San Diego Comic Con is next week!
You can find me sharing a table with Olly Moss and Mike Mitchell at the Gallery Nucleus booth #2743.
I will be debuting a number of new things for the show. Including this “Caring For Others” print.
I will be posting a more detailed list of things i will bring and signing times very soon!
Omg, you guys.
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Two great shows are happening on Friday. One in Los Angeles and one in New York City. I have paintings in both shows.
SPACE! The Gallery Show
(curated by the super popular bro, MIKE MITCHELL)
June 21st 7 – 10pm
@Gallery 1988 (west) in Los Angeles
Here is my contribution to the SPACE show. It is called simply “The Cosmos”.
ALSO, THIS FRIDAY in Brooklyn is this amazing show at Bunnycutlet Gallery curated by My Plastic Heart.
15 Beats: The Artists of My Plastic Heart
Opening night June 21st, 7 – 10pm
Bunnycutlet Gallery
158 Roebling Street
Brooklyn, NY
myplasticheart.com
bunnycutlet.com
Here is one of the paintings i will have in that show. It is called “Freakin”.
You can get them online or right at the shop!
Oh, man! Just look at that, THE GREAT BATTLE OF OUR TIME!
Come celebrate the release of Double Fine Action Comics Volume 1 and 2 from ONI Press!
We will be signing books and just having a great time together. Bring your friends and loved ones.
Scott C. Double Fine Action Comics book signing party!
Thursday June 6th
7 – 9 pm
540 Metropolitan Ave in Brooklyn
Here is a facebook event for it, so you can keep tabs on who is going. It will be a real to do.
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This weekend will be exciting, you guys, because the Toronto Comic Arts Festival will be taking place once again. May 11-12. My favorite of all the festivals!
I will be there with Joe White @ TABLE 154
I shall have with me a bunch of new things and old things including the new Volumes 1 and 2 of The Double Fine Action Comics from Oni Press, The Art Of Brutal Legend book from UDON, the HICKEE book from Topatoco, Great Showdowns book, and the newest prints “Sharing Time” and “Volcano Cloud“ from Poster Cabaret.
I will also be participating the the following panels:
Comics vs Games: Narrative Intersections
Featuring Scott C., Bryan Lee O’Malley, Ben Rivers, Jim Zub, Moderator Miguel Sternberg
Saturday, May 11, 1:00pm-2:30pm
@ Bit Bazaar, Bento Miso, 862 Richmond Street West (Queen & Strachan)
FREE
Live Drawing… 2! Four creators enter, one creator leaves! Come watch four artists draw for their lives – and for your entertainment. Winners will feast on the souls of the losers (vegetarian option available). Featuring Phil McAndrew, Lucy Knisley, Jim Rugg, and Scott C.! Sunday May 12, 4 – 5pm
Here is a full list of what i shall have with me:
Hey, you guys want to go behind the scenes? See what happens behind those scenes?
The Scorsese tribute show that Spoke Art curated at Bold Hype Gallery in New York last weekend was a sweet success. The piece I created for the show was called “The Five Points Experience”. It was inspired by the epic fight scene at the beginning of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York.
Spoke Art will be releasing a limited edition print of “The Five Point Experience” at 5pm PST today! So go the Spoke Art site and prepare for that.
Would you like to go behind the scenes and see what went into this piece? Well, let me take you there, my friends. You deserve it.
1. INSPIRATION
I very much enjoyed the opening fight scene from this film. It reminded me of those classic Bruegel paintings depicting the everyday craziness of medieval life in the streets. People hanging out, fooling around, fighting, chatting, selling things, standing on their heads,these have been some of the most exciting paintings for me to look at ever since i was a child. Old newspaper illustrations of the five points gave the impression that the New York streets of the 1800′s were just as packed with crazy activity.
Check out all these medieval guys having a blast together in the streets…
The New York streets were just as packed with activity as these medieval villages… 
And here is Scorsese’s Five Points. Bill The Butcher’s gang is getting all pumped in this first shot here.
2. DRAWING TIME!
I took all of this reference to the cafe and sketched dudes fighting and having a rough time along with some loose layout sketches…
3. COMPUTER TIME
I scanned all these doodles and composed them into a nice little piece. Very loose of course, so i don’t get bummed on myself if the final painting doesn’t turn out exactly like the drawings. I like to use the doodles as they are exactly and just blow them up so they retain that same energy.
