Pocket Legends

Pocket Legends has some new characters and I got asked to go back and create some new stuff for the game.  It was a little strange going back to a project I worked on many years ago and trying to stay true to the art and style that I was a part of years ago.  Fun exercise to say the least.  

Check out more of the game here:

http://www.pocketlegends.com/

An Interview

The Final Frontier… Talking Slugs and Space Zombies with Illustrator Brett Bean [Interview]

http://www.strangekidsclub.com/2013/01/22/the-final-frontier-talking-slugs-and-space-zombies-with-illustrator-brett-bean-interview/

Head on over for some shop talk!

Cheers,

Bean

I just liked this mini story

And Valhalla cried out for his son. 

 But it was too late. 

 For Myth and legend stole him from the heavens 

and he wandered through dreams, looking and wanting. 

 And waiting to hear a fathers beckoning 

once more.

I was experimenting just using markers and finding shapes instead of line work.  Then story started working then...well...this.

Orcs, Aliens, and Pirates OH MY!

So over on the Instragram account I do these morning sketches.  

Follow me at http://instagram.com/2dbean

I do a couple each day

Also as a reminder!

They are all for sale to the first caller.  

Original and 1 o' a kind!

$40 for art and shipping. (for one character) 

(for a full page email me)

Good deal huh?

Evolution of a page

So after I jot down a few notes in my handy dandy notebook this is how I make a comic book page.  Photoshop for the thumbnails and thoughts.  Manga studio for the lines then back to Photoshop for colors and wording.  That's how I'm building this up.  Page 45 of a planned 85 pages for this story.

On another note, and of course if you are still reading this, I want to make some online videos and tutorials this year.  I of course do not have software to edit so I am adding a donate button to any of you online folks who want to contribute.  All the contributions will go towards software and upkeep for tutorials.  I plan on doing some traditional ones and digital.  So here's the button.
This is my way of trying to keep it all free for the art community.
 If you have the means and the desire, click away.

If not, no worries, I still heart you

Either way, the tutorials will happen, this is just a way to hopefully get it all done faster.
Here's to an awesome 2013!

Cheers,

Bean

Update and an image, boy oh boy!

OK,  Hopefully from the last couple of years you know that I keep this blog updated often.  The first few weeks of 2013 have been enormously busy.  I will hopefully have work to show sooner rather than later but everything I am working on is under NDA and very Hush hush.

The life of a freelancer gets busy quick as since the last week in December I started working with Trendy Entertainment, Disney Interactive, Shadow Machine Animations, Bento Box, and one yet announced slug for Slugterra.  That along with the holidays and such it's been overload of awesome.  I'll be getting back to regularly scheduled blog posts with new art soon.  Still hard at work on the graphic novel with plans for a new website redesign.  Time to get serious with all my free time.....  I plan on doing tutorials and free comics (one a week storyline etc)  Not sure which is first.  I'll post some Fil n Mantis tomorrow from the graphic novel to prove I'm still hard at work.

I'll leave you with this:

Burpy.  The main slug from Slugterra.  We went back and forth many many times and although he looks very different in the show, we had a much more adult Burpy for awhile.  Some early explorations and the such. (and yes, Dave and Greg did so good on how they presented their concepts for the show I used the idea too)
Thanks again for stopping by and supporting me on the journey.

cheers,

Bean