Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go
But under a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by.
(J.R.R. Tolkien)
To the Bottle
Scraps
There’s a scrap piece of paper taped to my drawing board. I don’t have to do anything good on this particular sheet. I can slash and swipe my brush across it. I can simply emote through the ink. I can loosen up. I can forget how much I want to accomplish, how much I have to get done before a deadline. For a few minutes, there is nothing but emotion and ink and experimentation.
And then, when I’m done, who knows where it ends up. In a file. On the floor. In the trash. On a blog.
Who knows where it ends up?
Web address and a sketch card
I recently purchased www.brian-shearer.com (some doppelganger has the address without the hyphen.) It points to this blog for the time being. Hopefully in the next year I’ll finally get my personal site the way I want it. In the meantime, I’m neck deep in sketch cards (I’m currently on 3 different sets…or was it 4?) and sample pages and my graphic novel.
I forgot to post this card, a companion piece to the Soundwave I drew a coupel weeks ago. This one is Frenzy.
Powergirl in color
Thursday night I inked and colored the Powergirl piece I drew a month ago. You can watch the coloring process here. Again, Prismacolor and Copic markers, though this one is primarily Copic.
Spider-man Archives released this week
Rittenhouse released their Spider-man archives set this week, which means I can finally post some of the cards I worked on. I did 150 cards for this set. These are the ones I think turned out best. (I used Prismacolor and Copic markers, Staedler and Pitt pens, and acrylic white on all of them.)
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Virginia Comicon pinup – final
I finally finished the colors to this pinup, and as promised I’ve included the original picture it’s a parody of. (Well, maybe an homage more than a parody.) The show is the weekend before Thanksgiving. If you’re in the Richmond area be sure to check it out.
I would also like to say that finding and inserting all those comic covers was tedious. But at least I was able to find the Sea Monkey ad and the cover to the Kool-aid man comic. Ahh…the 80s.
soundwave sketch card
Wednesday I drew my first Transformers Sketch card (It’s the only card I did that night, you can watch the creation of it from beginning to end via the link.) I think I’ll do some companion pieces of the cassettes. Maybe that’ll be one of next week’s show. I’ll also be inking and coloring a Powergirl commission.
