jasonderoga86

So, seeing as I just did two different fan art pieces for two different Comic Fury webcomics I've been following for a long time (I'll get to that in a minute), I thought I'd post a DW journal entry detailing any future fan art I might be up to.

First, I had to inform the two previous recipients of how I've been meaning to try my hand at new fan artwork for them, but as we all know, sometimes Life doesn't go the way you want it to. Not out of guilt, though. Just a means of staying in touch. The two CF comics I'm speaking of are Erin Weinstock's Iron and Steel, and Shannon Lewis's Zack Dragonblade and the Excalites. For those who need to keep their distance from CF, Iron and Steel can be found on DeviantArt under Erin's "systemcat" username profile. Likewise, Shannon has Zack Dragonblade at DeviantArt as well, under the "ShannonthePanda" username profile. Both are great comics, and "Zack Dragonblade" in particular is very much like a blend of "'Final Fantasy' meets 'The Legend of Zelda' meets 'The Powerpuff Girls'" -- it's super cute, but NOT for the faint of heart; we're talking demons, curses, a scene of genocide by incineration, LOTS of blood in rare jump-scare moments, and even a cremation scene early into the story. 😮

The following are the two fan artworks I did for both Erin and Shannon, respectively.

"Terry" from Erin Weinstock's "Iron and Steel-verse"

Fan art for Shannon Lewis's "Zack Dragonblade" w/customized logo

Which leads me to my next point: Matt Zimmer's birthday arrives at the very end of next month (September 30th, I believe), and I promised him another birthday gift similar to the one I sorta hastily created last year. He gave me the go-ahead, so I decided I'd put up the "first draft sketch" of what I have in mind this time. Last year, I put together an inked sketch of both Gilda and Bernadette in my signature style for Matt's B-day as a token of friendship as well my excitement for what's in store for Gilda and Meek and the Un-Iverse, his webcomic. This year, I'm turning things up a notch and designing a sort of cinematic teaser poster based on where I currently am in the "Un-Iverse" -- it's a poster for "The Pontue Legacy", with the overall layout inspired by one of my personal favorite DC animated movie covers for the direct-to-video film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (comparison shown below). Below is a work-in-progress: both the sketch in question, and a customized logo I whipped together that'll be superimposed on the final piece (I'm shooting to ink this baby as I did with the first piece from year). And for the first time in my "fan art" career... I'm aiming to dress the final work in my new and improved coloring style, first developed during the creation of the recently-released (and extremely well-received) Sneakers' U-Force #12. Hopefully I can have this ready by 9/30, so wish me luck!

Below are the first sketch (and its comparison to Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker's Fall 2000 teaser poster) along with my customized logo (also somewhat inspired by the admittedly vague-looking logo for the Batman Beyond film).