See you in two years. Can’t make it next year due to other obligations, sadly!

*edit on the 17th of July* I have X-Ponies prints available! $5 each plus shipping. See this post for the details.

Assuming Canada Post either doesn’t go on strike, or the strike doesn’t last long, I will also have stickers available. My glossy sticker paper is in the mail. D’oh!

I’m also going to have a new print – My Uncanny Ponies. I just need to finish it up, it’ll be done shortly before the con, as well as some pre-drawn sketch cards.

Expect more art to come. Sorry for the drought, I cannot wait until classes are done so I can do more sketches. I’ve been digging through my old sketchbooks and, man, I used to sketch a lot, so I’m going to channel that again in May for a sketch a day thing to get the creative juices going.

I will be there, will you?

I’ll have more details as I get them, like a table number and all, but I don’t think I’m in artist alley this time around. For those of you wondering, yes I will be doing the ‘How to Draw Star Wars’ stuff again and I’m looking forward to catching up with all you Calgary folks again. I’m sad to have missed Emerald City Comicon.

I will be offering commissions to be picked up at the con, such as bust sketches, sketch cards, cuties and beanies, look for an announcement in April or May for that. I need to get through the rest of the semester first.

I am done with the convention, and I have leftovers for sale.

For anything flat + the magnets, combined shipping is $3.00 US/Canada, $5 International

For the charms I need to get some shipping quotes – but it’ll be inexpensive if you don’t live in Canada.

First off, Sketch books:

2010 Sketch Book – $10 including a sketch!

2008 Sketch book (Limited quantities) – $5 Including a sketch

Other stuff:

How Harold Got His Wings – $10 (Includes a sketch)

Bookmarks (All laminated) – $1 each

Postcards – $1 each

Mini Magnets – $3 each, two for $5,  Four or more are $2 each.

Sculpey Charms – $5 each.

Sketch cards - Moonkin ($20) and Neville ($10) are the only ones available.

Fatty Magnet original art – $15 for all four.

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One new friend I made was the amazing Garrett Hanna who, while being an amazing artist, is also a fantastically nice guy. We shared a table, I traded him a drawing of Wartortle for a print of Batman. And I didn’t notice as I was clearing out, but I left my markers behind at the show. Garrett emailed me and let me know he had them, and he is going to mail them to me.

Holy crap. What a standup guy. That was a few hundred dollars worth of markers I almost lost.

So yes, go look at his art because he’s a great artist and a nice dude who totally saved my bacon.

Will have more post con wrapup after I get everything done. I also need to sleep

I ams uper sad about my markers because it means there really won’t be many colour cards for my Clone Wars set that will be in packs. Sorry, guys! But that happens D:

How Harold Got His Wings

This is the cover for the book! For the final piece I plan on spending about a month doing watercolour studies for painting the Northern Lights. Or I might do the entire book as my first fully digitally painted product. The book at the con has a colour cover, B&W innards.

2010 Convention Sketchbook

Full of a bunch of never seen before arts and a few old favourites.

Aaaand, finally:

Mini Magnets. These little tiny round disks have been painstakingly cut out by hand and are assembled behind a glass bead thing. I’m selling ‘em for $3 or 2 for $5 because they are quite the labour intensive little things. I will have a larger version of the illustrator icons in my digital art gallery post con.

I hope to see you guys there!

My location is table P6A – in the ring of guests around the Artist Alley. I’m adjacent to the food court, so I’ll be craving pizza all day.

I will have something for everyone’s pricerange, including

• ‘How Harold Got His Wings’ – childrens book, $10
• 2010 Sketchbook – colour cover! $10 with sketch, $7 without
• Leftover 2008 sketchbooks for $5 including a sketch
• Magnets, postcards and bookmarks ranging from $1-$3
• The remaining ewok and dragon charms at $5 apiece
• Prints ranging from $1-$5
• Original art ranging from $10-$500
• Convention sketches (Include sketch cards, crayon scribbles, sketch drawings and con badges) from $2.50 – $50*
• Kids under 12 get a free quick sketch!**
• Free signed Star Wars Galaxy 4 base card with every purchase.

I *will!* be helping the 501st with their Star wars Kids hour on Sunday at noon. I’ll teach you how to draw! It’ll be awesome

* First come, first serve. I will have a list if things get overwhelming

** Limit one per kid, pieces will be personalized as ‘For *name*’ so they don’t end up as ‘For mysterious Ebay bidder’

This Jaxxon Mighty Mugg will be for sale at San Diego Comiccon at the Lucasfilm booth, and all proceeds will go towards the Make A Wish foundation.

For those of you who don’t know, Jaxxon is a 6 foot tall jack rabbit scoundrel from the Marvel Star Wars comic books, so I felt it would just be awesome to turn him into a Mugg.

The lines are a little wobbly, acrylic isn’t my forte, but I had a lot of fun with him I learned a lot of things that will help me with my TK project helmet, for sure.

Behind the break is how I did it!

First I started with some sketches to get a feel for how I would be drawing a 6 foot rabbit on a 6 inch SD critter.

I primed/sketched the face on the muggs and sculpted some ears out of paper clay – I didn’t actually glue them on until the colour coats were finished (The clay smells like mint. mmm!)

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. Because I was using kinda cheap acrylic, it took about 4 coats of each colour to get a nice, opaque finish.

And here is the final product, in a box I wish I’d had more time to customize this, but it had to go to fed ex.

And there you go! My mighty muggs