gearing up for the end of conventions and a BOOK RELEASE PARTY!!!

So I sent out a whole bunch of con sketches last week and I've opened the list for yet another convention this weekend.  But, it is the last convention of the year (for me at least).  So here are some of the many sketches I had left over from New York and Detroit.

I will be taking a considerably smaller number of sketches for the NC Comicon this upcoming weekend.  So if you like what you see here you can email me at talpasouk@hotmail.com.  All these pieces you see here were commissioned from me at $100 per.

I will say this, I find doing convention sketches much easier when I am able to do what ever I would like.  It's easier to pick something strange out of my mind than to come up with a pose for a character that has been drawn hundreds of times before.  I am not saying I refuse to do Marvel character A or Wildstorm character B, but you will get something more personal and original if I'm left to my own machinations.  I don't know if you can relate to how difficult it is to draw a character that one- you are totally unfamiliar with and/or don't care about and two- you know that if you do a lackluster job on, will decimate the client who loves said character.  It's your money and I will do my best for whatever you would like. 

Thank you for indulging my whiny side for a bit. Now for some really cool news.

 This Dec. 1st at the new Century Guild Gallery at 6150 Washington Blvd. in Culver City, CA. 90232
We will be having a book release party/ art exhibit for Cursed Pirate Girl vol. one. Here's a link to their blog post.  And I've been told there will be a couple of the pages from the next issue for people to take a gander at.  I'm extremely excited about this, I received a copy of the hard cover from the Archaia offices in LA and I'm very happy with how it turned out.  I hope you will be too.  To make the show a bit more exclusive (besides the fact that you will be able to get the book before anyone else in the country) I just finished a bookplate that will be printed in a quantity of only 100 and these will be going into all the books we were able to get for the show.  Here's a sneak peak of the bookplate (I will prepost a blog post showing it in it's entirety for Dec. 1st so you can still check it out when others do)

The fantastically crazy folk of Century Guild are also cooking up something else for the show, we will see if it is indeed completed in time.  If not though there might be something really cool you will be able to purchase for that certain CPG fan, for the up and coming holiday season. :)

Oh and I forgot to post this-

Happy Holidays indeed!