New Sci-Fi Cover Art

OnSpec The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic

Issue No.93 Summer/Fall 2013

I just got my copy in the mail last week, though I think it's been out since July. They updated their website this past week as well with all the details - well, not all, as they do not mention a fantastic interview they did with me which I am quite happy with - 9 pages with some extra samples of art.
I hope to post the interview sometime in the future.

I am also pleased with how the color turned out on this cover. The vibrancy was not lost. It is also nice to see one of my older styles being utilized on covers again. I had stopped doing pencil crayon pieces some years ago but I recently started doing them again. It's a very different world.

Original Art - Spaceship Five - pencil crayon on paper - 9 x 12 inches

Spaceship Five

Here is  a recent pencil crayon drawing for fun. A couple posts back there is a pencil crayon drawing that I did which was the first in a long long time. I have another spaceship sketched out that I hope to do soon. The original is 9 x 12 in.

PENCIL CRAYON TIME

     

     Here is a recent pencil crayon drawing I finished to display at a Science Fiction convention held here in Winnipeg every year in May. I had not worked in pencil crayon for many many years. Most of my pencil crayon drawings were done in the eighties alongside my painting. I'm excited now to do more. 

     I am showing the process at which i do these. I sketch directly on the black paper with no other preliminary drawings. This is a 9 x 12 inch drawing. Every step is a thinking process as to what colors are going where and how I am going to fill the space. Sometimes I spend more time thinking about my next move than actually drawing. In the past I would sometimes do the drawing with all it's shading with white then go over that with the colors.