Sunday, May 12, 2013

Painting Study Sketches and Fantasy Character Sketches

I've been working on some fantasy characters and I thought I'd share one or two of them. Rachel and I have been busy getting things squared away for Heroes Con. We've just gotten to the point where we can get back on track with our comic book work. I'm in the middle of inking my first issue of Skull Gun Bunny and Rachel's finished the script for the second issue of Death Elf And Woose. I'm also posting a few of Rachel's sketches that are associated with her new painting. 

Gangsta' Dwarf Illustration
Drawn by Ethan

Heroic Hobbit Hero Illustration
Drawn by Ethan

Rachel's working on a new painting. I thought I'd upload a few of her 
pencil studies to show off her work in progress. 

Drawing by Rachel




Drawing by Rachel



Drawing by Rachel


Saturday, May 11, 2013

Pretty Weird Banner Art & Facebook Page


I've been working on our banner for Heroes Con. I'll probably tweak it a little bit before sending it to the printers, but this is pretty close to the final product. I also added a facebook page for our company, so if you'd like a slightly more direct connection to our work, feel free to check out our facebook page. It's a combination of my freelance business and our Pretty Weird Artwork.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Comic Convention Bingo Game

Rachel and I recently decided that we would make an illustrated bingo game for Heroes Con. 
Rachel wrote up a couple of gags and I illustrated them. We based the humor
off of some extreme cosplayer cases that we witnessed at past Dragon Cons.

Front

Back

Just for fun...Honest. We're not total douche bags. We just pretend to be...


Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Painting of a Bi-Polar Chinchilla

(Front)

Cute, Cuddly Chinchilla Friend
11x17
pen and ink, gold leaf
Drawn by Rachel Mongin


(Back)


Cute, Cuddly Chinchilla Friend

11x17
pen and ink, gold leaf
Drawn by Rachel Mongin

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Blood Poachers vs Dracula


Ink drawing of the main cast of characters for "Blood Poachers vs. Dracula"
Drawn by Rachel Mongin
pen and ink
11x17


Mechanical Animal #1

Mechanical Praying Mantis 
Drawn by Rachel Mongin
pen and ink
11x17

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Free Comic Book Day, Postmortem

A quick word of thanks to Heroes and Dragons, the fellow SC artists, and all the comic-book fans that came by our table today. You guys made the day a blast!

Anyone that made it onto Rachel's list for sketches, you'll be getting your sketches later this week. We will shoot you your artwork over email. Rachel's already in the studio fastidiously working away at it as I type.

Free Comic Book Day and Pretty Weird Art


Off to free comic book day. We made a special free comic to celebrate our first "mini-con". Excited to show it off and hand it out to 20 lucky comic book patrons...

My wife and I have created a small business LLC so that we can begin to sell our artwork at the local comic conventions and art fairs. Our business is called "Pretty Weird", the name of this website. Today will be our inaugural excursion into the general art and comic book worlds. Wish us luck.

And just so you don't think we're some random flash in the pan start up company, I'm also posting a link to my professional site that I've been posting my illustration and graphic design to for the last 5 years.

www.ethanmongin.blogspot.com