Oooooh!!! Scary Daily Sketch.

I am gearing up for the Game Summit in Gatineau, near Ottawa this weekend. I am looking forward to it. But  with my mind focused on this event, I forgot to add my Daily Sketch yesterday. I drew a ton... But I did not post. That is the slippery slope that I am trying to avoid. So tonight, I am posting two drawings instead of one. Hope you like them. Some pencils and markers.

Let me know what you think.

JJ Abrams is set to direct the next Star Wars movie. Okay but...

Gloomy Kid in a Colourful World

Here is today's Daily Sketch. Messing with colour.

Just your typical mutant worm attack. Enjoy today's daily sketch.

City dwelling monster

City dwelling monster visits his little buddy in today's Daily Sketch.

Here is today's Daily Sketch. Silhouettes are AWESOME!!

Today’s Daily Sketch is a silhouette sketch. I LOVE doing these. I find that they tend to be story driven and are great at getting your imagination involved. That’s about it for today. See you all tomorrow with a new one.

Doodled Character Designs

I am feeling a little bit ill today. So my daily sketch is incomplete. SO... this is awkward... Instead, I am submitting this set of symmetrical character design doodles that I did with Sketchbook Pro.

A scifi Scene based off of a photo I saw of dusty, sunny back lit ranger on a horse. If you know the source photo, please let me know and I'll add the info here.

I like the part in a story where there is discovery that will launch an adventure. Whether it is the secret map in Goonies, a ring in LOTR or that book in Never Ending Story. It’s great to have your imagination fly with possibilities at the start of a journey. 

So this is what I did for today’s (hey it is the third one straight!) Daily Sketch. 

What do you think?

Singing Bird

What? Two posts in two days?? Let's see how long I keep this up. :)

Here is tonight’s Daily Sketch. This is inspired by a photo I saw online. Please tell me the source if you know it…It is of a bird that seems to meet his fate like this one. I thought it would be funnier if it was a Disney-esque bird about to launch in song. 

I want to make an effort to post more stuff here. I am drawing all of the time yet can never take the few minutes to post anything. I have to work on that. Please feel free to comment/guilt me into posting more. :)

Here be robots

I haven't posted in forever. Here is a robot!

Fan Expo Wrap Up

Hello Everyone,
On August 23rd at 5AM, my family packed up our van and headed for Toronto. Part of the reason was for a short family vacation in the Big Smoke. The other reason was to attend the Fan Expo as an exhibitor in Artist Alley.  
We got there okay and I set up my booth. I got to spend a day with each of my three daughters as we manned the booth and try to get some sales. 

I am happy to announce that we made enough to cover the table, the hotel, the trip, the food and the ridiculous amount of prints that I made for the event... plus... I got to buy and trade for lots of goodies.
I finally got to meet Bobbi Chiu and Marco Bucci http://www.marcobucci.com/ in person. That was fun. I got a few Bucci prints that will be in our office at the college shortly. 

I also met Esad Ribic. His original artwork was incredible. I only wish that I could have afforded an original piece. There were no prints. :( 

I also got a chance to meet and talk to Tony Moore https://www.facebook.com/tonymooreillustration , the comic book artist behind the Walking Dead. I got to give him a copy of my book, the Art of Richtoon and my Rick Grimes Print. He gave my daughter Catherine a cool zombie patch. I was hoping to get a Zombie Jaws poster that was excellent. But they were sold out by the time I git there. I did pick up the Michonne poster though. Very happy about that one.
I also met a fantastic artist by the name of Mike Boldt . I really enjoy his prints. I picked up four plus his sketchbook. You can see his work here:  http://www.boldtmanstudios.com/ 

Probably the highlight of the night for me was when I was tidying up the booth on Sunday and I heard. "I really like your stuff, man. It's really good" I turned around to thank the gentleman only to find out it was Aaron Douglas. He is a great actor, mostly known for his work on Battlestar Galactica.  I was in shock!  I told him how much I liked his character in the show and he said that he was in Toronto shooting Hemlock Grove. I offered him one of my books. And I was on cloud nine for about two hours after that. Here is a picture!! Woo-hoo!! 

Aaron even took the time to tweet and email me about the book. What a class act!

I have renewed the table for next August!

I will have to make other posts of all of the stuff I got and the pictures we took.

Later

What do I do now?

I think that I have too many sites. That's my opinion. And to be quite honest, I no longer know how to manage it all anymore. Let's see what I got for starters"

- There is this blog of course: http://richtoon.blogspot.com I haven't posted here in over a year.

- I have a DA account. http://richtoon.deviantart.com/ This is another place that I don't post a lot either. What do I post on the blog vs the DA site?

- The place I spend most of my time is probably on Facebook.https://www.facebook.com/rich.lauzon
I post the odd image here and there.

- I also am concentrating my drawing time on my webcimic, http://SpacePestRemoval.com  I also have a Facebook Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/SpacePestRemovalcom/206455429392681
I am just getting around to posting stuff in there. Not quite sure what yet... Mostly the odd creature doodle.
I even have a page for my book, the Art of Richtoon: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Art-of-Richtoon/162976880408841 Sadly, I haven't done anything in there.

I also have a twitter feed: https://twitter.com/RichLauzon I mostly post my links to the latest comic strips from Space Pest Removal.

And I now have an Etsy store too! Not really a social network thing/issue as a not so subtle announcement. http://www.etsy.com/shop/Richtoon

How am I supposed to juggle all of this?

Any suggestions would be awesome. This will be a multi-social-network-post.

Rich

A quick look back at last year and looking ahead

Well this has been a more hectic than usual year for me- in the best possible way.

I launched a book, the art of Richtoon, I've created a webcomic, http://spacepestremoval.com/, I've created a new program for the college, Introduction to concept Art - it has so much promiss with really amazing teachers... And the other program that I teach in, Pre-Animation and Illustration had grown to 4 groups... for a max of 120 students!

The college has also hired a new full timer for the program. I'm not sure if I can officially say who it is or not, but I am rediculously pleased with who got the job!

It has been a fantastic year and there is so much more to look forward to as well.

The webcomic is an on going project. Please check it out! It is facinating because it is a never ending work in progress. And as the comic matures, it will all be done online. I am really excited to see how it will grow.

There are many new plans for Pre-Animation and Illustration. I can't talk much about it at the moment but it is all really good news!

I guess that's it. I haven't posted a lot this summer... so I thought I'd post a fan favorite:



Have a great summer everyone!

Rich

My Calgary Experience

Hey everyone,

I have been busy with my new webcomic and the Calgary Con last weekend. That is where all of my drawing time has been spent.

If you are curious about my adventures in Calgary, please check out this link:   http://spacepestremoval.com/2011/06/21/my-calgary-comic-and-entertainment-expo-experience/
It also happens to be where my webcomic is. http://spacepestremoval.com/

Expect more activity here very soon.

Art of RIchtoon Book now available in these fine stores:

Hi Gang,

Even though the books are still available via this blog, you now can buy one in the following book stores:

Books on Beechwood 35 Beechwood Ave Ottawa

Collected Works 1242 Wellington Street West, Ottawa

More announcements coming soon!

Rich

PS I will also be going to the Calgary Comicon on June 17-19th

SPACE PEST REMOVAL

I have launched as of yesterday a new webcomic called Space Pest Removal. It is about 2 aliens and their SPR ship who have the mundane job of capturing all of the bugs and pests of the universe.
I am planning to post new stips each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I hope I can pull it off! There are already 21 strips up at the website http://spacepestremoval.com/

Take a peak! Let me know what you think!

Richtoon