by Wildman | 26/01/2018 | Art, General
Following last weeks little blunder when I announced the Transformers Sketch Auction a bit too early, here they are again.
Seven sketches that were the first to be completed as part of the Transformers Sketchbook project. These seven were not commissioned by any of the sketchbook patrons so I am now putting them up for auction.
Links to the specific auction pages for each character are…
AFTERBURNER, AIRRAID, BLASTOFF, BACKSTREET, BLADES, APEFACE, BATTLETRAP.
Or you can see them all at www.ebay.co.uk/usr/andrewwildman
And if you are interested in the printed Transformers Sketchbooks, check them out in the SHOP
by Wildman | 22/01/2018 | Art
Following the announcement of the auction I have had a request for information about which issue and page number these pages are. Attached are images of the pages with the issue number and page number as their file name. Hope this helps.
by Wildman | 19/01/2018 | Art
Many moons ago I used to work on the UK edition of TRANSFORMERS. Published by Marvel UK it was one of a number of titles that came out of the London office. At the time I was working on Thundercats but my work came to the attention of the Transformers editor, a certain Mr Simon Furman. Yes, that one. He asked me to work on the book. That was back in 1988. Here we are 30 years later and some of that original art has come to light. The pages are from about ’89. As they have been kept in a portfolio for the last thirty years they are in really great condition. I have put them all up on eBay so that some lucky person can have it in their possession, rather than it just sitting in a drawer in my studio.
You can see all 10 pages at ebay.co.uk/usr/andrewwildman
Good luck.
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by Wildman | 16/01/2018 | Art
Many of you will know that a little while ago I produced a series of (so far) three Transformers Sketchbooks.
The sketches were all commissioned by a number of very generous ‘patrons’. The project ran on Patreon for a while and the three books went to print. At the beginning of the project, and to get things rolling, I completed a number of sketches before the patrons came on board. these sketches feature in Book One. I have now put them up for auction as they are just sitting around in the studio gathering dust.
You can see the listed sketches on my ebay page at ebay.co.uk/usr/andrewwildman when they go live on January 26th
by Wildman | 04/01/2018 | Art, Life
I had the pleasure today of giving a talk to the Foundation Art Students at Brookes University in Oxford. Have done a couple of these and they are always fun. Being able to give the benefit of hindsight to the students is a joy. My career has had many ups and downs and changes in direction. All seems a bit chaotic at times but as I look back at some of those moments when everything seemed to change I can see that it wasn’t all just good or bad luck. Hindsight is a wonderful thing that sometimes enables us to see what we would have done differently to avoid certain circumstances. But for me, it is not that kind of hindsight that is interesting. What I can now see, and what I love to tell the students, is that if I knew then what I know now I could actually have caused some of those career breakthroughs rather than just rely on the luck that sometimes came my way. These insights have formed the basis for a new online lecture that I am developing. This will be available on my website or through an online lecturing platform. I told the students today that I was going to use them as guineapigs. Many thanks to them for letting me test it out.
More news on the online lecture when I have had a chance to fully develop it and film it.
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