While the show floor was bustling all weekend, we made some time to stop by the booth of one of the artists who participated in our custom iPad 2 case giveaway, Dan Cooney. The author and artist of the graphic novel series Valentine, Cooney submitted a custom tricolor masterpiece to be given away to one lucky winner who stopped by our Future booth at Comic-Con. But when we received the case, along with three others from Mike Norton, Dennis Calero and Rob Guillory, we were really curious how he and the other artists managed to get any ink or paint to stick to the Incipio Feather iPad 2 case. So we asked him.
"Being that it's plastic, my approach was to see if the pencil would work," said Cooney. He wasn't used to drawn on this kind of medium, so the gummy, matter feel of the Feather case definitely threw him for a loop. "I had to use a couple of things like sharpie pens, Microns and gauche."
Dan Cooney, drawing at his booth on the Comic-Con show floor.
The white paint that you saw on the iPad 2 case a few galleries ago was not actually white out, but white gauche. "Gauche acrylics seem to work best and they were quick drying," adds Cooney. "There were a lot of challenges, but it was really fun." You can check out Dan Cooney's art at his official website.
