Finally, The Man-Thing Graphic Novel!

Looks like this is scheduled to go on sale in October and it'll be a hardcover! You can pre-order at the Amazon link over on the right, but they don't have any images yet. With that in mind I hope no one cares if I post a couple of samples here to whet your appetite:

Batgirl grayscale painting

The final version is 16 x 20", ink and gouache on gray board:

It's not easy being green...

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

Dr. Strange painting

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

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.

Superman Red Son commission

This was done several years ago for Dave Johnson, who drew the amazing Superman: Red Son series for DC.

Legends of the DC Universe #39 cover painting

Acrylic on Gessoed Masonite. From 2001.

Batman, Superman & Wonder Woman painting

From 2009, 11 x 17", ink and watercolor.

Superman grayscale painting

Rough, pencil comp, painting (gouache on gray board) and a crudely colored digital version.

Preliminary sketches for Legion of Superheroes painting

Big group shots like this aren't easy to compose. Here are some of the prelims, more or less in the order they were drawn. The final pencils and painting can be seen here.

A painted frog

From an upcoming project...

A Batman painting

11 x 17", watercolor, gouache and ink on Bristol...

Dr. Strange limited edition print

This is from 1987.  It looks like I must have gone to my local printer and had a halftone print of the pencils made before I started painting.

More Frankenstein

You can never have too many Frankenstein pictures on your blog.  In fact, I think I've been far below my quota.  

Eric Arthur Blair

This was for a very patient fellow named Steve Gettis.  He has a sharp little gallery of literary-type faces drawn by mostly funny-book type artists.  You can see it here.


I started with a loose pencil and sharpie sketch, then drew on a sheet of gray matt board with black, gray and white pencils.  Then I finished it off with some watered down black gouache.  Finally, I used a big sable brush loaded with black ink for the hair.

Star Wars card painting

Most of you have already seen this one, but I found a copy of the pencils and thought I'd share.

The card was finally published recently, years after it was rejected for content. I picked it from a list of subjects supplied by Topps and (I would assume) approved by Lucasfilm. But after I did the painting, they rejected it because Lucas was about to start the new movies and didn't want anyone dealing with material that he was going to cover in the prequels.

Glad they finally changed their minds.

Legion of Superheroes Painting

Looks like I was wrong when I said that the Vision card was the only painting that I did for the Upper Deck VS Card series. I also did this large piece for the Legion series box.

Another Vision card

I think this was the only Upper Deck Card that I painted. The others were all pen & ink with photoshop colors.

The image above is the final cropped and Photoshopped file that I sent to Upper Deck. Below is a scan of the raw painting.