Category — Chalk Art

This past weekend was the Big Apple Con in New York City, and I was in attendance creating another giant chalk art mural for the show. This time I was asked to recreate the cover of a Wizard Publication from 2003. The cover art was by both Joe Quesada and Jim Lee, and since these were the co-guests-of-honor at the convention it made perfect sense, so I set to work trying to do justice to the incredible art of these well known illustrators.

Hey everyone. If you haven’t heard, I am on the guest list and will be appearing at the Big Apple Con this October 16th through the 18th. What will I be drawing this time around? I don’t know yet, but I expect final art to come this week. I see that some of the guests of honor include Jim Lee and Joe Quesada, as well as Joe, Andy and Adam Kubert and even William Shatner, so I guess the sky is the limit when it comes to possibilities.

OK, this its TOTALLY cool. As I mentioned in my last post I recently appeared at the New York Anime Festival and created a 9 foot wide by 13 foot tall chalk art mural based on the Anime Soul Eater. The piece took 30 hours to make, and everyone seemed pleased with the end result. At the end of the show we were even able to stand the mural for a few hours so that everyone could get great pictures of it. You can see the photos of the progress and finished chalk art in my New York Anime 2009 Soul Eater Chalk Art Mural post here.

Hey everyone… I’ll be attending the New York Anime Festival this weekend, and over the course of the entire show I’ll be on the floor of the Javitz Center in Manhattan creating a giant chalk mural of art from the Anime Soul Eater. I am being brought by FUNimation, and will actually be set up right near their booth in the front of the hall.

I recently found another video from my appearance at the Chicago Comic Con. This is from the guys over at panelsonpages.com and to be honest 95% of it is about other things, I only appear briefly near the end… but their comment on my work is worth it, and might just become my new favorite catch phrase. Maybe I’ll even put it on my business card.

OK, so I am a little behind on this one, sorry… but I just found these videos online and I wanted to get them posted so you guys could see them.

OK, so a number of people were able to guess what the subject was for my chalk art mural at the Penny Arcade Expo this past weekend in Seattle. I was asked to make a piece of art for the upcoming Bioshock 2 from 2K Games. I was very excited for this opportunity not only because I had never attended PAX before and 2K is such a well known company, but also because it was my second chance to make a Bioshock chalk mural and I wanted to top the previous Wizard World Chicago 2007 Convention Bioshock Chalk Art.

So this upcoming weekend I will be appearing at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington. This is my first, and hopefully not last, appearance at Penny Arcade and I am greatly looking forward to hanging out at a convention with such a different vibe to it. Video games only get minor attention at most of my shows, but here it is front and center am I am really excited. There are sure to be amazing companies with killer games and there is quite the musical line up including Jonathan Coulton whom I highly suggest you check out for yourselves.

The fine folks over at Wizard have re-branded several of their conventions, and the formerly-known Wizard World Chicago is now the Chicago Comic Con. My very first convention appearance EVER was at Wizard World’s 10th Anniversary Chicago Convention in the summer of 2006. The 2009 Chicago Comic Con marked my 4th Chicago art appearance, and my 10th show with Wizard over all.

With Wizard World Chicago (now re-branded as the Chicago Comic Con) fast approaching, I thought I might take a few moments to catch up on some old posts regarding chalk art murals I made at previous Chicago Conventions. Two years ago I was asked to make two murals in the four day span of the show, one as an outdoor chalk mural on pavement, the other as indoor chalk art on paper at a booth on the show floor.