Inks at VisionCon

While I was at the con, I was able to complete one ink card and two ink sketches. It was very interesting, working on art in front of people. I don’t get to do that very often, and it was interesting to see how people reacted while I was creating the works.

The first one is an inked card, like the others I’ve been doing (5″ x 7″, 140 lb. Cold Press). This one I’d been waiting to attempt for some time, it’s the faun from the film Pan’s Labyrinth. It’s one of my personal favorite films, and I only hope that I did the character justice.

The next two were for sketchbooks, both owned by folks that were running the con. In both cases, I had a bit of nervousness, being that other artists would be (or had by that point) sketching in them as well. I can only hope that I lived up to the other works in there, and in the case of the second one that the book is getting started off on a good note.

The first is of Lon Chaney Sr.’s Phantom of the Opera, and the second one is a borg. They were fun to do, and in both cases, being sketchbooks, I wanted to leave them a bit unfinished on purpose. That way they’d match others either in the books or to come.

Overall, it was fun to do work in front of other folks. I think it really helped bring people over to the table. Some wanted to talk about the process, or what the art was I was creating. Some just wanted to see what was going on, to watch the process. A scant few just stood there (or sat, in a few cases) and watched me do my thing, and always flashed a smile when I asked them what I thought.