All of the images for my 2016 archive are now done (there were 939 this year, a lot les than recent years), and are all inserted into web pages for the write-up... and I'm just going through them to add in the text (most of it has been posted here).
But for here, these are the final three panels from the Sunday.
Sunday 10am - (Western) Artists
With IDW not attending again this year, we had a repeat of last year's Artist panel, with several volunteers who have worked for IDW and had tables in the Dealer Room, get up on stage and answer questions... with no images on the screen or news reveals.
Since I came in late to this panel and I'm not too familiar with the various comic artists currently working for IDW, I only recognise three of the four on the panel - Matt Frank, Josh Burcham and Derrick Wyatt.
I think the one on the left is Thomas Deer, but I could be wrong.
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Some of this panel, which I only ended up seeing 25 minutes...
Talking about how they decide on colour schemes (probably from characters that aren't based on a toy), from initial designs... and have to be exact with the colours, while being careful or mindful about how they will end up when processed digitally.
One of them talked about how they love drawing Beast Wars, especially LioConvoy, but I don't know who it is, as I didn't take notes (this is from an audio recording).
There is then discussion about how much more difficult it is to draw Beast Wars characters over non-BW characters... probably by someone else.
Talking about having some artistic freedom, and how much they are required to stick to the look of the official images or toy designs in the comic. Noting they also have their own art styles that readers expect from them when they see their name in the comics credits.
They always have characters they hate to draw, or dread when they see it in the story.
They mentioned the 2007 movie prequel comic had to have Bumblebee redrawn throughout the entire comic, and coloured, because it's design had changed from when they had started drawing it.
They ended with comments on how much they love coming to BotCon, meeting and hanging out with the fans and other artists (for the first time or even in person), and how sad it is that it is ending.
Next, Japanese Artist Hayato Sakamoto.
