2. This was done for the J.Scott Campbell interview on sketchaholics(bobby chiu's cool site)
    the contest was to draw a sexy girl in fairy tale theme.
    My idea was to do 3 Teddy's as a play on words instead of Bears...
    not sure if I was successful at all but it was fun!
    I didn't make the upload deadline(missed by mere seconds thanks to slow computer and last minute idea)


    This was a fun exercise as I rarely draw girls as it's a huge weakness for me.
    I'm surprised I'm posting it! gah!
    I drew 3 small thumbnails, scanned into photoshop so that I could blow it up-
    then put a piece of watercolour paper directly on the cintiq and lightly traced the image.
    I then tightened the drawings up with carmine red col erase pencils
    and inked them with my Pentel brush pen.
    I LOVE the brush pen on water colour paper-first time trying it and I highly recommend it!
    I will DEFINITELY explore this further!
    Here's some (affiliate)links for the tools I used:
    the water colour paper is Aquarell cold press 140lb/300G Grain Fin :P

    Critiques are MORE than welcome to anyone that has a firm grasp on the art of women! I need all the help I can get


    maybe I should try one of these out? :/ 
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  3.  Check out these previews!!!

    Two new Udon books out this Wednesday December 15th!



    Yup-including some Darkstalkers by yours truly !

    Darkstalkers Vol.2: The Night Warriors TP collects the 3-issue Night Warriors mini series, plus allt eh bonus stories fromt he original Darkstalkers comic series, and the hilarious Darkstalkers-mini comedy strips. Featuring story by Ken Siu-Chong and the artwork of Joe Vriens,(<--hey thats me!) Eric Vedder, Alvin Lee, Mark Brooks, LeSean Thomas, Skottie Young and Joe Ng.

    Street Fighter Legends Vol.3: Ibuki TP collects all 4 action packed issue of the Ibuki mini series, 
    plus three related bonus stories. Story by Jim Zubkavich, art by Omar Dogan.

    You can order both from Amazon!

    Streetfighter Legends:Ibuki

    Darkstalkers Volume 2: Nightwarriors

     Enjoy!

    And if you haven't done so yet
    grab a copy of Udon's behind the scenes book(tutorials)
    and creator owned comics! 
    The book is called Vent and it is awesome.

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  4. *super long scroll down post :D
    Some of you may or may not already be aware, but I have a Zazzle store featuring my art on perdy products from mugs to iPhone cases!  It's actually through Artsprojekt which is part of the Zazzle site.  I'm extra excited to have the iProducts available-maybe because it's a new option that just launched on the site?
    Here's a sneak peak of some of the items for sale there... 
    ***(note-some of the poster default prices are on higher settings-check size and quality if you prefer a lower price-some are set to huge! which obviously cost more)***

    Beastly werewolf speckcase
    Beastly werewolf by joverine
    Browse more iphone 4 cases

    Pink Sock (also avail on iPhones)

    Prints


    You can adjust the price by choosing sizes and quality options(I noticed the default option is on a higher setting here)
    so yeah...I'm obviously excited to have my art on stuff-it just makes it more real to me somehow.  I always tried to imagine how it would feel to have something I drew(for myself) on mugs or posters etc!
    Look around the artsprojekt site-there's tonnes of awesome artists there btw!

    Here's some of my favs
    Camilla d'Errico



    Pascal Campion



    and an artist I discovered through Artsprojekt Yukari Masuike (toronn)




    whew! that was a lot of work haha
    oh well-fun to share

    cheers!
    joe
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  6. Here's a quick video of the progress.
    If you're interested in watching this guy being created in real time follow this link to jogeetv on livestream.
    If you don't know what jogeetv is you can get an explanation in my previous post.
    Here's the link(this one explains that we're on blogtv instead of livestream-we haven't picked one yet :P )
    cheers!

    Photoshop CS4
    (brush=Splatter 27 pixels 1--that's what it says when I hover over the brush =P )
    Cintiq 20wsx
    1hour(and 45seconds apparently)

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  7. Well it finally happened.  I'm on TV!
    (well sorta)
    here's the story:
    My good buddy Dax Gordine (http://d-geedoodles.blogspot.com/) were enjoying a pint at a local pub and shootin' the shit.  We usually talk about life in general, what we want to do with our art and the like.
    I had this idea of making some type of online virtual comic con type show for some time now and ran it past Dax.  He immediately loved it and his enthusiasm for it brought it to life!
    I mean, check out this amazing promo piece he did for it!
      I love Dax's passion when he finds something he loves.  
    It's contagious.  
    I often have ideas that end up wasting away on post it notes or envelopes because I just lack the faith or motivation to bring them all to life.  Sometimes he comes across a sketch on some crumpled piece of paper I have or in my sketchbook and yells at me for not showing him earlier-or for not finishing it or for not posting it online hahaha-everyone should have a friend like him.  There are many drawings that would have spent the rest of their lives in the recycle bin if it weren't for him!
    He doesn't blow smoke up your ass either-if he doesn't like something he'll tell ya.
    When that happens I listen.  Dax has an amazing eye when it comes to art-I keep telling him he should be an art director.  He always knows how to improve my drawings without bruising my ego.
    Thanks buddy!


