This is a "digital commission". The buyer wanted me to recreate the
cover to Uncanny X-Men #136, but with Star Wars Prequel characters in the place
of Marvel's Merry Mutants. Colored in Photoshop CS4, using a Cintiq 21UX.
Here is the original cover:
And here is the original line drawing for the commission, drawn on 11x17 inch Blue Line comic art board with Micron pens:
You can watch a recording of me coloring this piece HERE.
-Otis
Some personal sketch card commissions.
Some Sand People and the whiny little brat who ruined their day at the beach.
These personal sketch cards measure 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches each and were drawn with micron pens and Prismacolor markers/pencils.
-Otis
Here is the digital rough/color study that I created to serve as a guide for an 11x14" marker commission:
Created in Photoshop using my Cintiq.
You can watch a recording of me creating this from start to finish HERE.
Part 2 of the process will happen tomorrow at Noon EST, when I will color the final marker piece.
-Otis
This is a "digital commission". The buyer wanted me to recreate the cover to Fantastic Four #49, but with Star Wars characters in the place of Marvel's first family. Here is the original cover:
And here is the original line drawing for the commission, drawn on 11x17 inch Blue Line comic art board with Micron pens:
You can watch a recording of me coloring this piece HERE (Part 1) and HERE (Part 2)
-Otis
Some personal sketch card commissions.
Obi-Wan Kenobi from (L to R): The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, the Clone Wars comics, The Clone Wars animated series and Revenge of the Sith.
These personal sketch cards measure 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches each and were drawn with micron pens and Prismacolor markers/pencils.
You can watch a recording of me creating these cards on my Ustream channel HERE!
-Otis
A commission.
Leia, from the end of "The Empire Strikes Back", giving a Stormtrooper a little what for.
This piece measures 9x122 inches and was drawn with Penstix & Micron pens and colored with Prismacolor markers/pencils.
Go HERE to watch a recording of me inking and coloring this piece.
-Otis
I picked up The Clone Wars feature film on Blu-Ray yesterday (a Veterans Day gift from my wife). I brought it home,
popped it in the player and put on my Bose headphones, since I knew my wife
didn't have any interest in seeing or hearing it.
As I sat watching the beautiful, crystal-clear images unfold on my big
ol' plasma, I noticed that my wife (who was sitting next to me doing
some Cinema 4D training on her laptop) was watching the movie. She
couldn't keep her eyes off of the screen. I took off my headphones and
asked:
"Would you like me to turn the audio on so you can hear?"
"Yes." she replied.
She watched the rest of the movie with me and genuinely enjoyed it,
never having taken a liking to the live action SW films. She laughed at
the Battle Droids, started asking me questions about the back story and thoroughly enjoyed the new music for the show.
If you know someone with a plasma and a Blu-Ray player, get in
front of it and watch this movie. Seeing it in the theater and seeing it
as it was meant to be see is like night and day. What a difference presentation makes. I know I say it a lot, but film is dead to me. Theaters are simply not the best place to see a film now. Why waste time and money on a washed out, muddy, dirty, flickering film print when you can see a film in all of its 1080p glory?
Anyway . . . beautiful film, The Clone Wars is (sorry for the Yodaism, I couldn't help myself). I wish I'd waited to see it like this for my first
time.
And . . . I've finally seen the first two episodes of the regualr series from Cartoon Network.
Looooooooooooooooving this show.
Thank you, Dave Filoni and Company, for making Star Wars great again.
By the way . . . there's a great preview of all the episodes on the new
Blu-Ray of The Clone Wars. Each little preview ends on a
mini-cliffhanger, which is a great tease. I can't wait to see more of the show and the eventual Blu-Ray release of the series sometime next year.
-Otis
Just got back from a midnight showing of the new animated Star Wars film.
I enjoyed it, overall. It probably should have been a direct-to-DVD movie, but it was nice seeing it on the big screen.
My favorite scene was the attack on the B'omarr Monk monastery (some of
the best, most creative SW action since the asteroid chase in The Empire Strikes Back,
IMHO).
The best new character was, hands down, Ziro the Hutt. He was . . . how shall I put this . . . fabulous.
And I especially enjoyed the fact that, during the lightsaber fights, the combatants actually looked like they were trying to hit each other and not just connecting with the other lightsaber (as they seemed to do in Revenge of The Sith).
I'll most likely buy the eventual Blu-Ray and watch the TV series.
-Otis
