So every year on my birthday, I usually post something. Mostly it’s been a sort of “year-in-review” text piece that generally turns into a bit of sad-sackery. This year, I got nothin’. Absolutely nothing. Plus I haven’t posted any new art in over a month. I’m actually still working on that last piece. So I decided to post this, just for me. A fun sketch for fun. It’s a powerful girl with a modified by me costume design.
Power Girl (34)
Ok, PANIC!: Sherlock Holmes
I am absolutely terrible at likenesses. Why did I think I should even attempt to draw Martin Freeman and Bullygulch Cribbleditch?
Work in Progress
This is for a freelance gig, a DVD cover. I did the layout first and finalized in Illustrator. Once I knew where all the text would go, I started work on the illustration.
And still working on the inks.
But before all that, I had worked on a different version and was completely unhappy with how it was turning out. I’m more satisified with the above.
Cousin Eerie
Jeff Potter commissioned this drawing of Cousin Eerie, the “host” of the comic horror anthology, EERIE. Although I’ve never read any of the old horror comics like EERIE, CREEPY, TALES FROM THE CRYPT, etc. I’ve definitely got a soft spot in my heart for those types of publications.
Yes, Cousin Eerie is reading “The Secret”. Because I thought it was funny.
Greasy Metalhead
Kurt Dinse, writer/artist of One Year in Indiana commissioned me to draw a greasy metalhead. Not only was I more than happy to oblige, I was honored. Having Kurt ask you to draw a greasy metalhead is just about on par with Frank Frazetta commissioning a painting from someone else of a violent, gnarly, viking dude on a horse with swords and naked chicks.
Unfortunately, I think I accidentally drew the main character of the Brutal Legend video game.
Ok, PANIC!: Groin Kick
Poor Jimmy. Superman’s a dick. Superdickery.
Ok, PANIC!: G.I. Joe
The Baroness
Ok, PANIC!: Pioneers
The Pioneers of Punk
Hal Jordan
I know I’ve said I’ll never draw Hal Jordan, but money talks and for an extra 10 bucks, he’ll be my favoritist Green Lantern ever, too.
This is the first of a series of commissions for some asshole. He’s chipping in a little extra for the splash of color. I used regular ol’ blue pencil and light pencils for the layout, Copic Multiliners for inking the figure, a Staedtler Triplus color pen for the shape of the boxing glove, Copic gray sketch markers for the figure and Chartpak color markers for the greens.
The Chartpak markers are a set that I had to buy in art school, which are now 16 years old. When I graduated and moved, I wound up selling the markers, because I never thought I would use them again. I sold them to a woman who I would later wind up dating for 8 years, so it was almost like I still had them, but I never used them. Now that we are broken up, I am borrowing these markers from her. Most of the set is still intact and barely used.