{"id":3002,"date":"2011-09-07T21:14:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T04:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beanleafpress.com\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2011-09-07T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T04:15:12","slug":"commissions-updates-and-more-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:821\/commissions-updates-and-more-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissions updates and more fun"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Well as you can tell I have been rather busy these last few months, so much that blogging has been on the back burner, which is a shame or maybe a mixed blessing, I will let you decide.<\/p>\n So what has been going on? Well besides the incredible kickstarter project, which we will talk about in another post and book\/chapter 9 of the bean, which starts updating in oct. I have had several commissions, each which have been pretty good size. These take up a lot of time, but I rather enjoy them because they allow me to play.<\/p>\n The first piece I am going to show, is my Emerald City Comic Con 2012 piece. It is my entry for their monsters & dames charity book. I took a different approach than my last years piece. I really like how it came out and it’s direction. Here are the inks, just click the piece for a much larger view of the artwork.<\/p>\n My next piece is a special one. When I am approached to do a piece, one of the main things that are universal, is giving me the freedom to run with the initial design.\u00a0 The next 2 that I am going to share with you are based on just that.<\/p>\n <\/a>The first one is based off of a character created by Heidi Berthiaume. His name is Bud the Bunny. She asked that bud hang out with one of my bears in my world. I have no problem with that. So I put bud on a jet plane and sent him on a grand adventure. You can find out all about here at http:\/\/www.budthebunny.net It is with these pieces that I have had to also hire a flatner and the very talented Darne Lang has been helping me with that. Flats are the basic colors, in this case the entire piece is done in grays. This allows me to draw more. It also takes a big chunk out of my coloring time and speeds up the whole process<\/p>\n