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When I was looking at all of the MarsCon work I have posted I realized that I had never ever posted an image of the promotional poster that my husband Joe and I did from way back. There was a lot of work and many elements of drawing that went together to make both the promotional poster and the convention book/t-shirt design. So here they are....Text has been added to the designs by our wonderful contact for MarsCon, Kristy.

This is the promo poster that Joe and I did earlier in 2010 to advertise for MarsCon. It is a version of the poster before text was added.

Poster with Text.

For this design I drew the princess, mermaid, fairies, castle and background. Joe drew the sorceress, wizard, snarky, and the frog. Everything was a separate element that was inked by Joe. We scanned in each character and put everything all together and colored it on the computer. After we finished the poster we sent it off to Kristy for approval. She then added all of the information like the title, important people, and the website www.marscon.org/2011

Here is the t-shirt design that I debut in a previous post.

Here the text has been added and notice our signatures underneath our characters!

For the t-shirt design I drew the princess, fairies and trees. I then inked the trees while Joe drew the sorceress. He continued to ink his character, the fairies, and my princess. We then scanned everything into the computer, put it together, and colored it on photoshop.

I am so proud of all the work that Joe and I did. Working together was a wonderful experience and many thanks to Kristy again for making all of the text look fabulous!

The great Ozma of OZ

This is one of the fabulous women that I drew over November and I am so very pleased with how she turned out. A friend of mine Kelly Brown is working on a comic series called Woe is Oz. He has asked a few artists to draw characters from the series, bringing their own style to each piece. The character that I was asked to draw is a grown up version of princess Ozma.

This is the final image, except the real one doesn't say pixiegirl studios. I have been drawing figures rather large lately and had to scale down my sketch to fit it on a sheet of 14x17 bristol. The drawing is in graghite, which I chose to pencil really darkly so it would look as if it was inked.

I have always loved the character of Ozma and I wanted to think of just the rite way to draw her to do justice to the lovely original inks by John R. Neil and of course the re-imagining of her character in Woe is Oz. I wanted her to look modern but still Victorian and definitely stylized with a teeinsie waist and large head. In my original sketch I had thought to do a background and border that would be a mirror showing her hands behind her, holding her staff. Perhaps a future painting is in order?!

This is my original little sketch on a scrap sheet of paper drawn in pen. I love sketches, they have so much energy!

 To find out more about artist Kelly Brown visit his site at  www.kellybrownillustration.com
To find out more about the ongoing comic book series Woe is Oz visit www.woeisoz.com

In November and December

It has been a very long time. i don't like long times apart but it gives stories to tell and so many things to say. I have often wondered where to start again though. Do I go on about things that happened in the last bits of the old year? I think just a little bit maybe and then I can be free to contemplate all the wonderful new-ness that the this year will bring....

I left off with the suka free art sale that my husband Joe and I participated in. It was particularly snowy that weekend but we were grateful to everyone that had the opportunity to come visit us. Joe and I were also very happy with how our artwork looked displayed together on the walls and our tables. We had a cheerful time in the warm indoors meeting new people and reminiscing with old friends.

This is Joe and I standing in front of our artwork from the Sucka Free art sale.

Again this is our set up from the sale. We had a computer in place for any paypal purchases and had books on one table and prints and buisness cards on another.

Threwout the rest of November and into December my husband Joe and I worked on a very large project for the MarsCon sci fi fantasy convention this March. We have already done a promotional poster which included characters that will be featured on the convention badges. This time we have finished the design that will be used for the convention booklet as well as t-shirts. All that is left is some line work pieces for the book, which I am eager to start.

This is the newest MarsCon illustration that Joe and I did together. We are very very happy with how it turned out. This is the image that will be on t-shirts as well as the convention booklet. The princess and sorceress were characters we made up and introduced in the promo poster.

Although I have shown you the t-shirt design for MarsCon, I am currently getting some images ready to post to show you how the final image came together, as well as an ilustration I finished up in November of Ozma of Oz......!!

To find out more about the 2011 MarsCon convention please visit their site www.marscon.org/2011/index.php
To see the artwork of Joe Rheault visit his sites at  www.dirtyinks.blogspot.com and www.dirtyinks.deviantart.com