GREEN .rough sketch.

Just for the hell of it, here's a rough of what I'm gonna do next. It was inspired by my son, who this morning said, "Daddy, draw me green super hero." Now, keep in mind that he's only TWO years old!

No idea where he got that idea from but I got stuck on which green super-hero to draw, so I decided on the only 2 I could think of at that moment. Still not sure which Green Lantern is about to get his skull popped like a pimple...

Beware His Light!

When I hit a wall (ie. can't draw or figure out what to draw) I like to color or ink over some of my friends' sketches or unfinished work. One of my closest friends, Aris Iliopoulos, has a particular 'fun-ness' to his art that quickly becomes contagious. For as long as I've known him (almost 20 years!!!) he's always been sketching, whether it was on drawing paper, looseleaf or a good old-fashioned Diner napkin.

Here is a really rough sketch of his that I cleaned up and colored. I fixed some of his anatomy a bit too 'cause he's just &$^ing lazy sometimes.

Ah, I miss those Diner days! Here's to you, "Artie"!

Superman: E-Lo Style

My buddy Emilio Lopez did a cool redesign for Superman, inspired by DC Comics' upcoming 'reboot'. I liked it enough to do this sketch of Supes trying it on for size.

Emilio's original design can be seen here: LINK

Heh...

I don't have any new artwork to share but I came across this online somewhere. Hilarious.

SUPERMAN, MAN, man, man... (Color)

I whined like a child about this one BIG time on Facebook. Sheesh. While it's not nearly as bad as I felt at the time, it was still a lesson in frustration for me. I just couldn't get it to look the way I wanted. Luckily, my friend Emilio helped me patch it up and tie the whole image together otherwise I probably wouldn't have even posted it. Thanks, E-Lo!

Hopefully, I'll just improve with each image.

SUPERMAN, MAN, man, man...

My second image of DC's big trifecta. I wanted to do something that captured what I thought was the essence of the character. 

Colors are coming up next.

Batcolor

Didn't realize I hadn't posted this to me blog. Here are da colors for my last Batpic. I plan on doing one pic for each of DC's "Big Three" before moving on to some Marvel characters. Why? Well, it turns out that I've never actually done a complete color image of any of them...ever. As a kid, I used to strictly draw in B&W (pencil only) for some reason. Probably because I didn't have much access to color markers/crayons/etc. Anyway, here's Batdude...

I was messing around with a shading technique that I saw David Curiel (amazing colorist/painter) use in an image. Turns out that he in turn was trying to mimic a technique used by Marte Gracia. I saw it, loved it, tried to mimic it myself and...didn't do anywhere near as good as I'd liked. Ah, well. Try and try again...

Just A Tweak, Ma'am...

I was obsessing about the parts I rushed on that Bat-pic and I had to make up for my laziness. Not much, just some tweaks here and there...

Wham! Bam! Thank you, Batman!

Well, 6 months between posts isn't really too long, is it? Ok, whatever.

Here's my most recent take on Batman. I've tried drawing him maybe one other time in the past 10 years or so. I don't know why but I tend to avoid drawing the really iconic characters like Superman and Wonder Woman for some reason. I'm not exactly sure why but it probably has something to do with not living up to the material or something like that.

For this version, which I don't hate so much, I was kind of trying to mix in a little bit of the styles of Jim Lee and David Finch. Kind of. A little bit. I ended up getting lazy and rushing it at the end but this was really just an exercise for me anyway. There's lots to nitpick so feel free to do so, if you're so inclined. I'm gonna ignore you anyway (I keed! I keed!).