189 - Trying to get my G.E.E.K. on in a big bad way.

Don't want to be sharing out of school so all you get is a little snippet of the coloring I have done this week for the G.E.E.K. Kickstarter project. Which can be found HERE! The genius that is behind the podcast Bagged and Boarded Mr. Matt Cohen of SMOD Castle fame got an idea for a comic and put together a great team of Axel @pecks13 and Shawn @shawnwrites to help bring his dream of a comic to life. If you haven't checked out the Kickstarter click on that link above as of right now there is still 11 days to go and the project is about $2500 from funding. Being that close I'm really hoping it funds firstly because I want my copy of the book and the other great rewards I have pledged for, and secondly because it just looks like a great fun book. Seriously check out the pledge levels, Matt Cohen has some crazy cool and fun rewards on this super cool kickstarter.
The other reason that I am super excited to see this project not only fund but go above it's funding goal is the guys talked about getting a colorist to work on the book if the funding gets high enough. So I did the one thing I needed to do and hit the guys up on the twitters and facebooks and offered up my services as a colorist. I was sent a promo image that Axel had penciled and inked, to color, along with the other people that had shown interest in coloring the book. I finished my versions, yes versions, hopefully I didn't go overboard. I sent 3 different versions off to Shawns email this evening. Fingers crossed, at this point it is out of my hands.  Here's hoping they liked what I did and offer me the position. I'll be waiting nervously by the email box.

71 - The Flash with Black Dynamite or Why it's all Kevin Smith's fault!

These sketches are all Kevin Smith's fault, which I believe to be a good thing, but let me explain. I don't think I have ever brought any attention to the podcasts I listen to and thought now would be a good time.

My iPod is usually full of episodes downloaded from the SModcast Podcast Network that I listen to while at work mainly during the time that I am processing mail. These podcast make the day go by faster and they are extremely entertaining. SModcast with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier is the grand-daddy of them all, really entertaining stuff. Then there's Tell Em Steve Dave, Blow Hard, Plus One, Puck Nuts, Hollywood Babble-On, Jay and Silent Bob Get Old and the two that led to these sketches; Bagged and Boarded and Red State of the Union.

Red State of the Union is Kevin Smith's new class on film podcast that has been filled with great interviews with people that worked on the film Red State. If you really dig on film this is a great podcast to listen to and learn a bit about how this film was created. I just listened to the episode starring Kyle Gallner and enjoyed hearing all about this kids journey to Hollywood and his entry into the acting world. Kyle first caught my attention as he did a lot of comic fans when he appeared as Bart Allen a.k.a. Impulse on Smallville, great stuff. Listening to that episode I realized he was also in Jennifer's Body and the new Nightmare on Elm Street remake, whether or not you think they were great movies I enjoyed them and Kyle put together some cool character work in these. Now he's playing what sounds to be an integral role in Red State which I can't wait to see. I tried a quick sketch last night of a picture I found of Kyle Gallner and have to say I like the sketch but I don't think I got even a bit of the likeness. But 15 minutes with a pen and I did end up with a pretty good head shot, the proportions came out to my liking.

Next we have Bagged and Boarded with Matt Cohen and Brendan Creecy, a real funny podcast with a couple of geeks that have a lot of the same interests I do so I find the episodes to be mini laugh-a-thons and fairly informative, they introduced me to Team Unicorn, check it out. The new episode had a great interview with Michael Jai White a.k.a. Spawn, Tyson, and the super cool Black Dynamite! They had a nice sit down with Michael and had a great conversation about the Mortal Kombat mini-film and the possibility of a second Black Dynamite, the world will get funkier! Any who, I was digging on the episode and thought tonight I would throw down a quick sketch of the man with the kung-fu koolness! 20 mins with a different pen and I am quite happy with the resulting likeness.

If all that isn't enough then after you listen to all the SModcasted podcasts you can also check out The Walking Dead Cast, The Devil and Me, Around Comics, Word Balloon, and 11 O'Clock Comics. I have listened to a couple hundred hours of these and found them all to be fully enjoyable, get your geek ear on!