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Storm Born issue 4 review

2011-12-06T02:13:00.001-08:00

Comics Podcast Network did a review of issue 4 of Storm Born (and the series overall) not too long ago.
Check it out here: http://www.comicspodcasts.com/2011/12/05/weekly-comics-spotlight-224-2011-11-23/

Starts at 25:41

Various pages from Storm Born vol 1

2011-11-18T23:14:00.000-08:00

Issue 4.

Issue 3.

Dark Swan Storm Born vol 1 issue 4 in Stores 11-23-11

2011-11-18T23:07:00.001-08:00

Dark Swan #1 in stores NOW.

2011-06-01T11:21:00.000-07:00

Finally released issue 1 today so go buy 8.

Check out random colored pages on Dark Swan colorist Nelson Cosentino's blog

Good Choice Reading Interview

2011-04-04T10:35:00.000-07:00

Recent interview with moi is up over at Good Choice Reading for the Dark Swan comic series.

http://www.goodchoicereading.com/2011/04/interview-with-artist-dave-hamman.html

Dark Swan: Storm Born vol 1 starts in May!

2011-03-22T21:17:00.001-07:00

ATLANTA, GA - March 22, 2011– In the novel Storm Born, first in the popular Dark Swan urban fantasy series, Richelle Mead—New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Vampire Academy and the Georgia Kincaid Series—introduced fans of paranormal romance to Eugenie Markham, a freelance shaman who battles the ghosts and fey that sneak into our world from the Otherworld.

Today, Sea Lion Books is proud to announce scripter Grant Alter and artist Dave Hamann as the multitalented creative team behind the graphic novel adaptation of Richelle Mead's Dark Swan: Storm Born. When an alarming prophecy suddenly makes her every Otherwordly creature's object of desire, Eugenie must dodge their advances while also fighting a dark power rising within her.

Grant Alter was the co-writer (with Derek Ruiz) on Dean Koontz’ Fear Nothing, a graphic novel adaptation by the New York Times bestselling author. His other scripting projects include an adaptation of the Jim Butcher short story “Restoration of Faith,” which appeared in the graphic novel Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: Storm Front.

"Richelle has written a book with a really nice mix of action, romance, the otherworldly, and even a good amount of humor,” Alters said. “It's just a fun book to read. The quality of her work pushes me to write what I think are some of the best scripts I have ever written."

Graphic artist Dave Hamann’s projects include Amory Wars for Evil Ink Comics, Gauze for Arcana Comics, and Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales. As a fan of the Dark Swan series, he wants to remain faithful to Mead’s story, and to her lead character, Eugenie. "I'm hard-pressed to think of too many urban comics starring a strong, butt-kicking, female shamanic mercenary."

"Grant and Dave have done a really amazing job in capturing Eugenie's story. It's been wonderful working with them, and I can't wait to see what fans think of the final product. I hope they love it as much as I do," said Richelle Mead.

Richelle Mead’s Dark Swan: Storm Born, Issue 1 will be released May 18th in comic book stores nationwide. Comic book stores can be found by going to the Comic Book Shop Locator: http://www.comicshoplocator.com/ or by calling 1-888-COMIC-BOOK.

New commissions

2010-10-22T22:01:00.000-07:00

Halloween! Almost...

2010-10-15T04:50:00.001-07:00

Commission bust examples. All me!

Newish stuff. Pin ups and commission.
Colors by Michael Brikhofer.

Necrosha colored

2010-07-22T19:29:00.001-07:00

Colors once again by Michael Birkhofer.

2010-07-14T20:15:00.000-07:00

Finished pin up and practice bust sketch.

Update 2

2010-06-24T00:53:00.000-07:00

Some recent stuff.
First is a pin up in progress of the Necrosha hotties.
Middle is an older pin up colored by Michael Brikhofer.
Last is a Booster Gold pin up.

Update

2010-06-12T17:11:00.000-07:00

33 in stores today

2009-12-16T11:12:00.000-08:00

Wolverine Marker Sketch

2009-11-20T15:51:00.001-08:00

Ladies Night!

2009-11-18T15:04:00.001-08:00

Riot Shell from Comic Book Idol online, Georgina Kincaid from the Succubus Blues novel series, and Selene the Black Queen from X-Force/Necrosha.

Commission Info Updated

2009-08-20T10:52:00.000-07:00

I've updated prices and added some info to better clarify some things.

Check it out here.

SDCC Samples

2009-07-28T18:44:00.000-07:00

Some recent samples for SDCC 09.

Grimm Fairy Tales "Pawns"

2009-04-15T13:45:00.000-07:00

Pencils for the back-up titled "Pawns", which is featured in the recently released Grimm Fairy Tales volume 5 tpb.

Grim Fairy Tales Samples

2009-03-17T12:31:00.000-07:00

Samples pages I did for Zenescope Entertainment's Grim Fairy Tales.

