Jon Alderink's Art

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