Jon Alderink's Art

Quick little update for y'all (I'm kind of in the hospital right now. Wife and I are expecting a baby today :) ) A book that I colored for IDW is out now on iTunes for a paltry $5.99!!! That's 104 pages of great story by Tom Waltz(Silent Hill:Past Life), and Guiu Vilanova. Download that bitch and feed my baby! Cheap tactic? Yes. Yes, it was :) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/after-the-fire/id409161990?mt=8

I just received word that I can get a table for C2E2 again, so I'm hoping to be there this March. I just need to plop down the dough for a full table. This year I'll be accompanied by my wife and our NEW BABY. She's not here yet, but it's getting close :) At the show I will be selling prints. Some will be drawn by the magnanimous Tom Nguyen. Images that I did for his book Incredible Comic Book Women I'll also have a few treats of my own. Some prints of my work and very special C2E2 2011 exclusive. All these works works will be posted up in the Prints page as they become available. See you soon! -Jon

Check out some new stuff in the HIFI tab!

First of all thanks to everyone who stopped by my table for a sketch, and for those of you that I couldn't get to I apologize. Regardless, I hope you all had a good time! The con was a great experience in many ways and I learned a lot - this being my first time on the OTHER side of the table. It was great connecting with fans and chatting them up. Of course it helped that I had my lovely wife as my assistant with me. She really made things a lot easier. When doing sketches it's hard to connect with people walking by. She did an awesome job of getting people's attention and reeling them in. To you, my love, my deepest gratitude. Thanks also to my neighbors Andy and Alice Price, and Chris Rieke. From a fanboy point of view the show was great and I got to geek out on tons of inkers, Paul Mounts, and Jimmy Palmiotti. It was also great hanging with Comfort Love and Adam Withers, of The Uniques fame, and their crew of Jeremy and Kelly Dale, Marcus Almond (The Razor Kid), and Brya

In a nutshell it kicked ass. I'll write much more later, but right now I've got to get my ass in gear!

Just a warm-up that I did prior to some inking for a Uniques Tales story. My W&N brushes are officially on my shit list, and I switched half way through the page to some Rapheals I bought as backups last Fall. Werd.

The mailman has been super nice this week in delivering a few copies of the books that I worked on last Fall and last Spring. Nanovor Hacked!, and Prank Week are both now on shelves, and I have to say that they look GREAT! I put some of my favorites from Prank Week up. I did the drawing, inking and coloring in that one. There should be some from Hacked! buried in my gallery somewhere :) In my opinion the ones in Prank Week turned out much better. And to think, I did them only a few months after the Hacked! ones. Both books I illustrated in a week, each. It was a crazy deadline that almost killed me, so in regards to the amount of time I had on them I'm still, overall, happy how they turned out. Far from perfect, but when you have that much work to do you just have to move on. If anything, it was a great exercise for not sweating the details....because there was no option to :) At any rate, I hope you enjoy the pics I put up. If you have any young readers, pick the book up for them.

Hey I was doing pretty well there with the daily sketches thing wasn't I? Yeah..... It's all good though! I've been working on some paid color work again through HiFi Design, which is just the bees knees. I still have to prove myself, and it's much like starting any kind of new job. In an effort to focus my efforts on my work I put the sketches aside to ensure I didn't blow this chance at the possibility of getting more work. It must have been effective, and although I've been battling a mean cold, I was still able to get everything in on time and they gave me a few more pages as well. This is maybe the closest thing to stability that a freelancer, such as myself, can get and it's an opportunity that I plan on taking full advantage of. So, I need to do everything in my power to not blow this. If that means blowing my daily skecthes things, I think that's OK. Sketching in my free time doesn't help pay the bills, which is something I haven't been