Pretty Airplanes!

Hey everyone,

So to continue with the Periscope commissions theme I have going for me, here are three planes I did for a woman who was a medical technician. She was qualified on these three planes, and wanted to have some custom art to pass onto her sons as heirlooms!

It was great to work on such a personal project!

C-130

C-141

C-9 Nightingale

Each of these drawings are 9"x12" with greyscale and a continuous colored background. Once lined up all together, these planes look really striking, and I know they went to a happy home!

Colin

Cap for Tazi

Here is a commission I did that I got through Periscope.

It was for a little girl who had stage 4 cancer, and she never gave up and kept fighting, and eventually went into remission and currently has a clean bill of health.

The kicker is that this particular girl loves Captain America. And her inspiration to keep fighting through cancer was that 'Cap wouldn't give up, so neither will I.'

This touched my heart so much, I am honored that I got to do this piece for this young girl who fought like a tiger to beat cancer.

11" x 17" (Click for larger image)

She is also a huge fan of Chris Evan's Cap, so it was requested I do the Age of Ultron costume, which I was happy to do, because lets face it, it' awesome!

Thanks everyone, and if anyone if interested in a commission like this feel free to contact me for pricing!

-Colin

Beauty And the Beast

So I have been sitting on this drawing for quite some time now, mostly because my scanner is a bit of a hassle from time to time, and I hadn't actually committed to sitting and scanning.

BUT if you follow my instagram (@ncdyerart) or my Periscope (@ColinDyer71) you would be pretty familiar with this drawing. My second Periquest, Belle and Beast!

9" x 12" greyscale (click for larger view)

Feel free to get a hold of me to get a commission like this for yourself. And in the meantime, if you aren't on Periscope, come check it out, and you can watch me draw things like this live!

Take it easy blogdience. 

Colin

IMPERATOR FURIOSA

Here is another drawing I did while on Periscope.

I saw the movie Mad Max: Fury Road and man, how cool was Furiosa?! She is definitely one of my favorite characters I have seen in an action film. I have seen so much fan art of her since that movie came out, and I thought I would throw my hat into that ring as well, because she deserves a drawing!

(Click for High Res)

That's it for now. Stay tuned for more work!

-Colin

LET IT GO!!!

I'm back with a new look!

So there is this social network called 'Periscope.'

it's really cool. Anyway, its a live streaming app and I use it to do live drawings and things like that.
One night I quizzed those watching, and if they got the answer right, then they could request the drawing for the night.

The request was the cast of Frozen. Which I have never drawn, but it was seriously so much fun.

(Click for Higher Resolution)

I had a ton of fun drawing this, and the best part is, I got into contact with the individual who made the request, and I packed it up and shipped her the original! 

If you'd like a print however, I can make that happen as well!

-Colin

Some Catch up....Again

So I have been working lots. And while again, I can't really post any of it publicly, but I did do a commission for one of my friends at work,  as well as comic con compatriot. He is gathering a collection of various art themes, and one he is currently working on is the 'Gotham' series. And since I'm not a huge fan of batman, we compromised and I drew a picture of the new Batgirl. Her new outfit is amazing!

Seriously, it's the coolest costume. 

It was fun to break out the ol' greyscale markers again, hopefully I can pull away and do some more drawings like this for fun to recharge my batteries every now and then. 

Take care y'all!

-Colin

Just Some Pages

Hey bloggers,

Just as a little update, here are some pages I am working on for commission. It'll be a small 6 page excerpt from a larger story. I'm inking it with a bit more 'grit' and 'mess' than I usually ink with. It's pretty fun to break out of the really clean stuff I'm typically used to.

The page 1 of the story.

Page 2.

There will be more to come, as I said, it's a part of a larger story, 6 pages to be precise, so there will be plenty more to see. Thanks guys!

-Colin

A Fun New Project!

Wow, It's been forever since I have posted last. Sorry about that.

Anyway, now that all the apologies are over, I have a few fun projects I am currently working on!

Specifically an anthology for one of my fellow SCADies, and it is for her senior project. I wrote a small little script for it and she decided that I could be featured among 19 other super great comic artists!

As a small aside about me, I love the military. I love drawing military things. So I really REALLY wanted to do a story that had to do with the military. So I did. I have just finished up the thumbnails and will move on to the final pages soon enough, but I thought as a courtesy I would post the thumbs for everyone to see!

You're welcome.

Anyway, here are the thumbs for my short story, titled "Behind the Wheel"

The cover and pages 1-3, as you can tell,

 I really like doing tight thumbnails.

Pages 4-7.

I really like tight thumbnails, when I do thumbs and move to a larger tight rough I tend to lose a little bit of energy from my figures, so I just tighten my thumbs up to the point where they can almost be considered miniature finished penciled pages, then blow them up and finish them off with ink or a clean pencil finish.

Well that's all for now, stay tuned for more stuff to be posted soon! Take it easy everyone.

-Colin

Back to Golem!

Hey Bloggers,

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted anything. I have been busy traversing the United States.

BUT!

Now that I am back in Ohio and situated for a small stint of time, I can finally get to working again!

