Recent commission for a reader. Beware the Robber Bearon!
A Dad (who reads Sam and Fuzzy) got his son (who also reads Sam and Fuzzy) this commission for his birthday.
I think it’s so cool that there are families where both the parents and their kids read Sam and Fuzzy! Thanks, team.
Just finished this TF2-themed Sam and Fuzzy commission. I’d actually done one before, but someone really wanted a black and white play on the classic “team pose” image.
We also took the opportunity to mess with some of the casting. (After all, not everyone plays the same class every single game!) Rexford makes a good Heavy, even if he did have to shrink a bit for the role.
Here’s a recent commission I just finished up!
“Under the Red Hood” was a Batman story about the return of Jason Todd, a former Robin who died years earlier as a result of a reader phone poll crowbar beating. But crowbars have a very different kind of… uh… rich history in Sam and Fuzzy.
In other words, it takes deep continuity knowledge of TWO different comics just to parse what the heck is going on in this picture.
(But that’s the fun thing about getting commissions, I guess… they don’t have to be intelligible to anyone but you!)
I drew someone’s Final Fantasy XI characters!
I don’t get a ton of these kind of commissions, probably because I don’t do a fantasy webcomic, but I actually really enjoy doing them. It delights me that I have readers who are a such fans of my art and comic that they want to see their other interests warped into my art style, too. It’s an important step towards me taking over their entire lives.
Took a couple days off for Thanksgiving, but Sam and Fuzzy Lanterns piece is now coloured and done! (I think.)
Sam and Fuzzy Lanterns, now inked and ready for colours!
Pencils for the “Sam and Fuzzy” Lanterns commission! Watch as we totally side-step whatever the heck that ridiculous-looking thing that Star Sapphire currently wears is supposed to be.
I’ve just started work on a big commission of the Sam and Fuzzy crew as DC’s various-coloured lanterns, and I thought it might be fun to post each step of the process.
Here is the rough thumbnail guide layout I eventually settled on. These kind of multi-slice, multi-character montages can easily wind up too busy & hard to read, so I tried to make some thoughtful choices about alternating character sizes, ring positions, and vertical orientation to make everything feel balanced.
The commissioner picked the characters and their corresponding lantern colours… I’ll let the next posted versions of the drawing reveal what their choices were!
Enough con sketches! Here’s a recent good-old fashion non-convention “done at home” commission that I’m pretty happy with. The characters are from a fantasy story that the commission-buyer is going to be printing through Lulu. (He wanted a piece he could use as a cover.)
