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So along with the sketchbook and prints I'll have on hand for sale, I'll bring some original artwork as well.  Not all of it will be Transformers, or even Hasbro related, but the bulk of it sure will be!

Here's an 11x17" marker and pen sketch of ol' Buckethead.

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The last of the sketchbook images I'll post, including an example of the quick sketch I'll provide if you choose that sketchbook option.

BotCon is awarding hourly door prizes during the show, and this is one of the items I'm donating, my sketchbook with an Animated Prime sketch on the inside cover.  And then, of course is the first page of the book, Optimus Primal breaking through with some whupass.

First time EVER, for drawing Prime as either of these two versions in the canon.

The other door prize giveaway I'm donating is a print of my Animated Ironhide.  Now you might say, big deal, I can just get one at your table if I don't win - but no, Transfans - I'm just selling the Red version of Ironhide.  The door prize is a special 1/1 print of the Silver Indestructible Animated Ironhide!  I ran a single print, specially for BotCon.

All right, that's enough images shown from the sketchbook, now you gotta come down to Pasadena and get one!  Next week I'll post some other goodies I dug up from the flat files, to have on hand for sale next weekend...

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More Ninja?  Allow me to put my chocolate in your peanut butter, and feature over a crossover match-up from the sketchbook.  Snake Eyes vs. Ravage.

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Look out!  Ninja!

Another image from the sketchbook...

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Another sketchbook image, Movie Sideswipe.  To date, probably my favorite movie character design...

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This week I'll feature some of the sketches from the sketchbook...starting off with one of the more strange ones.  I'd already done an Arcee, and also a Nightbird, and I wanted at least one more female character to have in the book.  I know there's more out there, but I figured I'd try something a little more conceptual - what if? style.

What if Transformers was a girls line, and Cybertron was like an Amazonian type planet, ala Wonder Woman?  I give you Soundwave and Shockwave - the Wavettes.

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Prime.  Optimus Prime.

This is the painting I created for the cover of my sketchbook for BotCon - I had posted the sketch for it a couple months ago, one on a pile of many scribbled out when I was kicking around the idea of actually getting a table at the convention.  Like I posted the other day, it's acrylic/airbrush and colored pencils, 12x18 inches.

Of course, this is a work in progress blog, so below are the gory details...

This is a shot of the under drawing, blowing up the original sketch, and getting a paint pass, with black acrylic to deepen the blacks.

I wanted to try something wispy and ethereal  for the background - as always I try to do a little experimentation with every piece.  I got it to a black and white stage I was happy with, and prepped it for color.

I had matted out Prime from the background, and painted both separately, and then when back for a third pass with the shadow colors to help bring the whole thing together.  And then it was on to pencils and paint touch-ups for the final, posted above.