An auction you might find interesting, plus lots of pretty artwork (of course)!

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The first image I ever had posted on scans_daily wasn't actually posted by me, some had found it on my CAF account, and liked it so much they'd posted a copy of it, with a nice link to my gallery and everything.




The only reason I found it was that I was googling the artist to see if I could find any more of his work, I came across livejournal's robin_daily and scans_daly pages and knew I'd found my idealogical home... so the rest, as they say, is history. :)

Effectively therefore, the artist, one Mitch Ballard by name, is the reason I'm here (or, "his fault" if you want to look at it like that), though he has no way of knowing that unless he reads this, which he has mentioned he might.

In the past I've showcased artists whose work I have liked (Like Andy Price, Sonny Strait and Katie Cook) and I think it seems apt to do it again. I found these on CAF some years ago and picked them up. Over the years Mitch has done a lot cross/team images, notably a whole heap of JLA/Avengers ones, that you can find if you look through here.

This is a set of New Teen Titans and Golden Age/Earth-2 JSA crossover pics, highlighting just about everyone (Sorting out the tags for this could kill me)













For legality, I include the cover of of The New Titans 61. which inspired the backdrop for the Nightwing panel above



As you will probably have noticed. He has a very nice Perez-ian / Giordano-ish style to his work which I really, REALLY like, he draws sexy women AND sexy men, which as you might imagine, is important to me. Recently I found he was taking commissions again after an absenc, and got a couple more pieces from him which delight me rather a lot, and which I posted here just before the migration to Dreamwidth, and he's lost none of his skills.

I've noticed that he has another ebay commission auction up, at what I think is a VERY reasonable price, and given that his "2 character commission" was what got me the now near-legendary Robin and Deathstroke piece as well as those fun Nightwing/Robin and Nightwing/Nightcrawler pieces, I thought there might be a few folk here who might appreciate the opportunity to outdo me by trying to get a better commission than I did! (And no, I'm not on commission, but given how many compliments I've had over his work, I should probably have wrangled for that! ;-) )

tags:
creator: mitch ballard
creator: george perez
title: the new titans
genre: commission
group: justice society of America
group: teen titans

Comments

[bradhanon]

Sexy women, sexy men, and different bodies on different characters. Different heights, muscle styles, breast sizes... it's almost as though they're not the same person wearing different outfits. WEIRD.

[taggerung301]

hah! I love that first drawing!

[northstarfan]

Oh, blast it, now I'm tempted.

[perletwo]

Dagnabbit. There goes my bank balance...

[citygod]

This ISN'T George Perez? Fooled me. (Not hatin', just sayin'.)

[yaseen101]

The pencil sketches look awesome. If they ever make it into a comic, I'm afraid that colourist might somehow ruin it.

[crabby_lioness]

Wait a sec. Didn't Mitch Ballard draw an indie back in the late 80s?

[jelly_ace]

No one can outdo your commissions, icon. :)

[pyrotwilight]

Gah...but...can't...no...

Stop tempting me damnit.

Sadly there's still a handful of arts I'm waiting for by various people (which annoys me to no end) but he'll be added to my list of "totally wants!" For the future.

[sun_soraya]

Thanks a lot for posting these. After seeing the pretty art (I really thought it was Perez at first!) I'm actually getting interested in buying a comission... never did that before, how detailed can (or must) the image descriptions be?

[mystery]

Good to know. I like his work a lot.