Comic Con 2009 - Day One

Where to start? Lots and lots of walking around through massive amounts of people all while carrying my heavy heavy bag. Caught up with a bunch of artists today, really fun times! Jim Nelson, Todd Lockwood, Patrick McEvoy and MuYoung Kim to name a few. Everyone so far has been super awesome and even cooler then I was imagining they would be in person. Got Todd Lockwood and Jim Nelson to sign my Monster Manual 2, still need to get Steve Ellis to do the same. Broke in the Ninja Mountain digital audio recorder with Patrick McEvoy. Hopefully the background noise won't be too over powering. I have been promised that what we recorded will be edited done to 20 seconds of gold. So that will pretty much leave just me telling everyone what my websites are.

Here are some pics, forgive the poor cell phone quality. Will try harder tomorrow!

BEHOLD! The hallowed all of geekdom!

Those are weird looking Stormtroopers.

Jim Nelson hard at work!

A rare picture of an actual ninja!

Cyborg...

Robot. Know the difference.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Comic Con 2009 - Preview Night

The wife and I are in San Diego and beginning our 2009 Comic Con experience. So far so good. I am already getting that weird "I know you" feeling with half the people I run into, very odd. The big news already is that the Usagi Yojimbo art I submitted for the Souvenir Book made it in! You may remember when I posted it here. Not only did my piece make it in, but it shares a spread with a piece by Stan Sakai himself! How cool is that? Really looking forward to stopping by Stan's booth and say 'hi', been a huge fan of his for years now. Here is a bad photo of the Souvenir Book spread:

Woot!

I will do my best to take lots of pictures (that may or may not be of interest to anyone else) and post them as often as possible. The convention center has great free WiFi while our hotel has pay by the hour crappy WiFi. So I will see how it goes. Don't forget my frequent and annoying twitter updates!

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Promotional hand out for Comic Con

I am getting the last of my preparations in order for this years San Diego Comic Con. Some are last minute things, and others are things that have been pushed to the last minute. As I get all my ducks in a row I wanted to share with you a fun little promotional item I will have with me to hand out to people at Comic Con. BUTTONS!

Collect all 5!

Don't let me crappy photo distract you from how awesome these are in person.

My friend Chris Presley was kind enough to make these for me and if that was not enough he made me 100 of them. If you run into at Comic Con make sure you ask me for a button. All I ask in return is for you to tell people were you got it and to go to my website.

For the next week and a half I will be very busy with Comic Con so I am not sure what my posting schedule will be like. I will do my best to post news and images but this will be my first attempt, so no promises. If you don't already, you can follow my escapades on Twitter, I will be doing updates from my cell phone as often as it is relevant.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Unreleased Dreamblade Sneak Peak

I recently gained permission to show unused designs and illustrations never released for various Wizards of the Coast products I have worked on. That is pretty exciting news if you ask me. This includes many Dreamblade designs. I had planned to start showing these off after I got back from Comic Con, but I just could not wait any longer.

What would have been the Dragon Ambassador for set 6 Serrated Dawn

Remember to vote for the RYZ Dungeons and Dragons Sell Your Sole event continues! My designs and voting links can be found on my blog or RYZ portfolio page. Don't miss your chance to vote early and often!

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

VOTING CONTINUES! RYZ D&D Shoes

Voting continues over on the RYZ website for the Sell Your Sole event! You can find all my designs to vote for in my RYZ portfolio or you can check out my previous post about the contest. A vote of 5 check marks is appreciated. Thanks in advance for taking the time to vote for me.

Remember, vote early, vote OFTEN. A vote for me is a vote for the future!

No need to fight guys, you are all pretty and we can vote for you all!

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

VOTING NOW LIVE! RYZ D&D Shoes

A call to action! I now need you to VOTE FOR ME! Over the last two days I have previewed the Dungeons and Dragons themed shoes I designed for the RYZ Sell Your Sole event and now is the time to act! You do NOT need to create an account to vote only to leave comments.

Simply follow the links below each of the images of my designs or follow this link to my submission portfolio on the RYZ site. A vote of all 5 check marks is GREATLY appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time!

Ankheg Attack

Gray Render Ambush

Ambushed by the Ambush Vine

Dragonborn vs. Zombies

Flesh Weavers

Will-o-Wisp

Dragonborn vs. Troglodyte

Boneclaw Impaler

Shocktroop Devil

Black Woods Dryad

Crazed Kuo-Toa

Galeb Duhr

Yuan-ti Anathema

Orc Raider

Destroy All Monsters

Remember, vote early, vote often. A vote for me is a vote for the future!

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

MORE RYZ Dungeons and Dragons Shoes!

As I posted on Monday, RYZ is currently accepting Dungeons and Dragons themed shoe designs for the Sell your Sole event! Today is the last day to submit, so you better hurry on over. Jon Schindehette has a great submission tutorial over at ArtOrder that provides a detailed step by step how to. Here are 10 MORE (bringing my total to 15) designs that I have submitted:

Will-o-Wisp

Dragonborn vs. Troglodyte

Boneclaw Impaler

Shocktroop Devil

Black Woods Dryad

Yuan-ti Anathema

Crazed Kuo-Toa

Galeb Duhr

Orc Raider

Destroy All Monsters

The submission period ends on July 14th and voting will begin on July 15th and continue through July 28th. Expect loud and frequent reminders to vote for my deigns! I will keep you up to date as things develop. You can currently follow the links under each of the approve images to leave a comment as the excitement builds to the start of voting. Don't forget about the first five designs that have I submitted, links can be found here.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com