Put some rough values in there so see how the groups of dudes looked there. It is hard to tell when it is just line work.
This is what i printed out and traced onto the watercolor paper…
4. Tracing Time
I traced that thing right onto the paper with my pencil and my light box. It was no big deal.
5. Painting time
Then it was painting time. I started by choosing some colors that might go nicely together and tried to stick to those for the rest of the time..
I like to do a big wash of the background color first. And then i put all the skin tones in. I don’t know why i do this. It’s just a superstitious thing that i do.
Then i just put all the basic colors in there. It looks like a mess usually and I always get a little worried at this stage.
When i can’t handle it any longer i mix a good line color and paint the line work. I am thankful for this point because then they start to look like little dudes with little lives…
Paint that house. Don’t forget the house.
Finally i could relax and begin bringing out the value contrast a bit and make those darks way darker. Make those pants really pop there.
6. CALLING IT DONE!
Eventually, i just need to call it done because I could noodle on this thing forever. So after adding some gouache spots of white for snow, i call it done! And it looked like this! And still does to this day!
oh, wait! THE FRAMING!
I found this amazing old frame in a thrift shop and my friends over at Make A Frame in Brooklyn turned it into the sweetest little piece. I was super happy about how it turned out. I could see it chilling in an old bar in the Five Points perhaps.
Thank you, everyone for reliving the magic with me. If you are interested in a print of “The Five Points Experience”, you should jump on it today at 5pm PST at Spoke Art!
Ok! Later days!
scott c
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It’s time to look back onto 2012 and reminisce together, you guys. I’ve had a real amazing time making showdowns for you all this time. We had a little art show in LA and released the first ever book! So there is much to celebrate.
So let’s look upon the Great Showdowns that seemed to be the most popular! (judging by the notes they got. is how i tallied them)
anyway, thanks for everything! It’s been super great.
your pal, scottc
“The Slayers”
My piece for the Supersonic Electronic Invitational that opens tonight at Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco!
OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, JANUARY 3RD @ 6-10pm
Spoke Art · 816 Sutter Street · San Francisco, California 94109
Merry holidays, you guys!
It is time for a book signing party in New York City! The place in which i live! Come for books, paintings, and prints and just get jolly with us! I will draw in whatever you put in front of me!
We will have these things:
Great Showdowns signing with Scott C.
Saturday December 8th, 7 – 8pm
235 South 1st Street – Brooklyn
So please come by! I would love to see you.
your pal, scott c.
p.s. here is one of the prints that will be in the Tender Times set…
Well, it is the Holiday season again, you guys. Time to get super joyous and give things to each other.
I know it can sometimes be hard to think of things to give to loved ones, but don’t worry because i have made a list for you. The MASTER LIST that is sure to get any loved one incredibly pumped. And here it be…
And that is the Scott C Holiday Gift List! I hope you totally find something that they might like!
*****Oh, and a special note: If you live in New York City and would like any of this stuff signed by my hands, i will be doing a signing party in Brooklyn at Cotton Candy Machine on December 8th, 7- 8 pm! We will have books and prints and even original Showdowns paintings for you! We will also be releasing a new limited edition set of Tender Times prints! So you should come!
Well, i am back from the UK travels, you guys. It was an amazing trip. Thank you to Forbidden Planet in London and Thought Bubble in Leeds!
Here are some photos from our adventures:
First night was spent with bros Olly Moss, Rex Crowle, and Aled Lewis near this old clock…
The signing at Forbidden Planet with Olly Moss was super fun.
Derek Bremner took some awesome photos of the event. You can go look at them right HERE.
Katie and I visited Corfe Castle. My new favorite castle…
We also visited Haworth in the North. The little town where the Bronte sisters lived…
The Friday before Thought Bubble was the insane Mondo show. It was pretty neat to see all those posters large, as they were meant to be seen. The Q&A was a crazy mob scene. But a graciously controlled mob scene. Justin is a good master of ceremonies.
Thought Bubble itself was absolutely amazing. I could not believe how many people came by the table. I was blown away and almost had some tears. Thought Bubble itself was super well organized! Lisa and Clark were the best. Thanks to Nabil at Travelling Man for getting all the books there!
