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/

TAGS May 30 & 31, 1994

05/30: Passing ’gers. 

05/31: Ignorance and bliss. 

May 30: Here, Nick (skunk) gets slighted when as friendly greeting fails elicit a similar response. Wars have been started for less.

I think the reduction of Nick in frame from panel 2 through 4 works rather well, and the lack of establishing backgrounds* communicates a small amount of feeling of isolation, especially in the last panel. As I now analyze the strip, having the girl walk of to the left adds to the resultant feeling, with Nick being his farthest from her in the last panel, yet still looking in her direction. This wouldn’t be achieved if in the first panel Nick were walking to the left and she to the right. I’m quite sure that I didn’t plan this, nor I doubt that my storytelling layout skills were sharp enough to intuit it so. Lucky.

* Near the clock house, where folks clock in and out and workers of different shifts may pass. Nick has clocked out.

May 31: Break room. Supposedly on the next day form the happenings of the prior strip, Nick (13th appearance) crosses paths with Emily (tiger, 3).

Yeah, it’s quite unreasonable for Nick to carrying such a grudge for such a small occurrence, but comedy isn’t rooted in the actions of reasonable folks.

WonderCon 2012

WonderCon 2012

Mar. 16th - 19th, 2012

Anaheim Convention Center

800 West Katella Avenue

Anaheim, CA 92802

http://www.comic-con.org/wc/

Black Canary, c. 1970
Red pencil, Black India Ink and marker
on comic book backing board.
Art © Bryan Mon. BLACK CANARY © DC Comics.

I will be at the Monster Enterprises booth in the independent press/ small press area on the convention floor. The exact booth number is still TBD.

Convention Sketches

Here I will be selling convention sketches in addition to things like my independent adventure comic book, “Unstoppable Tuff-Girl.”

For the per-character rate of $20, I will draw, ink and block in color with color-pencil on 9 in.  x  12 in. Bristol board or in your sketchbook or drawing pad up to 14.  in. x  17 in. Examples of my convention sketches can be found here on Monotonae.

Be prepared and stop by early to get your order in.

Make sure you bring reference if you have an obscure favorite character.

Pre-Order Your Convention Sketches

I am accepting pre-orders for sketches from now up until Fri. Mar. 2, 2012.

If you absolutely know your are going to be there and want to make sure you get your order in, then this may be the deal for you.

For the super reasonable per-character rate of $15, I will draw, ink and block in color with color-pencil on 9 in.  x  12 in. Bristol board.

I will only be accepting pre-orders for 20 characters, and limiting orders to 2 characters per-person. I can be contacted via e-mail in you “View my complete profile.”

I look forward to a good time in Anaheim.

See you there.
Digital color version of Black Canary: http://monotonae.tumblr.com/

MegaCon 2012

MegaCon 2012

Feb. 17th - 19th, 2012

Orange County Convention Center Hall D

9800 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819

http://www.megaconvention.com/

Batgirl, c. 2002

light blue pencil, black India Ink and 

marker on comic book backing board.

Art © Bryan Mon. BATGIRL © DC Comics.

 

I will be at the Monster Enterprises booth in the independent press area on the convention floor. The exact booth number is still TBD.

Convention Sketches

Here I will be selling convention sketches in addition to things like my independent adventure comic book, “Unstoppable Tuff-Girl.”

For the per-character rate of $20, I will draw, ink and block in color with color-pencil on 9 in.  x  12 in. Bristol board or in your sketchbook or drawing pad up to 14.  in. x  17 in. Examples of my convention sketches can be found here on monotonae.

Be prepared and stop by early to get your order in.

Make sure you bring reference if you have an obscure favorite character.

Pre-Order Your Convention Sketches

I am accepting pre-orders for sketches from now up until Fri. Feb. 3, 2012.

If you absolutely know your are going to be there and want to make sure you get your order in, then this may be the deal for you.

For the super reasonable per-character rate of $15, I will draw, ink and block in color with color-pencil on 9 in.  x  12 in. Bristol board.

I will only be accepting pre-orders for 20 characters, and limiting orders to 2 characters per-person. I can be contacted via e-mail in you “View my complete profile.”

I look forward to a good time in Florida.

See you there.

Digital color version of Batgirl: http://monotonae.tumblr.com/