Artist Steven Yu at Big Wow!

My buddy STEVEN YU will be my table mate at BIG WOW! In many ways, we are complete opposites in how we work and in our styles but the guy has got the fire in his belly for making art and has his own distinct style. Come check us out at Table AA140.

The Countdown to Big Wow!

Cover to ISHI

Wrapping up the ISHI comic and it should go to the printer in about a day or so. Here is the cover.

More Ishi Art

The artwork moves slowly but there is a lot of inking and detail going on. So hopefully the results are worth the wait.

Ishi Continues...

 The work on Ishi continues. I hope to be done with the inking in a week but here are some of the panels from the past few days that I like.

Portraits

I was helping out some friends two weeks ago with a church fundraiser by doing portraits. My original sample portraits were completely watercolor but they took way too long to paint and I over-rendered them. One of the samples was of the Pope, who promptly announced his resignation less than two weeks later. I think it was the shock of me doing a religious painting that got to him. :)

So I went back to my more comic book style to speed things up. And I managed to wrangle four commissions out of the gig, which I finally finished tonight. Above is my portrait of "Tala". I went heavier and darker on this first one compared to the ones below, "Mary" and two kids. I've also included the pencils and the inked/pre-wash versions. I've always been a bit nervous about nailing a likeness, especially with these where you try not to exaggerate the features too much, and I'm proud that I was able to draw them from looking at a photo rather than tracing.

Ishi Pencils and Inks

Work on ISHI #1 continues......