NEWS
Jan 21 2010
Convention Sketches, Not Just for Convention
Goers
We've discovered magic to let you get Neal Adams sketches at a price
level that you can afford, here on nealadams.com
Drawing at conventions. Neal has
limited time to do commissions. For a while, Neal even had to just refuse
to do them.
Our first solution was to bring a book of sketches with us. That
worked well enough, but many of them are for real collectors looking
to make an investment in something that costs a bit more and increases
in value. Also, fans really love to watch Neal draw. So the next experiment
was the sketch card. That worked great because Neal could lay out a
couple dozen in pencil before the show, and when someone bought one,
he'd ink it right there in a matter of minutes.
It worked great, but some fans really wanted to buy a bigger sketch
to put in a frame. So, at the last couple of shows, fans could purchase
a bust drawing for about $400-$500. For more money they could buy a
more serious drawing, but that would tie up Neal for a long time, so
we tried keeping it as detailed bust sketches.
By this point, a fan could come to a show and buy a sketch card, or
a bust, or a serious drawing from our book of sketches. We wanted to
try one more thing for the fans though. To provide a sketch at about
$200 at a reasonably large size. So we had a little experiment, on either
a blank cover comic, or on a comic back board, Neal would do a quick
profile sketch for $200. They weren't as detailed as the framed pieces
or the more expensive commissions, but Neal could do them quickly and
at a lower price. The fans just loved it, and Neal must have done about
20 per show between other commissions, and he still found time to talk
to his fans. Everybody wins.
So, we wanted to be even better prepared
for future shows. We printed up a drawing plate for Neal to draw on.
It looks just like a cover for a blank cover variant book. It's the
same size as a comic with a white space for Neal to draw in. We used
2 ply Cougar paper to print on, which has a fantastic drawing surface
for pencil or ink. I think we have all the bases covered now.
This week we decided that we'd like to offer some on our web site. Some
are done a little more detailed than others, since neal is doing this
in his free time, so we've gone over them to determine their values,
and we've put them in our store. It'd be a shame if we didn't make the
available to Neal Adams fans who can't make it to a convention. So here
you go. You can find them in our store under Original
Art Under $500.