//– Official blog of illustrator Zane DeGaine –////////////////////////////
Fweeb, a fellow member of the World Artist Network helped me out with the Photobucket problem. He told me that I can host images from my personal website. I totally didn’t realize or think about that! Screw Photobucket and their censorship, I’ll use my own website thank you.
-Z
Obviously if you look below you can see why. One of my figure drawings was deleted for “Violating their terms of use.” I’d understand if it were a nude porn photograph, but its not. Its ART!!! I hate censorship, and especially censorship of art. I’ll be searching for a new image hosting site asap. Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking Flickr, but I don’t know if they have the same problem with ART or not.
As many have heard by now Diamond Distributors, the top comic book distributor, has increased its benchmarks. I was a bit fuzzy at first on what this meant, other than what everyone was saying: “It just got a bit harder for the indie side of the industry.”
After reading the New York Times article at the link below, I now understand what it means and how this will affect the industry. Lets hope that this “economic crisis” gets cleaned up fast.
I am totally and utterly disappointed with how the first few pages of Fastback came out so I am redoing them. I didn’t stick to the vision I had for it. In the meantime here’s this:
-Z
I went to a figure drawing session today at a friend’s house. The model was awesome. I hadn’t done any regular figure drawing since May of last year so I was a bit rusty. It took a while to get back into. I was kind of wishing the 2 hour session was more like 3 hours. Here’s some of the good and some of the bad. 10 second warmups, 30 second warm ups and a couple 10 and 20 minute poses. Like I said… rusty…
-Z
I’ve been making “advertisements” to put up on my website http://www.degainedesigns.com to promote the projects I’m working on. Here are some of them I have completed so far:
NYCC
Its a new year and with that comes a new year of Comic Cons.
First up is the NY Comic Con. I had a great time last year chillin’ at the Heavy Proton booth in Small Press with Bill Rees and Jeff Clemens.
This year I’ll be sharing a Small Press booth with Suz LeGrand’s Silenlily Studios and few other friends including Dan Olwell. We’re listed on the con’s site under Silentlily Studios, booth #2460.
I’ll have original pages for sale (maybe, just maybe, some Riot Girls pages). I haven’t posted any of the Riot Girls pages yet, but I’ll see if I can to boost some hype for it, though it won’t be in print for this con (Maybe WW Phily).
I also have two copies of my 40 page artbook left, and may be putting together sketchbooks for the con. I’ll have a new artbook ready by WW Phily.
I’ll be doing sketches too.
That’s all I can think of for now.
-Z
I have been super busy with work… well art that is. I try not to look at it as if it is work. The word takes the fun out of it. I haven’t had a chance to update this thing lately so if you want to catch up on my “Art By Others” posts, check out my deviant art page here.
I was showing some friends my art collection today and figured I’d post it here for all of you to see as well.
So each week, I’m going to post a new piece. Until I run out that is. And that won’t be too long.
This piece is pretty special to me. I mean, how often do you get a chance to own an original Adam Kubert X-Men page? Not very often, hardly ever as he doesn’t usually sell his stuff, if you ever find one, it more than likely a page that the inker got to keep, and then sold. Such is the case with this piece.
I found this piece by chance on ebay. I was a bit hesitant at first to bid, because I knew that Adam rarely sold his originals. So after discussing it with him and finding out for sure that it was a piece that the inker got back, and not a gift given to a friend, stolen, etc. I bid on it. I ended up winning the bid, obviously. The price was too good to pass up. Adam looked up the auction and when I brought in the page to show him, he was like, you got a steal on that man. I did.
We both weren’t sure of who the inker was. Adam said it was probably either Batt or Tim Townsend. I wasn’t sure, it didn’t really look like either of them. I finally found a copy of the actual comic, and there were four different inkers, maybe more, on that issue. It was probably inked by John Livesay. But I still don’t know for sure, because the book doesn’t list which pages which person inked. However; John Livesay is credited on the cover, so I figure he inked most of it, therefore there being a highly likely chance he inked it.
Adam and Andy are probably the two biggest reasons I got into comics as a kid. So having this page in my collection means a lot.
-Z
In between paying gigs I’ve been working on personal stuff. Stuff such as for my comic/ graphic novel featuring my character “Mustang Sally.” I’ve been developing the story and characters for 2 years now. I’ve drawn them numerous times, as many of you have seen. Each time, they’ve somewhat evolved. As has my “style.”
I’ve struggled to find my “style” as an artist, constantly trying to force it out of myself. I sat down and started drawing Sally as part of some redesigns I’m doing on the characters of my book. The redesign on Sally, though it may be slight, I think is definitely evident. I was shooting for a bit of a darker, more serious, punk look. Here’s the progression of the drawing from pencils to inks. Next up are Cherry and Shelby, followed by Pops, Jake. After that I’ll be doing character designs for a comic I’ll be starting in October-ish.
-Z
