Last night I saw a neat drawing Rico did of Ghost Rider in his sketchbook and felt inspired to do this drawing. I plan on working on it in Photoshop and practicing making flames.
Posts Tagged ‘Sketch’
Ghost Rider
Friday, January 27th, 2012Charlotte Comicon sketches
Sunday, December 18th, 2011I had a good time at Charlotte Comicon with Herc, Henry, Brandon and Jonathan. I got to draw a little for myself in addition to a couple of sketches I sold. We sold a few anthologies, and got the word out that we exist to some great fans. We did see the cutest little Deadpool to ever draw swords. One gal was dressed as Ms Marvel, which inspired me to work on this piece depicting the behind-the-scenes instance from Avengers Annual #10, where Rogue attacked Ms. Marvel, albeit, Carol Danvers was probably not in her costume for it.
Later in the day, when things calmed down, I was searching for something to draw, and across the way I saw a dealer selling a Black Cat action figure, which inspired this drawing of the best Catwoman rip-off Spider-Man ever had.
Storm
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Last Thursday, I did this drawing after finishing the latest Jet-Pack Jenny strip. I know everyone is drawing Alpha-Beasts, but I didn’t think I could meet the obligation, even though after seeing everyone’s great work has tempted me a couple of times.
So I drew Storm. I used to hate this outfit, but as I get nostalgic for some of the costume and character designs of the 1970s, I find I keep coming back to the work of Dave Cockrum. Some of the best Legion of Super-Heroes costumes came from Cockrum, and a few of the new X-Men that debuted back in the 1970s sported designs he had intended to use in the Legion, but hey DC didn’t want to give him some of his art back.
So we have Ororo Munroe who inevitably got fetishized in an era when being the new girl on the team meant showing up naked from time to time. Some artists have really done great work featuring Storm in her 80s punk days, but give me a Dave Cockrum 70s costume any day of the week.
Her outfit has been redesigned numerous times since thenincluding in ways that artists couldn’t consistently render. I imagine this as a shiny leather or vinyl fabric, and when a character can’t feel the weather extremes, it really doesn’t make sense for her to wear sleeves.
I do like the look on her face, and the weight in her stance. I need to work on the shadows a little bit more and I really don’t like those abdomen highlights the more I see them.
Batgirl
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011A couple of weeks ago, I drew this Batgirl, just to try out by old inking style, which I think has evolved since the last time I seriously tried to draw a member of the Bat-Family.
Yes, I am drawing, I swear.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011(Note: This is identical to my post over on the Big Dog’s blog, but it fits over here as well. I kinda want to keep the activity here up among he contributors, so I’m adding whenever I can.)
Okay, so I buy myself this new sketchbook that’s really big, probably the biggest I’ve ever owned. It barely fits in the backpack that I take to Sketch Charlotte. The freedom it grants is that I can not worry about running out of room and then blowing up the sketch on my copier just to piece it together on the lightbox. That’s precisely what I had to do with my last Jet-Pack Jenny drawing and more recently, my Wizard of Oz drawing, which will be done as soon as I can get to my lightbox again.
On the topic of Jet-Pack Jenny, I started this drawing at last week’s Sketch Charlotte meeting after yet another disastrous start on a Power Girl drawing. I liked it and finished it up over the weekend. I believe it’s in the running for the cover of the collected Power of 01.
The second drawing was inked at Sketch Charlotte, but started while I was sitting at HickoryCon last month. The character is planned to be part of my next story Hanamori’s Circus. I do believe that I’ll be curbing my need to throw a lot of ink down on this one.
5 minutes…
Monday, September 26th, 2011We did this at last week’s Sketch Charlotte meeting. Everyone starts with a blank sheet and 5 minutes to do whatever they want (we decided on superheroes as a basic concept). Once your 5 minutes are up you pass it to the person on your right. The five who participated in this were Herc, Jerry, Bridgit, me and Terence. Everyone got a turn on each piece. This is what we came up with…fun & frustration all rolled into one!
Batwoman
Friday, July 15th, 2011I’m not entirely happy with it, but Brandon made me promise to post it here. I was trying my shortcut method of drawing characters that wear mostly black with someone other than Darth Vader.
Direct ink goodness
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Direct-ink sketches from tonight’s Sketch Charlotte meetup. At left, customer with bigass awesome beard. Right, my buddy Henry, making funny faces as he drew, knowing that I was drawing him. Tonight I rediscovered the joys of direct-ink sketching. Forced my mind to tune in as it turned off and let my eyes and pen do the rest. As always, wonderful to see everyone, laugh, and try to figure out what the hell kind of movies or TV shows they were talking about.
First post!
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Hey guys, here’s my first art post! This is Allen the Alien from Invincible, and it was drawn for a buddy over the course of a couple nights. Inked with Copic Markers. Also, my work is criminally static, and hopefully SC will be the way for me to branch out and learn more about posing the body!
TD sketch 090208
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008God willing, I successfully uploaded this image. This dashboard is waaaaaaay clunky. Anyway, here’s a sketch I finished at work, with a Rapidograph and my Niji brush.
~T
