As the title says the long over due issue 2 of Telikos Protocol is now available as digital download from iBooks, Amazon, and Graphic.ly, with Comixology following soon. Also the printed issues are just finishing up and will be available direct through our FB page late next week.

If you want more info on the project as well as the latest contributor artwork from various talented artists visit the Facebook page now and give us some love [link]

Also we had produce an image for the first volume you can check out his madly awesome Telikos image here: [link]

On another note we will be at London MCM expo 24-26 May so some check us out we will have copies of issue 2 there as well as limited edition prints of some killer work from the series.

A few weeks back we were starting to announce the guest artists that would be contributing to the first volume of Telikos Protocol releasing later this year. Among a handful of single artists we also got a whole art group involved in a contest to find 3 artists who's work would be featured in the first volume and we got some great images.

The Lumiarium is an art group I have belonged to for years eve since it first started and the artists in said group have taught me so much over time so I really wanted to get them involved as a thank you.
Bellow you can find all the info about the exhibit and the images, be sure to follow them on Facebook and check out the amazing images, we will also have them up on the Telikos page so be sure to head there and hit that Like button

The Luminarium site: [link]
Luminarium Facebook: [link]
Telikos Protocol Facebook: [link]

Any fans of EVE Online? Well their fanfest has begun and to kick it off they have the Icelandic orchestra playing some tracks form the game whihc you can watch here. It's [link]

It's pretty cool!

Need help identifying all of the offending images and reporting them, the person seems to insist they made the images... Heard it too many times. Just get it over with fast, report and move on. Don't feed the troll.

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New preview for issue 2, we have had a few hiccups with the release of issue 2 but it won't be long now till it's release.

Check out the Facebook page for more updates: [link]


Also my Twitter and FB

Twitter: @AdamBurnArt
Facebook: [link]

I have been featured on a Moon blog (the film) called ManMadeMovies go check it out [link]

Also the next image in the Lunar mining series is the giant space train, should be fun I also got an email from Duncan Jones who write and directed the film Moon apparently someone sent him the images he was very impressed and I was very giddy hehe.


Also after much deliberation and people asking me to join I finally joined the ranks of Twitter, I'm a noob when it comes to twitter so may take me some time to get use to it but it seems simple enough.
Go and follow me!

Twitter: @AdamBurnArt
Facebook: [link]

Now I have many many more ideas regarding the next few images in the series of Lunar mining and intend to make several more, I'm not sure if it's the scale, the fact that I've never really done vehicle design before, or the lighting or all 3 but I am loving these images they are great fun to work on.
Anyway I want your input now, I can't decide what to do next so bellow I have made a list of some ideas and all I want you to do is shout out in the comments section as to which one you want to see next, I will tally them up and see which I have to do first, second, third, and so on.
Here is the list:

Option 1: Unmanned Drone, floats over the Moons surface scanning for optimum mining locations and fitted with advanced telemetry equipment and cameras.
Option 2: Helium 3 Transit Dock, largish structures dotted all over the Lunar surface, the transporters take the H3 to them where it's put on to massive trains to be taken to the main hub.
Option 3: Helium 3 Freight Transport, massive trains of sorts that transport the helium 3 over long distances to the main hub.
Option 4: Deep Core Survey Platform, a mobile platform used to conduct core sampling in various location to find suitable locations or deep core mining.

These are the 4 options so far, I have other more massive options but I know you will just go for them so they are being kept on the side lines for now

If you have not already joined my Facebook page do so now! I will be updating it with concepts as I go on with this project, rough concepts that I won't be throwing up on DA... That's called incentive. [link] [link] [link]

I have kept my Facebook page mostly personal over the past few years but I've began to post up more and more of my work and intend to continue the trend as well as putting up work that I don't want cluttering up my main DA page so mostly concept stuff from personal projects and commissions, as well as the occasional silly thing. So I invite you all to head over and add me so you can keep an even closer eye on my work

Facebook: [link]

I am Phoenix-06 no more, after much deliberation I decided to change my username to something more professional like my own name. This was due in part to several artists I know doing the same and after a while as a professional artist it makes sense to use something less cryptic or something you made up for fun when making the account.
It also means that at conventions people won't just call me Phoenix, which whilst cool sounding is a little ostentatious.

