Kickstarter sketch card – Plumber power!

Here’s a sketch card from Beyond Mode 7 featuring that famous plumber!

Pentel Pocket Brush, Microns, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock.

-RD

Original Art is © 2014 Randall Drew
Mario is © Nintendo.

Kickstarter Sketch Card – Rainbow Bright

I always loved this enemy in Kirby. Design is both threatening and fun!

Pentel Pocket Brush and Prismacolors on card stock.

-RD

Original art is © 2014 Randall Drew
Kirby is © Nintendo

Kickstarter Sketch Card – X

MegaMan X is one of my co-editors favorite games of all time, and apparently a lot of our backers too! Here’s another X!

Pentel Pocket Brush, Copics and Prismacolor on Cover Stock.

-RD

Original Art is © 2014 Randall Drew
MegaMan X is © Capcom

Beyond all expectations

This week Beyond Mode 7 officially became a reality! I picked up the print run and boy do these things look snazzy! The quality is superb and I cannot wait to start sharing these things with all our backers, and then very soon with everyone else!

Rewards posters have also been printed, including a bunch of Blair Shedd’s amazing Legend of Zelda print and the bookmarks are printed, laminated and just need to be trimmed down to size. A lot of this work I’ve been able to do by-hand on some great machinery and it’s really made for a personally rewarding experience.

Citadel is still unfortunately on indefinite hold as I still have to wrap up sketch cards and rewards commissions, but I do still plan on having Chapter 2 ready to go in-print for GraniteCon (Where BM7 will also premier!)

Finally, Jesse and my application for MAGFest 13 this coming January is in! We hope to get a table this year again and bring BM7 directly to the fans who inspired the book to begin with! So exciting!

-RD

Goals Reached!

Hey everyone, it’s been a very long time since I last did a front-page post on the site! I’ve been very very busy organizing and running the Beyond Mode 7 Kickstarter!

Funding is now over and we reached highly unexpected levels of success with the campaign! While I would love to get back to drawing and posting Citadel pages, now my attention must be focused on fulfilling all of the KickStarter rewards! We’re going to have a lot of books leftover, so if you want a copy, come see Jesse and I at our two remaining shows this year: GraniteCon and MAGFest for New Years 2015!

I expect to start Citadel Chapter 3 some time in July. Thanks for your patience!

Thanks,
-RD

Beyond Mode 7 approaches!

Hey everyone, Beyond Mode 7 is coming closer and closer to becoming a reality! Kickstarter info is coming soon, but for now, check out a preview of a piece from the book: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past work from fellow CCS 10′ Alumni Matt AuCoin! -RD Original art is © Matt Aucoin Used with Permission