My Colors! - Marvel, DC, GI Joe, & Transformers!

These are pages I colored for Marvel, DC, and IDW as part of the Hi-Fi Team! Brian & Kristie Miller of Hi-Fi are awesome!

Marvel Heroes: Heroes vs. The Fury

Booster Gold #37

Blackest Night: Teen Titans #3

GI Joe #4: Nuclear Standoff


Transformers Vol.2 #8


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Have a great day!

~Ray

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Marvel's X-Men vs Agents of Atlas samples

Doing some sample sequential pages for Marvel in between my normal work. Going slow at it because I'm super-busy, but having fun. Kinda wish I could just abandon the pencils and do my normal approach, sketch/ink/color/letter or paint/letter. Feels more natural and that's what I want to do for them eventually anyway, but have to prove myself as a penciler first. Hard to break in as a full-production artist right off the bat.



Oh, and these are "real" pencils, they're penciled digitally using Photoshop and the Axiotron Modbook Apple Tablet Computer.

Thank you for looking! Love to hear your thoughts!

~Ray

2010 Ongoing Sketchbook : 5-15 Minute Sketch Paintings

You can view a bunch more here: 2010 Ongoing Sketchbook







Tools: Photoshop CS5 & an Axiotron Modbook Apple Tablet Computer

You can view a bunch more here: 2010 Ongoing Sketchbook

VIDEO: My wife Renae De Liz drawing THOR!

POWERFUL!!



For more of my wife's work, go to http://www.RenaeDeLiz.com

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Thor, Punisher, Hulk, & more!

I'm adding a few more sketch images to my blog here. I have a lot of them and haven't kept up with my blog lately. Best way to see everything is to follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/raydillon or on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RayDillon

For a list of my full ongoing sketchbook, go to this directory:

Tools: Photoshop CS & Axiotron Modbook Apple tablet PC:

THOR:


PUNISHER & HULK:


HULK VS. WOLVERINE:


WOMAN WITH POT ... AND CREATURE:


THE WALL:


Thanks fer lookin'!

~Ray

Illustration Friday - "Electricity"

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Wow, so it's going on a year since my last post. A lot has happened since then. Lots of work. But, also two identity theft problems that kept our bank account locked to us for a month at a time. Kinda hard to pay bills or ... eat when they do that to you. Following that was the Ice Storm which knocked out our electricity for almost a month, up until a few days before Christmas. We finally started getting through that when we got some happy news; Renae and I were going to have our first baby together. But, to our dismay, the pregnancy ended in miscarriage about 7 weeks in. It's been a really trying time.

So, you can see what I haven't blogged. But, moving on from all of that, I would like to start it back up. What better way than with an Illustration Friday prompt: Electricity

Trying to kill two birds with one stone here. I need to work up some samples for Marvel, too. I think I'll be finishing the rendering on this painting and I'll repost it when I do.

I hope to keep up with these from now on, though it will always be tough. So many projects, so many experiences, so little time.

Anyway, thanks for looking, and reading if you made it through all that. Hope you enjoy and come back for more.

~Ray

Back to writing! + Wolverine!!

Hey, all!

Kind of excited about this, so I thought I'd share. After several months (almost a year!!) I'm back to work editing the novel I wrote last year for NaNoWriMo. Life has been crazy this last year, so the only writing I've done has been a short story or two. I kept putting off anything bigger until yesterday when I just decided to start editing one chapter at a time. I finished chapter three today and, thankfully, so far I like what I'd written and am feeling very optimistic. It's sort of a dark, weird, horror/fantasy book (but not swords and sorcery type of fantasy). It's a new year and I hope to get this sucker polished and submitted.

In other news, Renae and I recently had our 1-year anniversary (not married yet, but together a year just the same). Click that link for pictures. Love you, Renae! ;o)

Working up samples for some exciting new card sets coming this year. Hope I get 'em! Hooves crossed!

I'll be attending the New York Comicon next month where I hope to meet Stephen King (*squeals like a giddy school girl!*) We're also looking for roomies, so anyone thinking about going, let me know.

Finally, here's a marker drawing of Wolverine that will soon be up on eBay for sale (I'll update for that):

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And that's all for today. Gotta get to coloring. Thanks for stopping by and have a fanstastic day!

~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