Sunday, July 31, 2011

It's not easy being green...

Ink and gouache. If you thought the Hellboy story was peculiar, wait till you read this one...


Saturday, July 30, 2011

Captain Marvel

As with the Warlock head sketch, I tried to get a little bit of a Gil Kane vibe in the drawing, but it didn't really come through.




Thursday, July 28, 2011

Happy Birthday, Joe E. Brown!

"Nobody's perfect!"


Sunday, July 24, 2011

Loki

I ran out of room for the horns.


Saturday, July 23, 2011

Adam Warlock

I tried (and failed) to make this look a little more like a Gil Kane drawing. I really liked that series from the early '70's.


Thursday, July 21, 2011

WildC.A.T.S / Aliens page 28

From 1998. Pencils by the amazing Chris Sprouse.



Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Batman: Sword of Azrael TPB cover art

From 1993. Pencils by Joe Quesada. Sorry for the poor quality of the pencil scan.


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles: pencils and inks

This one is a bit of a re-run. I posted the inks more than two years ago but I just found a copy of the pencils:














Here's the original post.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Wonder Woman pin-up

This one was published in Wonder Woman #50, January, 1991. There weren't any specific guidelines from DC; they just asked for a pin-up to include in the anniversary issue. I asked if I could draw the Golden Age WW but they said they'd rather have the current model. I sort of split the difference. And who knows where that corpulent Minotaur came from. I think I was just trying to have fun with the piece and letting my weird imagination run wild.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Friday, July 15, 2011

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Batman specialty piece

Preliminary pencils and inks:


Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Martian Manhunter designs

The new look for the Flashpoint version of J'onn J'onzz was up in the air when DC asked me to do the third Outsider cover (yesterday's post) so I agreed to do some sketches. He started out looking a little shark-like.























Monday, July 11, 2011

The Outsider #3 cover art

Thumbnail sketch, layouts, pencils, inks and colors:






Friday, July 8, 2011

Dr. Strange painting

This one is gouache, watercolor, watercolor pencil and ink on gray board. Prelim and finished painting:


Thursday, July 7, 2011

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Batman Gargoyle

It looks like this piece was drawn in 2009, before the other three Batman gargoyle pin-ups.  Layout, pencils and inks:



Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Old Superman and Batman commission

I think this one's from 2007.  Sketch, pencils and inks:



Monday, July 4, 2011

Big Hulk Painting

Pencil prelim and finished painting. This one is Gouache (opaque watercolor) on gray board, 16 x 20".  A small, black and white version of this piece appears on the cover of my new sketchbook.



Saturday, July 2, 2011

Friday, July 1, 2011

Dr. Strange sketches

Sorry for the long absence. A short vacation from blogging turned into a much longer break but I've accumulated a few sketches in the mean time so I should be able to do a post or two before I run out of steam again.

Hope you're all having a good Summer!

Here's Doc: