Monster Business

One of these days, I've got to finalize some Monster character art and put together some i.d. stuff like business cards and letterhead stationary.

Monster (E)  from sketchbook #20

Today is not that day.

Cat and Kara

Practice drawings.

Cat Woman, c. 2002

a. light blue pencil and black India Ink on comic book backing board.

b. light blue pencil, black India Ink and marker on comic book backing board.
[Digital color version]

Supergirl, c. 2011

a. scarlet pencil and black India Ink on comic book backing board.

b. scarlet pencil, black India Ink and marker on comic book backing board.
[Digital color version]

CAT WOMAN and SUPERGIRL © DC Comics.

Vector Goes the Spoils

There are several artist who take advantage of vector art’s sharp edge, flat color, geometry favoring basic rendering technique to echo a sort of razor-cut paper or screen print look. With this piece, that was my intention, and as such, it’s not all that successful, because, it turns out, I favor describing form and depth over graphic shapes and silhouettes.

MegaCon 2012 notice.

Vector character art

composed in Photoshop.

I did too ink the art by hand on the Bristol board on which I drew the ruff in red pencil, which more or less served me as my tight drawing (see previous posting), but the intended goal was to finish it in this graphic style.

Catch me at the Monster Enterprises booth, Indy Press Both #3.

MegaCon 2012

Stop by the Monster Enterprises booth,

Independent Press booth #3

Gary A.

 When Gary and I worked in the same department, his duties, I guess, were something akin to production assistant.

Mostly I remember he converted videos for quick and easy consumption and reference and helped archive projects.

2004, birthday

in the style of “Mighty Mouse”.

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2005, birthday

in the style of “Mary Worth.”

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Maids to Order

Tuff-Girl.

Commissioned convention drawing

color pencil and India Ink on paper.

2011.

Tuff-Girl.

Commissioned convention drawing

color pencil and India Ink on paper.

2011.

Lift with the Legs

From the start, hitting comic conventions with just one issue of “Unstoppable Tuff-Girl” just seemed to me a foolish notion. Tee-shirts with printed logos is one of things I chose to fill out my booth space. The potential down side is the bulk of storing, shipping or transporting multiple designs in multiple sizes.

I’ll introduce a kid’s size tee-shirt at MegaCon this year. For production purposes, I decided to ink it digitally as vector art. I took me a lot longer than I expected. I drew the pose four times, and spent a total of about two days on ink and color. It comes down to this, after it’s printed you can’t change anything about it, so you ask yourself, “will I be happy with this for the next five years?’ Curiously, I was happy with the first drawing of Wichita.

This is the full-color art. The tee-shirts will be red with black and white printing.

Supergirl & Black Cat

“Supergirl”, c. 2005

Scarlet red pencil, black India Ink and marker on comic book backing board.

“Black Cat”, c. 1979

Light bue pencil, black India Ink and marker on comic book backing board.

Practice sketches.
Digital color versions: [Supergirl], [Black Cat]

SUPERGIRL © DC Comics. BLACK CAT © Marvel.

It’s Sweater Time

Cartoon Network’s 2011 holiday poster.
Designer: Petrika Janssen
Headline and copy: Clint Carruth
Illustrators: Bryan Mon and Dan Thompson
Painter: Tyson McAdoo

posted on Frederator, Jan 6, 2012: http://adventuretimeart.frederator.com/post/15403690531/its-sweater-time-cartoon-networks-2011-holiday#noteslist

I try to be vigilant about following my company’s many rules about social networking which is why so many of the samples of what I do for Cartoon Network is old and mostly of the sketchy conceptual art.

In this case, Fred Seibert, owner of Frederator Studios (maker of the fine animated comedy, “Adventure Time with Finn and Jake”), recently posted this (see above). Primarily a large billboard on the side of one of Tuner Networks’ buildings facing 10th street in Atlanta, it was also printed as a limited run poster.

I contributed layout, composition and a mass of candy people mostly obscured by Princess Bubblegum. Dan drew the main characters, and Tyson finished the whole thing as a digital painting.

I’ll give credit for the Courier & Ives inspired concept to Petrika (with a little incentive from our marketing group). Clint did the words, because all our billboards need words.

I made Clint smile with my headline suggestion, “Ooo Holy Night.”

Spider Woman

Spider Woman, c. 1978
Red pencil, Black India Ink and marker
on comic book backing board.
Art © Bryan Mon. SPIDER WOMAN © Marvel.

see digital color version at monotonae: annex.
http://monotonae.tumblr.com/