    We tried using Ustream and ran into technical difficulties-then Live Stream...more issues...we were about to give up.  2months later Dax mentions that Jeffery Cruz has been drawing live for the last few days. Some of you may recognize him as lastscionz on Deviantart or 
    Chamba aka Udon noodle/mega talent that creates glorious Streetfighter comics.  
    This created a spark of interest of course!
     Dax and I were watching Chamba on BlogTV which inspired us to open up our own account.
    Thanks to some help from Chamba and Robaato(co-host), we were able to set everything up within minutes.
    I casually started to sketch out a Ryu bust to test things out.  I started to get into it and even began to colour it when Dax realized we were live-and we already had 4 viewers?!  
    We didn't announce anything and it was merely seconds after we opened the account!  
    I added some shading to the Ryu bust and handed the wacom pen over to Dax.
    He immediately drew the same Ryu but in his signature chibi style.
    Awesome!
    We'll probably do this type of sketch jam collaboration often on JoGeeTV.

    We signed out of BlogTV but within an hour or two I fired up the Cintiq again and
     started another broadcast.
    I started doodling what ended up being a werewolf.(surprise)
    This one took about 2hours-with a half hour break in there somewhere.  I'm sure viewers popped in and out as I'm not sure who could sit and watch for 2hours straight...

    Here's a closeup of the werewolf head as requested by some of the viewers.  Apparently the resolution is low on BlogTV-something Dax and I will try to resolve if possible from our end.

    The show is currently scheduled weekly on Friday evenings-8pmEST
    The plan is to have an hour show but it may go longer?
    We're going to wing it until the show develops its own unique flavour.
    Here's a link- JoGeeTV 
    (we just combined our alter egos- joverine and D_Gee haha)
    be sure to subscribe so you get a heads up when the next episode airs-or if we have more secret impromptu shows :D
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  8. The Art of Darksiders book is out in stores today!
    You can also get it on Amazon if you prefer that option.
    Joe Madureira aka Joe Mad is easily one of my biggest influences of all time.
    His art has a feral energy to it at all times and you can clearly see it expressed throughout
    the action adventure he helped create with Vigil Games.



    This Udon published book is full of concept art and illustrations that will make any
    comic book or fantasy fan drool all over themselves.
    Go get now!
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  10. Have you been to the newly refreshed revamped and re-awesomonated
    Artist Sketchbooks site yet?  no?!
    GO NOW!!! 
    haha
    no seriously go check it out, it's going to be a big deal
    and I'm glad and honoured to be a part of it(thanks Bobby and Imaginism!)
    It's broken down in very simple easy to navigate sections even.
    Artists, Books and Apps(and artist of the month)
    Featured artists
    Featured Books
    Featured Apps
    my page! •__•

    Pass this on to anyone that loves awesome art, artbooks, art apps and awesome artists!!!
    cheers!
    joe
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  11. monster design I did about 2yrs ago
    I'm pretty sure it's safe to post it now
    I figure it fits the Halloween month of October :)

    cheers!

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  12. and my pinup gets promoted to a cover!!!
    see the full article here
    As stated in my previous post, I did this image
    for Skullkickers creator and fellow Udon'oodle Jim Zubkavich.
    I originally intended to do this free as a 'thank you'for the many years of supportand friendship.  
    My karma bank seems to be balanced in my favour
    because now that it's been promoted to cover I'll actually be paid for it!
    To be honest I feel I've already been paid-the feeling of giving selflessly makes my soul smile.
    I highly recommend everyone check out this comic-I was instantly drawn to it(no pun intended-srsly!)
    It's a fun romp through some fantastical places along side some gnarly characters!

    Skullkickers ©Jim Zubkavich
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  14. below is a sneak peak at the greyscale water color
    before I scanned it into Photoshop





    Fellow UDON-oodle Jim Zub has a brand new action packed comic full of monsters, werewolves, mutant slugs bounty hunting and more!

    Here's a pinup I created for him using red col erase pencil to lightly sketch it out, a Pentel brush pen to ink it, Pentel water colors for the greyscale and Photoshop CS4 with my Cintiq for the colours and extra touchups.  This was all sketched, inked, grey scaled in a Robert Bateman sketchbook.

    Jim asked me if I was interested in doing a pinup for Skullkickers. He sent me some preview issues to read through for reference and inspiration. This comic is so up my alley and so fun I started working on it the very same night.  I'm a sucker for sarcastic fantasy action heroes slaying gnarley fang toothed baddies I guess!

    This was extra enjoyable as I haven't used watercolours in over a decade!

    Skullkicers ©Jim Zub

    here's a link to the Skullkickers site! go bookmark it now!!!


    Buy the comics through Amazon
    I've even provided the links below :]


       
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