Who is killing the great heroes of Heropa?: the upcoming novel by Andrez Bergen

A few months back, I completed this image for an upcoming novel by Australian writer Andrez Bergen (Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat), currently residing in Japan. The brief was Andrez's childhood  concept of 'the Southern Cross', in a Jack Kirby-style homage to the cover of Captain America #109. Andrez actually sent off his design to Stan Lee, who really liked the idea, but was vetoed by then Editor in Chief, Tom DeFalco. A nice little story there in itself :)

More details can be found here: http://greatcapesheropa.weebly.com/

And on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WhoIsKillingTheGreatCapesOfHeropa

UPDATE 29-12-2012: Some web love from BLEEDING COOL NEWS and FORCES OF GEEK, featuring the image :D Thanks again, Andrez.

Shanna the She-Devil commission: Process-ish

Not normally a cheese cake artist, but since I draw plenty of dudes with shirts off, (albeit, bandaged, bloody, dirty, and under gun fire), I thought it would be ok if I took on a "cheese cakey" commission for Shanna the She-Devil. I like the "Olympic-level athleticism" characters of the Marvel U, so tried to make her Amazonian-looking, and like she could actually do some damage. Whether it sells like that, I dunno. But comic poses with an incorrect context, and super-impractical body types is a pet peev of mine, so hopefully, I did the character some justice.

"Gone, gone, the form of man..." Etrigan the Demon commission

Etrigan Commission. You can't go past a request for a Jack Kirby character ;D

Thanks to Jason Garrattley of the awesome 'Kirby-Vision' blog for uploading it, via the Jack Kirby Museum and research centre. Stoked!

http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/kirby-vision/2012/11/26/the-demon-7/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

I try to make sure the image is still "readable" by knocking the lines out. Also, setting it to black and white to check values helps heaps. Still learning, still practicing, soldiering on :)

Commissions, orders and post-con updates

Just a quick update to folks waiting on orders, email answers etc., these will be sorted shortly.
I'll be hitting the post office early/mid next week, so those books/commissions will be on the way.
To answer some of the other questions; yes, once I get through the rest of the post-con commissions, Soldier  Legacy #6 will begin, along with a long -overdue finishing of a Chris Sequeira concept thingy, which could possibly see a new comic property to toy with in 2013. Folks with the 2012 folio book, and who actually give a damn about anything I post in general ;D,  will see the beginnings on this thing. More as we go.

For now, it's overdue thesis work (cry), tidying my war-zone of a house, and trudging through the rest of these scribblings to do. I hope you guys like them as much as I enjoy getting the requests. It's very nice, considering there's many capable people out there, more with an over-inflated sense of their work too :P
Enjoy the dodgy scans, and thanks all :)

Pre-Supanova Commission: Ghost Rider

Pre Con Comission- Jack Kirby's Etrigan the Demon

Just briefly, a pre-convention commission request for Jack Kirby's DC comic creation, Etrigan the Demon. When time permits, I am hoping to have a crack at colouring it in the future for a sketchbook filler. It was fun to do, and a little different to the Soldier work, that's for sure.

Anyways, gotta run.

Colour Commission: Luke Cage Power Man

Colour is still a constant learning curve. But I like the challenge of trying to make the heroes colourful, and close to their original appearance, without burning out the viewer's retinas, and being conscious of the environment of which the character is in. A pet peeve of mine is having a character in a setting that clashes with their colour. I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination, and in hindsight, the highlights are probably overdone- and he does look very "90's". Oh well, the learning continues.

A link on Deviantart is here: http://pmason83.deviantart.com/#/d4zau8t