I'm also sure that someone somewhere has done an article on the subject of "what's in a name" so I'm not going to go into the sociological aspects of why I changed my username, however this does mean I need to print out new business cards... Drats.

With issue 2 so very close to completion we have now finalised the cover, the image bellow is but a taste of the full flavoured awesomesauce and we have a little challenge for you guys, get our FB page to 1,500 likes and you not only get to see the full cover but also a none titled version of just the image for use as your wallpaper.

So head over to our FB page and hit that like button, then spread it around [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

With the release of the first collected volume of Telikos Protocol (due out June/July) we will have invitational artwork based on the universe of Telikos Protocol created by some of our favourite artists, fortunately every artist we have approached has agreed to participate with great enthusiasm. I for one am very excited to have these very talented artists on board.
Along side the guest artists there will also be 2 other artists from the art group The Luminarium where as I type we are running a new exhibit/contest based on Telikos Protocol, we will then pick the 2 images we think are the most awesome that will be in the printed volume, the other images made will be shown all over the Telikos Protocol sites.


We will be releasing their names on the projects Facebook page here: [link]
Already we have announced the first of these guest artists, the insanely talented Danny Luvisi an artist who really needs no introduction. I can't wait to see what he creates.

As the title suggests the first wallpaper pack for my sci-fi graphic novel series Telikos Protocol has been released, you can find it in my gallery. Along with some familiar images there are 2 that are new, one is a reworked version of a fan favourite, big orbital Railguns, the other is a new poster design with a fancy new tag line hehe.

If you would like to know more head to the projects Facebook page: [link] (It may sound like I gave you an option there but you don't have one)

Last matter regarding the fun incident with that guy form Youtube has been resolved, turns out you can solve a lot by simply talking to them privately and extending your hands to invite polite conversation, anyway as with all these situations it was pointless and silly.

Onto other matters, I require some insight into how to make better quality videos and avoid the annoying ratio ignoring saves in Movie Maker, basically any tips you have about making videos. Also any suggestions about what it is you'd like to see

Yes I have finally made a rough video of me painting, nothing fancy just a Halo inspired speed painting go check it out here: [link]

I hope to make more soon now that I have learnt more about editing the video, like making sure Movie Maker doesn't ignore the aspect ratio and for some reason decides to squish the video into a square...

Anyway enjoy.

And so another year passes by another year of achievements, mistakes, happiness, sadness, and oportunity. So much has happened in the past year so much that will change everything from this point onwards, so this is my year in review and a look into what could happen in the year ahead.

Early in 2012 I was still working with Taitale Studios on their upcoming MMORTS Novus Aeterno but in May my time there ended due to my own slip ups and the result left me in a position where I began to question my own talents suffice to say I was not in a good shape I had lost my job, a job I had always wanted but like with all bad situations there is always a silver lining and this was no exception. After a few days of assessing my situation and thanks to a load of reassuring comments from you guys here on DA I pushed on rather than slipping further into a slump.
The lull in work meant I was able to concentrate on Telikos Protocol more than I had ever been able to before and progress stormed along, we released a Kickstarter to raise enough funds to get the first 3 issues printed with a target of $9,500 which was flattened in just 3 days, we were shocked as every new milestone was blasted through until we hit the end and came out with over $50,000, with the motivational blast this gave work increased and so did exposure for the project which resulted in a lot of great articles and some other very interesting articles where "experts" would slam the project and it's creators for using Kickstarter when they obviously don't need the money... Interesting read considering how little they know about my life and especially my financial situation. But like a friend of mine said "you know when you have got something great when you get your first haters".
We went on to release the first issue in New York of all places, an experience I will never forget and will always be the moment when Telikos really came into the lime light, from then on it was all go, reviews came in and the first issue was universally loved for it's new direction of artwork and gripping story, once we returned from the show I found that my skills had become much more desirable, work came flooding in from working on book covers all the way up to full feature length movie work. This meant for the the first time I was able to permanently work as a freelance artist.

