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Interviews 2012
Not sure why, but lately folks want to hear what I have to say! Ive been fortunate to have a number of online and print interviews the past couple of weeks and wanted to share here with you guys all the fun stuff. TorWars Mint-in-Box Toledo Blade Well, fun to me… maybe kinda boring…
Great article in the Toledo Blade!
Here is a fun article/interview I recently did with Kirk Baird for the Toledo Blade. It was a great opportunity to share with all my local friends and family. http://www.toledoblade.com/Art/2012/01/29/Area-illustrator-sells-his-work-to-Lucasfilm-Disney-DC-Comics.html
New Disney Artwork at The Art of Disney!!!
Just returned home from a fantastic trip to DisneyWorld for the Festival of the Masters exhibit throughout Downtown Disney. I was set up at The Art of Disney Gallery with fellow Acme artists William Silvers, and David Willardson. We spent the majority of the festival in the gallery meeting and greeting collectors and fans.…
New artwork featured in the Star Wars Blu-Ray for Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
A painting I did about a year ago for Topps Galaxy 6 has recently resurfaced as (insert drum roll here) the packaging art for The Empire Strikes Back Blu-Ray. Honored, excited, flattered, stoked, and beyond happy is the best way to describe how I feel about this. Thank you Lucasfilm for such a cool honor.…
New Licensed Star Trek artwork
Here is one of my most recent projects! Im creating a new line of fine art prints for the Star Trek fine art line! First outta the gates is a nice classic painting of our favorite ship in action. Looking forward to seeing where I can take this new line of original artwork! …
“Wookie the Barbarian” DONE!!!!
This one took awhile as new projects kept getting pushed in front of Chewie…. it was almost painful to keep putting it down and looking at the poor Wookiee at the back of the studio! I finally finished painting and it is being scanned right now and sent off for final approvals this afternoon! It…
15 New Star Wars Watercolor Drip style artwork debut 2-28-11
All new Star Wars Watercolor Drip series I created for the upcoming Topps Cards, Star Wars Galaxy 6 set. Because of the incredible response my Boba Fett “Replica” Watercolor Drip artwork received this past summer at both San Diego Comicon and Star Wars Celebration V, I have decided to pursue this style for a number of…
New Fine Art Star Wars project “Wookiee the Barbarian”
Here is a small section of the latest proposal to Lucasfilm / Acme Archives Direct….. I just recieved the green light on the project so its off painting this one! Again this is just a black and white teaser for whats to come! I guarantee that this piece is going to be something special. Heavily…
Brian Rood creating new art for Iron Gut Publishing
I have some very exciting news to share… I have just confirmed that I will be working with European Licensor/ Publisher “Iron Gut Publishing“! With a stable of licenses ranging from Star Trek to Muhammad Ali I am looking forward to creating some new artwork for them. I should have a few of the…
Reference shopping all week!
Spent the better part of this week digging up reference for 2 new Star Wars paintings and came up with about half a dozen ideas for some other new stuff! Long week on the computer but now I can go chain myself to the easel for the next month or so! As soon as I…