Slight Update

2009-02-09T16:06:00.000-08:00

Back from NYCC.
Here are the 3 new sample pages I did for the convention that did not go over so well.

The moral of the story is: don't make a weak sample script even weaker with bad choices.

Gauze 2

2008-11-25T21:10:00.001-08:00

Here's some more pages from Gauze.
This is from issue 2. These pages were also scrapped in lieu of different artists on each issue. Drugs, neglected children and domestic violence...This issue has it all.

Dear Captain...

2008-11-19T17:31:00.000-08:00

Quick sketch I did for fun.

Gauze 3

2008-11-13T16:20:00.001-08:00

Here are the completed pages I did for Gauze issue 3. They have since gone with another artist to do the pages and said he would be working off my layouts. Dunno how true that is or not. Anyway they're just sitting around on my hard drive and while I don't particularly care for them I'm a gluten for punishment and filling blog space so there you go.

Oh, and for anyone wondering, yes the middle pages are supposed to be there and the style is based off of Don Bluth's Space Ace.

Dizzy

2008-11-05T19:14:00.001-08:00

Sketch because I still need a lot of work on my downshot figures and dynamics. This could be a bit better. More motion...more twistyness...There's always next time...

Summer Sample Pages

2008-11-02T16:41:00.000-08:00

Here's the 5 page sample set I did for the Top Cow script on their submissions website. I did page 5 a bit later since it originally only called for 4 pages.

Comic Monsters Behind-the-Scene with 'GAUZE'

2008-10-21T10:23:00.000-07:00

Comicmonsters.com just put up an little 'making of' feature with myself and Gerrin Tramis (the writer/creator) for Gauze issue 1.

In it I explain some of my process behind creating the covers/pages.

Check it out here.

Various sketches

2008-10-16T14:05:00.001-07:00

Some sketches I've done recently. Various characters from various genres. We've got video games, comic books and music all in one post. Now that's productive.

Commissions

2008-10-05T19:52:00.001-07:00

Some commissions I did not too terribly long ago. The idea was to have their characters from the City of Heroes game illustrated in a 50's style pin up girl poses. I think I made it halfway there, but so long as the client(s) is(are) happy that's all that really matters.

Ergo Proxy

2008-09-24T18:44:00.000-07:00

In progress doodle inbetween online posts.

Something different

2008-08-21T14:16:00.000-07:00

So I tried out a little something different with some sketches...inking.
Some stuff drawing wise seems wonky...mostly in her mid region.

I'm not that crazy about it, personally. I'm told it takes a lot of practice to actually get a different style down and all that but right now, I gotta say...not a fan.

My first Art Porn vid

2008-07-29T15:02:00.000-07:00

Here's a video of me doing a drawing of their City of Heroes character for a fan at San Diego.

http://blogs.kpbs.org/index.php/comic-con/comments/city_of_heroes_draws_your_character/

In super fast mode.

Actual time: 12-15 minutes.

San Diego Comic Con 2008

2008-07-21T18:54:00.000-07:00

Here at last...Well, almost anyways.

A list of places I'll be and some of my work on display:

NCSOFT
I'll be doing free sketches at the NCSoft booth (#5209 in Exhibit Hall G) all weekend long!

Sketch times are as follows: (tentative)

Thursday

12-2pm and 4-6pm.

Friday

12-2pm and 4-6pm.

Saturday

12-2pm and 4-6pm.

Sunday

12-2pm.

Visit the NCsoft booth first thing to register for a time slot. Availability is limited and is on a first come first serve basis.

Don't forget to print out a character shot for reference!

ARCANA COMICS
Booth 2514

They'll have preview copies of Gauze issue 1 (due out in October) on hand, so stop by and check it out!

See ya there!

In Living Color

2008-06-17T23:15:00.001-07:00

This here is the Angelus pin up I did for funnzies a way back that will be appearing an the upcoming issue of the Darkness (4 to be exact) colored quite amazingly by Michael Birkhofer .
Thusly I am whoring the hell out of it.

Death

2008-06-10T20:34:00.000-07:00

Probably one of my favorite characters ever. Sandman/Death got me back into comics many moons ago when I was in high school.
Her jawline looks too big to me now, but what can ya do. Trying to work on my speed with these things so I can do 4 an hour.

Pre-Gray Sketchy

2008-06-03T21:01:00.001-07:00

So here's one I was practicing on between roughing some sample pages out and I wanted to get a shot of it before I destroyed it with markers/inks.

Trying to expand the figures a bit and get some busty action going on. (pun gloriously intended)

P.S. This is Abby from the Top Cow book, Necromancer. (which you all should have read so it could have kept going)

Gray sketches

2008-06-03T11:03:00.000-07:00

Here's a few gray marker sketches I attempted. Just warming up for the SDCC.