The last few months of 2012 bought a mass of opportunities and thanks to that I am now working on some very exciting projects with some really big ones stating in the new year and one that, if it plans out, will change a lot more things in my life.
Alas the last month or so of 2012 was a mixed bag, whilst on the art front things were only improving my own personal health was not. Due to the epic influx of work I eventually crashed, I won't go into details but my workflow suffered a lot and so did my attention, it was a good time for it to happen though the holidays were just about to start and work inevitably stopped for the time which gave me time to recover.

Now I am back and whilst I am not yet 100% a new year is ahead, it's once more into the fray and this year is already shaping up to become one of the busiest and most interesting years of my life. Telikos is going from strength to strength with talks of a movie deal in the works, 2013 will see the release of issues 2,3,4, and possibly even 5, the first volume (contains first 3 issues and a ton of artwork and invitational work from other artists) and that's just Telikos.

I become giddy with excitement when looking ahead but also a massive dread looms over, I have slipped before and because of that doubt will always be lurking in my mind but I'm confident, I have always just worked on other peoples projects and now with my own project becoming bigger and bigger I have to be focused, besides with all this work I won't have time to doubt myself.

This day and age it's accepted that social media plays a huge part in our life, I have never really been one for diving face fist into Facebook or Twitter, alas I don't know how it even work, but Deviant Art has always played a huge part in my life as an artist and it's the admiration, support, and critique that all of you give that has enabled me to get to where I am. So thank you all, without your constant input I fear my artistic career would have ended long ago. So a toast, to the new year and to all of you Happy New Year!!

A few weeks back I was contacted to do an interview with 2D Artist Magazine, originally I had expected just a small one or 2 page bit turned into a full on interview with several pages of pretty images and insights into my journey into 2D digital art.

You can view the interview for free here: [link]

And you can buy the latest issue of the digital magazine here which has a lot more cool stuff in it: [link]


In other news we released the first page of Telikos Protocol issue 2, you can see it on the Facebook page here: [link]

I just uploaded a new Deviant ID and as it suggests I now offer world wide print sales now that I have been able to find a very good printer near to where I live where I can oversee the process and make sure the prints are picture perfect...
Anyway more details bellow:

All prints are high quality, proofed, and signed (if you want )

A3 prints (16.5 x 11.7 in) are printed on 160gsm heavy weight paper and are semi gloss (silk)
A2 prints (23.4 x 16.5 in) are printed on 190gsm very heavy paper and again are semi gloss

Anything higher than A2 are classed generally as custom so usually A1 wide (33.1 in) but cut to the images actual dimensions, these are also printed on paper that is more akin to fabric, very strong and very heavy weight. The reason for the £10 price difference with the custom ones is that some images are very wide but not very tall so require less ink but another image the same width but taller requires more so thus the price difference, most of my work is ridiculously wide so that probably wont come into effect often.  

Canvas prints are self explanatory and are very expensive haha

Simply email me at adamburn.art@gmail.com or note me on DA with your request.
All are free UK delivery but are an extra £1.50 for international delivery, I accept Paypal payments primarily but direct bank transfers can be arranged.

NOW GO BUY!!!!

Something amazing has happened I actually have the internet now after over 2 months of waiting I can finally get back into my normal work routine. But being re-connected to the world isn't the main reason for this update, myself and Peter Cooper will be attending Thought Bubble Comic Con in Leeds this month where we will have issue one of Telikos available as well as many prints and t-shirts, everyone likes clothes. Also I will be selling a selection of prints not associated with Telikos this includes some old favourites and some brand new paintings I have been working on in my down time, one of which I will be posting up soon, another is a remake of an old space painting I did, and the last is a... Well you will see it soon.

