He and fellow artist James Harren have a site called The Bog (), which is mostly for fun, brain-dumping sketches. Since Invincible is on a monthly schedule, Ottley works six days a week to make sure the book ships regularly, which leaves little time for anything else. With a dedication to characters and a strong focus on family dynamics, it still manages to contain some of the most imaginative-and sometimes brutally realistic-takes on traditional superhero tropes. Since then, Ottley has penciled nearly 100 issues of a book that continues to be a refreshing change of pace from other superhero comics.
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“I actually finished before Cory finished his pages for Issue 7, and then they asked me if I’d come on full time.” “I did pencils and inks in two weeks, which is way too fast, but I was really hungry at that point,” says Ottley. He contributed to various anthologies and illustrated a number of short stories, including Ted Noodleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy, until his work was discovered and he was asked to fill in on an issue of Invincible. He began posting his work online and trying to find writers he wanted to work with. After he was fired from a warehouse, he saw an opportunity to actually go for it. Ottley held a number of different jobs while harboring dreams of becoming a comic artist. “I have no clue what’s going to happen here,” says Ottley. He uses Draw Night as an exercise in sketching, where his mind can wander and he can let his pencil do the talking. For Ottley, it’s just a nice break from the daunting task (but still a better gig than most jobs, of course) that is illustrating a monthly comic. Sometimes it’s small, but on this particular night, there were nearly 10 people packed in, all working on various projects. The number of people attending varies from week to week. We’ve been doing it like clockwork ever since.” I said I’d be interested in doing it, so we got together and started again. “They’d been doing it for years, but stopped for a while. “I met Derek Hunter online, and he used to do Draw Night,” says Ottley. It’s a low-key, weekly tradition in which a group of local artists get together for a few hours and sketch, chat and just be creative. Since 2004, when he began penciling Invincible on a regular basis, Ottley has been attending Draw Night at Nobrow Coffee. His line work is some of the cleanest and most detailed in the industry, and the level of gore he reaches at times is a stark contrast to the personality of the mild-mannered Utah resident. Ottley may not have the bombastic, rock star personality of some of his Image peers, but he is every bit as talented. Its continued success is thanks, in large part, to books like Invincible-illustrated by local artist Ryan Ottley. Twenty years later, Image Comics is still a force led by some of the most famous creators working today.
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