Badges and Commissions

Morphy and Isfacat's Dispute by John "The Gneech" Robey

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:55:55 -0000

A commission for Morphy, not *quite* a year after he won the thing, so I don't *totally* suck!

Medium: ink and bristol, digital color
Tags: Tiffany Tiger Balloon panther cat pool humor wings

Bull and Oyster by John "The Gneech" Robey

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:40:25 -0000

A commercial piece for the Blue Ox Steakhouse and Raw Bar in Ocean City, MD's upcoming "Bull and Oyster Roast". You may think it's freaky that a blue ox is grilling a steak -- that doesn't seem half as weird to me as deliberately eating oysters! ;P

Medium: ink and bristol, digital color
Tags: blue ox ox commercial grill barbeque

Trejaan Badge by John "The Gneech" Robey

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:00:04 -0000

Trejaan's "cave lion" character is typically garbed in a sort of "bronze age meets Hyborian age" cape and armor getup, so for his badge I took that motif and tried to put him into an environment that would complement it. Trejaan was pleased with the result, I'm happy to say. :) He described it as "Trejaan: The Animated Series." Trejaan is © his own self, of course.

Medium: ink & bristol; digital color & lettering
Tags: Trejaan badge lion fantasy

HBar98 as a Cowboy by John "The Gneech" Robey

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:50:02 -0000

HBar98 declared that if he got down to a goal weight that he'd get a commission from me -- and subsequently made his goal, so he got this! Quite an egoboo to know I was the motivator. ^.^ The original version of this had some serious perspective problems with the building on the right -- we had kaiju HBar stomping through town, basically. So I fixed it the easy way: by cropping out the bad part. ;P HBar98 © his own self, obviously

Medium: ink & bristol; digital color
Tags: old West Cowboy hbar98 Rifle coat wolf

Say Cheese! -- Drezzer and Falstaff by John "The Gneech" Robey

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:00:39 -0000

This is another piece that started as a convention sketchbook image. Trejaan (I think it was) went to Jessica Willard and got her permission for me to use Falstaff, and suggested the two of them clowning around in a photo booth. I was so pleased with the idea that I took the sketch home and cleaned it up into this. :) "Falstaff" property of J. Willard, obviously, used by permission. :)

Medium: ink & bristol; digital color
Tags: Drezzer Falstaff

Alyssia, for Rose T. by John "The Gneech" Robey

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:28:33 -0000

Commission for Rose T.; her character Alyssia (© herself). "Strawberry blonde" is a startlingly difficult color to convey. I ended up sampling colors from a photograph, and then doing a layer of transparent yellow over them to smooth them out.

Medium: ink & bristol; digital color
Tags: Tiger fantasy

T'Chall Badge Icon by John "The Gneech" Robey

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:35:42 -0000

When I do badge commissions, I also provide a 100x100 icon version, usually animated, as a little bonus.

Medium: digital
Tags: T'Chall badge icon fox

T'Chall Badge by John "The Gneech" Robey

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:33:15 -0000

One of my personal favorites, done for a good buddy.

Medium: ink & bristol, digital color/lettering
Tags: T'Chall badge fox