The Secret Identities Universe Illustration…

This illustration took me a really long time. But it was important to me to do, as my fellow editors (Jeff Yang, Parry Shen and Keith Chow) have been talking for awhile about a drawing by one of our contributing artists of all the characters from the book.

So I thought to myself….well….why don’t I do it?

This illustration has atleast 1 character from each story. I wanted to put every single character in, but there simply wasn’t enough room on the page. The original drawing is done on a 2 ply smooth 14×17″ bristol page.

Anyway, I’ve gone ahead and posted the 3 different stages it took to complete this piece. The first being pencils, then inks, and finally the finished grey tone version. Just for the record, I used a 3H lead pencil. Which is a hard lead that helps create a sharp clean line. I then used micron felt tip pens to ink it. And I used a much looser “hand” to ink it with to help create a more organic sketch feel to it. And finally I used some prismacolor markers to add grey tones to it.

This original piece will be displayed at the Time Warner Building in New York May 21 (thurs) as part of the Asian Heritage Month art exhibit. There will also be other pieces from contributing artists from the book as well as another piece from me.

Anyway, hope that I was able to do "right" by all the other great artist's on the book with this drawing.
-jerry

SUNFIRE!!!

Hey everyone.
So I thought I'd post another sketch that I drew on the inside cover of another copy of Secret Identities. This copy I believe is for ningin.com.

Anyway, this sketch is of one of my favorite characters from the Marvel Universe....Sunfire!!! I always thought he was one of the most underrated characters in comics.

I do hope everyone will enjoy this sketch as much as I did drawing it.

And remember, please ask your local book and comic book stores to pick up Secret Identities if they don't have it already!
-jerry

Another Bruce Lee Charity Sketch

cross-posted by Jerry Ma at his blog For What It's Worth.

So I have done another Bruce Lee sketch on the inside cover of a copy of Secret Identities. This sketch was done for a charity of a much smaller scale, but still a good one regardless. This drawing was done for my friend Ren Hsieh, who runs a basketball league called FastBreak.

But I’ve donated this sketch inside the book, along with a Bruce Lee t-shirt that I designed “Super Fly”. There will be raffle tickets purchased for a number of prizes. And all the proceeds go towards a Youth Basketball League. Ren is trying to raise enough money so that all the kids won’t have to pay money to play in the league. Growing up as a kid, I never had the money to play in these organized leagues and would have loved a guy like Ren for doing this.

Here is the info for the RockBand party he is throwing for the event.

Host: Fastbreak NYC
Type: Party - Benefit
Network: Global

Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: PULSE KARAOKE
Street: 135 W 41st Street, Basement
City/Town: New York, NY
Email: ren@fastbreaknyc.com

So cheers to you Ren. Hope this drawing, book and t shirt help achieve your goal.

-jerry

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)

cross-posted by Jerry Ma at his blog, For What It's Worth.

So I’ve had the honor of doing a sketch on the inside cover of a copy of Secret Identities for a silent auction hosted by The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

I’m hoping this copy goes for more than the cover price ($21.95) with my little doodle inside it. Here is a copy of the sketch I did.

I chose to do a Bruce Lee drawing as at least for me, he has been something of a inspirational figure. Not to mention that back when I did more sketches at comic conventions, I was getting pretty popular for doing these.

Anyway, here’s to the book raising some money for a good cause.
Cheers.
-jerry