UPDATED!

This is my final update of the piece originally posted HERE. I knew from the get go that it needed some work and I finally got around to fixing her up.
So the adjustments to the piece are as follows:
*by making the gas giant planet seem less flat
*adding in a little atmospheric glow to the dark side of each planet
* by making the original background photo manipulation a little more crisp and vibrant
I really dug this when I first put her together and I like her even more now with these updates. I feel this piece can now hold it's own against the THIS one.
This piece was done first and as such suffered (suffers) from my lack of positioning on the experience bell curve. But I really like how the updates benefit the work.

The Mirage Nebula with Planets

This is a mix of some line art elements and photo manipulations. The "nebula" started its life as a photograph of some smoldering coals and ashes at a coffee house/hooka bar here in Mid-Town.
The planets are manipulated photographs of textures I took.
The close star in the midst of a coronal mass ejection is the same.
The stars are an actual Hubble shot of star cluster Messier 67.

I just love space shots.

Birthday Card...

...For my bud Julie. I missed her birthday party and I know shes got an outstanding sense of the absurd with a particular love of dinosaurs. So I says to myself, self, what could be better then a space dinosaur fighting off alien ships with a ray gun? What could be better? Nothing! That's what. So I did up this little guy and had it printed.
Pencils and inks took about 2 and a half hours total.

From the Sketchbook

So I really dig old school Scooby-Doo. I was watching a marathon of it on the Cartoon Network a few weeks back and was doodling out some of the villains in my sketchbook as the episodes played.
This guy (The "Spooky Space Kook" minus the little bubble space helmet) was in an episode where a guy was trying to buy up land near an old abandoned military air field because he heard they were going to reopen it and real estate in the area was about to to be at a premium.
Man I loved that show.

Go Team Venture!

So the super kill-guy Brock Samson is one of my favorite characters from The Venture Bros. on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim. The cartoon in general is pretty outstandingly funny but this guy in particular kinda makes the show in my humble opinion.

I really wanted to do a drawing based on the character and set it up in a style like that of the opening credits. It's different of course but the single character splash shot with the venture logo and the characters name along with my color choices make it similar to the shots in the opening credits of the show.

I had originally just draw Brock in my sketchbook (for fun) but I liked how it came out so I decided to use it. I like how the finished product turned out here but I feel like it does need a little something more - maybe a pattern of some sort behind the figure to give it some "umph".

Pencils, inks and color all took about 4 to 4 and a half hours in total.

Batman in the Cemetary

This is a re-work of an older drawing I had done some time ago. I liked the original concept but didnt like how I executed it.

In all honesty I only like this one slightly more.
I think that perhaps with a really top notch colorist it could turn out pretty cool though.