wheel of time shirts available for preorder!

 

the folks over at ta'veren tees are offering a shirt featuring my design for pre-order now over on their website--hopefully more designs will follow in the coming months--!

more WoT graphic novel covers...

a couple of new cover images for the wheel of time graphic novel by jeremy saliba (elyas and the wolves) and myself--the comics themselves can be purchased here--

wheel of time prints available

prints are now available for some of my wheel of time artwork from imagekind, which you can find here, in the wheel of time gallery--currently, i have a small handful of WoT characters and graphic novel covers available, but i will be adding to the selection regularly...all of the images that are available for prints must be approved by harriet mcdougal (robert jordan's wife), so in most cases i have gone back into the original piece and cleaned it up, and in some cases i've redone characters altogether--i also have a personal work gallery, which i hope to add more pieces to, as well--

wheel of time prints (almost) available--

i'm excited to say that some of my wheel of time 'portraits', and also some cover art for the graphic novel, will soon be available in print form--there will be a small group of characters available to start, but i plan to add to that group every month or so--as soon as everything is in place, i will have more info here on my blog, as well as a link to where you may purchase the prints, if you choose--my good friend jeremy saliba will also be offering prints of some of his wheel of time art, as well, which you can check out on his blog--

more wot variant covers...

well, i said i would update with more covers...and here they are...all of them thus far, up to issue 6--you can view them on dragonmount where they were originally posted by dabel brothers publishing, along with jeremy's covers, as well--you can also order them from the dragonmount online store (under graphic novels in the categories section all the way to the right), although i haven't been able to find an option to choose which cover you want...just a heads up if you're considering an order--i think ultimately the dabels are going to compile the first 6 issues together into one graphic novel, which will supposedly have bonus material in the back like sketches, notes, etc, for anyone who might be interested in that kind of thing...

wheel of time variant cover...

so this month the new wheel of time comics are due for release--my buddy jeremy and i have been involved in doing variant covers for the series, which has been a lot of fun, although i'm still pretty new to the whole comic cover bit--anywho, here's a peek at what the variant cover for issue #2 will be--trollocs smashing into the al'thor farmhouse--i'll try to post more covers as the months progress...

update 4/16

i might have mentioned a while back (and by while back, i mean a couple years ago) that i had an egwene i was working on in this particular style...well, i ran across her today, and decided to finish her off...

WoT vignette tutorial--?

recently a good buddy of mine, jeremy saliba, and i were graciously asked by the illuminator's guild to do a Q & A session over at dragonmount regarding our fan art of the series--i think the Q & A session will be held in the forums section, under the illuminator's guild or the artist's chapter house threads, if anyone is interested in checking it out--anywho, a small tutorial was suggested, so here it goes--well, tutorial is a bit misleading, because it implies that i actually know what i'm doing--i'll just call it a step by step process that i use to complete a piece like this--

first, i start out with a plain ol' line drawing, digitally sketched using a wacom tablet in photoshop--

next, i'll insert the paper texture background to give me some sort of value to work from instead of just the white background--mostly because it makes it look all fancy-like--

then i'll start laying in basic color with a rough sense of light and shadow--

i'll start to detail things out after that--dents and scratches in the armor, etc--

once i'm at the stage where i'm done with all the details (or i'm too lazy to add any more), i'll go in and pick out some highlights and try to fix areas i might have missed before--


finally, add in the border details and i'm done--generally speaking, these usually take anywhere from 4 hours and up, depending on how complicated the character is--

i haven't had much time to really sit down and spend a lot of time on anything, so i've been reduced to quick sketches when i can get them in--which brings me to another wheel of time character--albeit small--hartha, one of the deathwatch guards...i've always been really obsessed with this guy--on a scale of 1 to cool...he's pretty awesome....i've tried to sketch this guy before, with little success...i guess this is the closest i've gotten so far--

wheel of time prints available

more wheel of time characters...just my own personal take on some of the great characters from robert jordan's awesome series---

prints are now available for some of my wheel of time artwork from imagekind, which you can find here, in the wheel of time gallery--currently, i have a small handful of WoT characters and graphic novel covers available, but i will be adding to the selection regularly...all of the images that are available for prints must be approved by harriet mcdougal (robert jordan's wife), so in most cases i have gone back into the original piece and cleaned it up, and in some cases i've redone characters altogether--i also have a personal work gallery, which i hope to add more pieces to, as well--