JoeNittoly

You'll find me offering my art and creations at the following places this summer/fall:

Cambridge Comic Arts Festival

Saturday, August 27, 2016 / 11am - 5pm
Featuring cosplay guests, comic artists, and vendors
Idea Exchange, Queen's Square
1 North Square, Cambridge, ON

Phantasm: Fantasy & Sci-fi RPG Convention

September 24-25, 2016
Tabletop roleplaying games, wargames, vendors and more
For gaming veterans and newcomers alike!
Holiday Inn, Peterborough Waterfront
150 George St, Peterborough, ON K9J 3G5

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September Free Sketch Lottery Update

I would like to thank the patience of the winners of the 3 free sketches I offered last month. The first - a drawing of King Graham for Jotarion - is nearly done and the second and third drawings for Dangerman-1973 and zololuveru23 should follow soon thereafter. I meant to have them done sooner, but work, convention prep and other obligations have kept me quite busy. Speaking of conventions...

Upcoming Convention Schedule

I'll be at the following upcoming southern Ontario gaming and fandom conventions, so if you're planning on being at any of them as well, I do hope you'll drop by my table - where I'll have Pasiphilo's Paper Minis, my handmade drawstring dice bags, art prints, gaming dice, and other assorted geekery on offer. 

GenreCon Marketplace
Guelph, Ontario
October 17-19, 2014

Fanfare Geek Fest II Exhibitors
Toronto, Ontario
November 8, 2014

Project Play Vendors' Area
London, Ontario
November 23, 2014

Plus, a selection of my artwork will be on display at:

Creativity Connected
Richmond Hill, Ontario
November 12, 2014

I hope everyone is enjoying the Fall and looking forward to Hallowe'en.

Update: Requests are now closed and the results of the random draw, which I did using Random.org List Randomizer, are as follows:

1. Jotarion (complete)
   
2. Dangerman-1973 (complete)
   
3. zololuveru23 (complete)

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For the sake of practice, motivation and inspiration, I'm offering a free coloured character sketch to three deviants. If you'd like a free sketch, comment here with a description of who you'd like drawn and/or a reference of same. Then, next Friday (September 12, 2014) at 5:00 pm EST, I will close requests and randomly select 3 winners, from the list of those who commented here, through use of a list randomizer.

Instead of saying "first come, first served," in other words, I'm making this more like a lottery.

This offer is for a single, realistically proportioned character sketch in colour on a neutral background. The level of detail will be similar to the examples below - sketched lines with basic colour. 

      

I'm best at drawing humanoids, but if I do get a request for some sort of animal or monster, I'll give it a shot. Please use the comments here to describe your request only; if you have a question about what I'm offering, please send me a note instead.

Cheers!

My pageview count is approaching a fat round number - 25,000 - and I've seen other people offer kiriban prizes for such things. Should I offer something like this? I ask in part because I don't have very many watchers, so I'm not sure it's even worth it, but I'd certainly be willing to do a free drawing for someone if they were to actually win. Any interest... or alternative suggestions?

By the way, I'm also on Tumblr and considering doing a random draw giveaway of items from my Etsy store when I reach something like 100 followers, so that might be a fun thing to get in on, too.

Back to the world...

I'll be in the Artists' Alley this weekend - February 21-23 - for the final iteration of Con-G, Guelph's biggest geek culture convention. You'll find me at Table 7B with my full range of original-design gaming miniatures (including a brand new set), plus original and fanart fantasy illustrations, postcards, buttons, and other geeky goodies. See you there!