I’m excited to announce this really cool art piece that I did with my friend Shawn Coss of Any Means Necessary (you may know him from his work on Cyanide and Happiness, or his “It’s All in Your Head” Mental Health Collection). This exclusive print will be available at Emerald City Comicon!
Sketch progress
This was a really cool collaboration. It’s the first one I’ve ever done, in this form anyway. Being that I live in California and he’s in Ohio, this gave us an interesting challenge of having to send a very large PSD file back and forth to each other as we made progress. The process was simple at first, with us both sketching our ideas in different colors (me drawing the girl and him the creature, the things we’re both good at). Then each of us taking turns drawing the line art, coloring, texturing, etc. Each time the file getting bigger and bigger. By the end it was a rather massive file. Either way, this was a super fun experience collaborating with him, discussing ideas, and getting to see the process of an artist as talented as he is.
Since it was something special that we made time to do, we decided we wanted to make this a limited printing; we went with a print run of 50. Which is the largest limited edition print I’ve ever done!
Print proof before final production to test metallic linen paper.
The final printing of this looks fantastic! The above photo is a print proof, that still has the white trim line (the ones for sale do not have that). I can’t wait for everyone to see them. Shawn will be coming by my booth at Emerald City Comicon to sign these, and they will be available at Booth 607! I hope to see some of you there.
Denis Caron and Shawn Coss signing Limited Edition
Edit: Added photo of Shawn and I signing these at the convention. We still have some of these left. If you weren’t able to make it to the con, you can get them on my Etsy Shop.