Ian Sokoliwski, pro comic book colourist

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:02 am

Howdy folks - I'm new to the board (although I have taken a look from time to time), and thought I'd introduce myself a bit, primarily my Valiant connection.

Well, I'm a professional comic book colourist - currently I'm the colourist on the Bob Layton/Dick Giordano webcomic Colony, as well as the Dark Horse Comics trade paperback series The Chronicles of Conan. I also coloured the Arcana Studios series Paradox, and Issue 7 (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) of Grimm Fairy Tales by Zenescope.

Anyway, I've done a lot of Valiant-based commissioned colouring in the past couple of years, much of which has already been presented on this website. The following links all show my colouring (over the illustrations of Bob Layton, Anthony Castrillo, and Ray Kryssing):

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... GSub=22803

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... t=0&UCat=0

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... t=0&UCat=0

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... t=0&UCat=0

So, you know, I just thought I'd say Hi, and pimp my own website as well as my Comic Art Fans Gallery.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:07 am

Hello! Nice to have another artist aboard, and don't be shy - most of us here aren't!!!

-slym

greg · Post by **greg** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:37 am

Ian Sokoliwski wrote:Howdy folk - I'm new to the board (although I have taken a look from time to time), and thought I'd introduce myself a bit, primarily my VALIANT connection.

Welcome Ian!

Guys, as Ian has shown in his first art link,
he is the colorist for the awesome Bob Layton X-O Manowar lithograph:
http://www.valiantcomics.com/xolitho/xoreserve.html

Great job, Ian... we hope to see more of your work on VALIANT characters in the future!

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:55 am

Hola compadre, cool job on the litho...

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:04 pm

Great coloring work, Ian. Welcome to the site.

k_c_collectibles · Post by **k_c_collectibles** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:36 pm

Ian,

Hey - those look vaguely familiar...

Your coloring is AWESOME and I look forward to having you do some more work for me sometime in the future.

Guys - Ian does GREAT work, is extremely fast and makes changes for you at no additional cost until it is colored the way you want it to be done. I think the 3 X-O pieces he did for me along with the litho all turned out SWEET!

Welcome to the board Ian,
Chris

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:22 pm

Thanks for the testimonial, Chris

Thanks, everybody, for the warm welcome! I'll be putting more stuff up on this thread soon.

Ah, heck, let's start with some non-Valiant cheesecake, pencilled by Maxx Marshall..
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... GSub=22803

steverino · Post by **steverino** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:59 pm

Welcome to the boards.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:47 pm

Re: "The Last Shoolgirl"

-slym

dino · Post by **dino** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:46 am

For those thinking of working with Ian, I can highly recommend him.

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:36 am

Welcome Ian

Looking forward to the litho

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:52 am

Another non-Valiant piece, this time it's a pin-up that will appear in the upcoming Shadowflame mini-series.

This one is entirely my own work - my pencilling, inking, and colouring. I know my inking isn't as solid as a lot of others (colouring really is my strong suit), but I get by.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... 5&GSub=592

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:42 pm

So, I doubt many of you would be wanting to get up to Winnipeg this coming November, but I thought I'd mention a comic book convention here that I'm gonna be appearing at.

It's the Manitoba Comic Con, November 4th and 5th - the info can be found here:
http://www.manitobacomiccon.com/
And, since the link to the 'guests' still seems to be broken, I'll post the correct link to see all the guest info (including mine):
http://www.manitobacomiccon.com/artists.htm

I'll have my original sketches, illustrations, prints of some of my work, as well as copies of comic books that I've coloured that I'll be giving to people who buy sketches (or probably even just ask politely).

I also thought I'd pimp my Comic Art Fans site again, chiefly as I've added a new gallery, one featuring Convention-style sketches. These are low-priced ($20 US) sketches, the type I would do at sketches, just to give ideas to folks about stuff they might want to commission and whatnot. I'll be posting some Valiant characters up there in the coming weeks (right now, it is mostly takes on Iron Man armour suits and some other Marvel and DC character - you know, the stuff that catches people's eye).