Art Journal is Arty

2008-05-02T21:06:00.000-07:00

Quick little set of doodles of a character from the Markosia comic "Hope Falls".
This is Helen, our main protagonist.

I just got done reading this mini series a couple times over after I picked it up in NYCC.
It's really well done.
The art is either hit or miss and it might have been nicer to see something a little less stylized, but it still works.

San Diego Bound!

2008-04-29T18:58:00.000-07:00

I think I know how I'll spend my May tax return....

Just confirmed my badge for SDCC this year.
Working on hotel arrangements now.

Possibly returning to the City of Heroes Fanzine for May.

Hush hush project is in it's coloring stages now, should be good to go soon.
I'll keep everyone up to date.

NYCC post game.

2008-04-21T14:50:00.000-07:00

Got back from NYCC kinda late last night.

Great trip!

Hung out with David Nakayama, who was cool enough to let me crash on his floor.

Big thanks to Beth Sotelo, Emily Warren, and Christina Strain for putting up with me. Very very cool ladies...except for Christina...she's okay. ;)

Couple things came up so I'll have some more info on these potential projects later.
One very big one to announce in the near future.

Did a couple sketches on the Arcana exclusive blank cover of Gauze, so those are floating around out there. If anyone gets a hold of one or a scan, I will love you forever...(well, a week.)

Had a blast at the Evil Ink/Image party.
Booze, cupcakes, Clive Barker artwork and Claudio Sanchez covering NIN. :drool:

No pictures, sadly. (Don't hit me Marcy) I couldn't get a camera to bring, but a few of the other people with me had them so I'll link them when they come up.

Art Stuff update

2008-01-03T21:07:00.000-08:00

I know, an actual update with artwork, stop the presses.

I was kinda bored and had been meaning to give this character a try.
Mostly for my own amusement but also to see if I could do it without the cool computer stuff used in the comics.

This is The Angelus/Celestine from Top Cow's First Born and the one-shot issue.
The design is by Stjepan Sejic who needs KICKED for making her so complicated. :P

Gauze issue 2

2007-12-20T20:17:00.001-08:00

I just recently finished issue 2 of Gauze.
This one took longer than the last issue because I knew I was working without an inker this time, so the pencils are (I hope) quite a bit tighter.

Special thanks goes out to David Nakayama, Eric and Brad Mrock for all their help double checking my craziness and making sure my suck-ocity was kept as low as possible.

Apparently there'll be a lull before the production of issue 3 begins.
Not sure how long, but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to take on a few commissions until then.

City of Heros Fanzine

2007-11-20T19:51:00.000-08:00

A certain Mr. Nakayama earlier today brought to my attention that the City of Heros fanzine inaugural issue is up.

Featuring original art by moi.

Feel free to give it a look.

Hopefully I'll be doing the next one so I can add the desperately needed color to the future drawings.

Commission info

2007-09-25T17:52:00.001-07:00

Character sketches.

Portraits: $25 (single character) $35 (2 characters)
Size: 9 x 12
Medium: (digital b&w line art with minor gray tones)

Busts: $35 (single character) ($10 each additional)
Size: 9 x 12
Medium: (digital b&w line art with minor gray tones)

Full Body: $55 (additional character price $25)
Minor background included. Full environment extra.
Size: 11 x 17
Medium: (digital b&w line art with minor gray tones)

Penciled Comic Pages: *
Size: 11 x 17
*Negotiated as needed on a per project basis.

Notes:

Any character original or otherwise is welcome.
If it's an original character please provide good reference.
All commission prices are for digital, high res .tiff drawings. (Original artwork pricing and shipping negotiated separately.)
I accept PayPal and Money Orders.
Commissions are started when payment is received.

Disclaimer:
I reserve the right to repost small res .jpgs of any commission for promotional use and the right to refuse any commission.

2007-08-24T17:07:00.000-07:00

Sketch/Illo I did for Adrian Nicita during and finished after San Diego Comic Con.
The quality of the scan is kinda 'bleh',
but I'm alright (kinda) with how the drawing turned out. (coulda used more darklings...a lot more.)
Adrian said he loved it
and he's a great liar so there you go.

Quick sketch

2007-07-18T22:17:00.001-07:00

Just something I did to warm up before pages.
It'd been a while since I drew her.

Anywho...

Random Sketch

2007-06-01T20:24:00.001-07:00

Warm-up sketch I did a little less long ago of the
main character from issue one of Gauze.
Marvel at the sketchiness!

Commission 1

2007-06-01T19:58:00.000-07:00

Commission I did not too long ago
for someone on Deviant Art of her
own characters.

FIRST POST OMG!

2007-06-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

I'm just posting this up right now for lack of anything better to do.
Eventually I'll use this to post up random bits of artwork no one else cares about...but you'll read anyways...because you're addicted and I'm "edgy".

Who knows what I'll say or post next?