Templesmith Arts

RACKED LA

I made the RACKED LA fashion blog! Apparently I'm some sort of slight fashionista now, ( Or just a pretentious prick in a suit...yeah, probably just that ) but I do the clothing enough that it's worthy of a fashion blog to cover me & a few of my friends.

They got it slightly wrong though. My suits are tailor made, so are the shirts, in Asia, as copies of an original Ben Sherman suit that was off the rack ( and thus nowhere near as well fitting ) Wish he'd got me on another day when I was wearing my custom cobra skin shoes though. Dang it.

It's definitely nice that someone was there willing to put media out there that not all comic types wear star trek outfits all the time. It's nice to break stereotypes instead of enforce them ( which is what mainstream media usually does in my experience, ).

San Diego Comic-Con 2010

It's OVER. Regular sleep ( somewhat ) can resume.

Drawing. Oh so much drawing.
Shaking hands.
Meeting new people.
Meeting old people.
Making dirty jokes.
Drinking.
No sleep.
Selling SQUIDGIRLS.
Shaking more hands.
Remembering why I do comics.
Destroying my brain trying to remember people's names after since meetings over the previous year...
More drinking.
Learning my place has about a 4 guest limit before we enter Bangledeshi illegal immigrant worker dormitory territory.
More drinking.
LIVE ART and suit abuse!
Even less sleep.
Remembering what's important to me.
Walking like an old man for 4 hours.
Saying goodbye to old friends and new.

Huge thanks to all you lovely people who came out.

More pictures...like this...soon.

Yes, I am an utter tool. I never said otherwise.

Signing Off...

For about a week I guess as the geek rapture that is San Diego Comic-con starts tomorrow night (but drinking & being busy starts NOW )

So just a reminder on where to find me, since one of the most common senstences I ever hear at a con is "I didn't know you were here!"

If you're going to the con, have a good one, be safe, drink/eat some things other than alcohol once in awhile and enjoy.

SQUIDGIRLS At SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON

Unlike 2001 A Space Odyssey, it's not full of stars.

It's full of tentacles.

Cyberman Work In Progress...

A few shots of how the Cyberman I did for my San Diego Comic-con promo looked before it was finished. ( & yeah, for those that sadly miss out on the con, I put the piece up on ebay too. )

Forgot to take pics in the pencil only stage. Here he is, all inked and I've been adding pencil tones.

More pencil and I start with the watercolour washes.

After a lot more layers and washes, I work back into it with a white pen.

How it looks as an original piece of art before I whack it on the computer.

I layer some previously painted textures and such into the image, do a bit of darkening up parts of the armour and highlight a few others. A little lighting for kicks before I add some tonal colour to get the final image that becomes my promo piece for San Diego Comic-Con. Huzzah!