Sheesh! -I  haven't updated this blog in quite a while, have I?

So, here are some relevant headlines: I've set up a Facebook account for my artwork, you can see it here: http://www.facebook.com/BryndonEverett.Art

My new Website is up and glorius, thanks to the efforts of Michael Kramer of Sciosphere. Among other things, It's got all kinds of new sections, and a new, Extra-Amazing contact page which I think is just the topps. you can eyeball all these new, amazing things in the same 'ol place, here: http://www.bryndoneverett.com/

I even got a new, fancy phone, and an Instagram Account....I am all sorts of Digital-Age these days, No?. Anyway, I've got one, so follow me, I'll follow you, and we'll go around in circles.....because that's how that would work. My Instagram name is "bryndon_everett"      -Incidentally, That's also my real name.


I have been accepted to be published in the British Art/Literature Publication PopShot Magazine later this year, and I am very excited about that. -The theme is going to be a challenge for me, but I like a challenge, and .....well, more on all that jazz later.

I have been working a lot on Graphic Novel / Storyboard projects lately, and thought it might be fun to hammer out a quick personal one to show my process



Step By step.....almost. This does exclude the Inking Process, but it's ALMOST all there.....alsright fine, here is a bad photo of the inking process, and a shot of the materials used:


As you can see, Step one = red prismacolors, blue Verithins,
Step 1.5 - INKING,
Step 2 - Greyscaling (Which this time I did digitally, not with Tria Markers)
Step 3 - Colorwork. This is the most time consuming part, and I really need to learn flatting.
Step 4 - Shading and Texture....Obviously there is a lot involved with each step, including color halftoning, rendering, overlaying -TOO much to list here, but I thought it might be fun to see the broadstrokes (so to speak) of my process.

AND the final piece, bigger, and with the Title at the head.


For anybody who can't read Ukrainian, (Pssshhht...who CAN'T, these days?!?) I leave it to you to guess what it says.

-Go see all my Cyber stuff!

Thanks for sticking around; Until next time,
-B.

Another of my Gallery Nucleus pieces has sold. "Have we been introduced" will be heading off to Australia this coming week. If you have your eye on it's sister piece, "Her heart is in the wild" Don't hesitate, it may be gone!

New Work:

"Back to the Father" 5X7....times 3 pencil, ink, and marker, on paper.

"Heartache" -100% Digital

"Time to Die" -100% Digital,

This here is the final version of my latest piece for Gallery Nucleus.
It's 5X7 watercolor, pencil, ink, acrylic, Tria, AND Prismacolor on medium paper....THAT is a lot of materials on one small piece of paper!
I'm sending it out in the morning, but I'm not sure when you can expect to see it for sale on their website, either way, it's going to be $50, with proceeds benefiting The American Red Cross.

Been working hard, as always.

Literary piece

 Just clearing my head

Quick Digital Sketch for a Traditional media Gallery piece (more info to follow)

 I've had a busy few weeks, and haven't had time to draw much at all, so I've been making up for lost time.

These are only a couple of the pieces I've been working on. The girl was drawn on "Painters Paper" I bought a huge roll to do my floor, and ended up with loads left over. I like working on it. It's really inexpensive, very resistant to wrinkling from paint, doesn't bleed with markers, and is pretty resistant to creasing.....It's really nice, but terribly dark!

Ths second piece is done on leftover old newsprint from my Days at Gnomon (Man, I can't believe how long it's been) Anyway, I sketched it out, inked, and painted it, then decided it needed a little something extra, so, I scanned it in, and plotted out the lettering around him, and then put the piece through the printer to get the letters around him.....Kind of a lot of effort for a sketch, I'll admit, but I really like how it came out, and now I know how to do it for future works, so it works out all over.

I also decided to re-draw one of my own digital works in traditional media. Again, I used the Panter's paper ($10 for 60 sq.ft. at HomeDepot!) This is how it came out: I'm pretty happy with it. I again used the scan-and-print method I devised earlier to ad the blue behind the subject of this piece.

I've also been working on a couple of commissions and contract pieces, but I'm not yet allowed to share those, stick around though, maybe soon.

Newest piece. I sketched it all quickly-like just to hash out the idea, but then, in a fit of insomnia, I ended up taking it too far. It's just office-style paper cut down to 5X7, So it wrinkled up from the paint.....I kinda like that it did though....I think it kinda' ads..
In fact, I like it so much, I've decided to sell it off, $30 including shipping -OR, I'd throw it in absolutely FREE, if you buy one of my Gallery Nucleus Pieces - That's 2 for 1 on my artwork, Y'all!

http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/pin/13663

I've taken this weekend to get some things done that have been neglected lately; 

Chiefly, I spent time working on my Motorcycle, watching Mad Men, and catching up on commissions. I have been very swamped lately. I haven't fallen behind, of course.....after all, it's me; But works been coming at me a lot the past few weeks. -It's really nice!

Anyway, I've been working on this commission for the guy who bought my first Gallery Nucleus Piece. He hired me to conjure up a companion piece. He wanted it to keep the literary/nautical theme of the last piece, but this time he requested Pirates and Mermaids as well.
I decided to document my process this time, unfortunately I didn't think of it until I was already working on the final iteration. It's been a fun piece, but it's taken quite a bit of tossed ideas to get to a composition I liked. -and I REALLY like it.-So here we go: 
After I had sketched the piece out digitally, I transferred it to thick bristol paper. I do this different ways depending on a projects time constraints, and what's available to me at the time. i.e. Tracing paper, transfer paper etc. I then draw it with a mechanical pencil. .05 or a .03 depending on how small the details, and how dark I need the lines.

  

After that's done with, I go over key lines in ink. For this I use a Prismacolor premier 005, a Farber-Castell B, or Higgens India ink. it all really depends on the Line-weights I'm trying to achieve.

Next up I painted the background. Recently this has just consisted of a colored circle. It's not only crazy easy, and simple, but I think it's pretty effective in offsetting the piece without being distracting, or a time-suck....Perfect!
In painting these, I use .50 acrylic from the local craft store. It's cheap, doesn't ripple my paper, and dries quickly, so a jackass like me won't spear it when he runs his hand through it....and I always do. (It's hard to believe I have a successful second career as a pinstriper/signpainter/pinup painter, but I do!)

After that's done, It's time to move on to greyscaling. for this I use only the best...8 year old Tria markers I bought for my Visual Communications class at Gnomon...I don't think I used them more than twice since then, until a couple of months ago. Tria markers are amazing. Some people like prismacolor markers, and I've used them...heck I have a drawer full of them, but my heart's with Tria. They blend better, they come with 3 tip-sizes on one marker, and hell, they've lasted me 8 years....So, my money's with Tria.

Next up was the shading with the tria markers. I just go over the points I want shaded after the original pass has dried, with the same marker.
-It makes the perfect level of shading.

Normally I'd call that about done, but on this project, the client requested purple tailed mermaids, and, since I am not in the business of telling clients "no" I used crayola watercolor to ad the purple.

It's not called "Not selling art" People.You do what the client asks.

 Finish up with a few little touches to shading,

Then it was just a matter of using a razor, and ruler to cut it out.

I hope you found this enlightening...or at least entertaining.

-Fin.