FREE COMIC BOOK DAY IS COMING!

Hello everyone!

So as the title says, Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday May 4th.  I will be manning a table at Jesse James Comics from early morning until about 1 pm (maybe later depending on sketch demand).  Here is the nice flyer Jesse made for me the other day-

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I love events at Jesse's, they are always lively and full of good people.  Jesse has taken care of me over the years so come on down and support his store!

I will have several new prints for purchase for $10 and a new collaboration piece with the great Ernie Najera that he drew and I painted (price TBD).  Here is what will be available- (If you miss FCBD and these don't sell out I will have these at Phoenix CC with a few more new ones as well)

Lines by Ernie Najera, colors by me, Matt Goodall

Speaking of Phoeinx Comicon, as I may have stated in previous posts, Long Dog Art will be at table 1743 and we will have original art for sale, a commission list and prints.  I have also added a sketch book to that list of items.  So if you buy the book from me the 1st sketch in the book drawn by me will be for free!  The book itself is $6 so this is a great value!  Click on the photo to get the names of the other artists and their tables so you can get some great original work from them as well.  Limited quantities so get them while they last.

Upcoming Events and Recent Drawings

Hello everyone, here is a quick update on the upcoming events I am desperately trying to finish new art for...

4/22/13- 3:00pm to 3:45 - Record Store Day at Zia Records

  This will be an event promoting Spazdog Press and the 3 music themed books we produced; Break the Walls and Unite and Take over volumes one and two.  (I have stories in both Unite and Take Over's)  The other excellent creators appearing- Andy Bohn, Shawn Demumbrum, Michael Macropoulos, Gerald McConnell, Chris Mendoza and Michael Stewart.

5/4/13- 9am - 1pm - Free Comic Book Day at Jesse James Comics

This is a huge 2 day event at Jesse's with too many creators to type out.  I'll post a flyer on here when I have it but there are a lot of big names that will be there this year.

5/23- 26/13 - Phoenix Comicon at Phoenix Convention Center

This is the 1st year Long Dog will have our own table so we are really preparing to have some great original art and a wide variety of print art available as well as onsite commissions and other goodies. 

-After May we shall see, there are a couple of other Cons I am considering but we will just have to see if I have the funds and time off of work for them.

So I dont know if any of you are on Instagram or follow me on there but I update that site with doodles, sketches, works in progress and finished art almost daily.   Since I don't want to post some of my bigger ideas yet, here are a few pictures I've done over the past month or so.  

Ok, so this is a finished one that will be a print soon.  Molly and the Night Owls

This is a contribution to the Warbirds of Wars book that will be coming out in May.  

Old Stuff

I recently bought a nice little file cabinet to keep most of my art organized.  I couldn't afford one of those nice big flat file systems but this one could at least keep all of my 20 x 14 or smaller stuff in a safe place instead of occupying a cramped portfolio or my floor.  So I had to actually dig through all my old portfolios and random piles of drawings today which was a fun experience.  I have art from high school all the way through what I'm doing now so it is interesting to see how I grew as an artist, then fall apart as an artist after college and to be where I am now.  

 It was interesting looking through my old prints that I did back in college; to look back at my artistic process and my frame of mind back then was kind of an eye opening experience.  I had an extremely dark sense of humor (still do, I just don't draw it), a lot of nudes (still draw those) and I was ok with experimenting on my intaglio plates and aquatints until I made the piece work or until I obliterated the plate.  I still experiment all the time with my style but not to the extent I used too.  If I had more time to play around in a studio maybe I would get that adventurous again... I don't see that happening anytime soon with my other obligations in life but one can always hope.

Here are some of the prints I dug up, none of these are the super dark or really offensive ones, just a couple of WWII prints and one of my prints from a hobo series I did.  Maybe one day post some of the dark social commentary but not today-

This is one of the ones I eventually destroyed the plate.  I believe this was the 3rd run on this plate.  The smoke the soldiers were running into definitely got too dark but I still liked this version.

This was watercolor I did soon after getting to Arizona, so around 2003/04 time frame.  Right before I quit pursuing an art career for a few years(bad decision on my end).   This was done during the time frame that I was obsessed with schematics and plaid.  Lots of fun paintings came out of that period.  I'm sure I'll revisit that theme again...

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And this was my drawing of the day.  I've found this little app the other day that has all these random poses for the iphone.  It's great because it has all the musculature mapped out correctly and I'm always in need of anatomy practice so thats what this one is.  I would normally post drawings of the day on Instagram but I think they frown on nudity and I don't feel like getting banned.  This was about 45 minutes total, 2h, 2b, 4b pencils- 

Whats Going On

Whew, sorry for the long delay in posts!  I assure you, I have been working very hard on some new paintings and I also potentially have earned my 1st professional gig for the big boys in comics.  (my Instagram account, longdogart usually has daily updates of my scribble, some even get finished!)  So here is the rundown of whats going on, new pictures and a lengthy rambling about my love of the band Between the Buried and Me and their influence on my life in general.
So for those of you wondering what I have been working on I'll show you some sneak peeks of finished paintings that most likely become prints for Phoenix Comicon or Vista Production Group.  Just about everything I've done lately has been on my own creation Space Girl Molly (whom I wish to have an actual story out for soon, even if it is a tiny ash tray) and a few licensed characters.  Here are some of these finished images-

Space girl Molly, watercolor on hot press paper

Atom Eve, inks.  will be digitally painted

Recently I completed a try out as a colorist for one of the best coloring companies in all of comics.  I passed the 1st stage of the try out and if all goes well with the next few pages I'm assigned I will be painting for the biggest companies and the biggest books in the industry.  I will post more about who this is with and what books once i know more about where I stand but needless to say, I'm very excited about this opportunity.

