I have a tight deadline this week, hence the lack of new art here.
Hopefully it won’t be too long until I can post some of the cards I’ve been working on for this Spider-man set. In the meantime I’ll try to get some more art up in the next day or so.
I’m on a deadline this week, but here’s a marker sketch card of Mary Marvel. SHAZAM!
Good morning, all.
Here’s a Phoenix sketch card to help start your Monday.
Two facts from my childhood:
1) In church Christmas plays I’m always a shepherd.
2) In softball I’m always right field.
Both boil down to standing around waiting for everyone else to finish what they’re doing.
I’m plowing through my next graphic novel (co-written with Danny Paris). After all my work for hire stuff during the day, I go home at night, eat dinner, kiss my wife, and then start drawing again. I’m trying to tell this story as clearly and economically as possible, hence the cartoony look. If I were doing lots of detail I’d never finish it.
Anyway, for some reason I like this page, even though it looks like nothing is really going on.
When I was a kid, before I started Kindergarten, re-runs of the 1960’s Batman TV series came on every afternoon around 2:30. The cartoon intro always threw me off. Every time I hoped it would be an animated episode. Eventually, my three year old brain caught on – Adam West is in every episode.
I haven’t read any Batman stuff in a long time. At some point it just got too dark for my taste, but I still like the character. This morning before starting on pages, I warmed up with a Batman head sketch.
He looks like he’s had a rough night.
How can you have a Baroness without a Scarlett?
I’m not 100% satisfied with this. I think when it is all said and done I could have made her pose a little more fluid. The one thing I am happy with on both this and The Baroness is the distressed look of the background symbols. It was my first attempt trying to pull that off with markers and I think it worked. At least I learned something even though I’m not completely happy with it.
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To warm up today I finished coloring the Baroness drawing I did last week. For those who care, I used Copic markers on the skintones and Prismacolors on everything else. Highlights were done with Pro White.
Unfortunately, the colors on this scan seem a little desaturated. When I get home I’ll have to re-scan it.
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Last Friday I had every intention of being productive. Unfortunately, that’s the day G.I. Joe came out in theaters. Working in a physical studio with three other comic book guys meant the afternoon was spent 1) Watching the Movie, 2) Eating a large amount of Japanese food for lunch and 3) making a trip to Toys R Us for G.I. Joe toys.
Productivity averted.
Apparently my subconscious is still dwelling on G.I. Joe a week later. Except today I actually need to be productive.
I know a guy who can’t resist a nice, fresh, pointy Sharpie. If there’s a surface to be doodled on, that surface shall indeed be doodled upon. And if there is, say, a stack of copy paper in front of his computer, that paper will become well acquainted with any Sharpies lying about.
Last night I…I mean…he…realized there was a nice, fresh, pointy Sharpie lying by the stack of blank white copy paper on his desk.
And while Photoshop slowly processed scans on his ancient computer, that paper felt the wrath of his idleness.
