One of my regular clients, for whom I do character design work, is currently producing one of his comics with a page artist. But he’s preparing to begin another one, also in the same genre sphere: Star Wars meets Star Trek with some adventure, some auto-biography and some humor. He’s looking for artists who are able to produce inked pages with text, from his script.

I’m still not taking on sequential work (I have enough on my plate with Finit-e) but I told him I’d extend the offer to the gang here at R3. If you have an interest, he’s paying $50/page, and it will be a small press/self-published book which you can add to your portfolio.

Email or PM me if interested and I’ll connect you up. Please have sequential samples ready.

Good luck, yall.

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Oni Press is engaged in another talent search and who knows, YOU could be the next Oni star! Certainly won’t hurt to look through it, and it beats going to cons with your portfolio cold. It ALWAYS helps to know your audience.

Here’s the press release from their site:

” Following the rousing success of 2005’s Oni Press Talent Search, the boys and girls here at W.H.O.O.P.s (World Headquarters Of Oni Press) are at it again with an all-new storytelling challenge! With Comic-Con International just around the corner, Oni Press is pleased to announce that we are once again giving artists an opportunity to show off their skills. In order to have your portfolio reviewed by an Oni Press editor at Comic-Con you will need to illustrate one or more of the three scripts found on this page. Realizing that different artists are geared towards different subject matter, four different professional writers have developed three different five-page scripts, each one using a different genre and showcasing a different personal scripting style. The genres and authors are: (click the genre to download the script PDF for that story)

• “Noir” by Jen Van Meter (JSA Classified, Hopeless Savages)

• “Romance” by Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir (Past Lies, New X-Men)

• “Comedy” by Jim Massey (Death Takes A Holiday)

Last year’s Talent Search was a gi-normous success! With Oni Press examining hundreds of different artist samples, we were lucky to find several who were ready for a shot at comic book stardom. Joe Infurnari, resident of Brooklyn, NY and artist of the recently released graphic novella Borrowed Time, with writer Neal Shaffer, was one such artist who came to our attention through the talent search. Halifax, Nova Scotia’s own Mike Holmes was another. He’s collaborating with writer Ian Shaughnessy for a … Read on for more awesome…

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Hi, gang!

One particular question that NEVER seems to be addressed is of comic book page rates. Most companies don’t make them public and probably each professional artist has his own deal according to his contribution, reputation and the nature of each particular project. It makes sense that an artist like Alex Ross has a different page rate from Gary Frank -not saying one’s better than the other, only that they do different things and have different levels of popularity and recognition, but… there must be some standard? Opinons? Comments?

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This week’s Jam selection was… Popeye. Unexpected, to say the least. I chose to find left field, and then draw to the left of that. It’s no Ashley Wood, but hey. Hope you like it!

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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This week’s jam character in the This Week Jam is Warrior Woman, an obscure Marvel Nazi amazon type.

The early jam entries for the week were all so gorgeous, with really tantalizing versions of the character in various interpretations of retro latex betty villainy, that I decided to go a different route, and do a TRDL redesign of the character. I chose to re-envision her as a female Nazi supersoldier serum recipient, so I made her muscular, mannish and physically imposing. You’ll note a certain popular DC heroine in peril here. For Warrior Woman’s costume, I used my usual TRDL design logic, and introduced some vintage Third Reich imagery, but contemporary in execution, and focused on color relationship. I quite like it.

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While we’re at it, the original concept of this character, combined with my re-imagining of her origin and costume design, reminds me a lot of one of my other TRDL redesigns… of Wonder Woman: I gave her the terribly original title Wunderdame, and you can see this interpretation here:

http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/trdco … rdame.html

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I started learning inking with nibs and brushes round about ’94. I pretty quickly became a just brush inker. Then for a long time (hmm, six years?) I wasn’t inking anything at all, just pencilling.

Then recently I started inking some illos for a project, and got great (to me) results out of my nibs (hunts 102)

stuff like this (these are details only ’cause I can’t show the finished illos yet):

http://www.cheeseman-meyer.com/art/sket … monkey.jpg

http://www.cheeseman-meyer.com/art/sket … 1train.jpg

The ink flowed, the pen did what I wanted to, the line was flexible and expressive.

Then suddenly, it stopped working. The last three illos I’ve tried to ink I’ve given up in frustration, and finished in markers and brushes. The ink won’t come off my nib. It just stays there, no matter how much I overload it. Full nib of ink, seven or eight scratches into the paper before one of them lays down a line. Or I need to press the nib into the paper, count to three, then start drawing and that’ll get a line (usually). It’s the same stock of paper, same ink. Same nib (though I washed it) and have tried my other nibs with similar problems.

Anyone have any tips on how to alleviate this problem? It’s really making it impossible for me.

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The This Week jam’s character chosen at random for the jam was Barbarella, of film and comics legend.

I almost didn’t get one in this week, due to some minor surgery on my drawing hand, which has been stitched up inconveniently tenderly. Ha. But Friday evening I was feeling like I had enough mobility to have a go at it, and penciled and inked it forthwith, with colors done tonight. However, the line quality does suffer despite the effort, I’m afraid. I couldn’t decide between two great outfits Fonda wore, and so ultimately I decided to give both a go. Hope you like it!

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This is Bette Bellwether, of the Liberty Group.

Concept and Art: Thom Chiaramonte
Abilities and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Bette Bellwether

Name: Bethany Brook
Affiliation: Liberty Group

Melee: 20
Reflex: 30
Muscle: 20
Vigor: 10
Acumen: 30
Observation: 10
Will: 30

Life: 80
Influence: 70

Abilities:

Force Field: Bellwether’s chestplate hides a low-frequency vibration modulator, which dynamically adjusts the harmonic frequency of physical impacts. This, combined with the armor’s natural physical protection, allows her to deflect most strikes with considerable success, making them appear to glance off of her body with little or no effect. In all but direct hits (Orange Attacks) the damage inflicted in physical attacks is halved. Her armor does not carry it’s own body armor value, and any damage is applied directly to her Life. If she takes more than 75% of her current Life in damage in a single attack, the modulator will malfunction and will require repair in order to restore this functionality.

Suggestion: Bellwether’s abilities are latent, not a product of enchanted objects, as advertised. She harbors a powerful suggestion ability [50 IV] which is normally utilized in close, personal contact, affecting individuals one-on-one. They must make a Will Action vs. her Power’s Intensity Value or become strongly susceptible to her manipulation: sexual, intellectual or emotional. Her instruments were developed to help her channel her suggestive capabilities, which travel with her voice, into an aural-based area-effect weapon. There is nothing significant about these specific instruments that allows her to use them effectively, other than extensive training. She could theoretically use any non-electronic sound-projection tool to accomplish similar, if less acute, results. It should be noted that Bellwether’s abilities have no effect if electronically recorded or amplified.

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