ROCKETFICTION

These were from a few years ago; done for Studio B, development on “Class of the Titans”, directed by Brad Goodchild. They were explorations of the desolate prison where the villain was held.

Paul Gravett has an interesting post up on his site, a followup to his “The Atom Style Part 1″ article. Fascinating and illuminating reading! So much comics history to know…

In celebration, here’s a beauty by the immortal Yves Chaland, the image from the cover of “Les Cybers Ne Sont Pas Des Hommes”, published by Les Humanoides Associes.

UPDATE: Found a post on ActuaBD which includes pictures of the Atomium & the opening...

With my upcoming class teaching  background design & drawing, through the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop, I thought I’d dig in the archives and pull out some of these backgrounds to post. They’re done for Film Roman a few years back, on the X-Men show. I colorized them in Photoshop to spruce them up a little. Originally done in markers and black prismacolor pencil.

I’ll be teaching an 8-week course starting on July 4th, here in Toronto. It’s at The Toronto Cartoonists Workshop, a new venture initiated by Walter Dickinson and assisted by myself and Ty Templeton. We hope to offer an increasingly diversified range of courses for all thos interested in expanding their knowledge of cartooning.

From the  site: “The Toronto Cartoonists Workshop is a learning environment where aspiring cartoonists can study with working professionals in the North American comic book, webcomics, animation and illustration fields. Upcoming workshops will include THE ART OF BACKGROUND DESIGN, An 8-week course in Imaginative Drawing for Comics and Animation with Paul Rivoche (July 4th) and Comic Book Bootcamp Part One with Ty Templeton (Sept. 2009).”

If you are interested in taking my workshop, please see the flyer shown below for all the details about how to contact Walter/sign up! You can also visit the site or visit their page on Facebook.

Here is another rendering from a series which I did for a great art director to work with, Steve Rider at Pearson Boston. It is actually the first in a set of four, with the previously-posted image being the third in the sequence. It shows the stages of a future “Mission to Mars”…

I suppose it’s appropriate, on a site named “Rocketfiction”, to post an image of…a rocket. Well, a space probe, actually, a lander descending towards Mars. Educational/children’s art, done in Photoshop. (If you look closely, this image furnishes proof that there indeed are speed lines visible in space).

Here are the first three pages of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, issue #29, shipping June 10th, from DC Comics. I’ve posted some examples of the black and white art previously, and thought I’d now put up some of my final colors. I don’t have the files with the lettering, since that’s handled elsewhere; so you’ll have to experience the pages with the sound turned off…

Here’s a homage to Yves Chaland’s fantastic character, Adolphus Claar, a bottomless well of robo-inspiration!

A digital drawing, layered up with zipatone & flat colors.

Update: here’s a link to an item about the Atomium show, on the ActuaBD site…

These are a few drawings from last year, work done for Batman: The Brave and the Bold. They are rough designs for the board artist, done relatively quickly from the script.