SI 52

A little late on my Wednesday post. I thought I'd use it show you what I've entered for The Society of Illustrators Annual 52.

The Fairy Queen

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Siegfried and Brünnhilde

Click here to read all about this piece.

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Daga and the Trolls

from Dag and Daga, and the Flying Troll of Sky Mountain

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This piece is from my Grimm and Other Folk Tales show. You can see the other nine pieces for the show as well as the extensive development work here.

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It was incredibly difficult to choose just 4 images from Walters.

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So that's that! I'd love to be included again this year. Here's to SI 52!

Spectrum 16 entries.

The deadline for Spectrum 16 is tomorrow. As I understand it my entries will land sometime today.

For fun, here are my three entries. I have yet to score a spot in a Spectrum book (though I was honored to have been accepted twice in the Society of Illustrators annual, and a couple other books) so we'll see.

I entered three of my dragon paintings from a couple months ago.

Seegmiller

I know many, many artists who consider Don Seegmiller to be the father of digital painting. His Digital Character Design and Painting was one of the most influential books for me personally as well as countless others.

Today in the mail I received my copy of d'Artiste : digital painting 2.

I'm honored to have been included in the "Don Seegmiller Invited Artist Gallery."





Mr. Seegmiller, if you read this, thank you, and let me buy you lunch sometime.

CA

Scored a hot page in the new Communication Arts.




Truthfully, this is only note worthy because I'm on the page facing William Shatner.

d'artiste: digital painting 2

Justin and I scored a hot page in d'artiste this year. Woo!

update:

I am ridiculously pleased to tell you all that on Tuesday we got a letter from New York. What was in it? Inside the envelope was paper. Nice paper. Paper with words on it telling us we were accepted in the Society of Illustrators annual. That was very nice paper.

I got two pieces in, Grimble Crossing the Alps, and the animated music video, The Ruin of the Beast.

Grimble Crossing the Alps
from Jack & Inar, pub. date 2008

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DVD cover

I haven't ever entered Sequential before, mostly because (as one might imagine) I haven't had anything to show. I also hadn't ever noticed that they accept animation entries. So, edited down to 2 minutes, The Ruin of the Beast has been submitted for cosideration.

included inside the jewel case with the DVD:


I'm very pleased and honored to be included in this incredible volume of work. And it's the 50th edition. I'm sure there's something profound about that. I'm sure, but I have no idea what that profundity might be.

Again, like the last few posts before this I must thank those who stick through the lean times with this blog. Work has been an all consumming deal recently and until I meet an upcoming deadline things are going to be tight.

But! I am working off a shiny new 24 inch iMac at work so that's nice. I also have a new 2o inch iMac at home and, just yesterday, ordered a 23 inch Mac cinema display so I that I may wield dual-screen at home. Actually tri-screens because I've got an old eMac. The big white dinosaur. I can run this program called Teleport off my iMac and controll the eMac then dual-screen the heck out of it all and work on the cinema display.

One last thing, anyone remember Matthew's Begats? I'll be doing three book signings at the Holiday Fair at the Palmetto Expo Center tonight, Friday, and Saturday.

I'll be around in the evening. Also Justin and the author of Beowulf will be there signing copies of their fantasic book.

Enjoy.

society of illustrators annual 50

Update : For the record, I was accepted in two categories, Book and Sequential. Yeah!

Sent off my entries to The Society of Illustrators Annual today. For anyone who may not know, it is the most prestigious and recognized publication of illustration in the world. As such I haven't been accepted before. This year however, I believe I've got some solid entries.

I've entered three pieces, one in Uncommissoned, one in Book, and one in Sequential.

***Uncommisoned***Dandelion Embers

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***Book***Grimble Crossing the Alps
from Jack & Inar, pub. date early 2008

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***Sequential***


DVD cover

I haven't ever entered Sequential before, mostly because (as one might imagine) I haven't had anything to show. I also hadn't ever noticed that they accept animation entries. So, edited down to 2 minutes, The Ruin of the Beast has been submitted for cosideration.

included inside the jewel case with the DVD:

I'll make information concering these entries available as I find out-- which won't be for a while anyway.

Thankfully, S.I. let's you know if you've been accepted or not accepted so you're not wondering until you see the book.

Cheers.