Well I got some good news for your and some bad News. First the bad news: Last week I was laid off from my steady graphic design gig. This was my consistent income that was used to pay the bills and build up my savings. So now my mission is to find ways to make [...]
Okay, time for some shameless self promotion: STEEL YOURSELF FOR MARKETING PITCH! Have you ever been looking at my artwork and thought: “DAMN that would love to wear that on my t-shirt?” Well i want to introduce to you, SHONO WEAR. You can now wear shirts with my legendary Wolf Symbol, Or the Symbol of the [...]
I was working yesterday on anew cover for my Comic Shadows of Oblivion and I drew a pretty sweet cover. (At least i think its pretty sweet) So after I inked the drawing I colored it in the normal way i color all my work: … I thought to myself. Damn this cover looks boring [...]
Hidy ho neighborinos! I’ve just got back not to long ago from the legendary San Diego Comic Con. or how its commonly abriviated as SDCC…. even though technically its Comic Con international….so the abriviation should be CCI? but i like SDCC better haha. This year was GREAT, but super busy. I didn’t get as many [...]
So yesterday i posted about how I am using a new digital process to draw my comics. I figured I’d share with you that process here. I start the drawing using Manga Studio EX4. I draw on my Intuos 3 tablet. I REALLY want a Cintiq, but they have been out of stock for months! [...]
Well those in the Shono Blogosphere…. The 1 living person, thats probably my mom, and the 3,001,238,491 imaginary readers in my head (yes I imagine half the population of the world reads my blog, thats healthy right?)…. Okay way to start of a blog post with a random rant. ANYWAYS I’m going to the legendary [...]
Hey real quick everyone! I’m getting ready to go to San Diego, and I’ve totally redesigned my website. Its up live now. Check it out at: http://www.shawnmccauley.com Its brand new and I did a lot of things I’ve never done before so there still might be some bugs. If you find some let me know, [...]
Hey everyone! Well today is Wednesday so that means it is NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! This week Grimm Fairy Tales #47 published by the fantastic people at Zenescope is among the new releases. Why should you pick it up? Why do you think? ‘Cause i drew well over half the issue! Duh, come on, do [...]
Hey Guys. I just got back from North Carolina! Didja Miss me? I know you did. All my imaginary fans ALWAYS miss me when i don’t blog haha. Well, like I said in my last blog i went up to NC to visit one of my oldest friends, and to go to an Anime con [...]
So do any of you out there have a Playstation 3 or a PSP? GREAT! Then you should all go to the Playstation store and buy my comic “Ritual” off of the digital comics section. What? you’ve never heard of my comic book, “Ritual?” GEEZ okay, well i’m not gonna make you go back and [...]
Hey guys! I don’t know how many of you read, or even know about my creator owned comic book “Shadows of Oblivion.” Well, I’ve been posting pages online for issue #0 as i drew them. It got sort of backed up do to some paying gigs, but I have FINALLY finished issue # 0. [...]
So last week i stumbled across a job opening that excited me quite a bit. It was a job opening for a storyboard artist for a fairly well known move production company. I jumped at the job and applied right away for two reasons. 1. I’ll get to work doing story telling, sequential art, for [...]
Well I mean, I’ve BEEN a professional artist for a while. I’ve even considered myself a professional comic book artist for a while. But all my previous published work hasn’t yielded any actual income that i can take to the grocery store and buy FOOD with it! That all changed today when i got my [...]
Well, Free Comic Book Day was a few weeks ago, and but i’ve been so insanely busy i haven’t had time to update. SO Free Comic Book Day at Hastings was a great success!! Big thank you to everyone who came out to visit me. And big thank you to everyone at Hastings who treated [...]