Jon Alderink's Art

Happy Halloween everybody. Don't let the Candy Demon rot your brain and teeth tonight!

I've been reading through a bunch of art blogs lately and putting things to practice that i'm learning. Sam Nielson's  blog has been great. Those Avalanche guys alwasys give me inspiration. Time for some lunch and back to work!

An idea loosely following a random idea generator. It was: A scrawny, charming, guide who may or may not be an Elf. Playing in Painter XI. Oh, Painter. I love your brushes, but holy nuts I hate your buggy UI and slow speed. I hope to bring this to more of a finish someday, but for tonight I have to put it down.

I was wandering  the isles at Meijer this morning and saw the Spider-man Story-Book Collection and a book called 5-Minute Marvel Stories. Both which have paintings I did for Hi-Fi. I hadn't seen them since I worked on them and I honestly forget what's out and what isn't. Anyhoo, some personal Spidey for fun and a FEW images that I worked on in the books mentioned above. Hope you enjoy!  

Available today: World's Finest #4 by Paul Levitz, George Pérez, Scott Koblish, & Hi-Fi. Here are a few pages that I did for the book this month.  

Some quick experimenting with some new methods and some other studies/doodles.

Been working on a few books at Hi-Fi for DC's new 52 launch - OMAC and JLI. Both fun books to work on! Just finishing up issue #3 and they look GREAT! JLI is REALLY coming together nicely :) Here are a few pages from the #1's. Enjoy!

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....