Now that New York Comic Con is over for the year and I'm mostly recovered, I can get back to full time work on this site. I have lots of things planned from the convention and other happenings to share with you. And don't forget to enter the #NYCCSwag contest. I have books, bags, games, and more to give away from NYCCs past and other conventions. To start off, we have the new episode of Sketchy Details @Home. This is a speed painting video. It's a triptych of paintings inspired by Face Off's Seven Deadly Sins challenge. I chose Wrath, Envy, and Pride and did them entirely in the color scheme of my haunt: red, black, white, and metallic. I have a little tweaking to do before Halloween but the design won't change. It's opacity, not content, that's the issue.
Watch, then click through for behind the scenes.
- I really did shoot an outro video. I don't know what happened. It rendered on my computer as three minutes of the camera tilting to the side when I hit record. Very strange.
- My traditional haunt color combination for years has been purple, orange, and green. I wanted to really shake things up this year so I switched to a far more graphic combination. The change is quite inspiring. I have lots of vaguely steampunk details to add all over the place that will refresh the haunt concept, for sure.
- The one thing in the world that I hate trying to draw more than anything else is a nose. Here, I wanted vaguely grotesque--think Twilight Zone's "The Masks"--but just sketching them out drove me nuts. It's face on that's really the problem for me.
- You might have seen me put me pinky down a lot while painting on a canvas. It's a ceramic technique. You stabilize your hand on a flat (and not wet) part of the piece to get straighter lines and better detail work. It's how I learned to paint, so it results in a grip far closer to the brushes than a more trained canvas painter.
As always, you can subscribe to get more great video content when it's released at Sketchy Details @YouTube. Thursday I announce the winners of the #NYCCSwag contest on Slipstream and Saturday is going to be a wild experiment in one of the most traditional Halloween decorations.