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*update* I have some prints of this left for sale. $10 each + $5 shipping. See my journal for more information.

With a month's notice I painted this 11x14 painting to take to a first-year Transformers convention in Charlotte, North Carolina called Charticon. The convention was held this past weekend (August 9-11), and it was amazing. Beyond fantastic. I highly recommend people check out www.Charticon.com, and find them on facebook. Their next convention may not be for two years, but it is genuinely worth it to keep an eye on their goings on and their community.

The painting is done in acrylics on watercolor paper. I did this in about three weeks, from sketch to signature. The paints on Depth Charge himself are mixed with a steel-based paint and his tan/gold/cream segments are mixed with a metallic gold paint.

I also got the back of this painting signed by David Sobolov.

I admit, I had some major inner fangirling going on since Depth Charge is about my favorite character from the Beast Wars series.
Now, allow me to explain just why I was wigging out internally just a tad, and pardon me if it gets a bit long as I get wordy when excited, which I still am even after the convention has since ended, and I wish to get the memories in word before I forget details.

You see, I ran a few prints of this, and had sold one to a very nice young woman a few slots ahead of me in the autograph line. Me, being four or five people behind her, was talking to some people while waiting to start getting autographs. All the voice actors were lined up along a very long white table, and people just went down the line.

That day, Daniel Ross (voice of Starscream in some of the video games) was the first guest that you met at the start of the table. I was waiting to speak to him, and I looked up only to have David Sobolov absolutely staring at me with this sort of wide-eyed look. The woman I had sold the print to, had pointed me out in the line and I looked up at the right time.

Then I moved to speak to Daniel. He smarted off about me carrying my portfolio around of artwork, and wanted to see what I had. So, I handed him the painting because it's just the easiest thing to show since it was in hand. Lets say, I almost didn't get it back. At one point, he turned to David who was several feet down the table from him and exclaimed, "David! Have you seen this?". David acknowledged, and I finished up meeting with Daniel and moved along to meet David properly for the first time.

Before I could say anything, he greeted me with a "HELLO very talented person!' ( it may have been "extremely" but I honestly can't remember, I was a little dazed by this point already so not everything was sticking in the brainspace). We spoke a bit, and he signed the back of the painting for me, since I was an idjit and trimmed off too much of the watercolor paper to leave room to sign it on the front.

Then David topped it all off by asking me if I had prints, and if he could get one. I refused to let him pay me and just gave him one, because how could I charge the man who voiced my favorite character in my favorite show growing up? The show that is the reason I do a lot of the art I do, and why I learned how to do 3D modeling and visual effects. In a final boost to my not often so expansive ego, he displayed it on the table next to his own prints so everyone else in line could see it.

Inspiration is enough, David. That's worth more than the $10 you would have given me for it if I had let you pay.

Description
*update* I have some prints of this left for sale. $10 each + $5 shipping. See my journal for more information.

With a month's notice I painted this 11x14 painting to take to a first-year Transformers convention in Charlotte, North Carolina called Charticon. The convention was held this past weekend (August 9-11), and it was amazing. Beyond fantastic. I highly recommend people check out www.Charticon.com, and find them on facebook. Their next convention may not be for two years, but it is genuinely worth it to keep an eye on their goings on and their community.

The painting is done in acrylics on watercolor paper. I did this in about three weeks, from sketch to signature. The paints on Depth Charge himself are mixed with a steel-based paint and his tan/gold/cream segments are mixed with a metallic gold paint.

I also got the back of this painting signed by David Sobolov.

I admit, I had some major inner fangirling going on since Depth Charge is about my favorite character from the Beast Wars series.
Now, allow me to explain just why I was wigging out internally just a tad, and pardon me if it gets a bit long as I get wordy when excited, which I still am even after the convention has since ended, and I wish to get the memories in word before I forget details.

You see, I ran a few prints of this, and had sold one to a very nice young woman a few slots ahead of me in the autograph line. Me, being four or five people behind her, was talking to some people while waiting to start getting autographs. All the voice actors were lined up along a very long white table, and people just went down the line.

That day, Daniel Ross (voice of Starscream in some of the video games) was the first guest that you met at the start of the table. I was waiting to speak to him, and I looked up only to have David Sobolov absolutely staring at me with this sort of wide-eyed look. The woman I had sold the print to, had pointed me out in the line and I looked up at the right time.

Then I moved to speak to Daniel. He smarted off about me carrying my portfolio around of artwork, and wanted to see what I had. So, I handed him the painting because it's just the easiest thing to show since it was in hand. Lets say, I almost didn't get it back. At one point, he turned to David who was several feet down the table from him and exclaimed, "David! Have you seen this?". David acknowledged, and I finished up meeting with Daniel and moved along to meet David properly for the first time.

Before I could say anything, he greeted me with a "HELLO very talented person!' ( it may have been "extremely" but I honestly can't remember, I was a little dazed by this point already so not everything was sticking in the brainspace). We spoke a bit, and he signed the back of the painting for me, since I was an idjit and trimmed off too much of the watercolor paper to leave room to sign it on the front.

Then David topped it all off by asking me if I had prints, and if he could get one. I refused to let him pay me and just gave him one, because how could I charge the man who voiced my favorite character in my favorite show growing up? The show that is the reason I do a lot of the art I do, and why I learned how to do 3D modeling and visual effects. In a final boost to my not often so expansive ego, he displayed it on the table next to his own prints so everyone else in line could see it.

Inspiration is enough, David. That's worth more than the $10 you would have given me for it if I had let you pay.