Merika Rock, Creator of Convention Vixens™
Merika first burst onto the scene as an illustrative art model hired for her ability to portray an assortment of ethnicities. Being born of an eclectic mix of Mexican-Spanish-German and Cherokee decent, shes found herself doing studio work for fantasy artist Larry Elmore for such covers as Sony Online Entertainments EverQuest™ and most recently Peregrine Entertainments Books of Lore Elf Stone, as the main character Jolie, with a preview comic just released this September of 2009.
Being a Celebrity Stylist by day, having worked with such stars as Keeping Up With the Kardashians Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner, to VH1s Harvey Waldon from Celebrity Fit Club and American Idols Kimberly Locke; she has also worked up close and personal with such stars as Sci-Fi Channels Ghost Hunters, Discovery Channels Mythbusters, Kynt and Vyxsin of The Amazing Race, and an array of Wrestling Superstars, character actors, Reality Show Faces and Playmates alike.
Merika is also the Creator of Convention Vixens™ a project made up of a group of multi-fandom characters ranging from Sci-Fi to Fantasy to Anime, and will be releasing a book and comic series set for 2010. She travels for convention appearances with her cast of beautiful models that portray the characters of her creation. She has partnered with sci-fi and fantasy illustrators such as Larry Elmore and Matt Busch for a series one and two compilation, each artist depicting four art pieces on various characters of the ConVixens™ World.
Stay tuned for the ever growing roster of new ConVixens characters, as well as a continuing convention appearance schedule to bring the project to the fans.
Blurb About The Project:
In the fall of 2007 I started to juggle around some concepts for what would be the start of Convention Vixens™.
By the New Year of 2008, I began a casting for girls I thought would fit the role of a list of character ideas I had. I wanted these characters to reflect different genres of fandom and the costumes to be cosplay inspired.
Initially I thought with the creation of the costuming, the models would be photographed for a calendar series I had envisioned. But in the process of developing each girl's part in the group, backgrounds and stories started to come to fruition and laid out. Thus, the characters themselves became the main focus of the project and the casting of the models helped to bring the characters to life the fans could meet in person.
With this came my first collaboration with world renowned fantasy artist and illustrator Larry Elmore. He created a set of art prints depicting four of the ConVixens™ characters, .
It was then, I decided that I wanted Convention Vixens™ to go into a different direction, switching my attention towards it being more artwork, comic and storybook oriented.
For the continuing year of 2009, a second series of four art prints have been released by Sci-Fi and fantasy artist great, Matt Busch. These prints will depict ConVixens™ characters Bug, Major Blaze, Hotaru-Chan and Aika.
With more artwork collaborations in the works, a storybook series, comic and a never-ending supply of stunning models stepping into the roles of the ConVixens™, stay tuned to see the exciting conclusion of what's new with these ever developing characters in this world come to life called Convention Vixens™!
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