Here is another painting I did for Dark Horse Comics’, ‘Serenity: Leaves on the Wind’. This one features Kaylee for the cover of issue #4. Only a few more to go!
I take a real enjoyment in going back to the things that inspired me as a kid, and got me into art in the first place. Lately I've been on a kick of re-watching old television shows I enjoyed as a kid (introducing them to my children now), and re-reading the comic...
Over the years, I've had to carry a LOT of wet paintings around. Lots of times I do demos at workshops, and I have to get the painting back home. Or a book cover job is due, and I have to deliver a wet painting to a client. Either way, I need a way of transporting...
Many will say that there are no rules in art. And that's true when it comes to creation. But when it comes to the business of Illustration, I do have a set of hard rules that I never break... mostly because I've learned the hard way not to. I thought I'd share...
Great piece Dan! It is always bittersweet to see anything from Firefly. I guess I had better pick up the comics to get my fill.
On a different but related note, when I was working on Stargate Worlds, I had the chance to go meet many of the actors in the various Stargate series at Comicon. I had lunch with Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver!) and other's from the cast. The most memorable person though was Jewel Staite. She was working on Stargate Atlantis at the time. I think it is the only time I have been 'star struck.' Both I and my wife commented how beautiful she was in person. Yep.
Cool! I had no idea you worked on that. I had dinner with R.D. Anderson a few years ago, and was starstruck too.
I was actually having a lot of trouble capturing Kaylee's likeness on this piece, and Jewel was nice enough to take and email a pic of herself making that expression.
It's funny how we hold celebrities to unusual standards of beauty, and nitpick the tiniest flaws. Yet when you see a celebrity in person, you're -literally- stunned by how beautiful they are.
I saw a super model walking in NYC once, and no joke, every person in front of my school stopped what they were doing, and watched her as she approached from nearly a block away, and then passed in front of us. Even from that distance, there was some sort of spell about her that made people notice.
I saw Stephen Baldwin at the airport and he, um, well, he had tats and said hi. Not so starstruck. But I know the feeling. People mistake me for a supermodel all the time. I think it would be fun to work on something like this, I liked the series Dan. Lot of pressure for likeness and stuff?
Yeah… the likenesses are tough. When you're doing sequential art, there is leniency. When you're doing a realistic cover, not so much. Their faces need to be spot on, which really restricts your compositions to the reference available.
That girl's got a heck of a wrench. I want her working on my plumbing.
Oh wow! That is great! I would have picked these up anyway because of it being Firefly, but am even more interested now.