H O N 02 130112 - 13:55.0

[960x540 - 54.38MB 02:25min Music: DIZZIE GILLESPIE 'The Champ' - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board]

Second video. I promise I will learn how to center the damn camera for the next installment. 


Promise.

I hope everyone made it through Friday the 13th. 

Eric.

H O N 01 110112 - 13:33.9

[960x540 - 55.13MB 02:25min Music: BLACK KEYS 'Next Girl' - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board]

So..How was everyone's holiday? Good, I hope.

My Christmas and New Years was spent working away until all hours of the night and early morning. Hooraay! I've been so busy, in fact, that I've managed to neglect this little blog of mine since I got back from Lucca, Italy of 2011 - evidence being the last uploaded image. 

I'm ashamed.

That said, I'm going to start updating again. But this time, considering I'm working on A LOT of different projects that won't allow much time for the extracurricular drawings I used to be able to do - which I then used to continuously update this blog - I will just upload videos of my projects' drawings as I finish them. Make sense? A panel here, a section of a page there - anything to put up new content. (*Note to my Editors: I'm not gonna spoil your books. I swear.)

Be forewarned: There will not be any fancy-schmancy editing in these upcoming videos - just whatever iMovie and time will allow. The most complicated will probably be like the footage above, which has been heavily time-lapsed so's I don't bore the sh*t out of you with 13:00+ minutes of real time drawing. That, and also to keep you from hearing my near-perfect rendition of Celine Dion's 'MY HEART WILL GO ON' as I sang it while I drew that panel.

Yeah, I said it: Near-perfect.

Eric.

TEKKAMAN, CASSHAN & POLYMAR_commission

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

This was such a challenging monster to draw because of its dimensions. Also, when the fellow asked me to draw the trio, I had no idea who the character was on the far right. And when I mentioned to them I was uninitiated to the cartoon that's based on this character, they looked at me like I had just fallen out of an alien space ship. Seriously - I had no clue.

Later on, I found out through FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA that his name is 'HURRICANE POLYMAR'. What?!

Anyhoo... when I previewed the image on my TWITTER account earlier last week, even more Italians got excited at seeing only the first two characters (the ones I'm actually familiar with) - TEKKAMAN and CASSHAN.



Hm. Who knew? Apparently, the Italians love them some old school anime. Respect.

IVY_commission

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

TANK GIRL_commission

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

FOTO - LUCCA COMICS & GAMES 2011_update

'FOTO' - A Collection of Art by Eric Canete (2011)   8.5 x 8.5 in (21.6 x 21.6 cm) - Full color cover, full color interior pages on vellum, heavy stock. 64 pages. €25.00+ shipping and handling. Available at Lucca Comics & Games 2011, exclusively from Lateral Studio.

On October 28th to November 1st, I will be attending LUCCA COMICS & GAMES 2011.

And the people who are responsible for inviting me to experience such an exciting event (not to mention the ones who'll be responsible for curbing my embarrassing tendencies) are Messrs. ALESSANDRO VITTI and ELIA BONETTI - both of whom are part of LATERAL STUDIO. They were kind enough to publish a book featuring my grey marker illustrations and I will be at their table at specific times the entire weekend of the convention, signing and drawing sketches for those who are kind enough to visit.

(It should be noted that I've never included my grey-tone marker sketches in any of my previous books - not even in monster that is ENCORE. And as per my agreement with Alessandro and the guys at Lateral, no incarnation of this book nor its contents will ever be published elsewhere except through his company. 'Exclusive to Lateral' means they get the goods. Exclusively.)

So, yeah. I'm going to go and make a complete fool of myself on a whole different continent.

Anyhoo.

'FOTO' is a collection specially designed for Lateral to debut at Lucca Comics & Games, and afterwards to be distributed for the European market exclusively. Simply put, it won't be available anywhere here in the US. But if you'd like to get your hands on a copy, please feel free to click the link above and contact Lateral Studio directly - I'm sure they'd be more than happy to send out a copy to you (with the proper international S&H charges, of course).

