Aurora Rise

Hello!

As you can see, I am really working on trying to have a section dedicated to Deadpool. It started out as a joke...then it just made sense! It's still under construction so bear with me.


I would like to take the rest of this post to talk about the event  Project Hero   ourselves are putting together. We are working with the wonderful people at Aurora Rise to hold a raffle to help the victims of the shooting in Aurora Colorado at the midnight release of the Dark Knight Rises.
Aurora Rise was already able to reach 20,000 dollars so far to help pay for some much needed surgeries. We hope to add to that and continue their efforts.
We are having it September 22nd at Samurai Comics (Camelback location) where we will be holding a raffle with some pretty awesome prizes, artists will be drawing and signing, and you might just see a few Bat-fam members walking around talking to people and taking pictures. I am hoping to have the raffle live by next week. We will start with the items we have but will be adding additional ones up until the day of the event. You do not have to be at the event to win or to enter. We will be taking raffle purchases through paypal (info for that coming soon) and will be able to ship out prizes to winners, all you have to do is answer your phone when we call to tell you, you've won!

Check the link above at the Project Hero facebook to see the raffle prizes we currently have and check back to see what we've added. Any support is welcome, please spread the word. What happened to these people is an awful thing and we want to do our part to help.

Pictures of the raffle items we have so far....

Lovely trio of Bat-themed busts from the ever-talented Meredith McClaren

Awesome Batman drawing by Brandon G. James

2 signed Prints and an art book from Jamie Tyndall
Jamie is just one of those genuinely nice people. He was so generous to donate some pieces when we met him at ACE! and he was such a great guy to be around. Check out his stuff!

Stunning Catwoman replica goggles from the Dark Knight Rises by Ron
(Watch the video, they work!!)
youtube.com/watch?v=bUeebvYDZyw&feature=youtu.be

We (Know One's Designs) will be donating an 89 Batman replica batarang as well, I just don't have a picture of it yet since it's being molded. ;)

More to come!!

One Red Deadpool

Let's sum up what's happened since my last post....

I broke myself on a trampoline, twice. I spent two weekends laying on the couch in a percoset daze since the second time was my neck taking it's Revengeance on me for bouncing and bending my back the wrong direction the week prior. (Yes I sound old...I'm not. My health and my cat habits just make me seem that way)

I have been planning a charity event with our friends in Project Hero to help out the victims of the shooting in Aurora. We got the good folks from Aurora Rise on board for it too. They are having their big event this weekend. Check them out they are doing a great thing and I hope to add to their efforts in September.

I have a few commissions I have been trying to work on.

I have gotten a TON of interest in Deadpool lately. Thanks for all the excitement everyone! I DO have one request. If you have a simple, quick question that's fine ask me here or on Facebook. If you have questions about commission pricing etc, please go to our "Like" page on Facebook and in the notes section is a commission form, PLEASE fill this out before you send us an email. I love the interest in what we do, but remember I do work another 40hr a week job, have a side job (this), a blog (also this), house, husband, and cat that all need my attention as well and I don't have a lot of time to try to decipher requests. The commission form has everything I need to know to give you a quote. Remember I am visual too, I love when people send me lots of pictures to explain their ideas. :)

I know I have said this before am seriously considering making an additional link on here called "Deadpool's Corner" or "One Red Deadpool" just to put all of my posts for him.
I am almost done re-doing Garrick's X-Force Deadpool. I did it to show my very patient and awesome customer commissions the updates I wanted to make to it before I did it to theirs and asked what they thought. This is a situation where the phrase "It's better to ask for forgiveness after than permission first" does NOT apply! I am making some different changes to Garrick's that I will show when I am all done and I think they're pretty B.A. if I do say so myself....and I do say so...myself.  Expect some more Deadpool posts in the near future.

Greypool before with the vinyl

Shoulders with the vinyl

Re-done "athletic-cut" shoulders with matte metallic spandex

Re-done torso black parts pinned waiting for top stitching. The red lines are where Deadpool's  black normally extends to. I made it cover more for Garrick to hide the seam ripping from the vinyl and to create more heroic proportions. Commission 1 wanted the black to not extend past the red lines, see I told you I like visuals!

I had another idea awhile back and I just decided to put it on here. I usually listen to Pandora when I sew. I don't like silence when I'm trying to be creative. Every once-in-awhile I here a song that I feel the character I am working on would have on their personal playlist. this first happened when I was making Black Cat. Taio Cruz's "Break Your Heart" ft Ludacris came on and for whatever reason, I just felt this would defiantly be something she would listen to. It fit her "love em' and leave em' mentality and if I were a thief I would want a good beat to steal to ;).

Speaking of Black Cat and what super heroes would do in real life, check out Meredith's latest post in her gallery section for what they would look like. She took a few of the more famous DC and Marvel ladies and drew some more "real world" outfits and based their body-types off of Olympians. I'm in love and have been fan-girling over this for a week now. Remember, Meredith is the one that we worked with on the Wasp re-design. She's awesome on concepts and well, art in general.

Having Deadpool be the subject of most of my time lately, I feel he could be anything goes. This song is also a clue to the version I am basing Garrick's Greypool off of as well. Deadpool would probably go from something ridiculous to something hard and heavy. This week is ridiculous, Carley Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" Don't even tell me you can't see him dancing to this!
Is this nerdy? Yes. Am I maybe going through Glee deprivation? Yes definitely. Lots of things I do don't make sense or even go together, get over it.

More projects to come! I think I've got enough to post weekly for a while, woohoo!