GraniteCon may have been a slow year this time around, but I still did some fun and fantastic sketch cards for some very enthusiastic fans! Here’s the first, fighter Kirby!
-RD
Original Art ©2014 Randall Drew
Kirby is © Nintendo
Tag: video game
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 Game Start!
It’s been exactly a month since my last update! Time sure is flying this year.
A lot has happened in the time has passed, most of it involving Beyond Mode 7.
The book is complete, and the digital version is out to all the Kickstarter backers. Jesse and I still have not decided on whether to make this version available after the KS rewards are fulfilled, but we will certainly let y’all know once we do reach a decision!
The final print version PDF went to the printers TODAY, we hope to have a proof approved by Wednesday next week!
The Posters being printed as backer rewards are super cool, so much of the art and exclusives translated very well to larger-size print. IF you didn’t get in on the project’s KS, and want to grab any of the posters, I would encourage you to contact the contributing artist or Jesse and myself about perhaps ordering one.
One poster in particular, Blair Shedd’s exclusive Stretch-Goal Legend of Zelda: ALttP reward poster IS going to be available for purchase from Jesse and I and Blair himself at the many, many conventions the 3 of us do. You can grab a copy from us there!
IF you’re native to New England, plan on attending GraniteCon the weekend of September 13-14th as Beyond Mode 7 will be premiering at the show publicly for the first time! We’ll also have plenty of Blair’s posters, and many other goodies with us for purchase, along with all our regular comics, art, prints, and sketch cards!
Citadel Chapter 3 final draft writing is underway and look for the story to continue in the final week of this month, here at RKDIA Comics!
Cheers!
-RD
A return to Productivity
Hey all,
Once again, apologies for the radio silence here at RKDIA Comics, we’re in pre-press phase for Beyond Mode 7 and almost ready to get the books made! Very soon after that, there will be a whole lot of new art to share as Jesse and I begin creating Sketch cards and commissions for all the backers who pledged at those levels! I will be putting up here every single piece I do for the backers, so Sketch Card Thursdays will return soon!
Shortly after that, Citadel will return every Tuesday and also stay tuned for a couple announcements about some new comics coming to the site!
Lots going on in the background here, can’t wait to share it all with you!
-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
Sketch Card – Ghastly Screams
…that Haunter your dreams!
Pentel Pocket Brush, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock.
-RD
Original Art is © 2014 Randall Drew
Pokemon is © Nintendo/GameFreak
Sketch Card – Sweet, Sweet You’re so Sweet!
Since I think you’re all so sweet, here’s the eternal thorn in Sonic’s side, Amy Rose!
Pentel Pocket Brush, Prismacolor and Copics on card stock.
-RD
Original Art is © 2014 Randall Drew
Amy Rose is © SEGA/Sonic Team
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