Free Sketches and Comics Workshop!

We've got a couple of Guild related events coming up in the next week or so:

* This Saturday, October 29th, Guild members will be at Lightning Comics in Coeur d'Alene from Noon to 3 pm, drawing free sketches for customers as part of their Halloween weekend promotion. They will also have their annual costume contest at 1pm.

In addition, we'll have copies of the new Comicsmiths' Guild Anthology Vol. 2 for sale, with some of the creators involved on hand to sign the book!


* Then on Tuesday, November 2nd, Guild members will be heading up a Making Comics Workshop at the Lake City High School in Coeur d'Alene. The class is for Lake City High students, and will be in Room C-11, starting at 2:30 pm.

Free Comic Book Day!

This Saturday (May 7) is Free Comic Book Day, and the Guild will be present at local comic shops, sketching up a storm...

Members will be at Lightning Comics in Coeur d'Alene from 10:30 - 2:30, and then over at the Regal Riverstone theater from 4:30 - 6:30 drawing free Thor sketches for customers.

We'll also be over at Merlyns in Spokane from 11-2 doing free sketches for kids, as well as on the following Sunday at the same time. Along with sketches from the Guild, the Imperial 501st should be there from 1 -3 for photo ops and there will be a costume contest with prizes for kids and adults.

If you're not local, be aware that Free Comic Book Day is an international event, so you can check the FCBD website and find a participating retailer in your area. Otherwise, we hope to see you this weekend!

Guild Sketches - Green Lantern

Continuing to play catch-up with more weekly sketch subjects from Guild members, here are a few members of the greatest space-cops in the universe, the Green Lantern Corps! For this selection each person picked a character (sometimes more than one) to draw, and then sent the pencils to our resident inker Levi Skeen, who built a montage of them all and is now in the process of inking the big collaborative pic. We'll be sure to post it up here when it's complete, and until then...


Arisia, Soranik Natu & Tomar Tu by Jeremy Whittington


Guy Gardner by Nathan O'Brien


Kyle Rayner by Josh Montreuil


Rot Lop Fan by Zephan Osiris


Ch'P by Peter Foglesong


Hal Jordan by Joshua Covey


Jade by Matt Nelson


Alan Scott by Jesse Acosta


John Stewart by Erik Thompson

A reminder that you can see more art by Guild members at the deviantArt website - both at our deviantArt Group and at the members' individual pages. You can find the links to all of these on the left side of this site.

Guild Sketches - Ultron

Here's some more art by Guild members, this time of the Avengers' nemesis Ultron, in a few of his various incarnations...

Matt Nelson


Peter Foglesong


Erik Thompson


Josh Montreuil


Wyatt Skeen (pencils) & Levi Skeen (inks)


Nathan O'Brien


Jesse Acosta

Guild Sketches

More art! Here are a few pics of Kim Possible & Ookla the Mok (from the classic Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon), plus one big piece of all the characters from that month...
Amanda Robinson


Peter Foglesong


Peter Foglesong


Amanda Robinson


Matt Nelson (line art) & Jesse Acosta (colors)

Levi Skeen

Guild Sketches - Quorra

Continuing to play catch-up on "weekly sketches" that hadn't made it up here on the blog, here's a few from a while back, of Quorra from the recent Tron: Legacy film...
Joshua Covey


Matt Nelson


Amanda Robinson


Peter Foglesong


Matt Nelson

Guild Sketches - Nightcrawler

Every month at our regular meetings, we pick 4 characters or subjects to draw - this is just a fun exercise to stretch our creative muscles, and see everyone's interpretations of the different topics.

Since most of our members are on deviantArt, we usually end up posting them there, where they can be seen at our dA Group. But since it'd obviously be a good idea to showcase them here as well, we'll start playing catch-up over the next few days, posting up some of the old Guild "sketches" that haven't been seen here yet. Starting with the X-Men's furry blue elf, Nightcrawler...


Amanda Robinson


Peter Foglesong


Jesse Acosta


Matt Nelson


Jeremy Whittington


Erik Thompson


Willow Tomeo


Josh Montreuil

Guild Sketches Round-Up - The Invaders

These are some past Weekly Guild Sketches, which were already posted over on our deviantArt page, but hadn't made it up here at the blog. Here are Marvel's The Invaders by...

Levi Skeen:

Peter Foglesong:

Jeremy Whittington:

Zephan Osiris:

Matt Nelson:

Guild Sketches Round-Up - Jeremy Whittington

These are some past Weekly Guild Sketches, which were already posted over on our deviantArt page, but hadn't made it up here at the blog. Here's Sam & Max, Little Lulu and Samhain by Jeremy Whittington:

Guild Sketches Round-Up - Erik Thompson

These are some past Weekly Guild Sketches, which were already posted over on our deviantArt page, but hadn't made it up here at the blog. Here's Sam & Max and Little Lulu by Erik Thompson:

Free Sketches!

Spokane Community College is holding another Local Artist Sketch Day today, Tuesday the 23rd from 10:30-2pm, featuring Comicsmiths Jeremy Whittington, Joshua Donovan, Mike Watson, Nathan O’Brien, Peter Foglesong and Zephan Osiris.

Brave the snow and swing by the SCC Lair – you can meet some local talent and pick up some free art!

Guild Sketch - Samhain

Playing catch up on the weekly sketch...

Halloween Sketching!

The Comicsmith's Guild will be at Lightning Comics in Coeur d'Alene, ID this Saturday as part of their Halloween weekend festivities. Guild members will be there drawing free sketches for people from noon to 3 pm. There will also be a costume contest at 1pm, with prizes for 3 age groups.

So drop by, meet the Guild, check out the specials and sales, and pick up a free sketch of your favorite character by a local artist!

Weekly Sketches - Red Sonja by Peter Foglesong

Playing catch-up with the She-Devil With a Sword!

Main Street Fair

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table at the Sustainable September Main Street Fair on Saturday! We had a good time sketching and telling folks about the upcoming 24 Hour Challenge.

We didn't get many photos of the sketches we did, but here's a pic of Otto, the mascot for the Spokane Indians, with a sketch I drew for him: