Welcome to Woodside Illustrations, We are a husband and wife team of artists! We are into all things nerdy, we have both worked on illustrations for Lucas Arts, Disney, Acme archives and more! You can find a wide range of paintings on our website from robots to dragons to Darth Vader! Check out some of our new work Below! Also check out our shop to see more work and buy some new art for your wall!
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When we aren’t working on websites as YourPlanB.com, we are supporting the spooky scene with SpookyInc.com(Spooky stuff for spooky people!). And this past weekend we were invited as Press to check out all the booths, events and artists at C2E2.
We had so much fun! The costumes, the artists and the fans weer fabulous! More highlights and videos are in the works as we speak – bookmark SpookyInc.com for updates.
WHAT IS C2E2?
The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo is a Chicago fan convention dedicated to comics, pop culture, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television.
WHAT IS SPOOKYINC?
Founded on Halloween night 1996, GothicChicago.com (now called Spooky Inc) provided listings of restaurants and shops and events that were friendly to the Gothic/Alternative community for over 20 years. You can follow us on SpookyInc.com or on the many social media links listed on the site. Stay Spooky!
Come one, come all to the only comic, cosplay and pop culture convention in the heart of downtown Chicago! We’re bringing incredible celebrities, unique exhibitors, amazing comic artists and epic literary authors, along with you of course, into one place to celebrate the fandoms you love most – together! Featuring a Show Floor packed with top exhibitors, autograph sessions, panels, screening rooms, exclusives and a massive Artist Alley C2E2 truly has something for everyone. C2E2 is also home to the C2E2 Crown Championships of Cosplay – the most prestigious cosplay award show in the world and the final stop in a global competition series that asks one question – Who will become the Global Champion of Cosplay? If you’ve always dreamed of attending the biggest geek party in the Midwest, this is your weekend to get wild and cut loose with fellow Chicago nerds. The most epic memories and awesome lasting friendships are forged at Chicago’s home of pop culture… C2E2!
Box Brown: the New York Times bestselling graphic novelist behind ANDRE THE GIANT, TETRIS: THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, and IS THIS GUY FOR REAL? His new title, CANNABIS: THE ILLEGALIZATION OF WEED IN AMERICA, will debut at the convention!
Lucy Knisley: the New York Times bestselling graphic novelist behind RELISH and SOMETHING NEW. Her new title, KID GLOVES: NINE MONTHS OF CAREFUL CHAOS, will be available at C2E2, as well.
Visit us at booth #516 to check out CANNABIS, KID GLOVES, and much more! The following authors will also be featured in our booth and in official show programming:
Colleen AF Venable, author of the lesbian graphic novel KISS NUMBER 8
Through April 20th! Since 2002, the Rondos have been fandom’s only classic horror awards — decided by fans, for fans. Every nominee below is being recognized for significant work or achievement in the year 2018 So add your voice and help make a difference.
Comic to Entertainment to Gaming to Literary guests – it is a HUGE list of awesome people. See Agents of SHIELD Clark Gregg, Doctor WHO David Tennant, Voice talent EG Daily and Arrow’s John Barrowman OH MY! Visit the site to see the entire list to help plan your weekend.
Bill Rude works professionally as a designer, animator, and effects expert with a penchant for retro horror. Work of his has been created for over 100 movies and TV shows, including True Blood, Ghost Whisperer, King Kong: Skull Island, Conjuring 2, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them I & II, and the Science of Fear (where he even makes a personal appearance). Horror work of his has even been created for the legendary restaurant In-N-Out Burger, as well as for various other clients.
When not drawing monsters or building tiki rooms, Rude is also lecturer on the historical influences of Horror and genre on popular culture. He has lectured at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Art Center College of Art & Design, University of Southern California (USC), Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD), the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM), Tiki Oasis, and Midsummer Scream Halloween Festival.
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More about Andy – Growing up, I spent a healthy chunk of my weekend time (and time before and after school, and summer) picking up a sketchpad and watching cartoons, teaching myself how to draw everything I saw. I would imitate the cartoon voices and doodle away until my tiny brain, or my hands, or anyone around me couldn’t stand it any more.
I took a couple life drawing classes, some cartooning ones, but mostly learned what I know by myself, watching how others went about their work and putting in a crazy amount of practice drawing whenever, whatever and whomever I could.
As time went on, I had to get a “normal” job, well normal jobs, and make some money for stupid things like eating. I worked with my Pop setting tile when I was a kid, sauntered around in a bunch of record stores (Licorice Pizza, Sam Goody, Music Plus, Tower Records), worked briefly as an insurance fraud investigator, worked at a recording studio up in L.A. until the bullshit of that business broke me, sat dazed at a telephone survey place for a bit, and spent some years working at an AV company too.
Then one day, sitting there, going over invoices for people that I couldn’t stand any more, I decided it was time to break off and gamble on doing what I’ve loved my whole life, drawing, making music and making movies.
So now with a movie, “Bloodsucka Jones” released, a sequel on the way and the drawing / design thing sheepishly paying a bill here and there, things are movin’ along.
Michelle studied Film Production, Theatre and Fine Art At Cal-State Long Beach with a B.A. in Narrative Film Production and a minor in Theatre. Her thesis film “A Serious Talk” was shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2012.
Collaborating with CRB’s Ghostwalk from 2005-2010, she took part in a variety of original pieces of theatre that included acting, composing music for the piano, writing, design, and stage management.
In 2011, Michelle collaborated with BRAVA in Riverside, California to direct and co-write an original theatre production, “Ghosts of Yesterday”.
Michelle has worked as a production designer, artist, set dresser, property master, and special effects make up artist on short films, television segments and web series for the film industry.
Michelle’s collaboration with the band Mr. Moonshine includes art for their album and two stop motion animation music videos “Wolves on Parade” and “Comfort Me with Absinthe.” The later won best animated short in the Albuquerque Film And Music Experience in 2016.
Michelle’s art has been published in various print including the Chaffey Review, Popcorn Horror, and Horror Relapse. She is currently illustrating horror anthologies for “Dark Moon Books” publishing. The first volume exploring the works of Steve Rasnic Tem was release in 2017.
Her art can also be seen in the Haunted Mansion Documentary “Foolish Mortals” released in 2017.
Her ‘day job’ is a purveyor of original macabre art, art pieces, and apparel she has created for her shop “Bat in Your Belfry” based in Los Angeles.
Michelle loves geeking out with fellow enthusiasts of the unusual and the macabre and can typically be found at Halloween/horror conventions usually standing next to a man in a cowboy hat.
