This one could be subtitled "It's done Greg!" Greg Bettam is the artist on Xeno's Arrow, which is currently on hiatus but will be back next year. He's currently loaning his abilities to businesses who want to communicate via the graphic form at Time Bucket Graphics. I met him in 2000 at the San Diego Comic Con, when he was sketching in Indy Island. At the time, Greg was inspired by a small Ramona Fradon print I was carrying with me, and wanted to do something incredibly detailed. He outdid himself, and everyone who watched him sketch started chiming in with "It's done Greg!" after Stephen Gieger-Miller first told him it was done early on... after the first "It's done Greg!" he added the sea floor, seaweed, starfish, bubbles, coral, large fish, and more detail to everything he'd already done.
AQUAMAN
by Greg Bettam
20 July 2000
(permission to post given 31 October 2004 via e-mail)
www.thetimebucket.com
As a reminder: Almost every sketch in my sketchbook was non-commissioned and done on the floor of a con. These are not the best works of the artists. These are only representative of what the artist can do under pressure in a loud, crowded, and often stressed-out environment. Most of them were done as quickly as possible, to prevent huge lines from forming. Don't judge any of these artists negatively by the artwork you see, instead be as impressed as I am by what they accomplished in far-from-ideal conditions.
To see all the sketches I have permission to post so far, check out my Sketchbook Page. If you have any contact information for any of the other artists I'm trying to contact, please e-mail me. Click for a random Aquaman sketch.
The Saturday Sketch ™ is brought to you by the letters "G", "B" and the number "74", and also courtesy the fine artists who pour their lives into producing wonderful comic books, then come to conventions only to get asked by geeky fangirls for a sketch of Aquaman. Support an artist, buy a comic book.
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