Almost forgot about this one

The third and final long awaited (by me only) Batman image in a series I probably started around February I think...
I obviously messed around with this one in Photoshop a bit (maybe too much?)-- but I do like the overall motion blur/washed out with floodlight effect.

Green Lantern

I've been having a lot of fun drawing DC characters lately for some reason. I was always such a marvel/image zombie when i was a kid, but I guess that just has to do with the fact that all my favorite artists (at the time) worked for those companies. DC's art was much more traditional and not at all as "cutting edge" (in the eyes of a 12-year old kid) as those other companies, and therefore, i never really gravitated towards their books. Well, I was definitely missing out. Aside from their handful of main icons, DC has a great library of weird and wacky characters that I'll be posting a bit more of in the future. For now, here's another one of their icons, John Stewart, as Green Lantern.

while we're at it

since i'm on a green arrow/black canary kick, i thought i'd throw another piece on the ol' blog just for fun. in recent sketches i've done, i'm trying to 'push' the anatomical exaggerations of my figures to closer resemble the general arcs and other gestural lines of my thumbnail doodles while maintaining a tightly rendered style. make sense?

averting blog catastrophe

my poor little blog is in need of a blog bailout. the signs of posting recession have been evident for quite some time now. profile views are plummeting, investors in my craft are leery, and the artwork, quite frankly, is in the shitter. so why should you care, you ask. you didn't cause this mess. you're at home, working hard to feed your offspring, while i'm out whooping it up in new york city nine nights a week. so fuck ME, right?

ok, i don't really know where this is going. i was going to get into something about warren buffett showing up on a rooftop wearing a superhero costume made entirely of hundred dollar bills (no, euros!) and saving the economic day along with my fledgling art blog, but i'm tired and simply don't have the energy.

what i WILL do, though, is tell you about the pic that i'm posting and bitch and moan about those rat bastards at UPS.

my friend alicia got engaged a while back and i wanted to make a little engagement gift for her. when she and i were in college, we used to do all sorts of silly comic book drawings, mostly of the x-rated variety now that i think about it, so i thought i would do something with characters who are married in their own respective comic book universe. i kept it clean, of course, and made it a little romantic. i really dug the first few issues of the recent green arrow/black canary series, especially when cliff chiang was on art duties, so i thought they would be an appropriate choice. i love both of those characters as well.

i'm happy with how the piece turned out, but am completely unsatisfied with UPS, who decided to BEND THE DRAWING IN HALF upon delivering it to her. i specifically asked that the package be labeled do not bend as i was mailing it, but my instructions were forgotten or ignored by the people in the store, thus resulting in a lovely crease across the middle of the paper. i'll be sticking with fedex from now on.

enjoy!