Oh, and examples of the kinds of prints that I'll also have for sale ($10 US each) can be found in this gallery.

sonicdan · Post by **sonicdan** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:09 am

Welcome to the boards Ian.
I've been seeing your stuff in Layton's CAF gallery.
Very Nice!!
DAN

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:19 am

I really don't get around here as much as I'd like to...

Well, lately, I've been mostly working on the kind of stuff that I can't post until after the publication date. Although I've got a couple of new things...

A little sword'n'sorcery, pencils-to-colour style (all art by me)
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... &GSub=1003

Here's a piece for a private collector, a character from City of Heroes, I believe. It was pencilled and inked by Darryl Banks (of Green Lantern fame) with my colours
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... GSub=22803

Finally, another Bob Layton illustration (with my colours) - a single figure drawing of a slightly tweaked Dreadnought robot
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... t=0&UCat=0

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:21 am

Oh, and I've also started my own Webcomic.

BATTLEWITCH is a sci-fi story about robots fighting giant monsters. Well, there is also stuff about religious intolerance, gender roles, abuse of authority, and on and on, but it starts with robots fighting monsters anyway

It is updated every Friday, and is absolutely free!! You can check it out here:

http://www.imwan.com/cgi-bin/icg.cgi?TITLE=bw01

k_c_collectibles · Post by **k_c_collectibles** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:24 am

Ian Sokoliwski wrote:Oh, and I've also started my own Webcomic.

BATTLEWITCH is a sci-fi story about robots fighting giant monsters. Well, there is also stuff about religious intolerance, gender roles, abuse of authority, and on and on, but it starts with robots fighting monsters anyway

It is updated every Friday, and is absolutely free!! You can check it out here:

http://www.imwan.com/cgi-bin/icg.cgi?TITLE=bw01

Interesting!

now I have to check out Colony once a month over at Bob's site and Battlewitch weekly over at yours.

Chris

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:57 pm

I see there was an Iron Man piece you did similar to the X-O piece.

Was this available as a litho also ?

oh and welcome

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:15 pm

siren3-4 wrote:I see there was an Iron Man piece you did similar to the X-O piece.

You are referring to the big Armor Wars piece?
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiec ... GSub=22803

That was originally illustrated by Bob Layton just for fun (or self-flagellation - apparently it was quite a bit of work to do!) that I then coloured as a birthday present to him.

I know that he has sold the original, and I doubt that he would want to go through the legal hassle of offering the coloured version up as a litho or a print.

Too bad - I keep thinking I'd love a full-size copy of it myself

And thanks for the welcome!

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:21 am

Another one of my colouring jobs on Bob's lineart, this time the Mark V Space Armour.

Oh, and another popular one, this time my colouring over my own pencils, War Machine.

Honestly, once I get through this big deadline at the end of this month, I'm going to do some original Valiant-style artwork of my own, probably X-O to start with

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:18 am

SWEEEEET!

k_c_collectibles · Post by **k_c_collectibles** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:50 pm

More good stuff Ian.

Chris

Thomas Crown · Post by **Thomas Crown** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:19 pm

Ian Sokoliwski wrote:Another one of my colouring jobs on Bob's lineart, this time the Mark V Space Armour.

Oh, and another popular one, this time my colouring over my own pencils, War Machine.

Honestly, once I get through this big deadline at the end of this month, I'm going to do some original VALIANT-style artwork of my own, probably X-O to start with

Winnipeg In the Houzza....is it cold right now? Don't be jealous but it's 24 in LA right now.........ok be jealous.

I might be up there for the Holiday's we can go get wasted on Corydon and pick up some hot chicks.

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:23 pm

Thomas Crown wrote: Winnipeg In the Houzza....is it cold right now? Don't be jealous but it's 24 in LA right now.........ok be jealous. I might be up there for the Holiday's we can go get wasted on Corydon and pick up some hot chicks.

I dunno, I've been stuck inside all day, working

Well, it's 3degrees C, which is pretty warm for Winnipeg in late November...

Ian Sokoliwski · Post by **Ian Sokoliwski** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:24 pm

Oh, and my fiancee might have something to say about 'picking up hot chicks'...unless it is her that I pick up

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