Hello everyone, just in case people aren’t getting posts from my mailing lists, my commission list for this year is open. You can find all the information at http://www.art-bot.com/sketches.htm and if you didn’t get the email notification you can always sign up at directly for the list at http://www.brandobot.com/.

These are the comic shows I am planning on attending in 2010. You can always find updated information at my website by going to the “Convention Appearances” area on the right side of the main pages.

April 24-25, 2010
Calgary Comic Expo
http://www.calgaryexpo.com/

BMO Round Up Centre
Halls D & E
At Stampede Park
20 Round Up Way SE
Calrgary, AB, Canada

Saturday, April 24, 2010 : 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday April 25, 2010 : 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

May 1, 2010
Yancy Street Comics
http://www.yancystcomics.com/

Unit 709A
Gulfview Square Mall
9409 US Highway 19
Port Richey, FL 34668

Saturday, May 1, 2010 : 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

June 4-6, 2010
Heroes Convention
http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/

Charlotte Convention Center
501 S. College St.
Charlotte, NC 28202

Friday, June 4, 2010 : 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday, June 5, 2010 : 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, June 6, 2010 : 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

July 21-25, 2010
Comic-Con International
http://www.comic-con.org/cci/

San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 : 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Thursday, July 22, 2010 : 9:30 am – 7:00 pm
Friday, July 23, 2010 : 9:30 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday, July 24, 2010 : 9:30 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday, July 25, 2010 : 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

August 28-29, 2010
Baltimore Comic-Con
http://www.comicon.com/baltimore/

Baltimore Convention Center
One West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Saturday, August 28, 2010 : 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sunday, August 29, 2010 : 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

And I will be at two European shows in the late fall this year:

September 14-18, 2010
Jornadas Del Cómic De Avilés

http://dreamers.com/jornadasaviles/

More Information Coming Soon!

October 23-24, 2010
F.A.C.T.S. 2010
http://www.facts.be/fa_index.html

Flanders Expo
Maaltekouter 1
9051 Ghent
Belgium

More Information Coming Soon!

This is it folks, time for the big show of the year. This year at San Diego Comic Con I will be sitting next to Frank Cho over at Steve Morger’s  Big Wow Art booth in the Artist Area of the con at booth 4903. It’s a big booth and sharing it with us will be a full compliment of talents, including Mike Mayhew, David Williams, Sanjulian,  Doug Sneyd, Travis Charest, Ernie Chan, Joe Jusko, Ted McKeever, Dan Brereton and, part time, Jane Wiedlin/Bill Morrison and Jason Eden.

I will have a number of limited prints, but the big draw will be the debut of my new artbook “Illuminations 2009″. I got it back from the printer a few days ago and it looks amazing. It’s 8 1/2 x 11 sized, with 52 interior pages in black and white and color showing not seen before art, including roughs and final pieces in all sorts of mediums. It will be signed and numbered, and limited to 1000 copies. The price will be $15 a copy. I will also have some copies of my hardcover artbook “Venus Overdrive” which came out last year. Here is the cover for “Illuminations 2009″, it’s slightly different from the originally posted art as everyone said I made her look pregnant.

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Also this year is something I’m really proud of, another collaboration between Frank Cho and myself. He created the line art, and I digitally painted it. It’s a print of Deja Thoris from the John Carter of Mars series, 14 x 24 inches, lithographed on a beautiful heavy stock. It’s limited to 300 copies at $25 each, numbered and signed by both of us. We’ll have packing materials at the show that have worked great for us the last couple of years. I’d recommend getting these early, we usually sell out by Friday or Saturday.

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So come on by and see Frank and myself and say “Hi” if you’d like to take a look in person.

In my new artbook for the year, I have a lot more process stuff in there this year so people cans see how I work. I am one of those guys who tends to try and put only my completed stuff out there as I like to put my best foot forward. But since people seem to like seeing the buildup, I thought I’d show a little more rougher stuff.

Here is the evolution of a cover I just completed for the Nova series from Marvel. I have the sketch, inks, and final stage, but no pencils as I forgot to scan them. You can see how the sketch changed on the cover after some feedback from the editors, that happens all the time, which is why I suppose they have you do sketches in the first place.

Here are some scans of a Conan commission I did at the Heroes Convention. I normally don’t have time to do much work at shows, but I was able to squeeze this one in. I have scanned the pencils, the partial inks, and the final inks for you to see. I do a lot of my work inthe inks stage as you can see, as I’ve been inking myself exclusively for many years now and have developed my own shorthand in the pencilling stage.

The inks for the Supergirl commission, complete with batputer and the reason for the hearts. A fun piece to do.

Another commission piece, this time with Supergirl. The raw pencils and the start of the inks. There is a specific theme with this and a reason why she looks lovesick. The background will reveal all, the inks should be up very soon. This week should have a lot more art post.

The inks for the final piece. I added a lot more detail in areas like the capes and integrated the digital stuff so the piece ties together better.

The pencils and a little digital work for a Dark Knight commission, near the end of the book where he’s whupped Superman’s crying baby butt. The trashcan and lightpost I made digitally and printed to the board, as it saved a lot of work. The inks will be coming shortly. This is a pretty raw pencils scan, something I am normally loathe to show, but I keep getting told my rough stuff should be shown more, so there you go.

The inks for the finished Conan/Red Sonja commission. I used a little Photoshop technique on the background to create the stippling from a greyscale drawing I did for the piece. This stippling gets printed onto the boards directly, and then I add my final inks to finish the piece off.