I just wanted to try my hand at something not superheroic or monstrous.
225 – Figure sketch
224 – Troll
I recently watched the movie Trollhunter. It was a lot of fun, and I look forward to watching it again in its native language, with subtitles. But I had trolls on the brain, and recently recovered my brush pen from what I thought was a certain doom.
I had run out of ink, and following advice I had read online, decided to refill it with a different waterproof india ink using a converter. Apparently my first choice of ink was not good. It was really still and hard to use or make brush strokes with. So I washed it out, and tried again, but this caused the brush to now have a gray wash tone to it, which was unacceptable (though I used it on the Shade the Changing Man sketch from a few days ago). So finally, I washed it out again and let the components sit for three days, occasionally replacing the hot soapy water. Then I let the pen dry for about two days before touching it. The brush still was leaving washed out gray strokes when I was testing it’s dryness. Finally, when it seemed dry enough, I refilled the converter with a different ink.
The first few strokes were kind of a watery dark gray, but soon after, we achieved blackness, and my brush pen was saved. Then I drew a crappy troll sketch. The end.
223 – Adam Warlock
I think I read maybe three issues of Warlock’s 90s series, after he had taken possession of the Infinity Gauntlet. My only real memories are of Warlock passing the Infinity Gems out to various characters, one of whom stuck the gem on his dick. The other memory I have is of buying the first issue at the convenience store just a block away from my parent’s house. At the time, this was the closest thing I had to a comic book store that didn’t involve making my dad drive somewhere he didn’t want to go. The register monkey who sold it to me freaked out that it was Number One issue, and went on and on how he couldn’t believe that there was something that was gonna be super valuable for sale at this store, and how he was gonna buy the other copies of it because of their value.
Cover price for Warlock and The Infinity Watch: $1.75.
Near mint price at mycomicshop.com: $1.10
Autographed copy: $3.30
Ok, PANIC!: The Adventures of Tintin
Never Forget
222 – Ms. Marvel
Carol Danvers in her Warbird/Ms. Marvel costume. I had pretty much forgotten she existed until she appeared in Kurt Busiek’s Avengers, and then I had no idea why her head wasn’t on fire anymore. Oh well, whatever. Comics.
221 – Binary
Carol Danvers’ second incarnation (see yesterday’s post), after Rogue wiped her mind and powers, designed by the late, great Dave Cockrum. That guy was the king of sleek modern superhero costume design, and there’s never been anyone that’s come close. Too bad he is gone, and particularly too bad when DC needed him the most.
219 – Shade The Changing Man
I’ve gushed about Shade the Changing Man before, so I’m not gonna repeat myself here. I wish this drawing had turned out better, and he certainly deserves better than being depicted as a hipster. I will say that I got turned onto Shade by my friend Bruce, and we loved the book so much we stole Shade’s technicolor changing coat for one of the characters in one of our comics.
217 – Billy the Kid & Jeffrey, the Miniature Boy
A few months back, over at Gutter Trash, we reviewed Eric Powell & Kyle Hotz’ Billy the Kid’s Old-Timey Oddities. I went into the book pretty much knowing I was going to love it. I’m a huge fan of both Eric Powell and Kyle Hotz – a resident of Dayton, Ohio no less.
My friend Jason asked me to draw Billy and his friend, Jeffrey the Miniature Boy. Well, I drew them, but it doesn’t look like them, because Kyle Hotz is amazing, and I am no Kyle Hotz.