Met some amazing people at the show. Some of them gave me sweet little drawings! Like this pleasant one here of me showing down with a TV!
Alex was the dude who helped KAte and I out at our tables all weekend. He was a real together dude.
The big Thought Bubble gathering was at this place called the Corn Exchange. The outside looked like a cool old dome, the inside looked like the inside of an actual universe with organized stars…
The whole weekend was splendid and i am happy that i got to spend good quality time with old and new friends. Here is an example of some friends: Olly, Aled, Becky and Frank, and Clark!
That’s the end! Thanks, the UK. You are pretty great over there.
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THOUGHT BUBBLE FESTIVAL is this weekend in Leeds!
I will be at table 20 in Royal Armouries Hall Nov 17-18th!
I will also be participating in these things:
In addition to the new Great Showdowns book, i will be debuting two new prints!! “The Hilltop” and “Lazy Afternoon”
Here is a checklist of what i will be bringing to Thought Bubble:
Katie and I are coming to England, you guys! We will be doing lot’s of exploring, but also making some appearances and signings!! I am very excited to see everyone.
Here is what i will be doing while i am there:
In addition to the new Great Showdowns book, i will be debuting two new prints!! “The Hilltop” and “Lazy Afternoon”
Here is a checklist of what i will be bringing with me to Thought Bubble (I’ll have some prints at Forbidden Planet, as well):
It is HERE!!
The Great Showdowns
With a foreword by Neil Patrick Harris
and introduction by Scott C. (who is me)
Over 150 Showdowns from the Great Showdowns series. You can get it at your local bookstore or anywhere online!! Go get it right now!
Slashfilm is doing is special contest all week with brand new showdowns for the favorite films of the 5 Slashfilm writers! You can win books! Go HERE!
Here are some quotes from interesting people about it!
“I love this book!”
- Morgan Spurlock
“In this beautifully funny chronicle of the world’s most momentous confrontations, there is only one true victor. And his name is Scott Campbell.”
- Edgar Wright
“His simple yet evocative style is instantly recognizable, and timeless. I love his artwork!”
- Seth Green
And here are some reviews and interviews about it!
So i hope you enjoy it!! I will be doing signings around the New York area this month and in London at Forbidden Planet on November 8th and then up at Thought Bubble in Leeds on Nov 17-18.
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This Mondo show happened this past weekend in Austin, but will be up for awhile. All of the artwork is online right HERE and it is all pretty amazing.
This is the piece i contributed. It is called “Beautiful Wheels”
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Hey, you guys!
I am honored to have East Dragon, West Dragon included in this years’ Society Of Illustrators Original Art Exhibition.
The opening happens this Thursday October 25th @6pm, but it runs through December 22nd!
Come over if you want! It does cost money though. more info HERE!
I am coming to Chicago this weekend!!
On Friday, i will be at DePaul University doing a workshop and a talk about all kinds of interesting things! The talk is open to the public!
DePaul talk – Friday Oct 19. 6pm @ DePaul CDM Theater
and Quimby’s on Saturday for a Great Showdowns book signing and chat! But we’ll have other books there as well. Whatever you dig.
GREAT SHOWDOWNS BOOK SIGNING – Saturday Oct 20. 7pm @ Quimby’s Bookshop
So please come out for this stuff! I’d love to meet you and draw in books!
also, i am excited to explore Chicago for the FIRST TIME EVER! oh, man.
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New York Comic Con is this weekend!! I shall be all over the place at this show.
The GREAT SHOWDOWNS book will be released at the Titan booth #832 and i will be doing a BOOK SIGNING on Friday @ 12:15-1:15 in the autograph area, Table 4. We are also doing a GREAT SHOWDOWNS PANEL on Friday 7-7:45pm at the Unbound Stage Hall 1B. So please come!
I will be mulling about here and there at the Titan booth(832). And at times at Insight(1882). So you can sometimes find me at there as well. I should have some prints with me. I will be debuting a special print for the show, the “Party Planet” print!
But anyway, here is my schedule:
Hello, you guys!
