Post-it sketch. I wanted to try a heavy shadowed figure, stark contrast with no hatching, and then it turned into Cyclops. Then I added the recognizable silhouettes. I hope anyway. Hey, the Etsy Store? Still a thing. Haven’t given up yet.
Tag Archive: X-Men
4. Slim Summers
Cyclops’ nickname in the early issues of X-Men was “Slim”, yet I never thought he was drawn particularly skinnier or ganglier than Angel or Iceman, or even Professor X. So I fixed it.
346 – Raza
I know this character from The Starjammers, a group of Space Pirates who are supporting characters in the X-Men books, designed by the genius of Dave Cockrum, and as a whole vastly underrated and underused characters. That said, I don’t know a lot about this specific character, other than that he had a ponytail and …
340 – Captain Britain
I’ve been a fan of this character since the early days of Excalibur. Later on, I picked up the trade paperbacks collecting the Marvel UK stories by Alan Moore and Jamie Delano and absolutely loved them, though I hadn’t read Excalibur since like issue 50 back in the ’90s. I pretty much ignored all C.B. …
294 – Nightcrawler
Bonus micro-hero:
286 – Wolverine
Old school whisker-mask, small eye-piece Wolverine. Also, I shortened the gloves and the flares on his boots. I went ahead and made his teeth metal, because they would be, right? No one ever mentions this. He could absotively bite the shit out of people. Finally, I’ve always thought that his mutton-chops should stick out of …
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