If I wasn’t already pumped for a new Evil Dead movie to come out, particularly one that doesn’t suck, imagine how extra pumped I was to have been asked to design an Evil Dead tribute poster during the same opening week. Ash/Bruce Campbell is quite an interesting fellow to draw, and I would happily draw him again. Hopefully someone out there wants a sweet Brisco County Jr. poster next :)
You can get prints of this bad boy here: http://www.strangekidsclub.com/2013/05/03/hail-to-the-king-baby-our-evil-dead-2-print-is-now-on-sale/
After great apprehension to do so, I broke and ended up buying a jumbo (12”x17”-ish) Moleskine sketchbook. The size is truly fantastic and really allows your hand and arm to move freely about the page without any worry of constraint. In order to get this bad boy started, I chose to do an illustration of The White Violin from Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba. If you haven’t done so yet, read that comic now… like, right now.
It took me a while to get around to reading it myself actually. Since it came out in the years of my college education, I didn’t allow myself the opportunity of reading it then, although I’m sure it would’ve helped inspire me and my studies in some way, especially considering it was art school. Looking back on it, I didn’t even have good excuse; even the library next door to my house had a copy. In the end, I bought one for myself to enjoy at my own leisure in the comfort of my own home, and man did I enjoy it. So in short, I recommend everyone give it a chance, or at least check it out several times from your library so that it at least makes you feel guilty for not reading it.
On another note:
I initially acquired this massive sketchbook in order to travel with it, but I had not anticipated its scale to that of my backpack. So I’m not quite sure how transportable it will ultimately be, but I plan on taking it for a spin with me to California this Friday for some good old life drawing exercises. If all goes well, I will return home with a more complete and hopefully intact sketchbook. Otherwise this White Violin sketch might be the one and only drawing attributed to this new sketchbook’s name (Heraldo?) that sees the light of day
Enjoy this piece at least and with fingers crossed let’s hope there’s more to come!
Logan
I was asked to do a screen-print poster design for the new Tomb Raider game, which was particularly exciting to tackle since I’d been looking forward to this release over the past year or so. I decided to highlight the landscape and the island rather than a specific character since it’s hazards are a character themselves and help to define Lara this time around.
You can see all 17 designs of the great posters by an amazing roster of illustrators here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151458482888376.1073741825.95644023375&type=1
https://www.facebook.com/TombRaider
I’ve also attached the preliminary composition and value study I did.
-L
A piece I contributed to my good friend Scott K. Monteiro’s upcoming book “Rex Nocturnus”. To see more about the upcoming book, check out http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1821046368/rex-nocturnus and hellp show your support. And to check out more of Scott’s work, head on over to http://skmonteiro.wordpress.com/
-L
Shameless self-promotion time!
Behold, the great Logan Faerber’s wraparound cover art for Bloody F**king Revenge, my first anthology, coming out through Challenger Comics this April.
*click here for a big ‘ol hi-res image*
The anthology—debuting at this year’s Calgary Expo—comes in at 80 pages, and I’m doing a super nice limited printing. All of the shorts are written by me, with art from truly amazing up-and-coming artists. Some of the stories in the anthology have appeared on Challenger; some of them I’m saving for this collection.
Some of the stories in Bloody F**king Revenge include:
Broken Deals
Art by Hugo Petrus
Read it nowChildren of Russia
Art by Hugo Petrus
Read it nowKataki
Art by Jonathan Brandon Sawyer
Read it nowStem-Sell
Art by Ger CurtiSouthpaw
Art by Kevin Zeigler, colors by Neil LalondeGoddess
Art by Hugo PetrusCool Lobster
Art by Chris PirateSuper excited to put this out, so if you’re at the Calgary Expo at the end of April, do check it out. There will be copies available through the Challenger store shortly after as well.
During January, I illustrated a variant cover design for my good friend Justin Peterson’s upcoming Very Near Mint vol.3, which is currently being funded via Kickstarter. Please spread the word and check out his great work here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/justinpeterson/very-near-mint-volume-3
Since doing the triptic group of X-Men character sketches, I decided to do another, but this time of Batman related characters; Batman, Robin, and Batgirl. This was inspired by the most recent New 52 series that DC released last year, which has continued to be stellar. Maybe someday I’ll get to work on Batman, for real :(
Over the past couple of nights I was inspired by the Uncanny X-Force series to sketch some of my favorite X-Men characters; none of which are actually in the X-Force. These were a lot of fun and I would love to do a few more characters, but I’m not entirely sure which ones yet. I’ll probably start with Nightcrawler, but I’m totally open to suggestions if anyone would like to see my rendition of a character from X-Men. Enjoy!
Logan
A little guy I’ve titled “Skull Kid”, which I did for fun last night. Feel free to come up with some fan fiction - I’d love to read what sort of stories this character inspires :)
About two weeks ago I did a variant cover design for the Bravest Warriors comic #7. The folks at Comic Alliance put up a preview here http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/01/09/bravest-warriors-7-cover-art-preview/. I had no idea how much darker my concept was than the others until they were all placed alongside each other, but I guess that’s to be expected from me. Also, I’ve attached the original concept I did as well as the printed one. Originally, Danny was giving the finger to his broken suit and the leaking air, but ultimately had to cut it since the comics are intended for all ages… unlike the show.
Two quick character sketches I did in the past two days just for fun. I usually try to do a sketch at night before going to bed - maybe 15-30 minutes each.
A quick character sketch I did a few nights ago before going to bed. Just wanted to do something for fun.
Last week I did a cover for Boston circular The WeeklyDig’s winter issue. I’ve put the original illustration alongside the printed design. Hope it helps to get people into the holiday spirit!
This is the second of two pieces I did for “The End” themed show at the Pony Club Gallery in Portland, OR - http://www.ponyclubpdx.com/. The show will be in December, but you can get a copy of the print now until whenever - http://society6.com/aerodynamicmountains/The-End-Part-2-LD2_Print
Save $5 off each print you order from my store, now through Nov 11th! Just use this link - http://society6.com/aerodynamicmountains?promo=84805c …
Months ago I had begun working on a short 12 page comic with my friend and writer Austin Wilson (austinRwilson.tumblr.com) for an anthology piece inspired by “Metal”. That project ended up falling through along with the already illustrated pages. I wasn’t sure what was going to come of the project, so I had not touched the pages since. Recently however, I’ve decided to finish the comic and have begun adding color. I plan to sell it as a mini and use it as a fun promotional piece for various cons. Here is a preview from a full colored page in the story.
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