed Vacation

So I know it's been a while since I've posted any artwork or an update. Working for a company is a totally different animal. I have to be careful about what I post since the book is still in production. However, there's light at the end of the tunnel, I'm 20 pages away from finishing this puppy and I'll see what I can do about posting some pages!

In other news, just got back from Bermuda on the 4th. I was a wonderful week of not drawing or stressing about anything. I ate good food, drank new beers and went to the beach. Look for photos shortly. Big thanks to Mike for letting us stay at his house and borrowing his mopeds. Speaking of "pups", when we got back, my family watched our dog while we were away and not more than 25 minutes after getting home from the airport. My mom called on the verge of tears, the dog ran away! Thankfully, someone found her and called me as I was on the way to look for her. She was about a 1/2 mile down the road from my mom's at a picnic. Typical Nyla, she always knows who cooking what and where.

So yesterday it was bring doggie daughter to work day, since she had a vet appointment right after. I don't normally have time to sketch anymore but did get a few quickies in since she was around and work was slow. Look for new stuff soon!

Enjoy. Click to enlarge.

Commission Bub.

So I recently finished a Wolverine piece. I don;t typically get too many Marvel character requests, a lot of DC. So this was a nice change up. Here's a quick breakdown of the process.



1. Get the head down. I probably did 15 different heads, before going with this one. Other than the claws, I think Wolverines head (mask) is the most important visual aspect of the character. If you don't get this right, throw it away.



2 Get a rough idea of what the pose is gonna be. He's gotta be doing something. I hate when other artists just do a boring "i'm standing there" pose.



3. Clean it up with the inks.



4. Add Pantone markers. First put the primary color layers down, followed by gray tones for shading. The scanner at work, really doesn't compute the pantones as well as I had hoped. They look so much better in person, too bad only this gentleman will be enjoying it. Perhaps he'll put it up here.

If interested in a commission yourself, contact me via email (listed under bio). As always, click images to enlarge. Thanks!

Kuta Contest and more...

So Sean "Cheeks" Galloway is having a contest. Draw his character, if he picks it, you get a statue and he'll use it for an upcoming card set. Fingers crossed!

So I started first with the head. That's most important. It's what makes the character stand out. I went with my first drawing. Pick a head any head....



Then I expanded with the body. Here's the original sketch for that.



Once I got into Adobe Illsutrator, I make changes and adjustments as I saw fit.

In other news, I tested for a kids book. Although, I won't be working on BananaTail, I had a lot of fun working on this sample piece. Not bad a for a couple of hours work.




It felt good to do a few color pieces on the MAC, it's been forever since I've done anything digitally.

And finally, the photo shoot. It went really well despite the overcast. But it actually worked to our advantage. Hired a friend of my brother, Dan, for a young guy I was really impressed at his skill level. He was quite professional and patient. Check his website, listed on the menu bar, for his online portfolio.

Other than the header here's a few other shots I'll be using for upcoming promotional material:






Not much else to tell really. As always, working hard on the 2nd chapter of the new book. I should have a few panels for you guys soon.

As always, I'm taking commissions and if interested, please email me at:

skatoonprod@optonline.net

Thanks!

Rob

GL Commission and more...

So, where should I begin. I recently finished a nice Green Lantern Commission, full color, full figure, 11x17. Click image to enlarge.



In addition to that, I have a few pieces up at a local art show. I haven't done one in a long while. I doubt I'll do one again. I hate art shows really, nothing seems to sell and I always worry about the stuff being stolen. In college, I had two pieces stolen from a student show. I prefer having the work out at cons, I have the illusion of control. Anyways, here's a few quick shots.





This Saturday, I have a photo shoot setup so I'll have nice "artsy" photos for promotional use. As my good friend, Chris, told me once, everyone should have good photos of themselves. I can't argue with that. I hired a friend of my younger brother who is a photography student. He has a lot of potential and he'll get some nice experience out of this. Check out his online portfolio by clicking here.

Finally, the comic company, Outlaw Entertainment, that bought my last book (from Viper) and has hired me for the current novel just went public. You can check out their site by looking at the right side menu bar. I don't have released dates for my titles just yet, but as soon as I do I'll let you guys know.

Oh yeah, I took the lil' woman to see Wolverine last weekend. The movie wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, however, it was not very good. Terrible plot, bad CGI and WTF was up with the ending? I for one am excitied and hoping Terminator Salvation will restore my faith in sci-fi/comic genre movies. I took a half day from work just to go see it on the 21st.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. I hope to have a few panels from the new book (Chapter 2) up shortly. Take care!

Update and eBay auctions

Hey Gang,

It's been awhile and I've been busy. Working on Chapter 2 of the new Outlaw Entertainment book. Penciled about 12 pages so far. Here's some proof:



I love this shot, BAM! "Wolfman has nards!" hahaha. Believe it or not, I actually looked up photo reference since I had to draw it a few times. There's a lot of groin kicking going on, on the web.



I was re-reading a friend book, Hysteria, which is amazing by the way. GO BUY IT NOW! lol Anyways, Hawthorne does this realy cool line work on the face, thought it was great and wanted to use it for myself. It works great for a "oops I'm really embarassed at the moment" feel.



In the meantime, I've been getting a lot of questions about commission/sketches (prices etc) and then never hear back from them. I'm pretty reasonable as for as prices and ability to get things done in a timely fashion and I have a paypal account for speedy transations, so I don't know what the hold up might be...hahaha. Well at any rate, I have a few pieces up for sale on eBay:


Iron Fist


Superman

They're a steal. If they sell soon, I might just start putting up more pieces or possibly "samples" with a bid for a custom sketches.

And finally, I will have a few pieces in the local art show in Lawreneville, NJ. I'm dropping them off this Saturday and will post a final date and location.

Look for a few new posts soon.

R!

Hulk Commissions, Collect the whole set!

So after returning from Boston, I received an email from a fan, Ryan. He purchased the Hulk sketch I posted the other day. He really really loved my style so he commissioned me for a whopping 9 commissions! WOO HOO! So I just finished the last one today, check em' out! Thanks Ryan for the support and I had a blast drawing these characters. I've never been asked to draw any of them before!












You can also check out his website, all hulk all the time! Click Here to go there.

Reilly, a man of our time....

So I don't know if I mentioned this before but I was the subject of a news article for the University I work for. I'm use to the occasional podcast, website or student documentary project interview, where they ask you a few questions. I answer them and that's what they go with. This was a totally different experience. Thankfully, the student, Kaitlin MacRae, was someone I knew since she works next store to my office, which made the process much easier and comfortable. Though I answered questions, she turned it into a story, a very well written one and I doubt that I'll ever seen as important or intelligent again. lol.

Anyways, check out the article by clicking the image. I couldn't ask for a better promotional piece. Thanks Kaitlin!