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

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Fair enough.

That might partly be my fault, since I never had the Robin/Deathstroke piece inked. I thought about it at the time, and Mitch offered (or to put me in touch with an inker), but it was my first commissions and I was worried the fine linework might be lost, and left it with "just" the pencils. So Tom essentially coloured from the pencils and made his own judgement call about the inking effect.

[yaseen101]

OK. Though, I don't blame you, we just have different tastes in art, I would have probably left with only the line works too if it was my first commission.