One of the other things I like about doing commissions is the specificity and originality of the requesters. As an artist, the mission statement "Draw whatever you want" is always daunting. There’s too much to choose from. Well, not too much, I can wrangle it down, but it takes effort. I love when people come [...]

Right before I left for San Diego, I got a couple of commission requests. I take orders online, too, and I’m actually pretty quick. These took almost a month because I had to fit in my World Tour of All The US States With Disney Parks in. This one is of Kilowog, of the Green [...]

Speaking of conventions, I’ll be doing commissions at Baltimore. I charge $20 for a black-and-white image, $40 for color. Color requires me to take the piece home and color it on my computer, since I color digitally. Here’s a fine example of that, a Ms. Marvel piece that I did in San Diego and then [...]

I love tackling other characters, but it’s always a treat when someone actually wants one of mine. Here, the requester wanted Abby, specifically in the red dress she wore in issue #2. This was a lot of fun to do.

Zatanna was really popular at Charlotte this year, including having a set of Zatannas be the artwork models at the charity auction. It’s always good to see Zee, but I thought it was particularly cool to see this George Peréz 80s-version. Here was my run at the character, harkening back to her live magic stage [...]

This commission came across my website. He wanted a picture of Spider-Man’s ex-girlfriend the Black Cat. I haven’t done a lot of pictures of her, and didn’t know her costume was revised until I started looking for reference. I think this one came out really well.

Between cons and my website, I’ve been taking commissions. It’s one of my favorite parts of doing conventions these days. I just completed a bunch of them, so I’ll be posting them the next few days. Here’s the first, a Power Girl commission. The request here was to "show her defiant but not ticked-off". The [...]

I do a lot of conventions to promote Love and Capes. I love doing the shows, but hauling my gear to shows is always an effort. For shows I can drive to, everything fits (albeit snugly) in my convertible. The worst for transport is, of course, Comic-Con in San Diego, where I have to ship things across the country.

The biggest hassle, to my mind, is shipping my wire display rack. It’s too large to fit into a suitcase so I have to ship it in a big box. The box isn’t so much heavy as it is unweildly, but just its size makes it expensive to ship. I’ve been trying to find a better mousetrap, as it were. I haven’t been able to find one, so I decided to make one.

Read on to see how I did it, and how you can make your own.

The Big Busy continues as I’m packing for my trip to Kids Read Comics and taking care of some last minute clienty stuff. But I wanted to share a new image of Love and Capes. I can’t say what it’s for, at least not yet. But I think it’s a pretty good an indicative image [...]

Summer. Lost and 24 are over for good. Most of my other shows are on summer hiatus. But, on the upside, maximum convertible days, so I’ve got that going for me.