I'd love to know who's coming to Thought Bubble this year

I have been gone for a long long time for multiple reasons but the mostly notably being the complete lack of internet this coming about due to moving house into a listed building that's devoid of any modern tech, well that has now changed but I am still without the internet and having to complete many deadlines over the past months without it has been a challenge but most of it was completed on time including the issue one of Telikos Protocol. This leads very well, and semi-deliberately, into the main reason for this update Myself, the doodle master, and writer extraordinaire Peter Cooper have returned from a triumphant conquest of the Americas, well New York city to be precise. New York Comic Con or NYCC to those who love acronyms was where we were at launching issue one of Telikos Protocol and it went down smooth, all those who brought it seemed to be very excited we even had some very easy sales with little input from any of us required for them to throw their hard earned monies at our shocked faces. We also had t-shirts which I think looked awesome but alas only the black ones showed up for the con I really liked the original white ones but can't win them all.
Whilst there we got to see quite a lot of Manhattan and sampled some of it's many tasty food stuff places mostly stuff coated in BBQ sauce and comprising of 99.9% meat, this inevitably lead to a RIB-OFF contest between myself and Pete to determine who can consume the most ribs, we actually both quite happily each finished off the massive rack of 12 ribs but alas it was the sides that would be my downfall, with just a handful of fries behind Pete I threw in the towel and settled for my bucket sized pink margarita to drown my sorrows in, it was epic and photo proof will show up one day.

Despite half of this update so far comprising details of rib eating the trip was far more productive from a comic stand point and not just self inflicted meat sweats, the comic was very well received we had many people returning on the later days giving positive feedback as well as some interviews which will be popping up over the next few weeks or so. Inevitably the only downside to the issue one release was that issue one does indeed end at one point, this is true of most books I believe, and due to this work on issue 2 is now in full swing or at least it would be if I weren't off galavanting to another country, this time Venice for a nice relaxing holiday then it's back into the thick of it with MCM expo in London for the UK début of Telikos Protocol Issue one, it's actually already released in digital all over the world but it sounds much cooler if I say it's the début and not just us turning up and throwing comics at people in exchange for cash.

After that it's back home where a massive workload awaits, and I mean HUGE, also much planning for future cons and commissions preping for Thought Bubble in Leeds which is a big deal for us as it marks the 1 year anniversary of Telikos Protocol, hard to believe it's already been a whole year since we threw the Telikos Protocol prelude out onto the streets screaming and shitting itself waiting to see if the world was ready for Telikos Protocol unfortunately it seems it was and so my workload increased and my social life vanished... Thanks guys.

On a serious note I would like to thank everyone who came to see us at NYCC and supported us we met some great people and the general support for the project was incredible we also got to meet some of our Kickstarter backers which was a delight one of our higher backers actually made us all counterfeit t-shirts hahahaha they were awesome and I'm going to frame mine. Also a shout out to our Publisher Vanquish who did a great job at securing us a table and getting us some place to rest our heads despite the epic snoring, it was like trying to sleep through the blitz.

Lots more awesomeness to come, issue 2 of Telikos will blow you away and were aiming for the digital release to coincide with Christmas, nothing says Happy Holidays than giant bio-mechanical aliens smashing through an underground city murdering millions, the print is aiming for a January release.

Would you like to know more? YES YOU DO, visit here and like it: [link]


Ow and on a side note I got to play Halo 4 at a private function hosted by Mega Blocks..... If you have any doubts about Halo 4 your a tool BAM!  

With your amazing support over the past month we have managed to do something many thought was impossible, not only did we make our target of $9,500 within 3 days we have now made over $50,000 which is just an incredible feat for a debut series and we have all of you to thank for it's massive success. So from myself, Peter, Nav and Jay thank you so much and now all you have to do is wait just a little while for the first issue to be released and I assure you if you liked the prelude this will blow you away.

I am currently away visiting my father for his wedding in Thailand but I will return in the next week to finish the first issue and to bring you more images of what to expect and updates on future comic cons we will be attending, one such that is certain is New York Comic Con in October.

If you have yet to read the Prelude you can still download a free PDF from the Facebook page, just scroll down to find the appropriate link: [link]

Thanks again for your support you have ensured that Telikos Protocol will make it not only in print but in a higher quality as well, thanks