So anyone that has had the misfortune of discussing music with me for the past 8 years or so knows my Between the Buried and Me obsession.  If you don't know who they are go here http://www.betweentheburiedandme.com/ and just listen.  Or go to Youtube.  Or better yet just go buy Colors and Parallax 2 to support the band and free your mind.  Seriously, go turn off everything, put on some headphones and just experience masters of their craft work.  They fall into many genres but I tend to think of them as the King Crimson of prog metal.  Or King Crimson with blast beats.  They aren't for everyone but if you like heavy music and you don't listen to BTBAM then I'm sorry, you know nothing  John Snow... Anyways-  I listen to them daily and enjoy all of their albums but their newest masterpiece, Parallax II Future Sequence has even influenced some of my art.  I doodle aimlessly at work quite a bit to keep in practice and all of sudden I was adding owls into my compositions.  The Night Owls to be exact, which are the all seeing all knowing menace in several of BTBAM's songs.  I fleshed one of my sketches out a bit one day and came up with this piece -

This is my version of the Night Owls, which I guess I should mention, are not my own creation and are probably copyright of BTBAM.

Of course I had Molly visit a moon the Owls were visiting in the final drawing.  This will also be painted in Photoshop soon and I'll post the final when I have it ready.

Ok, enough rambling for now, until next time-

Matt

The family and I finally got to go to another Comicon today, the Amazing Arizona Comicon.  It was great to see my friends and to get inspired by the great work everyone of them is creating at the moment.  After this weekend I will be completely focusing on my work for 2013 so hopefully I will have even more posts and pictures for all to enjoy.  Here is my most recent "finished work."  It's Molly with a whole bunch of flowers in her hair for on a Vista Production Group sketch cover.  I also have a whole bunch of random sketches posted on my Instagram @longdogart so let me know if you would like to purchase them.  This one is available for $40 so just message me if you would like to own it yourself!  More to come in a week, another big painting of space girl Molly and maybe some other "big" news.  

2013 So far and upcoming...

Hello everybody! Happy Belated New Year!  As usual I'm behind in my updates and posting art. I blame the holidays and the day job for my tardiness.  And new video games...
As for Long Dog Art news, we will have a table at Phoenix Comicon 2013 and I'll will have some Con exclusive prints available soon for the show.  Erin and I also have been working on a children's book that we hope to have out sometime this year and trying to get a story for Space Girl Molly hashed out.  I'll keep you posted on how thats going.  I also have a few other "secret" projects that I'll be working on with some fellow artists so more to come on that when things are getting ready to come out.  Also, I'm sure I will have other Vista Production Group projects coming up this year as well.  Even with all this I do still have time for commissions so if you want anything please send me an email to longdogart@gmail.com and let me know what I can do for you.  

 Here are a few of the drawings and paintings I've worked on in the past few weeks.  Some were big projects, others just quick practice paintings.

Mockingbird in costume redesign

Nude watercolor, painted after using a quick gesture pose website

Watercolor for my cousin Christie, reference from one of their wedding photos

More costume work for Molly, all watercolor, new face that i don't like as much... so that won't be used...

Mist writing... was originally drawn at the day job, painted at home.

For Vista Production Group print.  This will be available soon

Powergirl practice

Boba Fett Step by Step

Hello Everyone,

So what I have for you today is the step by step process I used for my most recent commissioned painting.  A friend of mine wanted a big action shot of Boba Fett looking awesome, so I did my best to achieve that... This painting is big, one of the biggest watercolor paintings I've ever done to be honest.  I usually keep my paintings small and in odd sizes, just to make it fun for me come framing time... Anyways, its a 20 x 24 inches watercolor on Arches Rives BFK 140lb printmaking paper.  I remembered (at least I think I remembered) that paper always held up well to heavy water saturation from my printmaking days and I felt like experimenting.  I will let you all decide if you like it or not but I feel it actually turned out pretty nice. So here we go-

Initial quick sketch of the pose.  I found an awesome reference photo on a stock site of a woman jumping back shooting guns.  So I just adjusted the anatomy to a mans and made it Boba.  Easy peasy.  I wanted a shot of Boba hovering in the sky shooting out at the viewer.

I taped up the paper to my masonite drawing board and finished the drawing on the easel so I could actually see what I was doing.

Close up.  This was drawn in 2h and hb lead pencils.

I decided to make this a gun fight happening on Tatooine, with lasers all over and the Millenium Falcon and a Star Destroyer far above in the sky.  So this image is the 1st application of paint.  I soaked the paper and just steadily kept dabbing in the yellow/ brown colors the give an effect of a hot, dusty desert scene.  

So I skipped ahead a bit but I started to add in the colors for his armor and gauntlets.  Obviously in some areas I even added in some of my shadows and details.  

More detail!  Lasers and muzzle flashes added.  The MF and Star Destroyer painted in using some atmospheric perspective to try and show that high above in the distance.

The feet and the fire and smoke from Boba's rockets are added in.  More detail!  And it's finished...