SDCC 2015, LET’S DO THIS!

Above is the signing poster I made for this year, to celebrate the 10 years this Avatar universe has been out there in the world. Below is our schedule, once again:

Friday, 10-11 AM, Room 25ABC:  Dark Horse Comics panel with Mike & me

Friday, 12-2 PM, Dark Horse booth: signing with Mike & me (and maybe a special guest too, I’m not sure yet)

Friday, 4-5 PM, Oni Press booth: Invader Zim comic signing with Jhonen Vasquez & me

Saturday, 3-5 PM, Nickelodeon booth: signing with Mike & me (again, and maybe a special guest too, I’m not sure yet)

Ticket info for the Saturday Nickelodeon booth signing: Nick folk are handing out tickets on both Friday AND Saturday morning at the booth between 9:30 – 10:30am. Only 125 tickets will be handed out each day.

I know the overwhelming majority of people out there can’t make it to the increasingly-difficult-to-attend-and-prohibitively-expensive San Diego Comic Con. In addition to this, Mike and I haven’t had and don’t have the schedules to allow for us to attend the many great, smaller conventions all over the globe throughout the year. San Diego is very close to where we both live, so it is quick and easy for us to get down there. Being such a big convention, it is also one that companies like Nick and Dark Horse put a lot of their focus on and marketing resources towards. I just wanted to explain those factors, as I know it is probably frustrating for people who see all the SDCC chatter online and can’t participate in person. We appreciate that many of you ATLA/LOK fans out there would love for us to come to an event or hold a signing closer to your stomping grounds. During the productions of those series, we were mostly chained to our desks trying to meet an endless procession of deadlines and could only carve out a long weekend or two a year for conventions. Now we are busy with new endeavors and the ATLA/LOK events will taper to a large degree. But perhaps our respective new publishing projects will bring us on book tours and to other conventions around the world in the future, allowing us to meet more people we haven’t had a chance to yet. We love you folks! Thanks for your continued support!

korra’s earth kingdom outfit is still my favorite

help me buy art supplies/pay bills by commissioning me <3

my art

If is Shisui that would be like Tobi/Obito arc again or no?

Okay so the guy in the Akatsuki cloak is talking about how Sasuke is an embarrassment to the Uchiha clan, and this sharingan guy says he cant forgive him for killing Itachi.

Im calling it right now it’s Shisui. 

Messy color concept ish of evil Korra… was thinking about what she’d be like if she was successfully kidnapped by the Red Lotus… gave her purple to combine red and blue for fire and water, green for earth and the little prayer beads are from Zaheer. Got lazy with everything else but the face as usual lol.

Working on a sketch for a piece I’ll be contributing to the charity auction at Anime Boston next weekend, benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. I won’t be there, but a finished version of these three napping buddies will be. Interesting story: I came up with the idea for this while taking a nap.

"… and you realize they’ve really come a long way together." - Jeremy Zuckerman

Here is a detail of a different cover I did today. I used that rough of Lauren’s that didn’t end up getting used for the other cover as a basis, and redrew the hair and costume. This production has been wrapped for three months and I’m still drawing this stuff!

Kinda on the rope about this one but, hey.

the avatar with their love + screen fading away

Preview of “The Legend of Korra / Avatar : The Last Airbender Tribute Exhibition” (Gallery Nucleus)

just the two of us, anywhere you want

Turtle-duck Date Night

This is my piece for the upcoming The Legend of Korra / Avatar: The Last Airbender Tribute Exhibition at Gallery Nucleus, opening this Saturday, March 7th, 6:00pm to 10:00. Mike and I will be there doing a signing for the first half of the reception (there are a limited number of spots in the signing line, but I’m not sure how they are working that), and hanging out for the rest. I think there will be a raffle, and plenty of cool stuff to purchase. A bunch of the crew members from the production will be there too (hopefully including some ATLA folks), so it is going to be a fun family reunion for us. I can’t wait to see all of the incredible artwork.

As for this piece, I used and modified Emily Tetri's production painting of Harmony Tower (designed by Lee Jung-Su). Otherwise, I drew and painted the rest of it. I based the turtle-duck boats on the charming swan boats I saw while visiting Ueno Park in Tokyo. Gallery Nucleus will be selling the above artwork as an exclusive print, in a limited edition of 100, to be released on opening night (and I’m pretty sure I’ll be signing them). I will be donating 100% of my share of the proceeds to an LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline.

I hope to see you Saturday! Get there early, as the lines for these Gallery Nucleus openings wrap all the way around a city block. If you can’t make it to the opening, the show will be hanging for two weeks. There is an event being planned for the closing as well. More on that later.

Gallery Nucleus – 210 East Main Street, Alhambra, CA 91801

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