New to Myrant: Bissette Art Instructional Page! Plus — SpiderBaby Archives: Bog Swamp Demon Bissette Cover Art
By srbissette on November 23rd, 2009Posted In: News
New Myrant Feature:
Bissette Art Instructionals Gallery Begins!
I’ve just today launched a brand-new Myrant section, another step forward in Cat Garza Jr.’s and my plans for amping the quantity and quality of Myrant features!
This is also the next step building on the 2009 Myrant experiment with posting two-per-week sketches and original art items from January to October 2009 — while offering Myrant visitors a peek at what I do as an instructor at The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Jct., VT. Of course, the only way to really do that is to become a student at CCS!
It seemed appropriate to kick off this series with one of the most-requested sketches: a portrait of Abby and Swamp Thing, here pictured asleep in the Green.
I must mention that my Abby and Swampy portraits can’t hold a candle to those regularly rendered by my old pal and venerable Saga of the Swamp Thing partner-in-inky-crime John Totleben, but I thought I’d give it a go, if only to bring some attention to this new Myrant feature.
The original sketch is now up for sale at my Comic Art Fans gallery; I’ll be posting more original art and new sketches there throughout the coming weeks, so keep an eye out over there.
More Bissette Art Instructionals to come, including full-blown step-by-step illustration and comic page demos in 2010! I hope you’ll enjoy this new feature, and spread the word via Facebook and Twitter if you’re plugged in to those venues. Thanks!
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SpiderBaby Archive: BOG!!!!!
Ryan Brown’s Bog Bissette Cover Art Gallery Begins
We’re back again with Bog: Swamp Demon! My Ohio-born Mirage Studios compadre Ryan Brown (Rockola, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, etc.) created his swamp creature Bog: Swamp Demon in the early 1990s and asked me to contribute some artwork to the mix. I was happy to do so.
This is my personal favorite of the covers I drew for the series.
This was the cover art for Bog: Swamp Demon #3 (December 1996), and it was done entirely with ink, brush, dry-brush and pen, with a smattering of white out for the final touches as well as clean-up.
The published cover at right is from the digital gallery of one of my favorite online comics dealers, MyComicShop.com.
I’ll eventually lay hands on my own set of Bogs amid the winter archiving of my collection, and post proper cover galleries for this work on the Myrant site.
–>> Updating about these on the Turtle Blogs right now, Steve. Sorry i’m late to cover this.
No worries, and thanks, tOkKa!
my god, steve, this is all so awesome!
Spread the word, Cat! And pat yourself on the back — I’d have never gotten to this point in 2009 without ya!