Some of you may have seen the Great Showdowns livestreams before and that is great news if you have. We did a one most recently at Gallery 1988 Return Of The Great Showdowns exhibition (on display until OCtober 13th) where a live studio audience was on hand to watch the painting of a very special showdown from the film Back To The Future Part 2. Jeff Yorkes was kind enough to document the day with photos.
Would you like to see what happened? well, let us journey forth together.
1) Here are the materials laid forth for everyone to see. Pencils, pens, watercolor paints, brushes, watercolor paper, copy paper, and a plastic bag. I did not use the pens for anything. they were just there.
2) Here i begin to sketch out the dudes in the hoverboard scene. (earlier in the day, i chose the hoverboard scene and did my RESEARCH, gathering photo reference from the internet. It is all chilling there on a Cintiq, so i can just look at it when the heck ever.) i am in the process of drawing young biff in this photo right here.
3) Here is one of the pages of sketches that we scanned in. not super tight and doesn’t totally look like the people yet, but that’s ok because i can mess with stuff in photoshop later.
4) And here i am doing those photoshop things. i’ve cut and pasted all the sketches into one file and am now just moving little bits around, like eyes and ears, so they look a littlemore like the real characters.
5) When the drawing is solid in photoshop, i printed it out and pulled out my friend Chris’s enormous light board that he let me borrow. Thing was nuts. I had to put it on the floor and get kneely with it. Here i am putting my special homemade cardboard window around the little watercolor paper to it isn’t too bright for my sensitive eyes.
6) In fact, that monster lightboard was so bright, i had to put other things around it to block out the light, like trash and some weird black zipper case. Anywho, i traced the drawing right onto the paper there using a 4H pencil because it needed to be a real subtle line. I don’t want people noticing it later. The lines. And it’s still real sloppy looking at this point because i am just going to be painting it again anyway.
7) Here i start laying in all the colors! Very lightly. Pink bat, jackets, shoes, all that… i bought that paint plate on ebay a million years ago as a part of a whole set of nice plates, that i can’t find anymore.
8) Check it out. More colors. It looks almost ready for the line stage.
9) Oh wait. I guess i have more orange to paint on there somewhere. Who knows where though. Maybe the board? I seem pretty into it. Biff is yelling on the screen there trying to get my attention.
10) Here is a close up of the paints just before the line stage! Look at that loosey goosey mess of colors.
11) Line stage! My favorite stage. But also so stressful because this is when it really does need to look like the guys. Sometimes it is sweet success and other times it is not sweet success. But almost always, i am very quiet during this stage. A very tense and suspenseful stage. The studio audience was sweating.
13) And after a bit more value touch up, we call it done! A brand new GREAT SHOWDOWN is born. Cute little Showdown.
That is about it! Thanks to everyone who came!
If you would like to see this showdown or other like it get painted, you can go to livestream.com/scottlava.
Ok, thanks! Talk to you soon!
..scott c
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Well, that was sure a splendid week last week. Want to Hear about it? Ok, i shall tell you about it.
The Great Showdowns exhibition went super well! Thanks to Gallery 1988 for setting up such a great show and for all of you who came out for it! I very much enjoyed myself. I hope you did as well. There were many familiar faces and many brand spanking new faces that i totally enjoyed seeing.
If you would like to view the show in it’s entirety and purchase any of them go to nineteeneightyeight.com
The contest went very well. There were 10 people that handed in perfect scores, so i drew the final name out of the hat that was shaped like Darth Vader’s head. and the winner was and is………
Tony Piantesdosi!
He chose the film BRICK as the showdown he would like painted. Which is exciting because i have never seen Brick, but i am very much looking forward to watching it and maybe eating some mint snacks while i do so. I hear the dialog is pretty interesting to listen to. I will paint it for you soon!
Anyway, here are some photo highlights from the show. (Some photos were taken by some of you! thank you!)
1) Here is Katie hanging the show. She did it all in one day. She is amazing and experienced at that sort of thing. She used special tools to make sure everything was straight….
2) Here i am painting the title of the show on the wall. I used a shakey hand technique that well trained artists use….
3) All my favorite faces were the first to line up for the show. Josh brought a chair to sit in. I like all of these guys a lot. They are super nice people. Josh, Peter, Germain, Amanda, Richard, the whole gang. It’s a real good gang.
