Harvey Two Face

That dastardly villain from the Batman comics.
Another ball-point pen sketchy that I thought was kinda cool so I threw down with some digital color and finishes.

It's Alive

And the completed inks for the W.I.P. I posted on last night.
11x14 100 LB. Vellum Bristol Board. Pencils and inks took about 5 and a half to 6 hours or so. That was with a little dawdling and distraction though. Had I just focused a little better the inking time (about 3 and a half to 4 hours) would have been a little less...
I've been working on some fantasy/horror/macabre type art lately for my portfolio as I'm gonna try and submit to some video game companies that specialize in those kinks of games...

More of the W.I.P.

After about an hour and a half of inking...
Its off screen right leg is also fully inked...

W.I.P. The Post-Modern Prometheus

A work in progress - rougher pencils then I would normally do, but since I'm inking this myself (as usual) I'm comfortable with the sketchier nature.
Pictured is a smaller chunk of a larger drawing.
11x 14 100 LB. Vellum Bristol Board. Pencils took about two hours; let's see how long the inks take...
Results to be posted.

The Leviathan Work In Progress

Another ball point pen sketch. I was fiddling around with this because of the "RIFT" contest going on right now over at Deviant Art

This is for the "Plane of Water" thingy...

Not gonna enter the contest (I don't think) but I did this and decided I liked it so I am in the process of giving her some color...

You'll notice this ball point pen sketch is a lot rougher then then ones I'm doing of the Fantastic Four. With those I knew right off what I wanted to draw and how I wanted to do it.

With the Leviathan I only knew I wanted to do a massive, undersea, anthropomorphous monster.

I'll post the finished product (full colors) when I'm done...

The Continuing Adventures of the Sketchy

More of the ball point pen sketches of the Fantastic Four I did. Of course there's a lot of photoshop here, but the characters were drawn in ball point pen; no original pencils.
Sue Storm is next.

Benjamin Grimm Sketchy

From the old sketchbook. I did it in ball point pen and just liked how it looked so I decided to color him in...

The Macho Man

... Randy Savage.

I admit it. Back in the day I loved wrestling. Savage was pretty cool but never really my favorite. Anyway, he died last week after wrecking his car while apparently having a heart attack.

I did this just cuz...

It should be noted that I referenced a photo on the web for this but have no idea who took the original picture. If anyone knows please feel free to let me know so I can properly credit them.

Life in the Woods

I'm reading Doc Meldrums book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. It's a really compelling and interesting read.

I tend to agree with Dr. Meldrum when he says that while he does not necessarily believe in the existence of bigfoot, there is enough evidence out there of it's possible existence to warrant further exploration.

I included a couple things in this image largely associated with the bigfoot phenomena. The branch "Squatchy" is dropping with it's right hand is associated with the reported "wood knocking". It's believed that this may be a method for long range communication/location of other Squatchys. This is a behavior associated with some primate species.

The other is the the rock it's picking up with it's left hand; reports have campers and hikers, etc. having rocks, pine cones and other sundries lobbed at them by unseen forces. This is also a behavior associated with some primate species.

11 x 14 100 LB. Vellum Bristol Board. Pencils and inks took about 5 to five and a half hours.

F.Y.I. - a commission of this sort (minus the copy, since that bit was done digitally) would be $50.00

Another Day In Paradise

Another in a series. I had a story idea for these revolving around various devils and/or demons (from a variety of world religions, both past and present) interacting with random, regular people in todays world. The stories were set from the 50's all the way up to the present day.

Anyway, this little cover mock-up was fun to do.

Portrait Commission

Done for a client who wanted to present the drawing of their kids to his wife for mothers day. I also made it into a greeting card so he and his kids could sign it and present that to her as well.
He seemed to love it when I presented it to him. I'd really like to know what his wife thought of it...
11 x 14 on 100 LB. Vellum Bristol Board. Pencils and inks took a little over 6 hours.

