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Stormtrooper Watercolor

Brock Beauchamp
November 18, 2013

More art! In place of a podcast this week, I’ll be posting several pieces of art instead. Expect to see the podcast return next Monday… This is my favorite piece in awhile… I wanted to play around with composition and different brushes in Corel Painter and a (mostly) black and white image of a Stormtrooper seemed like good subject matter. Given my *adoration* of Star Wars, it’s a bit surprising that I don’t draw more material from George Lucas’ opus. With the comic idea I’m tossing around in my head (and Google Docs) lately, I continue to consider a loose,... View Article

Black Widow Avengers Watercolor

Brock Beauchamp and the completed X-Men versus a Sentinel, inspired by the Day of Future Past storyline.

Brock Beauchamp
November 15, 2013

The art just keeps rolling. Now that I have the Yiynova, I’m chomping at the bit to try new techniques and so far, the results have been pleasing. This piece is based on some movie promotional material for Joss Whedon’s Marvel’s The Avengers. I’ve been wanting to work with Corel Painter’s watercolor features for some time now and this display has been the perfect opportunity to do just that. I’m considering this style of painting for my next comic and need to get some practice under my belt to see how long it takes to complete a typical piece, how... View Article

X-Men vs Sentinel Colored

Days of Future Past X-Men Fighting Sentinel

Brock Beauchamp
November 14, 2013

After receiving my Yiynova MVP22U a few days ago, I finally had the device I wanted to test a few coloring tricks and methods. This classic X-Men piece seemed like the perfect place to start. As with my comic Aurorae, this is an experiment in color using the program Corel Painter. Like the comic, I’m using oil paints to achieve this effect, along with touch-up work in Photoshop. I feel as if I may have lost control of the background a bit and despite about an hour of trying different effects, it’s not quite where I want it to be... View Article

Episode 25: Saga and The New Deadwardians

Nick Hemsing
November 13, 2013

More Image and Edwardian London Zombies In this week’s comic book podcast, we thought we were going easy on ourselves this week with Saga from Image. Multi-Award winning, beautiful cover art, a magic Sci-Fi sandwich… I think we surprised ourselves with how many criticisms we walked away with. I’m interested to see if anyone else agrees with our opinions. Before we take the book to task, we intro’d an upcoming segment called Unflattering Comic Book History. We’ll be having some fun with the books that any publisher would want to disappear as badly as Lucas wants to kill every copy... View Article

Display Review: Yiynova MVP22U v2

Brock Beauchamp
November 12, 2013

I’ve been looking to upgrade my Intuos 4 to a drawing screen/tablet for quite some time but I haven’t been able to get over the hurdle of Wacom’s (insane) pricing schema to take the plunge into the world of drawing on-screen. After months of near-purchases and vacillating over the decision, I finally jumped into the modern world with Yiynova’s latest flagship model, the MVP22U+IPS (or the MVP22U v2, as it’s referred to on Amazon.com). Yiynova has slowly been gaining traction in the art community, as many artists are in a similar situation to me, where they cannot or will not... View Article

X-Men vs. Sentinel Inked

Brock Beauchamp
November 6, 2013

In preparation to get back into the flow of drawing and test out a few new supplies (I’ll probably write about my favorite new pen, a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen – it’s amazing), I’ve been drawing random things in different styles. Some of it has been art for other creators’ webcomics, some of it sketching for the new project, and some of it is art that I hope to turn into a print at some point down the road. This piece is one that I hope to turn into a print at some point. Bryan Singer’s new X-Men movie based... View Article