Here’s a print that I made for Glade and I’s show at Austin Books:
It’s called “Rainbow Hypercastle.” I was mashing together flying whales, Penrose triangles, floating islands, space, custom patterns, rainbows, and the devil’s fork.
August 26, 2011
August 23, 2011
Welcome to the Hypercastle by Glade Hensel
Here’s a print that Glade made for our show at Austin Books:
This print is called “Welcome to the Hypercastle.” It’s a digital print of a gouache painting. I love Glade’s text treatment. You can see a similar design that she did for a Happy Birthday card here.
August 19, 2011
Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle
Here’s a print that I made for Glade and I’s show at Austin Books:
This print is called “Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle” because Glade suggested I base one of our hypercastle prints on the hypercastle I drew for this page of my comic “Rocky Mountain Chomp.” I was originally going to make a two-color screenprint, but I designed the screens with overprinting (so I wouldn’t have to worry about precise registration) without realizing that the bottom blue layer would show through the yellow top layer. Rookie mistake!
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August 16, 2011
Hyperhut by Glade Hensel
Here’s the first print that Glade made for our show at Austin Books:
This print is called “Hyperhut.” It’s a digital print of a cut-paper design except for the roof of the hut, which is patterned tape made by the Japanese company MT that Glade found.
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August 12, 2011
PACC this Sunday
PACC (the Philly Alternative Comic Con) is this Sunday. I wish I could be there this year but it’s not to be. Oh well, I don’t have any new comics to show anyway. Maybe next year. Pat told me, “Just save a dollar a day dude.” I’ll try, I’ll try.
To live vicariously through my blog, I’m going to take a brief break from showing y’all the prints for Glade and I’s show and post all the great promo art for PACC.
First up, we have Pat Aulisio:
Next, we have this dope poster by my man Josh Burggraf:
Josh is going to be debuting a new book, Kid Space Heater. I can’t wait to see it.
And finally, Pat brings it back to barfville with this postcard:
Anyway, since I can’t be there, any readers in the Philly area should go and have a great time. It’s this Sunday, August 14th, noon to seven at the Rotunda, 4014 Rotunda St.
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August 9, 2011
One Color Hypercastle
Hey y’all, here’s the digital, colored version of the one-color screenprint design that I did for Glade and I’s show at Austin Books and Comics, up in the back room all of this August:
For this print I was experimenting with getting as many different shades and textures out of a single color as I could. Unfortunately, all the small details made screenprinting difficult. About half of the prints turned out okay. My winning formula was to flood the screen first, hold the squeegee at an angle greater than sixty degrees, and put minimum steady pressure. At Austin Books you can peruse the prints, they range in color from fresh to dried blood.
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August 5, 2011
Glade and Mark’s Hypercastles at Austin Books and Comics
This past Wednesday Glade and I went to Austin Books and Comics to put up our print show.
Here’s a post-install pic:
The prints will be up and for sale there the entire month of August.
From left to right, we have:
- “One-Color Hypercastle Screenprint” by Mark, $20 – This is the print I was posting about on Tuesday. It’s available in dried and fresh blood red
- “Hyperhut” by Glade, $15 – This is a digital print of a piece that Glade made out of cut paper.
- “Glade and Mark’s Hensel Hypercastle” by Mark, $20 – This is a digital print.
- “Welcome to the Hypercastle” by Glade, $20 – This is a digital print of a gouache original.
- “Rainbow Hypercastle” by Mark, $20 – This is a digital print.
- “Flower Hypercastle” by Glade, $15 – This is a digital print of a gouache original.
- “3D Hypercastle” by Mark, $20 – This is a digital print that’s made in red/blue anaglyph 3D. There are a pair of glasses that you can use to try it out hanging beneath the print.
As you can tell from the names, the theme of our prints is hypercastles. I’ll be posting larger pictures of each print throughout this month. If you want one and you can’t make it to Austin Books, please let me know in a comment or by any of the means on my connect page.
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August 2, 2011
Screenprinting a One-Color Hypercastle Print
Glade and I are going to put up our print show in the back room of Austin Books tomorrow, so we spent the weekend screenprinting.
Here are some process shots:
And here are the drying prints:
July 29, 2011
Sketchbook Pages from France
Here are two sketchbook pages from my trip to France back in May:
July 26, 2011
Newly Burned Screens, the Complete Shaman Thunder, and some Meta Posting
Newly Burned Screens
Glade and I have an art show at Austin Books and Comics the whole month of August, where our prints will be hanging in the back issue room. I’m going to have two full-color CMYK prints and two screenprints, one that’ll be a single color, and one that’ll be two colors. I had my screens burned at Industry Print Shop and just picked up the screens today.
Here’s a shot of the screens in my studio:
The theme for our show is hypercastles. I’m going to post images of our prints throughout the month of August.
The Complete Shaman Thunder
Since I finished posting the pages from Shaman Thunder last week, I just uploaded the whole thing to my comics page. Click the banner to read the whole thing from the beginning:
I’m proud of this comic. Josh Burggraf was a great guy for me to collaborate with because every time I got one of his pages in my inbox, it pushed me to try harder for my next page.
Meta Posting
I’ve been thinking about how I want to approach blogging, going back and forth for a bit now, and I’d like y’all’s help. In my years as a blogger, I’ve just posted my own art, posted folk-sci-fi content, and, with this site, mixed both together. In April, I decided that the two-to-four hours a week that it takes for me to write two blog posts should instead be devoted to drawing. That’s why you’ve only seen comic pages here and I’ve been talking more about folk-sci-fi on my Twitter feed. But, as Scalzi pointed out to me with this post, why should I invest a lot of time and thought into a site hosted by a company that may one day be permanently beached or become a ghost town?
So what should I do? Would y’all like to see me:
- Continue to focus on posting my own comics or drawings here regularly, and leave other musings for other blogging platforms?
- Return tomixing in my own stuff with musings, reviews, and artwork that inspires me?
- Add a column where I roundup whatever things I find inspirational or interesting, like an expansion/curation of my tweets?
If there’s something I’m not thinking of, let me know that also.