Here is the final inks for page 18 of Golem, I really like this page, might actually be one of my favorites. Although, I say that every time I finish a page, so I'm sure this love will be somewhat short lived, but who cares! Enjoy!

Chaos! I love chaos. It's fun to draw.

 Not to live in, just draw.

Okey dokey, hope you like the page! I am nearing the end pretty fast, and am so excited!

Take it easy bloggers.

-Colin

Page 17 AND something special!

Hey bloggers,

So I finished page 17 of Golem quite a while back, and just haven't gotten around to posting it yet. So I will post it, and I have another piece of goodie-ness to go along with it.

A cover design!

So for my Visual Storytelling 2 class we had to do some cover comps, and ink them, so I chose to make up a cover comp for Golem, this isn't necessarily the final version, but maybe this will be an alternate cover!

I really like the pacing of this page, 

it's also nice when there is only three

 panels on a page

So there is the cover design, it was pretty fun, 

who knows though, maybe it'll change a bit, 

I would say probably.

Thanks for being patient bloggers, I will be sure to update more now that I am on break from school. In fact, I am pretty sure I will update more over break. Talk to you later bloggers!

-Colin

Back to Pages!

The pages are back!

Well I have been working on school projects and various paintings, but I have finally been able to get to finish page 16. My school work has piled up over top of this page, so unfortunately this took so much more time than I was hoping it would. Anyway, here it is, in its fun black and white glory.

Yeah, unfortunately a two panel page took 

way longer than it should have. 

Alright time to keep up the drawing and continue churning out some artwork like it's nobody's business! I will keep it all updated!

-Colin

Commander Cody Commish..

Well, not exactly a commission, BUT it it more of a request by way of my roommate Nate.

He wanted a picture of Commander Cody, the awesome clone trooper commander who got the order to kill all the jedi. I thought it would be fun to make a little painting of him.

This little guy was fun to do. 

It's not too large, only about 6"x9", 

so a nice little piece to have around.

I won't be able to sell this little guy, because it is already spoken for, but I will make some prints of it, because I would also like to have my own little copy of it. So I do realize that the past two paintings I have made are Star Wars pictures, I promise the next one will be something that is not a Star Wars piece. Catch ya later bloggers!

-Colin

Here comes Big Pharm

So I just finished pg 15 of Golem, and this is the introduction of one of my favorite characters, the manic, heavily roided "Big Pharm". He is super fun to draw and the next pages are going to have him fighting Golem, so keep on the lookout for those! 

Here's the art!

Unfortunately Dry-brush wood texture doesn't 

replicate perfectly when you threshold your art,

 but, oh well, it'll be colored anyway!

As I said before, the next full pages are a good ol' fashion beatdown, so be on the lookout for more pages! Talk to you later bloggers!

-Colin

 

Since You've Been So Patient...

You get a couple of new Golem pages.

You're welcome.

 This is page 13 AND page 14, tried some new stuff with these pages, I was inking the majority of these with my brush, and adding the meticulous detailing with a crow quill. I had a good time experimenting with these brushes.

Will most likely continue in this brush endeavor. Anyway here are the pages.

draw ALL the boxes.

I love this page. 

Especially that "Thwap" panel. 

There you have it!

Two pages, I know, I was feeling generous tonight. Also two blog posts in two nights?! It's outrageous, it's ludicrous, it's wonderful! But anyway that's what I got for ya. Stay tuned for more art in the future! 

Adios Bloggers!

-Colin

50th Post!!!

Holy cow!

50 posts...dang...makes me realize that I have a pretty good amount of art on my hands.

At least I SUPPOSE that is what it means.

Anyway, in celebration, I finished my 12th page of the Golem of South Florida, which, means that I am pretty much finished with half the first issue! Well, sans color. Anyway, here it is!

I had a fun time with this page. 

And not a ton of panels, 

which was a bonus as far as time is concerned. 

I like the guards, they are like 

my little Rosencrantz and Gildenstern.

Well there you go, page 12, halfway done! Time to print some minis of the first half of the comic and start hyping it up! Let me know if you want a Golem half comic! Tell your friends!

-Colin

Bah! Where does time go?!

Hello faithful blogdience,

really, where DOES time go? I have been swamped with so much, and none of it has had to do with art?! Oh well, I have been trying to get things done as quickly as I can, but that seems to be more difficult than it sounds...

Anyway, I have done some small sketches and stuff when I haven't been able to work on my comic stuff, and I will upload those in due time.

In the meantime, here is the Golem page I just finished!

So here is page 11 of Golem, this was definitely proved to be a challenge, because of the exterior strip mall establishing shot, and the high angle shot with cars in it at the bottom. I like to think I pulled it off convincingly enough, they were definitely a hill to climb over. Overall I am pleased with the outcome of this page.

More to come soon bloggers! Thanks for your continued support! God Bless y'all!

-Colin

Get ready for this...TWO pages!

Hey y'all,


Yeah I said it.

Anyway, I have been away on vacation and although I wasn't at my drafting table, I was still able to get work done. And yeah, I am one of those guys who takes his work with him on vacation...I'm pretty sure its one of those things my family and my friends have just come to accept and they humor me.

