Here’s the new deal.

I moved all the Illustrator tutorials over to illcraft.com along with all of my other posts I have made there since 2005.

I will put up a bunch of art and other news and happenings in my life at briandenham.com

It helps to seperate these 2 blogs into different sites. I think some people may just want tutorials and some just want to see my work.

More to come…

I have some of the Comic Book Templates in a secret folder here on the site. It contains the Adobe Illustrator template for CS3 and a template for everything before CS3. http://www.briandenham.com/AI-Freebies/

Byrne Denham Perez, originally uploaded by Brian Denham.

I just found this picture today. 11 years after it was taken.

I cropped it close but this picture shows it was taken on March 15, 1998 at the Florida Mega-Con.

I was debuting my comic American Woman at the show. John Byrne sat across from us and he had a huge line the whole weekend. I talked to George Perez at the end of the show one day, we talked before at a couple of shows in Dallas and I felt comfortable around him. I asked if I could get a picture with him and John Byrne who was leaving and walking right toward us.

George said “Sure!” and yelled for John to come over. LOL I was so excited. George explained that I wanted a picture and John said a joke about kissing me on both sides. They laughed, leaned in and planted the smooches on me.

Funniest moment in my life ever.

I laughed a bit to myslef thinking of the time I met Jack Kirby. I told the King that I didn’t want an autograph, but I did want to shake his hand. As we were shaking hands I told him maybe his magic will rub off on me. He looked at me like I was a nut, of course I was a teenager at the time so I probably was a nut.

I wonder what kind of magic would rub off through these kisses. I shudder to think…

Brian Denham Cintiq, originally uploaded by Brian Denham.

Here I am with my new Cintiq on March 14, 2009.

I’m drawing on the Cintiq and I have a secondary monitor set up with Illustrator stretched through both screens.

I have a second instance of the image I’m working on, opened on the other monitor.

This way, I have one big image of the art zoomed out and the Cintiq is zoomed in so I can instantly check what I’m drawing from a distance.

When I used to draw on paper I would place the art on the ground and climb on to a chair to get a distant view of the art and ensure my proportions were all true.

Uploaded by Brian Denham on 14 Mar 09, 8.46PM CDT.

Here is a new piece I drew for the Hero Initiative. It’s also the cover for the upcoing How To Draw book from Antarctic Press shipping in July.

As it was to be a cover for How To Draw I felt like instead of using generic superheroes I would make a back story for each of these characters. I loved the story and the group so I’ll work on this as a comic over the next year. Originally I was going to draw some public domain superheroes, but I felt it might be better to show what new and modern heroes would look like instead of looking at the past.

I hope you like it!