Pencils and Weirdness

Something I blue-lined out while laying in bed last night. In between some other work today I found a couple hours to throw down with some clean pencils.

I still haven't found that sweet-spot for scanning pencils where they come out looking as clean as they do on the page. Also I loose a little bit of the finer details when I scan them like this.

Priest Vamp

I saw the commercial for the Priest movie. I'm not optimistic, however the little vamp monster in the commercial was pretty cool. So this little guy is roughly based on that...

Again, because I apparently suck at scanning pencils some of his cool little details got washed out, but it was fun to do. I'll ink and color this one sometime soon...
Pencils on 100 LB. Vellum Bristol Board took about an hour and a half to an hour and 45 minutes.

Wolverine Pencils

I was thinking of doing an alphabet of personal likes; things in my life I really dig. This was done to sorta test the idea and I like how it came out.
I don't like the scan though. Every time I scan the pencils to a drawing I always loose some of the slightly lighter details...
Anyway I fiddled with Wolvies uniform a little. I gotta admit I dont know what it looks like these days but I did it this way to reflect the elements of his previous uniforms that I liked the most (moving little things around).

Alter Egos

So I got the colors for this one all done this past weekend. Getting my flats into the drawing didn't take quite as long as I thought it was gonna take.

Anyway the drawing is all about Bruce Banner and his alter ego, the Hulk. Aaaaaand the Hulk and his alter ego Bruce Banner (sorta depends on your perspective I guess).

In my humble opinion this dynamic has been (at times) the best developed concept in all of comics.

So there ya have it, but I must say this was fun to draw; especially the background/landscape which I drew separately from the characters in the foreground (for various reasons). In fact I liked how it came out so much I wanted to post it up here all by itself. So here it is.

Stargate - SG 1

It only took me forever to get to it but finally I did the colors for the Stargate: Children of the Gods poster I did waaaaaaay back here [LINK]. I ended up just calling it Stargate SG 1 even though I originally drew it as an homage to the series pilot, entitled Children of the Gods. I may go back and change that again though.

The copy took a little while because it is not a pre-fab font. I took the time to digitally recreate the copy that is used on the DVD boxed sets.

I drew this long enough ago so that I can't recall how long the pencils and inks took but the digital colors/finishes took approximately 7 and a half to 8 hours.

The Kool Aid Guy

A birthday card for a friend. I knew I wanted to do the Kool Aid Guy and I knew this was the pose I wanted to use. Unfortunately while this image is ubiquitous on the web (the original has him holding a pitcher of Kool Aid in his right hand), I could find no reference as to who the original artist was. So instead I had to credit the creator of the Kool Aid Guy, Marvin Plotts.

The drawing took about 45 minutes; about 15 minutes for the pencils and about a half hour for the inks....

The rest of it (digital colors, design elements, etc.) took about an hour or so.

The Commission

One of the commissions I did recently for one of my Deviant Art watchers. She wanted something outta this world, so I hope I delivered with this creepy little thing.
Pencils and inks on 11 x 14, 100 LB. Vellum Bristol Board. 20 bucks.

The Super-Kill Guy (Updated)

So this is an updated version of the Brock Samson image I first showed HERE. I replaced the gun with Brock's usual weapon; the ubiquitous and trusty knife. Additionally I updated the colors and some of the design elements as well.

I'm MUCH more fond of this version.
How 'bout you?

The Shadow - Prep Sketch

This was the sketchbook prep drawing I did for the commission piece located HERE.
It's a little different and I kinda like it so I decided she deserved some ink.

It's a relatively small scale drawing - about 9 x 12 or so on standard sketchbook paper where as the finished drawing was on 14 x 17 100 lb. Vellum Bristol Board. So it's details suffer a little bit from it's diminished scale.
Overall I like it. I'll probably be coloring this one in sometime relatively soon.
I should note "The Shadow" logo was added in digitally. It's the same one I digitally generated and added into the full color commission.