....all work and no play make Shawn a dull boy, all work and no play make Shawn a dull boy,all work and no play make Shawn a dull boy, all work and n....OH! hi there and Happy new year to all you SURFACE DWELLERS out there.
Hope all had a great and joyous holiday season and welcomed the new year somewhat sober and hopefully safe & sane.
As for me 2008 is starting off pretty much as 2007 ended ...busy,I have my nose and pen in hand to the ole' drawing board, hard at work creating new images both familiar and some not so familiar...good thing is it's keeping me off the streets which is a good thing.
Still currently working on "SUPER-7", the 12 part sci-fi maxi series penned by writer Robert Wawrzyniak. I'm nearly finished with pencils on issue #11, and series inker Scott Shoemaker has returned stateside (from his 6 month adventure in splendid Shanghai, China) and has resumed his inking and coloring duties for the series.
The first issue of this long awaited space epic debuts later this year...stay tuned for release dates.
My first creator owned title; "KUDU-MAN" is still in the final writing stage on the proposed mini series which will in turn prepare the public for what hopes to be a regular series-look for it to debut this coming September/2008.
I am also hard at work on numerous commissions, pictured here is one of my first of the new year, a Wonder Woman piece entitled; "Reflection", I did this for my buddies at D&B Comics.
The Surface Art Studios website will soon be updated with new art while some of my older pieces will be put away in a new section called simply ;"the Vault", visitors will still be able to look through my older pieces while in this new section-speaking of the website a contest will be posted soon to test ones visual comic knowledge-the Grand Prize; a fully colored original custom piece of art from yours truly...stay tuned for details.
My convention schedule will soon be revised with some minor changes, so that I can concentrate more and devote more time on developing my upcoming projects I will unfortunately be unable to attend some cons that I regularly go to annually. At present I am only committed to this year's Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC. I really like going to cons and being a part of them ,getting feedback from fans and commissions and meeting with some of the great professionals in the field, but in order for me to meet some deadlines I will have to cut back a little on my travels...once my projects start coming out to the public I will make it a point to be more visible and available to the public to help promote my work and hopefully get some great feedback in the process.
I am in the process of starting on 2 NEW gigs as I like to call them, once these deals are finalized I will release more details...so stay tuned right here.....same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel!
........oh and; "HAPPY NEW YEAR"!
peace, Shawn Surface
SURFACE ART STUDIOS.
