My last item from Wizard World Toronto 2011.  I had seen Breitweiser in Chicago and admired his work.  I’m disappointed in this piece and I’ll explain.  He was charging $25 for headshots and $100 for full figures.  It just doesn’t seem like much detail was put into the full figure: waist down is flat fill in with no details.  No real background which is fine if the character had more definition.  I chose a figure that has a rotating costume and should have specified Red Skull’s Nazi uniform or went with a headshot.

My second acquisition from Jesus Merino at the Wizard World Toronto show.  We discussed at length the input an inker has with a finished piece and afterwards he gave me a fantastic price for this cover.  Merino told me he filled in the details below Superman; Pacheco had put in a few lines.  Bob McLeod recently said in a Q & A at Toronto ComiCON that in his day the penciller handled the page layout, composition and character positioning while the inker fleshed those out.

My first piece from Wizard World Toronto 2011 came from Jesus Merino.  This was his first trip to Canada and wasn’t sure about sketch and page pricing, convention set up and such.  We had a great chat and I was able to post the main points.  As a thank you he gave me this sketch!

My one piece of artwork from Wizard World Toronto.  Dan Morton’s profile on the Wizard site caught my eye since I really liked his take on 1950′s science fiction illustration.  He was at his table when the show opened so I asked for a colour commission of Adam Strange but then ran back to his table and asked for a space girl instead: why limit him when I’ll be happier with his own thing.