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Catdance film festival

a friend of Ryan's had an idea for a short video for the CatDance film festival (a little, cat themed event running alongside Sundance) and he asked me to come up with some art to go along with the piece! 

 

I did... and his cat movie is one of the 5 "judge's selection" pieces that made it to the end and it is now up for a prize! 

here are all 5 of the top cat "films": http://www.freshstep.com/promotions/catdance-festival/

and here is the link to "rocky", the piece that has lots of little pieces of art from me in it:

http://www.freshstep.com/promotions/catdance-festival/catdance-video-play/rocky/

(I'd love it if you took a second to vote for it (you can vote once every 24 hours!)... Alec is a nice guy and deserves a win!)

misc. sketch cards

did I mention that giant pile of APs I had? Here's some more, as well as a couple on my own card stock. 

Marvel 14 piece sketch card puzzle

Sometimes, you have a crazy busy couple of years and your pile of AP cards from misc. sketch card sets tend to pile up because you never have a minute free to actually draw them.

Then, one weekend while you are packing up your house to move, you are going to get antsy and put all of those cards together in the form of a puzzle... just to prove you can. (Also, because this was a HELL OF A LOT OF FUN TO DRAW AND COLOR). 

(click on the image to enlarge)

to tell you the truth, I have been burnt out on sketch cards... they weren't FUN anymore because I'd done so many of them. Challenges like this make those little suckers fun to draw again and I went on a card drawing spree for 72 hours. It was the most I've done in a while and it felt great to be back in the saddle. I'm energized and ready to finish off a pile of overdue commissions that lots of patient people have been waiting on (thank you!). 

And before you ask, no, it's not for sale. Sorry! 

cursed pirate girl pin-up

As most people who follow me know, I am a BIG fan of Jeremy Bastian (http://jeremybastian.blogspot.com) and his comic "Cursed Pirate Girl" (http://www.archaia.com/archaia-titles/cursed-pirate-girl/)

The collected hardcover is now out and I highly recommend you go pick it up at your comic shop or on amazon/your favorite online book shop! (http://www.amazon.com/Cursed-Pirate-Girl-Jeremy-Bastian/dp/1936393603/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357839351&sr=8-1&keywords=cursed+pirate+girl)

 

I was thrilled when Jeremy asked me to create a pin-up for the gallery in the back of the book. He had a really amazing idea for it called "The Royal Portraiturist". He has some of his characters desribe what THEY have heard of the cursed pirate girl and other artists did a piece based on that quote! I got "She's beautiful... like an angel"

arists like David Petersen, Mike Mignola, Tony Diterlizzi and more contributed to the gallery... so I'm floored this is among all the beautiful work in the book.