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Just wanted to update this post with this new jpg that I added a touch of color to.

Been a while since I’ve posted any actual artwork.  Figured I’d show you guys what I do when I’m at work sitting around waiting to enter a meeting.  Obviously I doodle a LOT when I’m just sitting around waiting.  So instead of just continue that, I figured….I’d just draw a Knick or two between meetings at work.  And hopefully eventually I’d get a decent enough montage shot of some of my favorite players.  I started with Patrick on the bottom.  Which I was very happy with.  The second guy I drew was Anthony Mason.  I just L-O-V-E-D all the ridiculous stuff he would shave into his head back then.  Unfortunately, as I continued doing this time would dictate how much effort I would put into each figure.  And I gotta say…..Carmelo and Oak are pretty awful.  Oh well…maybe next time, right?

Can’t tell you how long this took as I did it in increments.  Generally about 5-10 minutes per guy.  Hopefully you can tell who is who.

I’ve got John Starks, Larry Johnson, Allan Houston, Mark Jackson, Amare Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony and Patrick Ewing.  I was hoping to throw in Gerald Wilkins and Johnny Newman, but ran out of space on my page.  This was done real rough inside of my sketchbook/notebook at work with a 2H pencil and Sharpie Pen.

And this is just some of the guys I enjoyed watching as I was growing up.  Which is why Clyde, Walt, Earl, Bernard, etc are not on it.  I’d be here forever if I was doing all the Knick greats.  I was about to add Starbury, until common sense took over.

Ok, gotta get back to work now.

-jerry

www.epicprops.com

hmmm….I smell something rotten here…..why YES, I’ve been swiped!

I originally posted this on January 11,2012.  I am now updating this post today January 12,2012 with yet another store I have found selling this design swiped from me.

The NBA Store of all people!

sheesh…I am starting to come to a loss for words.

This part of the post was originally written on January 11, 2012.

So this was just brought to my attention earlier today.  If you look at the above image, the design on the left, the one on Blue I personally designed March 15, 2011.  Which I can prove HERE.

I wrote all about it on my blog about which day I sent it out to the factory, when I received it back from them, etc.  I mean, this design I did was even written about by the guys at Hoopeduponline.com HERE.

I’m just saying that this is MY design.

Earlier today, A friend of mine sent me a link to Modell’s “uniquely designed” tee.  I’m not going to use their link as I don’t want to promote them.  It’s easy enough to go there yourself and find it if you must.  But here is a screengrab of the tee.

Look, I understand that this industry is all about using what other people did as inspiration.  But these guys at UNK flat out ripped me off.  Which I don’t really appreciate.  Why didn’t I make more you ask?

Simple.  I do this out of passion for art and design.  I’m not a big company.  I work out of my apartment.  I do this for people that really appreciate real art and real design.  I don’t even make money off of this stuff.  In general I actually lose a lot of money when I make new designs.  But I keep doing it because there are some people out there that genuinely get excited at what I do.  That motivates me.  It inspires me.

Generally, I try to do what I can to help others.  I do as much charity work as I can.  I really do try to give back to everyone that inspires me and keeps me going.

But then you find guys like this.

And it disgusts me.

I’m going to try everything in my power to get them to stop this.  Me being just a single person….I’m pretty sure I don’t have the resources to fight them.

So I’m asking you…everyone…anyone reading this.  If you’re reading this blog post, I’d like to think you guys are aware of how genuine in what I’m saying.  In knowing that I am trying to make a difference, and not a quick buck.

Please share this post with as many people as you can.

I need your help to show that the little guy can’t always get picked on.

Thanks for listening.

-jerry

www.epicprops.com

Secret Identities 2, BURN

So some of you may know that I’m the art director for Secret Identities.  We’ve been working on the second volume for some time now, and this time I’ll be working on a original piece along with my brother Jimmy.

Together we’re going to remix our original self published book BURN and use it for the book.  This version of BURN will be a period piece though.  We’ll be using The Opium Wars and The Boxer Rebellion as a heavy influence over the story.

This here is one of my first illustrations for the short we’re doing for Secret Identities 2 to help get a grasp of the feel of the story.

Don’t want to get too into things before we have more to show, but thought this would be a nice little update and proof that we are indeed working on the new volume.

So far our list of contributors and the stories they’ve been working on look to make the 2nd volume much tighter and hopefully better than the first.

-jerry

www.epicprops.com

All 106 of my Star Wars Galaxy 7 Sketch Cards….

Hey everyone.  Just wanted to start the new year off by giving you a massive jpg of all 106 sketch cards I drew for the TOPPS Star Wars Series 7 Galaxy Sketch Cards.

Just an FYI.  I went back and added more “red color” into the imperial guard and darth maul drawings.  Previously my red marker had been drying out, so I went and got a new one and went back and finished them off.

Enjoy.

-jerry

www.epicprops.com

My final batch of Star Wars Galaxy 7 Sketch Cards!

Wow.

I’m done.

You have no idea how happy I am to say those words.  Unfortunately, I carried over some bad habits from my last batch of cards and rushed through a few of these.  And they suffered tremendously for them.  But then I decided to break my rule of only drawing the original three films, and I drew Darth Maul.

Which really did help.  It helped a lot to be able to draw someone new that I hadn’t drawn yet.

Then, with my final four, I worked pretty hard at doing what I hope are some of my better sketches.

Anyway, I’m done.

ha.

I can’t say that enough.

All 106 of them are done.  I feel great.

This was pretty grueling.  Now that I’m done I can say that it was fun and a great experience.  But I highly doubt I’ll be doing this again anytime soon.

I will say that I’m pretty pumped to do some Star Wars commissions at cons now.  I can draw quite a few of these guys from memory now.

Think I’ll go enjoy a drink of Johnny Blue now.

Talk to you guys later.

-jerry

www.epicprops.com