"Original Monsters" Sketch Card Set 1

This is the first set of 6 hand-drawn sketch cards based on original concepts of monsters not from existing ideas but from my imagination and based on my own fears. The stuff I'm afraid will be around the corner at night.

They are available to purchase individually or as a collection and there will be many more to come. Horror fans, I hope you dig 'em!

If interested in collecting these, please email me raydillonggs@gmail.com and make an offer for 1 or all of this set and/or future sets to come.

Thank you for checking them out. I'd love to hear your feedback!

~Ray

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Printed Sketchbook #1

Hi, everyone-

Here is the cover to my first ever printed sketchbook:

8 1/2" x 5 1/2" - 28 pages - B&W interiors - Cover printed on a golden parchment

- This book includes sketches, sequential comic pages, and digital paintings of all styles. It even has a photograph evolution of me on the inside cover. ;o)

- Back Cover: Left blank with a border for personalized sketches! The back cover is also a golden parchment, perfect for adding those white, gold, and silver highlights.

Back Cover Sketches: The back is blank with a small border for doing original sketches. Black and white is $15.00, full-color is $30. Or you can just by the book for $7 (add $2 to each for shipping). Please allow at least a month or two for the sketches to be completed. I have to attend the San Diego Comicon and finish some comics projects in addition to these sketches.

You can purchase a sketchbook with Paypal or Credit Card by clicking the buttons down below. Please include your full name, shipping information, email, and details of the sketch.

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Ray Dillon Sketchbook #1
+ COLOR back cover sketch
$30.00 + shipping



Ray Dillon Sketchbook #1
+ BLACK & WHITE back cover sketch
$15.00 + shipping



Ray Dillon Sketchbook #1
- NO back cover sketch
$7.00 + shipping


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If you have any questions, please post them here or email me at rayd@goldengoatstudios.com

Thank you all so much for your continued support. I really appreciate it.

Have a great day!

~Ray

DC Comics: Legacy sketch cards!

This is a project I've been excited about for a LONG time and really wanting to talk about. Well, they're all done and turned in and the news has been made public, so I can blab about it a bit. ;o)

It's called DC Legacy and features the evolution of these popular DC characters over since their creations.

I ended up doing 500 cards for this set, drawing a lot of my favorite characters in all their different incarnations. So awesome!

Anyway, here are some of the cards. As more are made public I'll post them.

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And several other Goats worked on them as well:



(Right to left: Renae De Liz, Me, Jeff Welborn, Brent Engstrom)

See more of their work and news about this set here here.

Thanks fer lookin'! ;o)

~Ray

Shrek the Third sketch cards!

I drew 300 sketch cards for the Shrek the Third set from Inkworks. Here are some of them:







Here are the other 200 and whatever: Clicky

Those are done with marker on blank card stock.

I know I haven't blogged in a while, but I'm going to try to catch back up.

Thanks for reading. ;o)

~Ray

Vintage Movie Poster cards!

This is a new set from Breygent, the company that did the Wizard of Oz cards we worked on. Now, we're recreating old movie posters on 3.5" x 5" cards for such classics as "Creature from the Black Lagoon," "Mantis," "The Fly," "Rasputin," "Invasion of the Saucer Men," "Attack of the 50ft Woman," "Invaders from Mars," and a bunch of other ones.

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Hope you enjoy those. Thanks for lookin'!

~Ray

Illo Friday "Thanksgiving" + catching up: Lord of the Rings, Marvel: Avengers, and more!

Hi, all!

First up, my entry for Illustration Friday's prompt: Thanksgiving:

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When I first thought of Thanksgiving, all I could think about was what I'm thankful for, and right now, the top of the list is my girlfriend and her son. They're everything to me. But, I've already done a few drawings of them and figured another might make the idea a little stale. I could look at sweet images of them all day, but you might not be as interested. Or maybe I was afraid of looking sappy. ;o)

At any rate, I decided to think beyond that. Only thing that I could think of wasn't too far from the original. I just spun the camera around on myself. This will be our first Thanksgiving together and my first time being "the man of the house." Which means I'll be carving the turkey for the first time. Must ... not ... mess up ... 0.0

So, anyway, this is what came out. A silly drawing of me being chastised by the turkey I'm attempting to carve. Whoopee! And done really quick with some rough tones thrown in to give it that autumn feel. Yay! ;o)

Hope you enjoy it anyway!

Now, onto other news...

It has been quite a while since my last blog. Four+ months, actually. I don't have time to get everything caught up, but here goes:

. San Diego was awesome! Sat at the Upperdeck booth, sketched and signed Marvel: Avengers cards. Met Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (some of the many cool people there, Seth Green, comics folk, etc.)

. Disneyland was amazing. I really had no idea how magical the place really was. It astounded me. I'm so thankful to Renae for getting me to go.

. Broke down in California and ended up stranded for an extra week.

. Since that happened, I've been working my butt off to get back on schedule and stay there. Still butt-working...

Here are some of the main projecs I've worked on since last time: Marvel Heroes: The Complete Avengers sketch cards, Lord of the Rings: Masterpieces. There are quite a few others, but those are the big ones. They were a blast. You can see some previews here (click for more):

MARVEL HEROES: THE COMPLETE AVENGERS





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And here's a HULK piece I did for an eBay auction. Click to check that out and see a silly picture of me:



eBay Auction | Larger Version

LORD OF THE RINGS: MASTERPIECES







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And here's an LOTR piece I did for an eBay auction. It's already sold, but you can click to check it out anyway::



eBay Auction | Larger Version

Okay, so that's that.

I'm about to start work on a new sketch card set that are recreations of Vintage Movie posters from such classics as Invasion of the Saucer Men and Attack of the 50ft Woman!! Can't wait. Well, I can a little because I have a lot of other deadlines, but I'm anxious. ;o)

I guess that's all I'll blog for now. This is easily the most ridiculously long blog I've ever done, but I wanted to get it all in there. From now on I'll try to keep things updated more regularly, but it'll be tough.

So, thanks for stoppin' by. I hope it was worth your time. Have a great Thanksgiving!

~Ray