I love Star Wars

I don't know what inspired these drawing lately but I have been thinking about Star Wars quite a bit. These drawings are all done with Prismacolor markers. I really like using these markers for my more "comic art" pieces. I find these different gray pens fun to use. I'm not a fan of using the color pens though. I think the color pens are just too strong. The colors are too overpowering.

The Star Wars movies are my favorite movies, but I don't really do very much Star Wars artwork. And I have been seeing people doing Star Wars sketchcards on Deviantart and that got me wanting to do some sketchcards. But I decided to do some pieces that are larger than the sketchcard size. And today I started my next Star Wars drawing and I will post it as soon as it if finished.

On a side note, I have been listening to a lot of Tom Petty, I just listened to the audiobook of The Rise of Darth Vader(which was awesome!) and I read some really good comics-Superman:Secret Origin #5 and Avengers: The Origin #1(both of those were equally awesome!)

Zero2Illo-Week 2 Challenge

I am currently joining in on a 12 week to challenge to go from a non working illustrator to a working illustrator at http://Zero2Illo.com. This week's challenge is to set up a business strategy. This is mine:

Illustration Business OGSM

OBJECTIVE:

Income Goals:

-Slow and steady growth is the goal for the rest of 2010. My goal total income for 2010 is $1,000. For 2011 I look to double that goal with a total income of $2,000.

What Is My Primary Market:

-My main target markets would be the comic book community and the Disney fan community. For the work that I enjoy doing, I see both markets being equally important to my business goals.

Where To Show and Sell Artwork To These Communities:

-Online is the primary source to show my artwork. Online galleries, my website/blog, and message boards.

-Comic book conventions or Disney conventions.

　

STRATEGIES:

Income Streams:

-Selling originals, selling prints, sketchbooks, doing illustrations for books or magazines, commissions.

Markets Focus On First:

-The Disney market will be my first target market

Future Markets:

-Comic book market, trading cards, book cover/book illustration, greeting cards

Services To Offer These Markets:

Disney- Going for the collectors market, with originals and prints of Disney theme park inspired artwork.

Comic Book- Commissions, cover and interior artwork

Trading Cards- Sketch cards

Book Cover/Book Illustration- Book covers, interior illustrations

Greeting Cards- Artwork for greeting cards or stationary

Delivery Of These Products:

-All business will be handled by my company.

　

MEASURES:

Milestones:

-Getting the business infrastructure installed.

-Getting my artwork on appropriate websites

-Selling a painting

-Getting a illustration job for a magazine or book

-Having prints made

-Having a sketchbook printed

The Dark Crystal

These are 3 pencil drawings that I did this past weekend, all inspired by the movie The Dark Crystal. This is a strange movie because it is visually amazing but a little hard to follow. I don't know if it is just that I get caught up in the pretty visuals or if the story is just not very strong. But it is a Jim Henson created project so I have to love it! These were all drawn in a Blue Line Art bound sketchbook. There are 24 pages or so in this book and I am planning on filling the whole thing with images from the movie.