A little help for a guy who needs a lot of help

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Hey everyone look it’s the lovely Scarlett Johansson! That can only mean one thing…ok you got me…two things. Jason has news! And well, ahem… you can figure out the other.

So onto the news!

I’m just going to level with everyone. The following will be nothing more than a shameless borderline pathetic promotion for a buddy of mine. And by buddy I mean charity case, and by charity case I mean he has a bad haircut, like really bad.

So the name of this charity case with a bad haircut is Henry Eudy.  I have know Henry since I was like 12 or 13. I remember we would draw Bill the Cat and Garfield battles in …English?…Math? Fuck I don’t really remember what class it was because we were drawing the whole time.  Anyway point is I have known him forever and although I hadn’t seen him in years he contacted me last year after finding my website while Googling the word “awesome” and as a result we started sharing ideas again etc.

Which brings me to my point (finally).

Henry is looking to self-publish a book and he wants you to be a part of it! Now remember I have nothing to do with this aside from this shameless promotion so please…please direct all you questions to Henry, via his Deviantart page or email.

Below are all the sorrid details taken from his Deviantart page.

THEME: The anthology will be called “FUGLY ANIMALS” as a playful tribute/mockery of the children’s comics of the Fifties (FUNNY ANIMALS) and will feature all animal based comics. I’m primarily interested in humorous comics but I certainly won’t turn away submissions that are adventure, fantasy or fact based or anything else based for that matter. They just have to be about animals, the characters should be animals. If a few humans show up in supporting roles that’s OK but the primary players should be bestial.

PAGES: I’m intending for the book to be between 24-28 pages long and I’m limiting submissions to a 4 page maximum per story. You may feel free to submit as many stories, gags or strips as you like as long as no individual submission is longer than 4 pages in length.

I’m not setting a particular size requirement or restriction but please be aware that the final book will probably be standard comic book size (about 6.5 inches wide by 10 inches tall) so if your submission can be easily manipulated to fit such a page, then all the better.

SCANS: Submissions should be made through emailing me the pages in TIFF format at at least 300 dpi resolution and in grayscale. Sorry, no color on the interior pages.

The cover, however, will be in color and I will accept submissions in the same format and resolution for the cover and back cover illustrations if you feel you must work with a rainbow of fruit flavor.

WHAT DO YOU GET?: Well as I’ve already said, there is no money to be made here by submitting comics to my anthology. At best you’ll just get to see your work in print and have something to show your stoner friends who, I promise, will not care a bit. Even so, my heart is not so cold as to not offer contributors some small payment for their time behind the pencil. And so, every person who makes the book will receive 3 (count ‘em 3) free copies of the anthology upon its debut. Also if you want to buy more copies later on, I’ll give you a discount.

DEADLINE: The deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 28, 2010. I’ll be happy to receive anything you want to send me before that date but, really and truly, nothing after it. I’m hoping to get the book assembled and printed by the end of April 2010.

So that’s it folks, FUGLY ANIMALS, comics about animals, TIFF files, 300 dpi, grayscale, no more than 4 pages, by the end of February. Got it? Send your stuff to me at; jevacat23@gmail.com and let’s rock this sucker!

 So there you have it! All kidding aside Henry is a great guy (minus the haircut) and anyone who signs up for this project will receive 20 cool points from me.

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Digital Painting tutorial – Jean Grey Phoenix

This gallery contains 11 photos.

This is probably the longest post that I have ever posted, and by probably I mean it is. Anyway this tutorial was originally supposed to be published in SKETCH! magazine. I was contacted to do a tutorial so I put … Continue reading

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Ms Marvel Sketch

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Hey guys. I’ve been really busy with the sketch cards that I’m doing for the Marvel 70th anniversary. Unfortunately I’m not allowed to show any of my cards yet but soon…yes soon. Muwahahahahaha.

In the meantime here is a quick 30 minute speedpaint of Ms Marvel. I may come back and finish this sometime but probably no time soon. I have to admit though after doing 60+ sketches in traditional medium (copics, ink etc) going back to digital felt weird.

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Commission time & other news

Hello, hello, hello all my little sexy subscribers! Oh and for those of you who discovered this post through some serendipitous web surfing I encourage you to subscribe, so that you too can be a sexy subscriber.
Now since that is out of the way, I’ll fill you on everything that has been going on lately.

Although normally for news, I would proudly post a picture of the perfectly pulchritudinous Scarlett Johansson,  I obviously went a different route this time. I actually had a piece of art that isn’t under some sort of NDA so I elected to post it instead. Hey I’m a promotion whore I can’t help myself, besides Scarlett hasn’t been returning my calls lately. Anyway the art above is a wecent we-imagining of the wancid and wemarkably wepulsive Wicked Witch of the West. I don’t know why I was just talking like Elmer Fudd, so don’t bother asking.

The Marvel sketch cards I’ve been doing have been moving along quite well. So for I have done 50 of the 150 that I signed on to do. I know some artists have complained about doing sketch cards but I have really enjoyed this project. But then again I’m not like most artists, mostly due to my dangerously alluring sea green eyes of mystery and desire.

Remember when I was telling you guys about being offered a teaching position at the Charlotte Art League? No? Come on! Seriously you don’t remember that? Ok ok fine. Well to recap I’ve been going to the Charlotte Art League on Saturdays for a figure drawing class. This class led to one of the heads of CAL asking to me if I would be interested in teaching a figure drawing course at CAL. Pretty cool right? Well is just got a little cooler. I have also been asked to do a 2-day workshop in January! I will have more news on what my workshop will focus on later because quite frankly I haven’t planned anything yet since I was asked to do this just 2 days ago. But in the meantime if you are near the Charlotte area and would like to be a part of the workshop please email me and I will keep you updated and registered ASAP. I can guarantee that my class will take a different approach to some old methods and will be fun. And by fun I mean awesome and by awesome I mean…I should stop now shouldn’t I?

Moving on.

Now for my final announcement!

Drum roll please!

Ahem…

Oh forget it.

My final announcement is that I will be doing commissions from now until the December 20th! Be sure to place your orders now so that you will receive your commission before Christmas. All commissions will be inked and colored with Copic markers on 11 x 14 or 11 x 17 Bristol board. Commissions will start at only $40. I’m only taking 10 commissions so be sure to place your order ASAP. If you have any other questions please don’t hesitate to email me.

That’s it for now folks. See you on the other side, whatever that means.

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Sketches and Rambling Enjoy Kids

Hello everyone. My wife and I have been passing a cold back and forth for the last couple days and today is the worse that I have felt so far. So if this post doesn’t make a whole lot of … Continue reading

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