More like mallet time, but I only have so much room on these darn things!
Pentel Pocket Brush, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock.
-RD
Original art is © 2015 Randall Drew
Mario is © Nintendo
Tag: mario
Kickstarter Sketch Card – Wahoo!!!
Toad says it all! Today is the one-year anniversary of the successful completion of the Beyond Mode 7 Kickstarter!
The opportunity to work with so many amazing artists, fans and backers was tremendously awesome!
The book will be available this weekend at the Maine Comics Arts Festival, Sunday from 10am-5pm at both my and Jesse Durona’s tables! If you don’t want to wait, or can’t travel to the show, you can still get a copy at my RKDIA Comics Shop online!
No comic page last week or this week as a result of prep for MeCAF as well as some commission work, but I should be back to regular updates next Thursday!
-RD
Kickstarter Sketch Card – Tanooki!
I’m so glad this classic mario power up has been seeing a come back in recent games!
Pentel Pocket Brush, Microns, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock.
-RD
Original art is © 2015 Randall Drew
Mario is © Nintendo
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 – Parasol Peach
On any sunny day where she’s not competing in some random sports tourney with Mario…Peach breaks out the Parasol! It also happens to be a pretty useful weapon. I’ve never seen how effective it is against rain, of all things.
Pentel Pocket Brush, Prismacolor and Copics on Card Stock.
-RD
Original art is © 2014 Randall Drew
Peach is © Nintendo
KickStarter Sketch Card – Peach
That’s right everyone, just because the Beyond Mode 7 Kickstarter is winding down doesn’t mean the art from it will simply go away!
I did over 50 sketch cards for the campaign and over the next year-plus I’m going to be featuring one every Thursday on my usual sketch card spot! This means all other convention sketch cards are now going to post on a new, special Sketch-Card Saturday posting! I’ll start of course with the sketch cards from last weekend’s Granite Con!
The first sketch card up is Princess Peach! Always on the run, sadly, I hope one day she gets her own adventure and kicks some Bowser butt!
Pentel pocket brush and Prismacolor/Copics on card stock.
Thanks,
-Randall
Original art is ©2014 Randall Drew
Peach is © Nintendo
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
Beyond Mode 7: Deadline Approaches!
This update has been a long time coming! It’s time to officially get excited about Beyond Mode 7 as the final art submission deadline is just a mere 2 weeks away! To whet all those video game art loving appetites out there, today I’m going to share a few nibbles of some of what has already come in from our STILL GROWING list of contributors!
First off, I’d like to announce that the book will officially launch at MeCAF 2014, in Portland Maine on May 18th! Jesse and I were accepted for the sixth year in a row to table at this amazing, growing and evolving indie comics show! It’s got a great history of solid attendance and being great for the whole family, exactly the intended audience for the anthology.
Second, if you missed any of my Post-MAGFest Reports (read them here and here) then I’ll once again announce the addition of the amazing Kevin Bolk, 8BitMaximo and Hex Martinez to the Anthology roster! Each brings something unique and powerful to the table and we’re overjoyed to have them on board! Hit those links up and check out their work!
Now, for the newcomers to Beyond Mode 7, let me introduce the anthology real quick: The brain child of my table mate and fellow ink-slinger Jesse Durona (artist behind the popular Despondent Mega Man comics) Beyond Mode 7 came to be after MAGFest 11 in January of 2013. The book will be a full-color, 6×9″, perfect-bound homage to all things Super Nintendo.
With more contributing artists than the system had Bits to work with, it will cover a broad spectrum of experiences, games and memories from arguably the 90’s greatest video game console and game library. It will feature comics, illustrations, essays, and other works of art all honoring a device that brought interactive art and creativity right into our living rooms every day of our childhood!
Some of the games covered by Beyond Mode 7 include: (Art represented are works-in-progress!)
Super Mario World
© Scott Baer
Kirby’s Dreamland 3
© Matt Aucoin
Super Metroid
© Amanda Ruddock
TMNT Turtles in Time
© Bill Volk
Mega Man X
© Michael Ruggia
The Legend of Zelda: LttP
© Matt Aucoin
Earthbound/Mother2
© Randall Drew
…and many many more!
As a note to creators still working: The deadline for final art submissions is the end of this month! As of March, Jesse and I will be compiling the artwork together and preparing a Kickstarter for April! Then it’ll be a Super Nintendo Blitz to get as many people contributing to the campaign as possible! We want to put your art in as many hands as possible, so keep and eye out for requests to help spread the word!
Thanks, and game on!
-RD
Above original artworks are © their respective creator, all rights reserved!
Sketch Card – Mario
For all the love I give Sonic and his friend when I do sketch cards, a certain rotund plumber feels left out!
Pentel Pocket Brush, Microns, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock.
-RD
Original art is ©2013 Randall Drew
Sketch Card – Yoshi!!!
Tune in Tonight around 6pm to my VaughnLive page, WRKD, for a sketch card production broadcast! I’ll be producing a special gift sketch card for the recent 100th “LIKE”-er on my Facebook fan page! Will scan and post here immediately after it’s completed!
*UPDATE!* Here it is! Had a lot of fun putting this one on paper, showing Yoshi kickin’ some butt Smash Brothers style! *UPDATE*
Brush and ink, Prismacolor on card stock.
-RD
Yoshi is © Nintendo
Original art is ©2013 Randall Drew
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