Uniques: Con Commissions!

Hello again everybody. We're artists. You probably knew that. But even as artists, it's often really fun to get drawings from other people. Being creators of our own comic, one of the special thrills we get is when other artists do illustrations of our characters. Now, we were never ones to get con sketches in the past, but this year we've actually started getting some and it's gotten to where we'll get one or two at most shows we attend. Today, we'll share the pieces we got at Heroes Con and Wizard World Chicago.

At Heroes we got three commissions done. The first one is from Ryan Ottley of Invincible fame. He’s been one our favorite artists for quite some time now and we’ve been dying to get a commission from him. So first thing Friday morning at the show, Comfort high-tailed it over to his table and commissioned him out for this awesome Michael sketch.

Michael by Ryan Ottley; color by Comfort

You'll notice we're showing black and white art next to colored art. The thing is, when we get really neat sketches back, Comfort (queen of self-restraint) feels the immediate and driving need to see them in color. So all the stuff we're putting up will show the original drawing we got next to the colored version by Comfort.

Next at Heroes we got sketches from one of the most a-dorable couples in comicdom, Taki Soma and Mike Oeming. We love them in part so much because they, like us, have very similar styles and it doesn’t hurt that Mike’s the artist and co creator on one of our very favorite comics, Mice Templar. If you aren’t reading it, you need to jump on the friggin' bandwagon now because it’s one of the best things to come out of comics in years.

Michael by Taki Soma; color by Comfort

Virtue by Michael Avon Oeming; color by Comfort

After we got done with Heroes we were off to Wizard World Chicago where we met up with Franchesco and we got this absolutely stunning Telepath picture. Franchesco is just such a sweetheart - one of our favorites. The man just has this really warm and friendly smile on all the time and it’s always a treat to talk to him at conventions.

Telepath by Franchesco! Color by Comfort

We picked up a comic from The Comic Creator Cabal and with it we got three free sketches. What a deal! And what a fantastic little compellation comic they have. It reminds us of our days with the old League of Sequential Storytellers.

The last thing for today is a couple pieces of fan art from two of our biggest fans and forum-members Mia and Lewis-Paul. Mia got the bug to draw us this very fun and very adorable picture of a young Scout in training...

And Lewis-Paul had this illustration of Telepath and his original Jedi character Drake Tay’lon commission by Emily Jayne Weber on deviantART.

-- Today’s Tidbits --

Off to see Comf’s siblings and cousins tonight for dinner for 4^th of July shenanigans. Should be fun and a nice break from all the color we have to do today for a Stormbringers pin-up that has to be finished by… oh yeah, the end of today. Yay. Looking good, though. There's always that.

See you next week-

Adam & Comfort