I would like to thank all of you in advance for taking the time to drop by and say 'Hello!' at the show. I'd like to warn you now that my Italian is piss-poor at best. And at worst, it's gonna get me to accidentally donate my liver and then drafted onto a ship full of Spanish pirates. That said...

"Grazie mille, i miei amici. Yo tengo un gato negro in mi pantalones."*

*Only a part of that gratitude is applicable, Italia. The other part is just nonsense or a weird pick-up line for those same Spanish pirates.

ABE_commission

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

I, SPY_commission

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

DEATH_commission

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

EVIL-LYN_commission

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

GALACTUS_commission

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

PSYLOCKE_commission

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

THE GOON_commission

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

ENCORE - NYCC 2011_update

  

'ENCORE' - NYCC 2011

Full color clamshell w/ spot UV accents. Hardcover cover interior book, full color cover w/ spot UV accents - 11 x 13.5 x 2". 356 full color pages. $100.00USD. Limited to 1,000 copies.

This book will be first made available at NEW YORK COMIC CON 2011, at Booth M13. And if you're up for a challenge and building some muscle mass (the book weighs around 8 pounds - which is about 3.6 kilos to the European contingent), please drop by and get a copy for yourself. It will be my great pleasure and honor to meet all of you in attendance.

A special thanks to all those who've contributed to the making of this art book. It would not look as polished nor as impressive without your generosity and support of my work. I owe you kind folks many great thanks.

Another exemplary individual who deserves my utmost gratitude and respect - an individual whose keen eye for color the clamshell of this book made it look as good as it does - is the very tireless, very patient, and very talented TONY WASHINGTON. He is a true professional who not only helped to add the beautiful colors on the first image you see above, but also delivered it in such short notice that I'm beginning to suspect that he's actually less human and more like a painting super machine. Thanks, Tony. I have your copy waiting.

Finally, I'd like to offer up my eternal gratitude to AMANDA LI - the person directly responsible for formatting, assembling, and designing this entire monstrosity of a volume. She not only had to deal with me and my art, but also had to engross herself with the business of printing - from double-checking proofs of the book, to addressing and amending any and all notes/concerns about the book during pre-press (and post-press, for that matter), to fielding and answering a whole set of incidental yet important questions that a first time publisher has to deal with. She did it all with style and it wouldn't have been as impressive a product without her artistic touch. Thanks, Amanda. You're all class.

Hope you all have an enjoyable week.

Eric.

THE MORNING AFTER?_update

[12 x 9" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on bristol board]

It could be argued that if I don't like it, then I don't necessarily need to read it. That's very valid.

Ah. Fanfic porn. I love you.




PS - I think I did it wrong; I actually showed her face in the first panel instead of just... you know... not.

ALICE & COMPANY_kickstarter

[8.5 x 11" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on bristol board, PS/CS 4]

One of the limited edition prints to be included in 'Encore', as part of the KICKSTARTER reward for supporting my new art book.

This image was beautifully, digitally rendered by designer and environment painter, AMANDA LI.

FAIRY QUEST_update

[14 x 17" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board]

When HUMBERTO RAMOS (a luminary artist, illustrator of the highest kind) asks you to contribute to his upcoming, self-published book called 'FAIRY QUEST', you not only say 'Yes!', you try to not look foolish next to all the other people he's asked to be in the book with you. Couple that with the fact that Humberto has drawn some of his best sequential work ever, and it's not surprising that it turned out to be a pretty nerve-wracking experience for me.

Anyway, here was my offering.

I am proud and honored to be part of of the book and I will never be able to thank Humberto for thinking of me and including me in his most recent, exciting venture. I am so very lucky.

If you are interested in the book - I understand that it's in very high demand and in very short supply - you can order a copy for yourself by writing to this e-mail address: culturevandal@hotmail.com.

