Hey there, sports fans, Al here with the latest:
I've been somewhat away from the drawing table. I've been dealing with some personal life stuff, which has brought me back home to my old stomping grounds of Eugene, Oregon.
Looking at the old homestead, there are a lot of old places that are no longer there, but there are some that still stick out and remain. Which is in itself is very comforting.
But art awaits for no one. Commissions are exactly that situation, so regardless of whether I am away for a week or not, I still need to work on the commissions. With that being said, I've been really working hard to try to finish off one commission when I've got a little bit of free time. I've got another one in the wings.
But in recent times, I've been challenged to be able to create some new pieces with Sady Starkiss and heavy metal.
Of course, some people would like me to do role reversal on these particular characters, and so that is what I am going to be working on here in a short period of time.
I've got a couple of new ideas about how I'm going to go about that, but that'll definitely be the heavy-metal and Starkiss situation. It should be fun, and I'll have a new piece ready to go for any new show that comes up. I need to get the frames ready for them.
But it may also turn out they have some other commissions coming my way once I get done with these two. It always turns out that if I'm sitting in the bar working on some illustrations, especially the scratchboard, somebody is always going to step up and give me something.
So, not all is lost, and nothing is lost in the bad situation of dealing with my late father's estate, so I'm keeping on top of everything. Blue The Bulldog did really well as both a sticker and a T-shirt.
As of this writing, five t-shirts are awaiting my arrival to sell as soon as I get back into town. Both are extra large, and there are 10 and 13 left of that size.
So I'm heading home with sales already.
Now, if I can only start making prints of my large images, I just might have something.
IN OTHER NEWS!
So, a collection of art books has been suggested to me to track the volume of material that I have made over the years.
This would also include images and stories of the comic illustration.
There are at least three stories that have yet to be published.
There are several hundred pages of that.
This includes "Last Monster on EARTH" (248 pages), Corpse Cop 4, "Death Walks the Stars" (60 pages scratchboard), Quantum Society "Rules of Set" (48 pages), and The Grandfather of all these, "The Watery Adventure of Richard Parker" (100 pages scratchboard).