A lot to catch up

Hey Folks,

long time no see. Sadly lately I wasnt able to post any news, because I had some problems with my Computer I wasnt able to enter any Googlerelated pages such as my blog. I think it must have been a bug or something like that. So my best friend Kadir helped rebooting my old PC and wow all of a sudden everything suddenly works so much faster. Thank you so much Kadir, youre the Man!!! :)

As some of you might recall Ive been preparing for F.A.C.T.S. Convention in Belgium, which took place in Ghent from October 17th - 18th. I have to say the show was really amazing, I met a bunch of new poeple and made some new friends too.
I also hat the pleasure to meet the great C.B. Cebulski and had a very good Portfolio review with him, of which I hope to be able to tell you something within the next weeks. I also met such great artists such as my buddy Giuseppe Cammuncoli, Romano and Eva Hopkins.

Here are some of the Photos that we shot during the show:

Me and C.B. Cebulski

Me and Giuseppe Cammuncoli
Me and Eva Hopkins
Me and Jimmy "The Haitian" Jean Louis from the TV Show Heroes
C.B. taking a power nap
Get on your knees "Rebel Scum!"
A Collage one of myFans did. Thanks so much :)
As you can see I was having a lot of fun during the show :-)

One week later I visited Comic Action Essen in Germany, which in many ways for me was very successfull too. I had the pleasure to meet such great Artists such as Clint Lengley, Linda Luksic Sejic, Stjepan Sejic and Joe Madureira. Sadly Im still having trouble uploading pictures on my Computer, so I promise I will have the pictures from that how up later on too.

Ive also have some really good news concerning my new work. My next Comic Book "Bald Eagle" will be published in Janurary 2010. You can find more infos on the book here .
Here´s a promo Picture of the Character I did back in May 2009
I also did a bunch of Sketchcards for Charity, which I will also upload soon.

But now to the really great News!!! In March 2010 my first official the Phantom Cover will be published!! Sadly I had to do some adjustments to the original Cover and change the Phantoms Face, because my publisher thought that the Phantom looked to Old.
However, heres the cover from thumbnail to the finished piece:

Thumbnail
Prelim
Finished
Colours


I think that was all the news I got for youall :)

Regards,
Sedat

Lets Put a Smile on that Face! :-)

Hey Folks,
So Im preparing for F.A.C.T.S convention in Belgium and Im totally excited of how things will be there. The Convention Programm has a lot of great artists pros and aspiring artists, so I hope to meet a lot of great people, make some new friends and ofcourse meet some old friends too.

Ive prepared some artwork for the convention that I will sell and also bring some of my older works and try to sell them. mostly I will sell rough sketches but also some of my more elaborte artwork.

My buddy Achim also printed a sketchbook, that I will be selling during the convention. I hope people will be interested in buying the sketchbook and some of my original Artwork too.

Here are some of the pictures Ive prepared for the convention.
I hopeyou all like it, and if someone of who reads this blog will be there too, just come over and say hi:)
Regards,
Sedat

F.A.C.T.S.

Finally it has been made officially.
I have been announced for a convention in Belgium as a Guestartist.

More Informations here http://facts.be/guestshtml/fa_sedat.html

Special Thanks to Richard, Achim and the whole F.A.C.T.S. Staff.

Sedat:)

Sketchbook Goodies

Hey Folks,
I thought itll be cool to show you all some Stuff, that Ill have inside my Sketchbook for a convention in Belgium that Ill be attending. Other than that I dont have much to say.

Enjoy;)

Sketchbook Cover step by step

Hey friends,
A few weeks ago a friend of mine (Achim Reinecke) told me that I should finally do a sketchbook.
I liked the Idea (actually i liked it a lot), and thought there should be something special about.

While doodling around and playing a little bit with different pencil tones I accidently found out, that my shadingskills have gotten a little bit better. So I did a bunch of try out pieces on printing paper, and yes it truely worked. So I thought to myself why shouldnt I try out something big?

Well, this is what came out in the end. I really like this piece, something that doenst happen usually:-)

The first step was to draw the picture on average printing paper and adding lightsources and minimal shading to the prelim. After that I lightboxed the picture (Sadly I didnt do a scan of the lightboxed piece, but you can get the Idea from looking at the unfinished pieces). Then I went down and added the gray tones. Ive used black bencils and every possible soft pencil (3B - 8B) and some graphite pencil.

I hope you guys enjoy the artwork. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun. More a like to come soon:-)
Regards,
Sedat

Yes I can!

No, dont worry, this isnt going to be another stupid way of using a Barack Obama picture to sell comics or something like that.
What I mean, when I say Yes I can, is that it finally happened! On May 12th of 2009 my first back up story got published for a american comic book publisher. Moonstone Books finally published my artwork, and I have to admit its a great feeling to know that it finally happened. When I read the email by my Publisher, Joe Gentile, I almost started crying out of happyness. I ran up the stairs and hugged and kissed my mother!

The Story is pubished in Captain Action#4, and its only 6 Pages. It tells the story of a Character, called Lai Wan, a person who is able to read peoples thoughts just by touching them.

Joe liked my artwork a lot and Ive just started working on my next project, which is going to be a series called "Bald Eagle". I was told that if everything works out well, Ill be soon working on something bigger!
I hope that all this will finally lead to something bigger! Jim Lee, Im coming :-)!

Since the book has been published I think it will be ok to post the pages here.

If youre interested to buy the book, then either ask your Comic shop for Captain Action#4 by Moonstone books, or buy the book at www.Moonstonebooks.com or here .

All the best,
Sedat:)

Not finished yet

I think Conan is going to kick this Dudes Ass;)

I started this picture just for fun. Im not sure if Iam going to finish it, Ive been working on it in my sparetime. The new project thatIm hopefully going to work on for Moonstonebooks is so great and I cant wait to finally get the first script:-)

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did enjoy drawing this...I love details:)

Here we go again

Hey Folks,
long time no post, due to lack of time I havent been able to update the blog and post some new stuff. Ive been quiet busy lately and had to go through hard times (as usual), but hey they say "what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger!" and I totally have to agree on that. Although Im still thinking about the stuff that has happened lately, It doesnt bother me as much as it did in the beginnng.
However, my first shortstory should be published soon, (I dont know exactly when), but Ill let you all know when and where you can purchase it. As Ive mentioned before I did the pencils and the Inks on this project (inks Digitally), and my editor liked the stuff, he liked it so much, that he wants me to draw a BI-Monthly Book for them, which in my opinion is a great step forward.
Sadly, the colouring didnt turned out as Ive been hopeing, but since I didnt colour the book, its not my fault;)

I really hope that this whole thing will lead me to more projects and maybe to a gig with a bigger Publisher as well.

Heres some of the Artwork.
I hope you all enjoy it,
Regards,
Sedat