The Headless Horseman - Happy Halloween!

Hope you ghouls have a Happy Halloween tomorrow! Enjoy!

The Mighty Thor!

I recently discovered how much I love drawing Thor. His costume is great and he is a very powerful character. I found a sample comic script starring Thor on the Internets, so I thought I would take a swing at them before I get started on my next "real" comics project. This sketch is just one of several I did to get the feel of the character.

I like the composition of the sketch, and I think I got his weight just about right. However, I feel his pose could have been more dynamic. He looks like he is lightly punching something, instead of walloping some poor schmuk. Next time I'll make him look more godly, I promise.

Enjoy!

Dr. Strange

Another quick sketch -- this time of Doctor Strange and the Eye of Agamotto! Sorry for the poor picture quality, but there was no way I could scan this one!

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Conan Sketch

Hi All -- busy as ever right now. Hoping things will slow down soon which will allow me to do more personal work to post. For now, here is a quick Conan head sketch I did yesterday.

The Punisher

Just some Big Pun action for y'all.

Have a nice weekend.

DJC

Illustration Friday - The Blues

Here's my contribution to last week's Illustration Friday topic of "The Blues." My concept for this piece was rejection, and how it can spin us into quite a blue state of mind. So maybe this poor little guy was just given the boot by his girlfriend -- and feels like a its never gonna get better. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have made him so 'emo' due to the fact that its typically hard to feel sympathy for those people. It's like they're asking for it. :)
Kidding.

This posting should probably be for this week's topic, "Extremes," but I'm a little behind due to my workload this week. I have a sketch for the topic, and would like to go to final with it, but doubt I will get it done in time. One of these weeks I'll get it done on time.

Practice Pages

Did these two pages just for fun. I wanted to try out some pacing techniques.

I've learned that even when the writer has specified a certain number of panels on the page, most writers and editors won't have a problem if you stray from that number for the sake of storytelling. For instance, on the first page, the middle three panels could have been executed in one panel had I chosen to do so. I could have had the guy outside of the alleyway with junk being thrown past him while being suddenly blinded by the lights of an oncoming car. This would not be anything unusual for a writer to ask for in one panel. However, I chose to decompress this bit of action into three panels which hopefully added more of an element of time to the scenario.

Hope you like them!

Birds of Prey #112

It's been a while since I've last posted. I will have lots of new work to show very soon, but in the meantime, I'm posting a link to the solicitation for the comic book I drew. It's a fill in issue for DC Comics' Birds of Prey title, and will be my first published work in the comics industry.

I'm very excited for its release and can't wait to see the results of everyone's collaborative efforts. November 21st can't come soon enough! You can view the solicitation here!