015 - SINESTRO

If Parallax is the one behind all the craziness, how come its the Sinestro Corps? Anyway that's two Green Lantern villains in a row, hopefully that makes up for that horrible sketch in some small way ;) I could just keep going on these but I think this is going to be it for the Legion of Doom... bring on The Avengers!

014 - BORN ON A MONDAY

It was a bit of a toss up between Solomon Grundy and Bizarro, they're two of my favorite villains but in my interpretations at least they're too similar visually - Grundy won the coin toss. Happy Friday!

013 - MANTA

Ah, gimme a break! It's hard to make Black Manta look cool... meh'.

012 - COLD

I had fun with this one, never drawn Captain Cold before or any of the Flash's Rogues Gallery for that matter - may need to correct that. Happy Friday Everybody!!

011 - MANEATER

010 - CLOWN PRINCE

Heh...

009 - MASTERMIND

Oh yeah... you know where I'm going with this now.

008 - GUARDIAN

Blargh!! A truly crappy Hal Jordan... never have been able to get him right.

007 - MANHUNTER

I guess this one is a bit of a departure from the rest of the spandex crowd so far but honestly I find the idea of Manhunter doing the whole 'psychic detective searching for the key to human nature' thing far more interesting than anything that's been done with him recently... I'm not even sure what he looks like anymore.

006 - KING OF THE SEAS

005 - SPEEDSTER

Appropriately I guess, a very rushed sketch that came in just under the wire.

004 - LEAGUE INTERUPTUS

Okay... literally just got back from the very cool Boozer Doodle at The Vortex Midtown where the lovely Suki Sanchez not only modeled for us but performed a Frida inspired Burlesque and in the interest of not missing a day of posting here's just one of the pieces I drew up tonight (between beers)... tomorrow night we resume our regularly scheduled programming of men in tights!

003 - AMAZON

Are we detecting a pattern here yet?

002 - DETECTIVE

I've always been a big fan of this rather intense Gentleman... Whatever happened to that whole "World's Greatest Detective" thing? I find that aspect of the character much more interesting than the whole angsty guy angle.

001 - BOY SCOUT

Welcome to THE MAIN STAGE - Inaugural Sketch Blog!

For a while now I've been checking out the late Mike Wieringo's art blog as well as Eric Canete and Cory Walker and they inspired me not only with their amazing talent but with their discipline in being able to regularly update their Blogs, despite their busy schedules. So since the work is piling up and the Missus is giving me a hard time about staying focused I decided, "What better time than NOW to start my own Blog!"... hmm, genius.

Anyway, here's the deal so you can all help to keep me honest - I'm (foolishly) challenging myself to follow Cory Walker's formula and 'try' to maintain a DAILY sketch blog. All of my pieces should follow the same format: 5.5" x 7" Non-Repro Blue on Bristol / No Inks / No Color - I've got several sketch themes in mind and they should be more than enough to keep me busy for at least the first month but 'where to start' was a no-brainer. For me... it all started with the Boy Scout.