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Attention! Chromacon is this week!
Where does the time go? I swear, 2015 has been such a blur so far. It’s going to be a big weekend. I’m really looking forward to it. However it does leave me frantically organising my last few bits and pieces for the show. Mostly just things for the booth. All the major things for the show are done.
What can you expect from me at Chromacon? Well it’s been a busy year already, so unfortunately I still have not made any new comics, but I have re-printed some ActionMan Adam books for anyone who hasn’t yet experienced them, to read. They’re in stock and ready to go.
I have a new book debuting at the show called Sketches. If you’ve been following my social media you’ll know I have been frequently posting black and white ink sketches. Just a fun project to draw whatever I’m feeling at any given moment. I’ve compiled some of my favourites into a book and will be selling this at Chromacon for $6. It came out great, so I can’t wait to share!
I also have a couple of new prints. One which I have already shown the world, and one which is brand new. I think they’re fun and colourful.
I’ll also have my usual assortment of stickers on hand if you’re into some colour to attach to a favourite object.
On top of all of this, I’m going to be doing free mini sketches for anyone who makes a comic or print purchase. You buy a comic or print, and I will draw you something. Your choice of character. Should be fun. I haven’t really done any live drawing for a while.
It’s going to be a fun show. The event is FREE entry, and runs across both Saturday and Sunday this weekend at Aotea Centre in Auckland City. Please do come by and say hello. Buy a comic or print, or both. Get a drawing done. See some other amazing artists who will also be displaying their fantastic work. Oh yeah!
Finally, all leftover stock will be offered on my online store after Chromacon. If you can’t make the show, you will be able to purchase from there, but if you’d really like something reserved now – let me know.
Thanks for reading.
Marc
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Some more ink sketches needed to be posted to this site. I’m still doing them, I just keep forgetting to post them here.
Here we go.
Curtis from Snow Piercer
Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman
Gollum
Pablo Prigioni of the New York Knicks
Apocalypse
Captain America
Here are the drawings I made for Inktober week 2.
Claire and Marten from Questionable Content.
Rambo Gizmo, bitch.
Deadpool.
Thor, before he lost his job.
Thor, the one who took the job.
Winter Soldier and his dreamy hair.
Batgirl, which has started a new direction in the comics as of issue 35. Definitely worth checking out.
Today is my Nephew’s 3rd Birthday. I made some art for him to put on his wall. His favourite comic character is Spider-Man. He has great taste. I like Spidey too.
Anyway, Happy Birthday, Lucas!
Hope all is well with you fine folks out there!
Thanks for reading,
Marc.
Hey all,
It’s my birthday today. I took the day off work so I can enjoy watching the Super Bowl with some friends. Last night I decided to draw Peyton Manning just for some fun. Just a quick sketch on the iPad.
For some reason I always imagine him saying his own name, not unlike Matt Damon would in the film “Team America”. Still makes me laugh.
Let’s hope it’s a good game!
Cheers
Marc
Hello!
I enjoyed drawing that last picture of Wolverine so much, I decided to draw another one. I’m thinking I should draw more pictures like this to post on the blog in between working on the comic. If anyone has any suggestions on who they’d like to see, please leave a comment!
This was drawn in Procreate for iPad, then coloured in Photoshop to speed the process up.
Happy New Year all!
Thanks for reading.
Marc
When I last updated I speculated that I would be busy, and I wasn’t sure when I’d next update the comic. Unknown to me was that it would be so very accurate and I wouldn’t even have the energy to draw at all for a good couple of months.
My vacation has just begun, and yesterday I drew a picture (the one accompanying this post). It’s been so long, that it took a little while to get into the groove of it. It felt good though. I don’t have much of an extended holiday break ahead of me, but I am going to try and do as much drawing as I can squeeze in there, because I miss it.
Hopefully everyone has a great holiday season. Enjoy yourselves. Be safe on the roads if you’re driving somewhere! I’m optimistic enough to think I should hopefully be able to get another Adam page up soon.
Thanks for reading,
Marc
This AMA piece was drawn by my younger brother, Tony.
Tony inspires me a great deal. He never gives up in the face of adversity. He gets on with what he has to do in life and I admire the fact that he can do that with little complaint.
Generally we have the same sense in humour, so it is fun hanging out with him and going off on wild tangents about some crazy shit we might be talking about at the time. Those kind of moments can really help kick off ideas for the webcomic.
I was honoured that Tony drew this piece for me. Thanks bro. It means a lot.
Thanks for reading,
Marc
Way back in 1999 I hung out with three guys during my student days, in Christchurch. We were a tight unit and frequently went out on the town as young guys do. My good friend Matt had a place right in the city centre just 2 blocks away from all the popular bars, and one block away from the favourite watering hole, the Dux de Lux.
It was a great thing, and I have to give a lot of respect to Matt, whether he wanted it or not, he was always gracious and welcoming, for the partying that began at his apartment there in the city. Two years later, I’m trying to come up with an idea for a one page comic, and as a joke I suggest it would be cool to do a comic based on our mutual friend Adam. Over the course of the next hour, Matt and I are throwing ideas back and forth and we basically nail down the story for the first ActionMan Adam comic. Subsequently when it came time for the second story I went back to Matt and again, we were able to get another story done.
What’s cool now is, after being burnt out on his own artwork, Matt has finally returned to it. Art was something he was always adept at, so it’s good to see him getting back into it. Bringing it back full circle, Matt now has an art blog, and has decided to use ActionMan Adam as one of his practice pieces, as well as other pop culture and comic book characters.
Please go check his blog out, leave some comments, and follow his RSS, as he throws up some vector based drawings and gets back on track with his art agenda. Tell him I sent you!
Thanks for reading
Marc
Last week, unexpectedly, I was lucky enough to see two different art pieces from two different artists doing an homage to Adam! Now before you suggest that I paid both of these guys to do so, I will let you know that it’s not in my budget to do so. Ha ha! I will however buy them both a beer because it was awesome in both cases. Let me break it down for you.
Robin Hotter – Monday, I get word from Robin (a frequent commenter on this site and a super nice guy) that he was inspired on a trip home from work, and just had to draw something. Amazingly, in this spur of the moment – his art mission turned to Adam. You can read about it here, at his website. The result was cool, like a Dan Hipp infused piece of work, and I’m digging the colours on it. Spontaneous art is the best!
That segways perfectly into the other artist:
thisisrabbit – thisisrabbit I have known for some time. He pretty much has a hand in everything. On the web or on the streets, you can find his special brand of unique art all over the place. To the point where it even showed up in a popular video game! Often introspective and mostly hilarious, thisisrabbit is dedicating his time to a new “doodle-a-day” project over on his Flickr page. If you have a Flickr account or a twitter account, I highly recommend you add him as a contact so you can keep up with the project. I check it out daily. Last Thursday, thisisrabbit was kind enough to feature Adam as one of the daily subjects, and I was stoked to see what he’d done!
Thanks to both those guys, if either of you catch me at the pub, I’ll buy you that beer. Cheers!
Thanks for reading
Marc