Wolvie

This is a quick Wolverine piece I did. The ol' Wolvster was a favorite of mine as a kid. Don't care for his character or his character's overexposure too much these days, but drawing him definitely brings back some fond memories. I was always a fan of "battle torn" Wolverine, where his clothes were all shredded to hell and he was getting all cut up while undoubtedly also getting burnt by his cigar ashes. (Damn! Forgot to put that in!)

No matter, though. He'd be all healed up by the time the last punch was thrown. And he could always hit up Prof. X for a new costume or two. Speaking of costumes, I was envisioning him to be wearing his old brown and yellow duds in this pic. Those were always my favorite back from the 80's and early 90's.

Enjoy.

CNN Sketches

I was watching TV on "SuperDuperTuesday" and decided to do some quick sketches of the candidates. The two Obama sketches were done during quite a long speech he was giving, but i did each in about 30 seconds. That squirrely guy down at the bottom is supposed to be Mike Huckabee. Unfortunately, the clip they were playing of him was only about 5 seconds, so most of this was made up. I definitely need to get some more sketches of this guy in here, because he is my absolute favorite (to draw). His face is so rubbery and disgusting and his eyes look so crazy, like someone poured a bottle of Jack into the barrel of hog shit he's been drinking.

Seriously, is this guy for fucking real?

The Obama piece was then taken to color in Photoshop for about 10 min and viola.

I'll definitely be doing more of these since they're really fun.

Jubilee

Gonna try to get a few more in here before the close of January! Whew! They say January usually feels like the slowest month of the year, and if that's the case, I'm kind of scared another year is going to slip by and I'm still writing 2006 on all my checks.

Anyway, had some fun drawing Jubilee, gleefully rollerblading down the San Francisco Embarcadero (apologies for the uber-fudged background). I've always liked Jubilee and her 90's "whatever" attitude, and I think I'll do a few more of her to try and capture her spirit. I'd also like to draw her with her best bud Wolverine. They will not be rollerblading.

Enjoy!

Character Sketches

I'm currently working on two comics projects for different publishers. The first is a four issue mini-series titled "Murmurs of Madness," being published by Chimaera Studios. It's a WWII science fiction/horror tale very much in the vein of HP Lovecraft. I am penciling and inking this series, which is scary since I've never inked a thing in my life. What better time than now to learn, right?

The second is a mini-series called "Dragonlance Chronicles: Tale of the Twins." This is coming out from Devil's Due Publishing and even though there are only three issues, each issue is a whopping 40 pages! I'll be posting some character designs and whatnot from that series as well in the near future.

The image being posted today is a study of some German soldiers and their weapons. I'll be doing studies like this for the American forces as well. I find it's important to do character sketches not only for your lead roles, but also for background characters. This way, when you're in the middle of working on a page and need to draw a crowd, fight scene, etc., you have a piece of reference instead of making up faces on the spot, which for me, always results in characters that look too similar to one another.

Spoiler Alert!

About to get prowlin in a foggy Gotham.

Happy New Year

Happy 2008, everyone.

I'm starting this year off with some characters that were suggested by friends last year. I figured this will be a good way for me to get loosened up and back to work after a week or so of not doing anything creative.

I've got a lot on my plate this year already with work stuff. However, I'm still committed (don't call it a resolution) to doing a fair amount of personal, non-comics related work for fun and to exercise some techniques and processes that i don't get to use too often in my work for clients.

Looking forward to a year of growth and creativity.

Cheers

Illustration Friday - Missing

Whenever I don't like the current Illustration Friday topic, I usually browse through the archives of topics and choose one that interests me. Since I never finish them on time anyway, why the hell should I play by the rules, right?

I believe the topic of "Missing" was posted sometime back in July or August before I started participating. I typically don't approach these topics literally, but that's probably due again to the fact that I take my time and don't adhere to the one week deadline. There are some artists who submit very literal images, yet manage to create very strong, effective, poignant pieces.

This is most likely going to be the last post before the end of the year, so to whomever is reading: Happy Holidays and a Happy and safe New Year to all.

Looking forward to 2008!

DJC