I think this page is a good example of Gil Kane's talent for composition. If you've ever tried to coordinate the movement of dozens of characters in one drawing you'll probably appreciate what he did with the layout in that bottom panel.
A random collection of material from comic artist Kevin Nowlan. Started with the best of intentions, but like most other efforts, doomed to perish from neglect as soon as the novelty wears off.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Hellboy cover: thumbnail sketch to inks
Friday, December 17, 2010
Hellboy
The cat's out of the bag so I might as well link to the news story. It goes on sale in April. Script by Mike Mignola, pencils, inks, lettering and colors by yours truly. A terrific, weird, sad and funny 24 page Hellboy story plus this cover. Yippee!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Monsters in the Closet: page three
These pencils are incomplete. After inking the lettering, I inked the portions of the art that looked okay, then finished up the background, pencilling and inking in more or less one step. It would have been better to finish all the pencils at once but I often resort to this tentative, wishy washy approach to keep things moving and avoid getting hung up on the details that I'm not sure about.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Batman and Solomon Grundy: page 17
Bernie Wrightson pencils, my inks, Ron Marz script. Drawn in the late '90's and published earlier this year in Batman Hidden Treasures #1. Sincere thanks to Mark Chiarello for rescuing this story from the DC flat files.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Batman Confidential #28, page one
This third issue in the "King Tut" series was a delight to work on. José did full, finished pencils and spotted the blacks. As you can see here, those strong shadows in the last two panels all came from José. I was just along for the ride.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Authority: Lost Year #12, page 4
Pencils by Jerry Ordway. I think I was reasonably faithful to the pencils throughout the story but the editor warned me that the smoking female character in panel two is very young – maybe even a teenager? – so I tried to youthify her in a couple of places.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Dr. Doom art for Marvel Card
Another piece for the old Upper Deck VS series. By the way, it's not my auction, but the sketch is being sold here on eBay.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Superman Red Son commission
This was done several years ago for Dave Johnson, who drew the amazing Superman: Red Son series for DC.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
A pig
My secret trick for drawing shoes didn't help with this panel at all. More on this later... I promise.