Anyway, I got one done while on vacation and another shortly after getting home again. These are pages 8 and 9 for Golem of South Florida, and I added process pictures from my handy dandy iphone.

Enjoy!

So here is the final inks, this is a page FULL of dialogue...

It's always challenging to make conversations

 between two seated figures in comics interesting. 

The tight pencils, as you can see the dialogue written out. 

As I said, a lot of dialogue.

And final Lightboxed Blue line,

 all cleaned up and fancified.

Okay so that was page 8, here is page 9. This page was such a challenge, because I had to finish the previous conversation from the first page, and have a flashback on the same page, all in all, it totaled 10 panels, BUT  I got to go back and draw the Golem from WWII and that is always a good time. 

here it is, again, a lot of dialogue

 at the beginning of the page,

 then action at the bottom.

Tight roughs again, lots'o'words at the top.

and clean ole' blue line. 

For some of the smaller detailed stuff I had to

 switch to a blue mechanical .5 pencil, 

because the blue line pencil wasn't sharp enough

 to get the details I needed, 

so if you see the different colors, that is why.

Alright well there is page 8 and 9, hope you enjoyed looking at all the art stuff! I'd be happy to hear any feedback! Thanks!

-Colin

Kablammo! Another page!

Oh hey blogey-people,

I had a super fun filled weekend hanging out with my brother and sister, but alas, it is back to work as usual. I have the inks for page 7 of Golem done for y'all to check out. I was more conscious about taking pictures of the process, as I said, I am going to try to be better at that. 

This page is the first appearance of Dr. Nautical (oooooh, aaaaahhh)! 

Yay for pirates!

anyway here is the final product!

destruction, old folks homes and pirates...Man what a page!

So now you have seen the final product, here are some pictures of the process it took to get there.

Alright, so here is the tight rough I did. 

I went on ahead and sketched the "tight rough" full size, 

so I could work out the details and get it ready to lightbox, 

and not have to worry about getting it 

into photoshop and making it larger. 

Here we have the finished pencils. 

I have been using blue line a lot more because it doesn't smear like graphite,

 and being left-handed, smearing is a problem. 

I snapped this as soon as I finished pencils, 

as you can see, its literally still on the lightbox.

Here is a snapshot during my inking process. 

So I decided to shake things up a bit and start inking at the bottom of the page, 

then work my way up the page, 

not really my normal pattern,

 but I guess I really wanted to tackle all that "steampunk" style 

pirate stuff since I knew it was going to take a while. 

So there you have it, an update on a new page and a little more insight into how I do my artsy stuff. Hope you enjoyed looking at the art, let know if y'all have any comments or are interested in purchasing any of my art. I look forward to posting more, but for now, its back to work!

-Colin

Relocated and Back With a Vengeance!

Okay, so maybe not exactly with a vengeance,  but how about "tenacity?"

 And yes...I just used the word "tenacity."

Anyway, school is finally over, and after about 2 weeks of slow travel and visiting with family and friends, I have finally relocated back in Ohio and have been plugging away at my Golem of South Florida stuff.

I finished all the inks for page 6 earlier today, so now that my printer and scanner have been set up, I can share the new stuff with the webernets. I want to show a little more of my process, because I know I find that interesting and someone else might as well. So here is the final inks, then I will show the process stuff!

So this is page 6, just simply scanned and thresholded in Photoshop.

 (and yes I forgot a line in the first panel, I noticed it after I scanned it.)

Alright, so that's what the inks look like, I'll be honest, this is one of my favorite pages I have done so far, I had a really fun time drawing that solders whole facial region getting destroyed. So here is what the tight rough for this looked like, remember it is a 'rough'.

This is what the rough looks like. 

I actually drew it with a blue graphite mechanical pencil,

 when I scanned it for Photoshop I scanned in greyscale, 

so I could have an easier time seeing since

 I was going to lightbox onto the final bristol. 

Unfortunately I don't have the final pencils, I took a picture with my phone but it is not wanting to upload onto my computer, but as I said, I lightboxed the final image, and inked on top of the blue line pencil I used. 

So that's all I have for now bloggers, hopefully I will have another page for you in the next few days, I am full time comic-ing right now, so I'm excited to make progress! Catch you on the flippidy-flip!

-Colin

Another page! Bazinga!

Hey blogdience,

Yes, I made a "Big Bang Theory" reference...Mostly because it is amazing and all about nerd things! 

Just to be clear, this blog has nothing to do with "Big Bang Theory" I just wanted to reference it. 

I got another page inked, its the final inked version of the page I posted last time. It was sort of a slow going process, especially mixed in with the abundance of schoolwork I have on any given day. But it's all about slowly chipping away, right? At least that is what I am going to stick with, and I am going to let that ignorance be my bliss! 

Onto the art. 

Here ya go folks!

This was a pretty fun page to play around with, especially with the composition and shots. I was trying to push myself out of my normal comic layout, I like it, may not be perfect, but I am pleased with it...for the time being...

Take it easy blogdience, remember to smile and laugh, it's good for your health!

-Colin