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Whew! Its been a WHILE. I'll probably chat about that later sometime, as for now, here is a dude who lost his clothes, then, after I made them up, found them. And that, was a run on sentence!
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Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Happy End Year
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Had some fun inking this for practice. Pencils by Leinil Yu, inks by me.

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More of this image to come!

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I haven't posted any recent pages I've done. Hereeeee!

If you missed it, you can catch the Xtacles again tonight at Midnight on Cartoon Network. Please let me know what you think! and Tune In!
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Well! It has been a while hasn't it? Long breaks deserve long posts so here we go!

First, URGENT business!

Tonight, November 9th, at Midnight, marks the premiere of the AdultSwim show The Xtacles! I was lucky enough to do a little spot illustration work for the second episode and think this show turned out great! The first two episodes will be debuted tonight so I would really appreciate all ya'lls staying up late and watching this show. Cartoon Network, Sunday night, midnight. If you liked Frisky Dingo, or Sealabs 2021, you will love this show. More on that at a later time!

Secondly,

If any of you picked up issue 53 of Invincible, you may have noticed that the pinup I posted earlier found its way into the book! I was super excited to see my work in probably my favorite comic. I've liked that series since first picking it up. So thanks to Kirkman and the whole crew for doing that for me! On a comical side note, I did think it was funny how the compositions were humorously similar when comparing Invincible on the cover and my pinup. To again clear things up, I was doing a recreation of Herp Trimpe's Incredible Hulk # 181.

Thirdly,

I was playing around with some concept work ideas and techniques. Trying to continue to develop some sense of how to color. So, for some reason this monster sketch came out.

Fourthly,
Since I last posted, we had an election thingy! This marked the first year I voted in the Presidential election and I felt it was a good year to start. Without getting too preachy, I was happy to see Senator Obama come out on top, though I do like Senator McCain. Though he may have his work cut out for himself, I wish President-elect Obama all the best. Good stuff. Nice to see people voting FOR a candidate as opposed to voting AGAINST another.

Well, I think that was long enough kids. I will be back again with more soon, I'll try to sit down and do more stuff that can be posted. So thanks for still stopping by! And if there are any misspellings or errors in all of this, I apologize, but I'm not going to reread it all and correct things. It's Late.
XTACLES NOV. 9TH MIDNIGHT CARTOON NETWORK ADULT SWIM! BOOSH
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Batman!
Digital colors with Black watercolor.

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I'll get a better scan up here as soon as possible, but for now here you go.

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More to come when I finish it up.

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Early Rock and Roll show poster design concept.
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Wash and some photoshop colorz.

from a photo.
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Colorized version of a drurin. That, I drew.

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More of the same. Fun warm up sketches for a long day o inkin

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Tried to simplify it by keeping it to just a black tone. But more experiments with watercolorin. The Thing

and The Hulk

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Color!

So I normally try to leave coloring to the professionals. But silly me, I've started to get a little itchy and wanted to broaden my range... ha. I colored up the pinup that I posted previously digitally. I spent a little too long on it, but I am happy with the results. Although, I will NEVER start another image without knowing what a character's color scheme will be. That Soviet Reaniman, had just about every possible combination of red, gold, and black you can imagine....


And then I got cocky. Confidence is a terrible thing. I tried to tackle some real life coloring techniques and I broke out the watercolors. I feel like they tore me a new one, buuuut, I will be playing around with it more until I get it right. This was my first attempt at painting in nearly three years, so not terrible, but not good. Hopefully I'll do some more soon. And hopefully, they will improve. Also, these look darker and less pink/purple in real life, but I refused to digitally retouch them.

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Invincible Vs. Soviet Reanimen

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Here's a commission I recently finished. Cover recreation. Had a lot of fun, but took me forever....

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Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth at Heroes... I was drawing hard all weekend and it took me all that time just to finish this drawing. Ya'll kept me distracted! Anyway... Hulk.

More later.
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Here are some heads from a pinup I did for another blog. I, along with some other awesome artists, will be doing frequent themed sketches, that will only be posted over there. so check it out! the site is:
http://better-than-your-mom.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking it out!
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Inked this awesome drurin by Clem Sauve. Check out his website.

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Wow.. 100 posts... if those weren't spaced apart, that would be an impressive milestone. Didn't get a chance to do anything super special for the big hundred, but I hope this will do.

For everyone who checked this site out throughout the first 1oo, and came back, thank you and I appreciate it!
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Seen Iron Man? I thought it was pretty spiffy. Just posting a quick sketch to get some people off my back!
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Whew! It's been a while. Orlando was great and I really want to say thank you to everyone who took the time to stop by and say hi. Everybody was super nice and I had a great time. Nice seeing all my southern friends again too. Ill get to more about the show in a later post. Here is one of the commishes I finished up today that I have to mail out! Email me at ransomgetty@gmail.com for commission rates and what not.
Deadman

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I'm heading off to MegaConvention here in a day or so. If you are in attendance, stop by and say hi. For the first 5 people who mention the blog I'll draw something sweet for yous for free. I'll be in the Purple Section #8 trying to beg for money with tablemate, Andy Black. Hope to see you there!
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Work In Progress.
I'm working on tons of projects right now. One is a illustration for a gallery show. Just thought I'd throw up some of the pictures of my ever changing process. This is a bit more of a refined under-drawing sketch.


After that was somewhat fleshed out, I lightboxed it onto the final paper and started working away at it. Keep checking back for more as I finish this up.

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More of the holiday commissions.
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Spider-man! As I said in the last post, I'll be in Orlando this year for MegaCon. Stop by my booth and I'll draw you something like this.
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