Have a great week, all.

VICTOR_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

"Think of it--- To never again walk upon a summer's day with a hot wind in your face and a warm hand to hold. Oh, yes, I'd kill for that."

MOLOTOV_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

LASER ZEPPELIN AT THE PLANETARIUM

STEVE_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

"When Captain America throws his mighty shield, all those who chose to oppose his shield must yield.


If he’s led to a fight and a duel is due, then the red and white and the blue’ll come through


When Captain America throws his mighty shield."

PETER_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

"Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web, any size, catches thieves just like flies. 
Look Out! Here comes the Spiderman. 


Is he strong? Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood. 
Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead 
Hey, there! There goes the Spiderman. 


In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime. 
Like a streak of light, he arrives just in time. 


Spiderman, Spiderman, friendly neighborhood Spiderman. 
Wealth and fame, he's ignored. Action is his reward. 


To him, life is a great big bang up, whenever there's a hang up, 
You'll find the Spider man."

ELEKTRA_commission

[10 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

Commissioned image for a birthday gift. The original made itself all the way to Italy.

Pretty cool, man.

LARA_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

I've never played this game extensively. 


Actually, my first thought was to type "I've never understood the appeal of this character."


Then I looked at the image again.

HIGH COST OF LIVING_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

VADER_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

“Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."

"SOMETHING, SOMETHING...ENEMIES..."_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

"..something, something...lamentation of their women."



PS - As a kid, I used to think he said 'lamination of their women' - which seemed more painful-er.

BLACK CANARY_kickstarter

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

Another random image to be included as a reward for KICKSTARTER art book, 'ENCORE'.

KICKSTARTER_update

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

Some original images to be included as part of the rewards given to backers of the KICKSTARTER program for my forthcoming art book 'ENCORE'.

More to come later. Please stay tuned, and thank you for your continued patience.




PS - It's been brought to my attention that there are those who have asked about requesting specific character images for their reward. Sadly and respectfully, the answer must be "No." Honestly, it'll just be too difficult for me to provide that option for everyone. I am grateful for all the kind, generous and supportive patrons who have contributed to financing the production of the book. But as it is, this project is already a coordination challenge for me with all the new art I have to generate coupled my current workload and deadlines. And if I were too add trying to accommodate specific requested images... well, I hope you can sympathize with my situation.

So, the plan is to draw random images and distribute them just as randomly.

My sincerest thanks to all of you for your understanding and participation. I promise you that I will do my very best to give you something you can be proud of, and I swear I'll try to not draw a stinker.

Key word: Try.

CHAMPAGNE, RED SHOES_commission

[10 x 14" - red pencil, brush pen & COPIC marker on sketchbook paper]

SERRA, KOJ, JAREK_90 minutes

[9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board] 

Sometimes, there is nothing left to do but wait.

But if we are lucky, we can wait in a field of fireflies. 

GATCHAMAN JUNE_commission

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board] 

Forgot to upload this one from SDCC.

Looking back, I realized a lot of people asked me to draw women characters at that show. Which is surprising on multiple levels, not the least of which is the fact that I draw females terribly. Also, I've never thought of myself to be the 'T&A' type artist guy.

And in keeping with that line of thinking, I drew June with her skirt up so's you can see her panties - because as you know, that's neither 'T' nor 'A'.

Enjoy.

PS - I just referred to myself as an 'artist'; that statement is technically wrong and gross on a sleazy car salesman wearing obnoxious amounts of 'Old Spice' or 'Brut' aftershave level.

SDCC_commissions

 [9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

 [9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board] 

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board] 

 [9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

 [9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

[11 x 14" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen on 300lb bristol board] 

 [9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

 [9 x 12" - blue pencil, brush & technical pen, COPIC marker on 300lb bristol board]

This was a large convention. I didn't suffer much. There were a lot of people.

I am understating things a bit.