Contest Winner: Ale Garza!

After a close and heated battle, it looks like Alé has pulled out the victory by one single vote! By far the closest battle to date!

Look for another Iron Gelatomettista Art Battle next week between the studio newbies, Oliver "stop looking at me" Nome, and Joel "Handsome pants" Gomez!

Iron Gelatomettista Final Voting!

Wow, the battle between Ryan Benjamin and Alé Garza is a close one! Right now, it's tied 46-to-46, so we'll keep the polls open a little longer until 12:00pm PST tomorrow for the final showdown!

Vote now, if you haven't already and tell your friends to vote, if you already have. Who's it gonna be? Ryan's Michelangelo or Alé's Raphael? Check back tomorrow and see!

Iron Gelatomettista - Benjamin's TMNT

Post a comment below to vote for Ryan Benjamin!

Iron Gelatomettista - Garza's TMNT

Post a comment below to vote for Alé Garza!

Iron Gelatomettista - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Side-by-side! (Don't vote here.)

IT'S ON!!!

[ale]

Just wanted to pop in and let you guys know its exciting to get these battles started again! Of course the best way is to keep it in the family. So, Ryan and I will be throwing down here quite soon!

A twist though this time around...This time we'll be competing with stakes! Yes, the loser will be reduced to some kind of lowliness! So keep yo heads up and yo eye's open kiddies...it's on!!!

-a
PSHOO!PSHOO!

Iron Gelatomettista's back!

Check back later today for Ryan Benjamin vs. Alé Garza both back in the Iron Gelatomettista ring!

Post your single character choice below and check back towards the end of the day for the fight to the finish!!

Garza - Supergirl

[ale]

Hey guys, wanted to pop over here since i lost access to my blog, :(. Wanted to aim you guys towards a recent Supergirl interview interview i partook in at Newsarama.

-a
"lovely"
PSHOO!PSHOO!

Texas Chainsaw Massacre page 11 from layout to completion

[Joel]

Hey all-Joel Gomez here with a sampling of my latest efforts-Texas Chainsaw Massacre page 11 with the story "About a Boy," the origin of Leatherface. This page focuses on the character Luda May as she is paid a visit by Thomas Hewitt's (Leatherface) concerned school teacher.

I chose to show this page for its dramatic lighting, and how early in the process I decided on it. I was inspired by Marcelo Frusin, Eduardo Risso, black & white photography...and of course the remake by Marcus Nispel. This story has also given me several opportunites to really amp up the moodiness and contrast required for such a tale.

Not much changed from the layout to finish...but you can see I made sure to work out all the strong lighting with sharpies and white out pens till I had it just like I wanted. Then I blew up the layout at 133% and transferred to artboard. All rendering and details were added later.

Four more pages to go...

JOEL

Crosspost from MyspaceIron Chef Battle 2005:Gelatomettisti Jim Lee vs Mike Turner

[jimlee]

Digging through the hard drive unearthed this never before but kind of long and in need of a nice edit clip of me working on a sketch of Nightcrawler and Harley Quinn. For those of you who are not familar with the Gelatometti Iron Chef battles...here's the quick scoop.

Conceived by studiomate, Ale Garza, these were online battles organized between various artists, each given an hour to draw a sketch of characters usually chosen by the fans. After the hour expires, both contestants would post up their image and the fans would vote which one they liked best.

Here's the link to the original page where the battle between Mike Turner of Aspen Comics and myself took place back in December of 2005. Mike and I are buds and we agreed beforehand that the sketches would be donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund for their various charity auction drives. I've done several of these 'battles' and they are a lot of fun to do and a real challenge and a great way of forcing you to figure out how to imagine, compose and execute your ideas.

The clips are fairly unedited so it runs nearly the entire hour's time so best be really bored to sit down and take it all in...thanks again to Mike for taking part and doing a kickass version himself (seen here: Cached page and the page where mine was posted: My entry).

Here are the clips in order...the artist at the beginning is Ale and he filmed the entire scene.