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01/27/2012

Colleen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

These original sketches from an official Star Wars trading cards set are shown near actual size. I always loved classic miniatures, those portraits painted on tiny slivers of ivory, slipped into lockets and given as gifts in the days before photography. These mini paintings on card for collectible trading card companies remind me of that [...]

02/03/2011

Colleen — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000

One of my favorite covers from A Distant Soil. Watercolor. I don’t get much opportunity to paint. Wish I had more time for it, but I usually do black and white comic art that is colored by professionals. My next project will be colored by Jose Villarubia! That will be gorgeous!

12/27/2010

Colleen — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000

This page from A Distant Soil was drawn full bleed to the ends of the page but heavily cropped for publication. I didn’t center the live image area of the art properly. The graphics lose impact in the published version. The tones are hand applied sheets from Japan. The web press printing technique made these [...]

02/06/2010

Colleen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A panel from a webcomic entitled “Super Idol”. It’s about ten years old. If memory serves, it’s my first webcomics work. Written by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, it is available to read for free online at Artbomb.net. All of my work for this webcomic was done by hand. I knew so little of computer [...]