On the Sixth Day of Christmas...

...my true love gave to me: Six mighty team-ups, FIVE POINTY THINGS, Four Luxan Warriors, Three Possible Futures, 2 Rage Filled Monkeys, and a Magician in some Fishnets.

On the Fifth Day of Christmas...

..my true love gave to me: FIVE POINTY THINGS. Four Luxan Warriors, 3 Possible Futures, 2 Rage Filled Monkeys, and a Magician in some Fishnets. 

On the Fourth Day of Christmas...

...my true love gave to me: Four Luxan Warriors, Three Possible Futures, Two Rage Filled Monkeys and a Magician in some fishnets.

On the Third Day of Christmas...

...my true love gave to me: 3 possible futures, 2 rage filled monkeys and a Magician in some fishnets.

This is the first page for Traveler#2 come let Mark Waid bend your brain into his temporally twisted tail of the Traveler! On sale Wednesday. Thank you to the 15,000+ readers who bought the 1st issue it wouldn't be possible without your support and believe me the best is yet to come.

On the Second Day of Christmas...

 

...my true love gave to me: Two rage filled monkeys and a magician in some fishnets. 

I'm Not Dead. Not Yet.

Sorry everyone. I have been slammed. I still am. I want to make it up to you. I will post something. Every day till the end of the year. Sort of a 12 days of Christmas gift to everyone for putting up with my drop off the face of the earth. This artwork appeared in Zatanna #7.

On a serious note. I want to pay my respects to OG Pat "Turtle" McNulty who passed away Friday. Everybody pour out some drink to our homie. Rest in peace buddy. Our prayers are with your family.

River Monster

Another 30 minute speed painting.

Mephisto

Iron Man

Quick Iron Man 2 Sketch Card Commission.

Signing tomorrow at Black Cat Comics!

Hey all, I'll be signing books tomorrow (Oct. 16th) starting at 11:00 AM, at Black Cat Comics in Salt Lake. Come or I shall sic Lord Mammon on you (and you don't want none of his D20 nipple badness). Happy Halloween!

Farscape

Hey all, here is the latest Scorpius cover. Pick it up today!

Spider-Man

 

Happy Halloween all! Here is a sneak peak of Spider-Man vs. Vampires #1.

The Traveler

I can almost die happy now. Ladies and Gentlemen: the Traveler (by Stan Lee, Mark Waid and lil' ol' me). Enjoy the "Undressed" cover and pages 1-6. I don't know who colored these yet, but I'm going to give him/her a big sloppy kiss when I meet them. I love the colors. So happy!

Black Cat

JAFCo. Inks coming.

Zatanna

Here is a sneak peek of the pencils from today's issue of Zatanna. Newsarama had a preview up as well. I decided to give you a sneak peak from another part of the book. See if you can spot yours truly in the Las Vegas Zombie horde!

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday!!!

This week is a huge week for me. I have Our Fighting Forces: The LOSERS #1 and Zatanna #5 out on the racks (this Wednesday Sept. 15th). I will be posting a preview here on the Blog for Zatanna #5 at midnight Wednesday morning. I am super proud of the art in both these issues. PLEASE pick them up and tell DC how awsome the artist is (;-p)! Here is a peek from the Losers swiped off of Newsarama. Thank you Wayne and David for making this look fabulous. See you guys at midnight on Wednesday!

Quick Digital Painting Sept.11 2010

Scorpius #4

Hey all, here is the latest Scorpius cover. This is another cover where I wasn't super-stoked when I finished but ended up liking it better later. In non BooM related news.... I want to give a serious heads up to next Wednesday. I have 2 books on the shelves Zatanna #5 and Our Fighting Forces #1.

Traveler #1

In case you were wondering what the other half of the cover looked like.

Magik

Here is another commission of one of my all time favorite characters: Magik from the New Mutants.

Scorpius #3

I can't keep up! I have so much stuff that's hitting shelves. This cover is long overdue but I need to get it out there because I love it. Ladies and Gentlemen Scorpius #3. Go buy it and Scorpius #4 and Zatanna #4 right now.

SkyDoll Comission

Capt'n

Cool Moments from Comic-Con Part 3: Friends

I suppose this should have been my first post because hey friends come first, but I was too busy having a geek attack. To my friends, I apologize, my bad. One of the best things about Comic-Con is the chance to meet people you haven't met before and meet up with people who you don't get to see too often in other venues. This year I met lots of new friends, my hotel roommate John Hallet, the gang at BooM Studios as well as some of my editors at Marvel and DC. I met Ale Garza, who was my Neighbor in Artist Alley. Also in Artist Alley with me was Norm Rapmund who I had met as a teenager working at Collector's Choice in Las Vegas. His hair was a lot bigger back them, but at least he still had his. I also got to meet up with the Utah crew which includes Travis Walton and his family, Paul (Mau'dib) Linsley and his girlfriend Jess, Ian Johnston (my official con-buddy, Ian and I have been roommates at the comic-con for at least 5 years), Jake Black and his Nephew (Jake is looking good too! Way to kick cancer's ass Jake) and the most famous Utahn in comics: Ryan Ottley. I wish I got to spend more everyone but Comic Con is a busy place. I know I'm leaving names out, SORRY! But I can't blog all day. I'll edit you in as I remember!

