Are your panels usually after dealers hours? I can't recall ever seeing your panel during a time that I could attend, because I would!

Hmm, last year it was like 3-4:30pm on Saturday, and the year before it was 9-11pm Sunday. So last year it was during dealer hours, and two years back it was after everyone had left the con, haha 9_9

Lol, that sucks! Hopefully it'll be after dealers hours this year, I'd love to go! It seems as though being a dealer, you miss out on all the fun panels and events :(

Yeah, but you also get cash money, so it's kind of a tossup, I guess? <3

Covers! Covers for graphic novels! Glad to hear you're going to FC, too! t's going to be my first fur con. :D I must come up to you and shake your hand for your bloody good work on Heathen City. :3 I'm sorry, I know I keep bringing that up, but it's one of the best goddamn covers I've ever seen. And the book won an URSA Award. You. Fucking. Rock.

I shall stop fanboying now. :P

But yeah, covers. :)

Hmm, I guess that would file under composition? Duly noted!

blending colors on curved surfaces would be cool

also defining edges without lines?

I know this kind of thing is pretty fundamental but I am having a devil of a time with em!

I'm with you on this one! Yes! Basic or not, core techniques are always something I like to see how others do.

Okay, that all seems to fall under a general heading of edge control, which is totally worth covering. Good call!

I really hope you'll be able to have your panel after Dealer's hours! :very happy: I was working the Furry Market, so I had to miss your panel last year. My husband got to attend, though, and taped it when you showed how you did the "shower scene" (miners getting clean after a hard day's work). He was the nerdy guy who helped you guys with your projector when it was being glitchy.

The hazards of high technology! And yeah, it'll be interesting to see when (if?) they manage to slot me in! Hopefully it'll be a good time for everybody.

Woot! I'll be looking forward to it! Always hunting up ways to improve my art/painting. >^__^<

I can't make it :(
But I'd love to see you do another tutorial! :)

Maybe next time!

I'd love to know how you make your paintings kinda like sketches or splotches... giving it a nice texture. Oh... and perspectives would be nice too ^^

Sketching technique and texture are two solid ideas.

By perspectives, I assume you mean drawing the figure from different angles as opposed to mechanical perspective drawing? Honestly, any time I want to draw a figure from any kind of nonstandard angle, I immediately turn to reference, whether it's photos or asking a friend to model. I wish I knew some trick to just knowing how the body works from different angles, but I pretty much have to check and see ^_^

They are? then there's not enough time to explain those two in one panel. *sweatdrops*

Yeah... ^^ sorry, should've cleared that one up. Yeah... I wish I knew some tricks too. Guess it's really basing it on actual reference then. I keep looking for a certain pose... the angle from below (kinda like a worms eye view) but my search was futile. I saw a few pics that could act as the pose that I wanted... but they are not the same in a lot of aspects. Do you have any websites you go to for poses and or references good sir?

Oh, I didn't mean that they couldn't both be touched on in the same talk. I mean, you could talk about both for hours and hours and still have more to cover, but that doesn't mean you can't just give a basic overview in a few minutes each ^_^

And for the really tricky perspectives and poses, I always go to my digital camera. You can scour the net for hours and never find just what you're looking for, so it's usually easier to just ask a friend to pose for a second while you snap a couple of photos. If you don't have a camera, they're available for quite cheap these days (and it's not like you really care about image quality, considering you just need to be able to see what's going on). I know it can be a little awkward to ask friends to pose (especially depending on the pose 9_9), but I find that people are usually game to help out <3

Ahhh... well, if that's the case then that's just fine with me then. Covering both topics would be of great help. Though I am not saying that those are the topics you should do.. just a suggestion. ^^

Ahh... that's right. I've been searching for several hours already for the "right pose" but it always have this anomally so to speak with the pose you are actually looking for. So, there's no other choise but the camera huh? I could try that. Too true... cheap ones would be fine... but if you are getting a camera... why not a better one for "other" purposes other than for art LOL... Oh... and yes... that would be very awkward. I tried the mirror thing... it's quite hard LOL Thanks for those wonderful insights... I'll make sure I take note of those ^^

I can NEVER make it to FC and this is one of probably 3 reasons I'd go at all. Is there anyway you can record the tutorial? I know you posted the how to before but seeing the person explain it in real time is always more helpful it seems.
Anyway a panel by you would be fab even if I didn't get to see it, i'm sure you'd be helping lots of folks out.

I'll try to look into recording options, but unfortunately I can't make any promises at the moment >_< At the very least, I'll put up a step-by-step slideshow like I did before.

hope so!

so i had a dream last night i was at furcon and i was desperately looking for your panel

Oh man! Well, hopefully there will be some clearer signage at the real deal <3

i suggest you conduct the panel under the influence of psychotropic chemicals

Drugs are like dreams, dude -- they're only interesting to the person experiencing them first-hand

and dreams are like snapshots: if i'm not in 'em, i'm not interested.

I'm usually happy so long as there's dick