SDCC 2012 – Part 3

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Paul Burrow

I met the inspirational Felicia Day again, the first time was at the Starfury event in London earlier this year. It was at that event I was introduced to her work and discovered what a hard working, funny and down to earth person she is!

Don’t throw away that scifiartist.com card I gave you! lol 😀 I’ll be doing a Felica painting in some shape or form very soon so watch this space!

Paul Burrow and Felicia Day

Felicia Day links
Felicia Day website
Geek & Sundry
Watch The Guild web series

Earlier in the day I’d been to the Geek & Sundry panel. There was a big queue to get in and even then I missed the start and was stuck at the back, However it was a very funny panel and worth the wait!

Geek & Sundry queue behind me SDCC 2012

Geek & Sundry queue in front of me SDCC 2012

Geek & Sundry Indigo Ballroom SDCC 2012

SDCC 2012 – Part 2

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Paul Burrow

I attended a quite a few talks and panels.

Jonathan Ross was involved in an interesting panel discussion about the writing process. It turned into an entertaining interview with other guests appearing in turn, followed by a Q&A session. Beards were compulsory 😀

Jonathan Ross interviews Walking Dead writer Robert Kirkman

I attended 2 panels at the Nerd HQ organised by Zachery Levi, star of Chuck.

Nerd HQ Zachery Levi introduces the cats of The Man With The Iron Fists

Sadly my pictures of Lucy Liu, RZA & Dave Bautista are all blurred. After the panel they did a poster signing for the film.

Man with the iron fists panel at Nerd HQ

Seth Green and the Robot Chicken team also did a Nerd HQ panel which I attended.

Robot Chicken at Nerd HQ

The Buffy 20th anniversary was packed out. There was a lot of girly squealing at James Marsters and Nicholas Brendan dropped an F-bomb!

Buffy 20th Anniversary

Grrhh Aarrghh

SDCC 2012 – Part 1

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Paul Burrow

SDCC 2012 was as hectic as expected. I return from San Diego motivated with new ideas. I’ll talk about those later but for now here are a few pics from San Diego Comic-Con 2012.

I accidentally hit a pigeon on the road. Sorry pigeon. A couple of years ago it was a rabbit or 2.

Parked up near the airport!

Waiting for the bus

Unsurprisingly it was raining in Manchester

San Diego convention centre… the calm before the storm but not a raindrop in sight here!

Near the convention centre a day before the convention began

Bring on the crowds

Stewie gets everywhere

Pedicab ride anyone?

Marshmallow man couldn't stop me getting in

View from above at the small press tables

Don't know who let this lot in

A guy demonstating the wacom cintiq

3D printer - Won't be too long before these will appear in many households

Batmobiles were on display outside the Hilton

The classic batmobile

Another one

Knight Industries Two Thousand - sdcc2012

My new car was on display

For the memories of a lifetime...

Industrial Light & Magic

Artwork at the ACME stand

A work in progress

More pics to come in part 2

White collar hooligan

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Paul Burrow

I was an extra in the film “The rise and fall of a white collar hooligan” last year. The film is now available on DVD & Blu Ray. My appearances are brief, blink and you’ll miss them lol. Here’s a few screens I captured.

Me in the background on the left sticking 2 fingers up

Same again pulling a funny face

This time leaping over a wall in the distant background. Look for the white arms doing a superman

My tiny head is on the DVD cover and the poster as well. Click on the image for a link to the film on Amazon.

White Collar Hooligan DVD

Faith/Eliza Dushku oil painting

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Paul Burrow

My Faith/Eliza Dushku painting was still not finished as I travelled down to Inva2ion this weekend in London. I needed to finish it to enter it into the Art competition and to have it on show for people to see during the convention. I took my easel and paints with me and I finished it off during the Friday night and Saturday morning from my hotel room in the Renaissance at Heathrow. I had to use the hairdryer on it to get the paint to dry quicker 😀

Here is the painting. To give it a more personal touch I set the scene in Boston at Fenway Park the home of the Boston Red Sox. The bad guys (zombies/Demons) in the corner are supporters of rival team the New York Yankees. The dog is supposed to be Max Factor (Elizas dog making a guest appearance :D) jumping into the face of unknown danger to protect his owner, while Faith prepares to swipe at her unseen enemy with a baseball bat!

Faith oil painting

I did finally get to meet Eliza several times over the weekend and got a photo taken 😀

Paul Burrow with Eliza Dushku

UPDATE!!!
Just noticed Eliza saw my painting & took a picture of it!!! CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PHOTO

Faith oil painting

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Paul Burrow

I am working on a new Faith/Eliza Dushku painting which I am trying to get finished in the next few days. I’m going to post the progress of this one as I do it every few hours if possible. This is an oil painting on canvas 70cm x 50cm. Here’s the progress so far.

UPDATED 10/05/12 @ 16.55
I’ve done some more work on the face now which is an improvement I think.

Faith work in progress close up

UPDATED 09/05/12 @ 01.30
The background is starting to take shape now.

Faith full image 6

UPDATED 07/05/12 @ 21.50
When I look at old paintings I have done it can bring back memories of what was happening at the time I was doing them. This Faith painting will always remind me of Ronnie O’Sullivan winning his 4th World Snooker championship. Well done Ronnie!!!

Well done Ronnie O'Sullivan

UPDATED 07/05/12 @ 17:58
Had a sleep then painted some more!

Faith full image 5

UPDATED 07/05/12 @ 05:40
Oh yes… and there’s a dog in the painting 😀

Faith full image 4

UPDATED 07/05/12 @ 01:30
I’ve started to add some of the background in.

Faith full image 3

UPDATED 06/05/12 @ 18:45

Faith full image 2

Faith full image 1

Faith painting close up of face

Deathless

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Paul Burrow

The SCIENCE FICTION FREEDOM E’ZINE again includes one of my illustrations for this month. This time to accompany the story “Deathless” written by Carole Gill.

Click HERE to access the FREE E’ZINE. You can also download the back catalogue from this link for you viewing pleasure! Thanks again to Peter Saga for including my work.

Deathless illustration for the Sci-Fi ezine

Deckard painting – continued…

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Paul Burrow

Updated 20/02/12

A few more facial refinements. Not far to go now.

Deckard update

Updated 19/02/12

The face has been worked on and it’s looking back like Mr Ford after going a bit off track.

Deckard work in progress

Here’s an update on the Deckard oil painting I’ve come back to after a long break. It had started to go a bit wrong so I left it for a while. I decided to pick it up again this evening to fix some of the damage done. I think I’ve recovered it so far. I hope to finish it this week. This is a photo instead of a scan as the paint is still wet from tonights work.

Still not happy with it though. More work to do tomorrow!

Deckard work in progress

Hangar

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Paul Burrow

Here’s a quick digital sketch of a hangar with several space craft vehicles inside. Done using PhotoShop.

Spaceship Hangar

Mouse a Sci-Fi short film

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Paul Burrow

Here are 3 pieces I created for the short Sci-Fi film called Mouse. The film is about a man waking up in a building with no idea where he is or what he is doing there. After crawling through a man sized mouse hole in the wall of the room he wakes up in he discovers he is not alone, and the occupants look very familiar.

Mouse is created by Justin Tagg and you can find more information about the film by clicking HERE

An interview with the film maker Justin Tagg can be viewed by clicking HERE

Mouse concept art 1

Mouse concept art 2

Mouse concept art 3