032 - ROGUES / INKS

Heh. This was fun. Other than Ole' Harley Girl, I'd never actually drawn of these guys before which is odd but not unusual for me now that I think of it. There are tons of characters that I love and I've never tried my hand at... come to think of it I've never tried drawing Catwoman before either ;)

Thanks to friend and fellow Artist Jason Flowers for the feedback on Mister Freeze, I'm thinking there's a big difference between the pencil and ink stages so hopefully more of that cold heartedness (wink) comes across.

032 - ROGUES / PENCILS

Rough week so far and for whatever reason, drawing Harley Quinn always makes me laugh a little so I figured I'd give it a shot. It was just meant to be for fun so I pretty much just drew her out without a real 'plan' or a composition in mind but once I started messing around with inking it I figured I could just expand on it and I added in a few other Batman Rogues that I love, the ones that don't get the shine they deserve I think. Anywho - I'll finish inking this up and then post the result here.

50 GIRLS 50 - PROGRESS

Here's a look at the Pencils to Page 2 of my 50 Girls 50 submission. I left most of the foliage for the inking stage just because it's the sort of thing that I feel better just laying down in one pass as opposed to the rest of it where I want to make sure I have the framwork down first. You can check out all 6 pages in their final stage here.

50 GIRLS 50

Here's Page 3 of my 50 GIRLS 50 6 page submission - click on over and check it out!

CRASH & BURN

Like I've said before, for me it's all about the small things.

ANOTHER RANDOM PANEL

I know... but I like it.

RANDOM PANEL

As much as I'd like to show off some of the pages I've finished up this week, I'm gonna need to play it a little closer to the vest... so here's a random panel! Cheers!

SAINTS

So before anyone asks, the answer is no... I did these two pages as a sort of exercise in trying to adapt the look, tone and mood of the movie (BOONDOCK SAINTS) onto the comic book page. Overall I was pretty happy with the way they turned out but I think my biggest mistake was in attempting too literal a translation. I pretty much went shot for shot, not realizing until afterwards that the pages didn't read the way they should.

SUPERMAN

I figure I haven't posted a Superman drawing since January so I'm pretty much due. Getting Supes down to a science is an on-going process with me... you could say, he's my 'end game' and working towards mastering a classic, iconic and fun look is a big part of that.

OPEN GRAVE - INKED 07

All right folks, here's Page 7 of my 7 page OPEN GRAVE preview. Enjoy!

OPEN GRAVE - INKED 06

Dirge is having a hard time with the ladies...

OPEN GRAVE - INKED 05

OPEN GRAVE - INKED 04

OPEN GRAVE - INKED 03

OPEN GRAVE - INKED 02

Heh. Egg gave me A-LOT of freedom on what I threw into the mish mash on some of these pages and even though I didn't get to draw the sequence I loved the idea of our leading man Dirge fighting a giant gorilla.

OPEN GRAVE - INKED 01

So here's the inked version of page 1 of my collaboration with Writer Egg Embry, OPEN GRAVE. I use a combination of tools when I ink - Pentel Black Color Brush Pen, Bombay Black India Ink, Loew - Cornell 797 Flat Stain Brush, Loew - Cornell 795 Round Brush as well as Copic Multiliner Pens. On those 'flashback' panels I'm doing an ink wash just to get a different texture in there, which is something I've employed on previous projects like SALEM as well as DEMONS REGRET. I'll be updating with new pages every other day or so, make sure to also hop over to my buddy Egg's site and check out some of his other work - http://comicsbyegg.com/

OPEN GRAVE - 07

OPEN GRAVE - 06

OPEN GRAVE - 05

OPEN GRAVE - 04

OPEN GRAVE - 03

OPEN GRAVE - 02

RED ROBIN

Here are a couple of pages from RED ROBIN issue No. 1 that I re-drew to use as samples for HeroesCon Charlotte. I always feel like a bit of a douche doing that but I needed to whip up some quick pages to show Editors and I didn't have a DC script handy, at least not one that I liked and this was the first thing that I grabbed and thought, "Yeah, I could have done a better job". See? Douche. Whatever.

OPEN GRAVE - 01

Been keeping pretty busy lately and all of the drawing I've been doing has been for projects so... no posts but my buddy Egg Embry said it was cool to start posting some pages from our project OPEN GRAVE - Once it's completed it will be hosted over on Comics By Egg but until then I'll be posting pages so check back and have a look!

031 - COLOSSUS