ConEdison Kids Characters

Here's the last of the ConEdison Kids stuff that I talked about in my last post. Mostly it's just the ConEdison Kids characters that they used for the back cover and some character sketches of Supergirl, Krypto, and the family featured in the 2 page comic I penciled. I also penciled the 2 safety activity rooms in the book but I figured I'd just focus on the characters for this post. Overall a pretty fun project.

ConEdison Kids Comic

This past fall I did some work for a ConEdison Kids safety comic that featured DC comics characters in it. It was one of those things that was handed out to grade school kids to teach them electrical safety and all that jazz. Anyway, unless if you're in gradeschool I doubt you've seen it so I've posted up my pencil work for the sequential pages and poster I did and I will probably post up the rest of the artwork I did for it later this week.

Also, kind of a funny story too (okay maybe not funny but more interesting...at least to me anyway,) back when I first got this gig I was asked if I could pencil the pages in an animated style but one that did not look like it was from any of the DC animated series cartoons that are out there(for some type of licensing reasons I guess.) I figured that wouldn't be too difficult since I already draw pretty animated, I would just simplify things a bit. Anyway, after I'm done with the sequential pages and I'm working on the poster, they send me some artwork to reference for Superman that another artist did for an earlier story in the book. To my surprise the artwork was done in the exact same style as the animated series Superman cartoon and then I later find out that so was everyone else's artwork too! So now I feel like a complete goon and wish I had just drawn in that style because then the artwork would have been consistent throughout and my stuff wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb. Ah well, at least it was a fun project to work on and it helped out the children too! Electrical safety! Now that's the important thing folks! Don't you forget it!

Kung Fu Grandpa

Uh, I think the title is pretty self explanatory but just incase you don't get it, it's a quick sketch of a kung fu grandpa.

Monkeyin' Around

Here's another colored piece for those that may have enjoyed the last one.

Linework by me, colors by my brother Michael Roanhaus. Check my gallery link somewhere on this page if you want to see the uncolored version.

I've been trying to post updates on a bit more of a regular schedule incase anyone didn't notice.

I'm Back and In Color

Wow, to anyone who actually checks out my blog I'm sorry it's been so long since I've put anything up here. Anyway, I have something kind of new ( I say kind of because the image has been up here before just not in color) and this time it's actually colored. So all those lineart haters can shut up now here's a colored piece of artwork just for you.

The colors were done by my brother Michael Roanhaus and since this one turned out so good I'll probably have him color a few other things too.

Critters

I've been slacking off and it's been awhile since I've posted anything new on here. I've been busy working on some projects and my scanner has been crapping out on me lately but I'll try to post up some of the newer stuff I've been penciling in my sketchbook lately. In the mean time, here are some random critters I sketched one day. The one in the bottom right probably turned out the best.

Batman Legos

Over the summer I had the chance to work on my first project for DC Comic's creative service department. This would also be my first project for one of the major comic publishers and it was quite an interesting experience, mostly because the creative service department deals with licensed properties and the company DC was creating the project for (Lego) had to oversee and approve everything (end of run-on sentence.)

This led to some interesting hours at the drawing board, as apparently, because of certain copyright and legal jargon, the Lego people can only be depicted bending their arms and legs a certain way according to whatever the design model was that was copyrighted. So I had to redraw and revise pages several times because of this and also, because some times when they'd get back to us with notes on corrections and whatnot, the corrections would either be incredibly vague or contradictory(the whole situation is kind of funny now that I think about it.)

Finally, the Lego people were in New York for something or other, and met up with the editor on the project and we got things straightened out. Overall though I had a blast working on the project and I got pre-built Batman Lego toys to use for reference out of it too. Though I'm not too sure that many people actually got to see the final product, as it was given away at last year's San Diego Comic Con at the Lego booth. The only way I got copies of it were from some friends that attended the con. To anyone that did get a copy of it, I hope ya liked it. I'll probably put the final colored pages up in the gallery page eventually.