Cool Moments from Comic-Con Part 2: JJ Abrams

In my continuing follow up of this year's Comic Con's moments of coolness. I would be criminally liable if I didn't post about spotting JJ Abrams walking the exhibit hall at Comic Con. It was after the exhibit hall had closed that I spotted him talking to another artist. When he was done talking he and his entourage came closer to my artist alley table. This is where I approached him and asked if he was indeed the man JJ Abrams. He responded in the affirmative and was kind enough to talk for a few seconds, shake hands and take the obligatory super geeked out fan shot. Which I will now post here. Ladies and Gentlemen the savior of Star Trek... Mr. JJ Abrams (in a trekkie sandwich with me and Ian)!

Cool Moments from Comic-Con Part 1: Drew Struzan

Drew Struzan was kind enough to come over and visit me at my artist alley booth this year at SDCC. Drew is an art god, and I was extremely humbled by his visit. He was unbelievably nice and supportive. We only chatted for a minute or two but It will be a moment I remember for the rest of my life! I would have posted this earlier while at the Con, but the hotel where I was staying was charging 12.99 a night for Internet. I love SDCC, but I am so sick of hotels and restaurants price gouging. Wonder what they will do if the con moves. Anyhoo... I have more stuff to post but I gotta get to work. I'll update soon! Next Pics: JJ Abrams and the attack of the NERDS!

Update from SDCC 2010: BooM!

In case you haven't heard: http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1007/22/index.htm

American Son

Hey all, Long time no post! Its been really busy getting ready for SDCC. I meant to post this on the 4th. That's how busy I am. Anyhoo... Lots of stuff coming up! I'm excited for it hope you will be too. Thanks for sticking with me. I promise It will start coming fast and heavy here pretty soon. So keep coming back.

Thanks,

Chad.

Yet More Scorpius!

Long time, no art! So here is a peek at Scorpius #2 out now. I really disliked this piece when I did it but it looks better to me now than the first two. Funny how that happens. Enjoy. Remind me to post some of our pics from the family vacation!

Long Live the Warlord!

Above are some samples from my latest issue of DC Comic's The Warlord. Its sad for me to say this will be my last issue of the Warlord in the foreseeable future. Before I wrap my Warlord career I would like to wax a little sentimental; so please bear with me. Its not too often you get the chance to work with a living legend, but I got that chance when DC Comics chose me to work on the new Warlord series with Mike Grell. I might not have been DC's first choice but I was happy to step in when opportunity afforded me the chance. Let me tell you something. It wasn't easy trying to fill the artistic shoes of Mike, and I'm sure that there are some Mike Grell fans who would be the first to tell you I didn't even come close. I will say this much though, I did the best I could for every page I worked on Warlord. Though the process, I had one fan I could count on to encourage me every step of the way. That fan was Mike Grell himself. Some days it wasn't easy. There were several days, especially in the beginning, where it seemed like I was redrawing every page. As hard as it was to apply all the changes Mike had me do on those early issues; his criticisms were always constructive. He was there working with me, teaching me as I went along and though the process it made me a better artist. If I had the chance; I'd do it again in a heart beat. Here's to hoping I get that change again. Cheers Mike, and long live The Warlord!

-Chad

More Spokane Card Comissions

Hey all, just a quick update with more sketch card commissions. Enjoy! Also I wanted to post an email I received from a satisfied customer:

From James Huskinson

To Chad Hardin

     Hey man I got the picture the other day but I've been on the go for awhile. DUDE this thing is sweet, I almost feel like I need to pay you [more] for the amount of work you put into this. The amount of detail is almost overwhelming! Everything is in the right spot, from the armor plating to the bulbs in the bow stabilizers down to the running lights on the side of the hull. And that's not including the back drop, which looks like it could of jumped out of the game and onto the page itself, from the asteroid field to the planetoid and the moon there is just so much depth to the page, so much to be seen. I can stress how happy I am with the out come, to have something that is not only an original work but that also captures the spirit of the game is just so amazing. When you said you were going to make it shine I totally had no idea what was coming, if you take commissions in between projects you can be sure I'm going to contact you in the future.

Thanks again for all your hard work,

Ryan Huskinson.

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Thanks Ryan! And Yes I'm always taking commissions!

Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day everybody. I'd like to take the time to thank all our brave service men and women who are fighting (or have fought) to defend the freedoms we Americans enjoy on a daily basis. I personally salute your bravery and sacrifice and also the sacrifice of your loved ones. Thank You... On another note: I'd like to post some art I did as commissions for the Spokane Comicon 2010. This a picture of Two Zatanna sketch cards and the SR-2 Normandy from Mass Effect. The Zatanna cards were captured with my Nikon Coolpix in my Hotel room at Spokane. I'm sorry they are a little out of focus and the coloring is yellowed, but I hope its better than a hot stick in the eye. I'm finishing up the the last two commissions right now and will be mailing them out tomorrow. I'll post tem when i'm done. Hope you enjoy! -Chad.

Spokane Comicon

Hey all, Its Friday the 21st of May and I'm off to Spokane for Spokane Comicon 2010. I'll be there at the opening tomorrow doing sketches, selling artwork and signing books. Go here for all the details: http://www.spokanecomicon.com/. Like free comic book day, I'll be having a contest fro a free sketch card and sketchbook. So if you are in Spokane drop on by and say hi!

Iron Man 2 Artist Proofs Available

Hey Everybody, I have really exciting news! My Iron Man 2 Artist Proofs came in from Upper Deck. I am taking commissions on them right now. If you are interested in getting one; simply click on the link to Catskill Comics in the sidebar. My agent, Scott, will take care of you. I have 14 left and will need to get them completed and approved by Marvel soon. So don't wait too long before you get yours. Also... DC solicited my first issue of Zatanna today for sale August 11th 2010! WOOT! Make sure you order your copy today!