4) The line started growing a bit, so i went out to hang with everybody and draw some portraits…
5) Here i am drawing someone’s portrait. This is what my face looks like while i am looking at someone else’s face…
6) Here is an example of a portrait. This particular portrait was of Peter. I labeled it in case people had a difficult time figuring it out.
7) We opened the doors and let in all of the good times party….
8) Those red dots mean that those Showdowns will have new homes to live in after the exhibition comes down.
9) Check out this moody photo someone took…
10) OMG, look at the tattoo that this fellow got of my Beatles painting from a couple months back! It looks pretty sweet! Almost looks like a forearm gatling gun tattoo. but if you look close… it’s just the Beatles with long legs.
11) I got some amazing little gifts from people! Like these little guys…
12) And here is Tony Piantesdosi’s winning scorecard. Tony’s got a sweet writing style. I am excited to talk with him about this film BRICK.
ON SATURDAY, we did the Livestream with a LIVE studio audience! It was super fun, but not without it’s technical difficulties. In fact, who knows if the videos will ever be on Livestream, but you can go see if you want! right here: livestream.com/scottlava
We chose BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 as the Showdown to be painted. Specifically, the hoverboard scene. Because that’s the main part i remember.
The live studio audience was awesome. lots of sweet questions and comments going on. Thanks for coming, everyone!
And here is the finished Showdown! I’ll post it on greatshowdowns.com this week.
And now for the EXTRA CREDIT STORY:
I had the amazing opportunity to visit NPH and the gang on the set of How I Met Your Mother. What an amazing bunch of people that is. A sweet TV show family.
Chris and Pam were calling all kinds of shots that day. They are the best. And they were wearing shirts of the HIMYM Showdown i painted for Pam. Best surprise ever to see this.
They put me in a bar scene to support Jason. I pretty much nailed it. i probably looked like a was talking about some very interesting stuff behind him there.
Then we posed.
But oh, man, you guys. Look at this. The whole crew wearing the shirt! It was really the best ever. man. I love this whole group! Super fun visit.
Anywho, thanks for looking at all this stuff. i very much enjoyed my trip and feel super inspired now that i am back home in NYC!
Oh, and you can all buy the new Great Showdowns book very soon! in bookstores everywhere and online in late October! Keep your eyes peeled!
Thanks, everyone! You are great!
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Exhibition and book release
Over 200 Showdown Paintings by Scott C.
this Friday September 21st, 7 – 10pm
(show runs until October 13th)
Gallery 1988 on Melrose - Los Angeles, CA
It is time, everyone. The GREAT SHOWDOWNS are returning to Gallery 1988 for another super fun evening. This time there will be almost 250 Showdown paintings on display for you to enjoy and purchase. Most all of the Showdowns that have appeared on GreatShowdowns.com since March 16th 2011. I will post the ones that will NOT be in the show later this week. so you know.
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SOME OF THE SPECIAL THINGS AT THE OPENING:
SPX is this weekend in Bethesda, MD!
I will be at Tables I-10/11 with Nathan Stapley, Olly Moss, and Mike Mitchell.
We’re DEBUTING these 3 new limited edition prints from Poster Cabaret!
“The Peek”
“The Wall”
And here’s what else i will have at the table:
So anywho, here is the schedule:
Princeton Book Festival, September 8, Princeton Public Library. 65 Witherspoon St. Princeton
Hello, the world! This Friday is another sweet little show at Ltd. Gallery in Seattle. This show will be exhibiting artork inspired by modern day video games by artists working in the video game field. Lot’s of Valve artists, i think. which should be sweet.
The above piece is my addition to the show. It is called “Rollin’”
PRESS START Video Game Art by Video Game Artists
Friday August 31st 7pm on Display until Septemeber 26th
@ Ltd. Art Gallery, 307 E PIKE ST. SEATTLE, WA
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CRAZY 4 CULT is in NYC this year! And it is happening tomorrow!
“Crazy 4 Cult NEW WORK”
annual cult movie art show
Thurs, August 9th from 6-9pm
Gallery1988 NYC Pop-up Store
64 Gansevoort St., NY
show open August 9 – September 1, 2012
I will not be able to attend, but this painting of mine will be there. It is called “Pile of Pee Wees”.
