Ralstaan

I finished up with a big move, to Madison WI, and I'm slowly adjusting to the change.  The last project I worked on before leaving was the Emerald City Comic Con, where I finished a Jay and Silent Bob sample, and got great feedback from artists.  I was also able to establish a contact in Matt Haley, one of the first guys in the comic book industry I ever talked to, and just about the nicest guy I talked to.  I'm really excited, although in all the stress of moving I haven't been able to do much work since the Con.  So I'm accepting commissions for a limited time. $10 - 11 X 17 pin-ups, single characters, no backgrounds $20 - 11 X 17 pin-ups

19 days to go until the Emerald City Comic-Con and I'm getting nervous, but it's a good nervous. I haven't done this in well over 9 years, and I know I'm in for some severe ego-deflation. I still remember when I did my first convention at the tender age of 19, and I had had it in my head since junior high that I'd get hired straight away without ever having to step foot on a college campus. I stepped right up for my first critique, an artist named Phil Foglio, and was promptly humbled back into my seat, all hopes of cracking the biz as a teenager vanishshing like a a whispt of smoke with every seemingly cruel comment. "Look at all this bug-f

I'm working on a story that is based on a character I played in a roleplay game that pretty much ate up three years of my life (to anyone that doesn't know already, MMO's are of the devil!).   The motivation to work something to completion is so much higher when I'm creating something I really care about.  I'm taking a break from all other projects until I can get 22 pages completed.  Hoping some talented colorists and inkers wouldn't mind jumping on board when it's finished :) I find that when I take a break from drawing, even just for a day, I immediately go into rusty mode, where I revert back to all my bad habits.  Drawing comics is a co