Kickstarter Sketch Card – Varia Suit

Here’s a quick Samus in her full Varia Suit from Super Metroid!

Pentel pocket brush, microns and Prismacolor on card stock.

-RD

Orignal art is © 2015 Randall Drew
Samus is © Nintendo.

Kickstarter Illustration – Samus V Ridley

Howdy everybody!

With the holidays approaching, I opted to not post a comic page yesterday as I’m still designing this years Holiday Card! That will post next week on Christmas, also in lieu of a Citadel page. In the mean-while, here’s a bonus Kickstarter post this week; one of the 4 full size commissions I completed for our highest level backers!

This one was sent all the way out to Scotland, but unfortunately came back and will be being re-sent, but the opportunity was my being able to re-scan the artwork (the original file was lost.) and present it here!

Come back Thursday and Saturday for more sketch cards and next week for my annual holiday greeting card design! (I may make the designs available online in the future!)

Brush and ink, watercolor on Bristol.

-RD

Original art is © 2014 Randall Drew
Samus and Ridley are © 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

Sketch Card – Gravity Suit Samus

Another MECAF sketch card! This one took a while to draw, so the coloring was simplified in spots. I’m still pretty happy with it!

Microns, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock.

-RD

Original art is ©2013 Randall Drew
Samus is © Nintendo