Over the last 5-6 years, Black Adam has become one of the DC Universe’s most interesting characters. Not to mention the fact that he’s also one of the sharpest looking designs as well. Drew this in Adobe Illustrator a few years ago.
Posts Tagged ‘Adobe Illustrator’
Black Adam
Friday, July 10th, 2009X-Patrol
Friday, June 19th, 2009
When Marvel & DC teamed up to do the Amalgam Comics experiment, they did an X-Patrol comic (X-Men & Doom Patrol). It wasn’t that great. It combined the 90s X-Men with the more classic version of the Doom Patrol.
After reading (and loving) Grant Morrison’s version of the Doom Patrol, I thought that they should have used his version of the team and combined them with similarly suited X-Men characters.
Peter Rasputin (Colossus) and Cliff Steele (Robotman) combined to become Peter Steele (also the name of the Goth-Metal singer from Type O Negative – pretty much my sole purpose of doing this drawing was for that joke that only I find funny).
Crazy Jane (a multiple personality disorder sufferer, whose different personalities have different powers) and Rogue (who gains others powers and minds temporarily when she touches them) became Crazy Rogue (she’s permanently gained every person she’s ever touched powers and personality, which drove her insane).
Negative Man/Rebis combined with Human Torch to become the Pyronic Man. Yeah, Human Torch isn’t an X-Men or even a mutant. Don’t care. The visual is what was important, and no X-character fit.
Anyhoo just a bit of fun done entirely in Adobe Illustrator. There are pieces I like, but a ton I don’t. I’ll blame those on the fact that I didn’t start with a sketch.
The Jack Staff episode is up at Gutter Trash, my weekly review podcast. Next week: Apocalypse Now
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Slam Evil!
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
What a terrible fucking tagline.
Been a while, sorry. Been working on getting my podcast together. You can find my podcast at www.guttertrash.net. It’s a swell podcast, with our first official episode being recorded on September 16th. To be released shortly thereafter. We’ll see when, then I’ll try to make that the regular upload day. For my podcast. Gutter Trash. Have I mentioned my podcast yet?
Anyhoo, the purple nurple above is The Phantom, though you might know him better as Billy Zane. And to be fair, I actually do enjoy The Phantom movie. It’s a fun, Indy Jones/Superhero flick. I drew this entirely in Illustrator for a contest that Moonstone Comics is holding. I’m kinda proud of this, and worked harder on it than probably any of the other pieces on this blog. I was actually trying for an Adobe Illustrator-meets-painterly-meets-typical-Shonborn-crapfest thang. I failed on most levels, but still like the piece, which is a rare thing.
Life Failure
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Project Rooftop had a Superman Redesign contest about a month ago or so. Didn’t make the finalists, but got honorable mention. Drawn in Illustrator..
Hell, boy
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
I keep forgetting to try and update this badboy. I was sorta lacking a good piece to pop up here. I mean, I have hundreds of drawings stocked away, I just don’t like any of ‘em. The images I wanted to post up here, well, I’m not ready yet. They’re not ready yet. Soonish. But I figger, Hellboy II is out this week, and I’m excited, despite probably waiting a while to see it. I hate going to movies on opening weekend. All you fuckers and your conversations and cellphones and texting can all fuck off and die, motherfuckers. I didn’t pay 10 bucks to listen to your bitch-ass, I came to watching a fucking movie. And when I fucking yell at you to shut the fuck up, don’t act surprised, and don’t act like I’m interfering in your movie-going experience. Proper public etiquette and four years of working at a movie theater give me the right to fuck up your world if you bother me in a theater. Assholes.
P.S. I love you Mike Mignola.
