This was done both as a New Years pic for Third Rail but also for the NYE Celebration jam. I think I have been waiting my whole comic-reading life for Rogue to have a costume so aesthetically pleasing, in other words, fly. I love it to death. Acuna! Anyway, we hope you and yours have a great New Years and an exciting year to follow…

Process notes:

Here’s pencils:

And inks:

Expanded with Background work:

Finished inks:

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You can find a larger version here.

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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Hi all
It’s smooth sailing through the end of 2010, I wish for us all. More eggnog!

We’ve made four holiday pin-ups again this year, featuring characters from the Third Rail Design Lab Mythology…

This one’s Shanghai Kellie, drawn by me!
This is a first look, as she hasn’t been published and won’t be seen until our new sourcebooks come out.
Please enjoy!

You can see a high rez version here:

http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/rimag … 9_sk_z.jpg

You can also see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

Cheers!
Thom and Joao

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Hi all
chestnuts roasting, literally or metaphorically, I wish for all of you!

We’ve made four holiday pin-ups again this year, featuring characters from the Third Rail Design Lab Mythology…

This one’s Miss Jaguar, drawn by Joao.
You’ve seen Miss Jaguar on the TRDL Illustration Site previously, but she’ll be in the new sourcebooks sporting a redesign, for science!
Please enjoy!

You can see a high rez version here:

http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/rimag … 9_mj_z.jpg

You can also see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

Cheers!
Thom and Joao

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Hi all
I hope you have visions of sugar plums… well, however you want to interpret THAT…

We’ve made four holiday pin-ups again this year, featuring characters from the Third Rail Design Lab Mythology…

This one’s Synergene, drawn by me.
This is a first look, as she hasn’t been published and won’t be seen until our new sourcebooks come out.
Please enjoy!

You can see a high rez version here:

http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/rimag … 09_s_z.jpg

You can also see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

Cheers!
Thom and Joao

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Hi all
hope you survived 2009, have a good holiday and loo forward to 2010!

We’ve made four holiday pin-ups again this year, featuring characters from the Third Rail Design Lab Mythology…

This one’s Ladybird, drawn by Joao.
This is a first look, as she hasn’t been published and won’t be seen until our new sourcebooks come out.
Please enjoy!

You can see a high rez version here:

http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/rimag … 09_l_z.jpg

You can also see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

Cheers!
Thom and Joao

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This is a special holiday-themed jam. As the season’s holidays are wrapping up, I thought since we usually keep holiday-timed jams current for a few weeks, anyway, why not aim for the next holiday, so we have some topical illustrations to share with the rest of the interwebs.

The theme of this jam is New Years Eve. You know, take a character or scene you like, give it a New Years Eve celebratory twist, and have fun with it.

Happy holidays, all!

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Hey, for those of you that have befriended me and Joao on Facebook, go to there, and become a fan of Third Rail Design Lab, the page now dedicated to, well, TRDL. We will post news about upcoming releases, art and the weekly R3 Illustration Jam there, so when you link to it in FB it’s a way to get the word out to others.

Spread the word!

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So we have a tradition, where we each buy an ornament for our tree so that by the time wee Z can appreciate them, there will be some interesting ones up IN there. This was started the year of her conception, so this is our second year of collecting.

I scored the limited edition Iron Man ornament from Hallmark, from 2008. SOLID!

But then, while I was carrying it into the house, Z gave a good Curly Kick and I dropped him.

I really hope this isn’t an omen about IM2.

Anyway, I have to spray paint him gunmetal anyway, so I’ll glue it right up. (We have a grey/white/metal colorscheme going on the ornaments, because we’re dorks.)

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Looks like this week’s R3 Illustration Jam is the ever lovin, ever livin blue-eyed Thing, from the Fantastic Four. Any version, so go nuts!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_%28comics%29

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I could have sworn I posted this already, but this was our TRDL Helloween 2009 pic. This year, Joao and I each chose a monster or halloween-ish themed mainstream character. I drew Ghost, and Joao drew Vampirella. I put together the background digitally. I think my favorite detail in the whole thing are the wyrms carrying housepets away. But hey!

Process notes:

Here’s a detail of Ghost’s face:

Here’s Joao’s Vampi coming together:

Here’s the build-up of the background:

And here’s the sepia variant:

I tried to do a creepy old sepia type image for this, which was in fact, the root concept, like it was an old placard from an archive discovered in a collection of lost manuscripts or what have you. The background certainly speaks to it. However, true sepia wasn’t working for me due to the medium tones of the two man characters (one is all white and flesh, and the other a lither red, and flesh again… just didn’t punch enough)… I tried a version with color but muted, which is shown below. Ultimately, though, I liked full color for the main figures the best, and thats what we went with.

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You can find a medium version of this pic here and a large version here.

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