Comic-Con Draw-Off with Thomas Jane and Artist Tim Bradstreet

We have a green pen here.

Yeah.

And I am Green, and we have a piece of paper.

30 seconds to draw me.

30 seconds to draw you?

Yeah.

That's an impossible task.

You can draw on my back if you want.

Well then you can't look at you.

You want to draw on my back while you look at her?

Yeah.

All right.

You're getting the full raw treatment here.

Kiki Noah back here for Young Hollywood in the madness that is Comic-Con with Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet.

Hey.

Well, you guys are no strangers to Comic-Con, are you?

Normally like walking through the streets amongst the peeps here or are you not able to?

Always.

Well, he, we uh, this is our sixth year down here.

So, I think a lot of people are kind of used We have a lot of repeat customers.

I think a lot of people are kind of getting used to the idea that Tim and I are down here and we're fixtures down here.

We have we're we've become, well this is yeah, I Well, let's face it.

I've been getting mobbed for years.

Tim's been coming down for 21 years now, right?

21 years.

You have a bodyguard?

I'm 27.

I try but I tell you man, they they roll right over me when they really want to get to Tim.

Sure.

So Dark Country and Bad Planet, is it Bad Planet 7?

Is that what we're you're really?

7 and 8.

7 and 8, yeah, double issue.

Uh exclusively for Comic-Con.

And Dark Country, it's the hard cover you're releasing here.

Yeah, it's awesome.

really pretty book.

It's awesome.

I know you guys have talked before about like staying ahead of the curve.

And you know, I know you want to release you want to do a 3D Western, is that still in the works?

Oh, I'd love to I'm shooting a Western uh, and someday I'll I'll make a 3D Western like John Wayne's Hondo but this is going to be a straight ahead, you know, two-dimensional traditional Western.

Um, which I'm, you know, really excited about.

Does Green Lantern have a part in this movie?

Honey, I'll fit you in.

You'll fit you in somewhere.

So you guys have been collaborating together for a long time now.

You have raw, I mean, how does let's talk about your sort of marriage as partners.

All right.

How how do you meet?

How do you stay together all these years and work together?

I what it the thing about living in separate wings of the mansion is pretty good.

Yeah, cuz he's in Yeah, he's in Los Angeles and I'm in San Diego and

Oh, separate cities even.

Yeah.

So, so, you know, we're not like smothering each other all the time.

I would love to be on illustrator.

And I drew a little sketch of you last night.

Uh oh.

Okay.

And I wanted to get your feedback.

Totally.

Fantastic.

And your sort of tell me whether or not I have any skills.

Give him the real I'll be brutally honest.

Tim gets this all day long, you know, artists come up to him at the booth and they say Tim, can I show you my work?

Tim is the king of all You are the king of all things.

He's really the first friend of Frank, I think, you know, he's the one who kind of reinvented uh, the Frank Castle image, the Punisher image as a sort of a realistic uh, Brought him into the 21st century.

How do you do that?

How do you bring him into the 21st century?

It was easy.

He just had to remove the white boots, the white belt and the white gloves.

And give him some real The Punisher.

He doesn't wear white gloves, white boots, and

So, he's honest.

Has it ever happened in an interview before?

Just letting you know.

It has never happened in an interview.

Green Lantern wants to be I'm gonna step aside here for a minute.

That's fantastic.

Trying to think.

Can we hold it up side by side?

Is that Reuben Kincaid from The Partridge Family?

No, I know Oh, it's Tom.

Yeah.

There is a definitely a likeness.

You don't know who I know.

It's a little larger.

No, it's isn't quite that.

You got the eyes and you got the lips and you got the face and you got the hairline and I like your sketching style.

Now what are the critiques?

Definitely has potential.

Be brutally honest with me here.

I'm I've told you my honest truth.

Yeah, really?

Yeah.

So, I so am I hired?

Totally.

You brought me a present.

And it's green.

Shall I put it on?

We knew we knew the Green Lantern was down here.

Can someone hold this for me for a sec?

I can do double mics.

And you can buy our booth and just wear that.

Oh, right on.

I'm customizing it for you.

You are uh, hired by the way.

Yeah.

You're a new member of our studio.

Illustrator.

What do you think?

We're now a collaboration.

It's now a trio.

It's a happy trio.

Now we're gonna sell more books.

That's right.

Can I can I challenge you because I did a little drawing?

We have a green pen here.

Yeah.

And I am green, and we have a piece of paper.

30 seconds to draw me.

30 seconds to draw you?

Yeah.

That's an impossible task.

Right.

No he doesn't Perfection is hard to improve on and he doesn't I'm sure he doesn't want to

Are you up for it?

Oh, yeah.

Somebody somebody I mean, are you?

You can draw on my back if you want.

Well then you can't look at you.

You want to draw on my back while you look at her?

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

You're getting the full raw treatment here.

This is this is this is like the behind the scenes You're watching the master at work.

Yes.

You don't want to reveal how you do this, how this happens.

Not bad.

Thomas is getting a massage at the same time.

He's done.

Can we have the reveal?

This is This is The Green Lantern.

That's fantastic.

Is that how you see me?

Uh, uh,

That's how he sees everything, baby.

Yeah.

I see everything through the Green Lantern skull.

Yeah.

So, I'll give that back to you.

Thank you very much.

I wonder how much I could get for this.

I think I might can I auction this off on the streets here?

An original.

Original artwork.

You might get, you know, a dollar for it.

Well, thank you for chatting with us.

Thank you.

This is great.

In the middle of all the madness.

Thank you for the T-shirt and for my original art.

Very welcome.

I love your drawing by the way.

Thank you.

You can keep it if you like.

Can I?

You can hang it on your wall.

I totally want that.

I'm gonna give it to Tom for his birthday in a really nice frame.

It's great.