Half Bad Ass/ Half Ridiculous

All villains must look half like a total  bad ass and half kinda stupid, that seems to be the rule- I mean look at Doc Oc or the Vulture or most of the villains in the DCU. I kept that in mind when concocting this bird of prey inspired armour.

This guy is from the THIRD book that I am finishing this month and sending to the printers so right now I will have three books available at TCAF (if I get accepted to TCAF of course) I figured it would be good to have more than one book available if I got a table and I think it will be very interesting to see which of the three titles is the most popular.

The Homeless G-Men proof is now going to print!

These are exciting times we live in, also be sure to head to the Cameron House (Toronto) to check out my show of paintings it will be up until the end of November. Check the Mad Craft Shoppe blog to have a look at some fine abstracts.

cheers, it is cold outside just ask my dog

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

 



Cover Sketch Process, Homeless G-Men #1

Here's a quick breakdown of the cover sketch. It's a very simple picture but still needed to be perfect, I've been struggling with the covers of two of the four books but I had to move on. I figured an images of the main G-Man and hero of the book would suffice for the first issue.

Top page is the first sketch, was pretty happy with it so moved onto cover weight paper and traced it on the light box and then (final photo) laid in the inks.

After this the drawing was scanned and then coloured and some of the blacks were touched up in Manga Studio 5 and then the lettering was added.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Homeless G-Men ready for proofing

After many, many sketches that used the whole cast of the comic ( none of which I was happy with) I reworked an older drawing of Swinnerton for the cover of the Homeless G-Men No.1.

I like it, I actually like using the while/red for the front and back covers. I'd thought of using black but it didn't fit. I think the blue buts up well with the red and white.

The pages are now in the capable hands of the folks at Print Ninja and I'll be seeing the final proof soon. Comics will be available in the New Year from me in person or you can head to my shop at storenvy (not open yet since I have no comics available to ship).

In the next two weeks I'll be finishing the third book and sending it off as well, I'll also be reorganizing the studio to make space for the stock that will be showing  up.

enjoy the Santa Claus parade

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Crypto-Zombic is off to the printers!

Very happy to announce that my first completed 32 page comic has been sent to the fine people at Print Ninja, I should be getting the preview copy on Monday (of course I spotted a typo after I sent it off) and I can't wait to sign off and sent it to press.

I'm allowing myself twelve hours off from work before getting to the next comic The Homeless G-Men, which has been drawn and coloured, I just need to add the text, that should take another week and then I'll be onto the THIRD comic which still needs a few pages drawn and coloured.

At this rate (and of course if I'm accepted) I will have three (and possibly a fourth) comic available for sale at TCAF in May 2015.

If you're interested in seeing some of my other work check out the mad craft shoppe in the links and you can see my show of paintings that is currently hanging at the Cameron House in Toronto for the month of November.

cheers!

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Detail Images From Three Books

Here are three detail images from each book that I think best sum up what each one is about.

Any queries or questions feel free to email me at madcraftshoppe@live.com or over on twitter at @madcraftshoppe

back to the boards

A.Shay  Hahn

Full Pages from three books looking great

Here's  a full page from each of the three comics I hope to have at TCAF (hope to have meaning I hope I get accepted, not hope to have finished) in May 2015 I'm really happy with the work. There are a few tweaks for each page still but that's fine I'm in a great place with the books, feels awesome.

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Inktober sketches

Inktober is a sketch event that runs for the month of October where pencillers are encouraged to practice their inking by inking a drawing a day and posting it over on twitter. I've done three sketches so far, which means I'm a few days behing, but I have good reason I've started scanning and colouring the second and third issues of Homeless G-Men and another title that I will talk about in posts later on. I'm going to colour these pics later on when I have some time

A.Shay Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com