Well, it may seem to many that I’ve abandoned this blog. I am happy to report that I haven’t. As a friend of mine once put it, “life has a way of getting in the way”. That said, I am hoping to refocus myself and get back to my neglected drafting table. Hopefully in the coming days I’ll be uploading more of my art and doing so on a somewhat regular basis.
I was reading someone’s post on Google+ about 30 day challenges. It was asking everyone to make up our own and try to make it through for the whole 30 days.
I figured since I have problems drawing on a day to say basis for reasons to numerous to go into here, I’d give that a shot.
So here’s day one. It’s a head sketch for a reboot I have in mind for the Mask and Cape characters I worked on a few years ago. I never liked the original character designs. I felt they weren’t well thought out in terms of being drawn in movement and overall seemed to come out of the 90’s Image style.
This was a piece I pencilled and inked for a competition being held by Platinum Comics. I hired someone to color and letter it as I wasn’t happy with the way my attempts had panned out.
I am currently working on a weekly webcomic which I hope to upload soon.
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I was going through the files on my computer and came across these old pages. I’ve always liked the way they came out. I think I was hitting a stylistic path that I should’ve pursued. I’ve always planned on revisiting it.
These were sample pages based off a script from the very 90’s Force Works comic from Marvel.
I haven’t been the most productive of artists for a while. There’re a variety of reasons why, mostly work related. Rather than dwell on that I thought I would write about artists who got me into drawing.
While growing up I was turned off by fine arts mostly because of Pollock. I couldn’t get into his whole deconstructing art thing. I couldn’t understand why if someone could make beautiful pictures they would choose not to. This, and my brother led me into comics. Since I predated the comic shop I was at the mercy of the local grocery store and what they would carry from month to month.
The earliest comics I remember buying with my own money were copies of a Star Wars comic drawn by Ron Frenz. It had a painted cover by Tom Palmer which was what hooked me.
The other book was Uncanny X-Men. I believe the title was “Kitty’s Fairy Tale”. It was drawn by the late Dave Cockrum. Colossus’ sister Ilyana wanted a bed time story which Kitty provided. It was populated by fairy tale versions of everyone.
I remember really liking the Star Wars issue but Cockrum’s X-Men just grabbed me and didn’t let go. Many a day was passed with my tracing characters from the world he created.
After that I found my first local comic shop and was able to choose from a much wider selection. I was fortunate enough to get into comics with Simonson on Thor and Byrne on the Fantastic Four. I also learned to appreciate and love the fine arts, once I realized that it wasn’t all like Pollock.
As you may or may not know, for reasons I can’t even explain, I’m a fan of Rob Liefeld’s Brigade. I just think it felt into the so-bad-it’s-good category. I have tons of sketches and doodles in my sketchbooks of the various characters in the team. I thought I would share with you an old one that I just came across the other day.
I’ve pulled it into Photoshop and have started playing with the sketch. If I like the way it comes out I’ll upload that file as well.
Sorry for the delay, here are pictures from the second day of the New York Comic Con Enjoy, and as always feel free to leave comments.
Sorry for those who have come back hoping for more pictures of this past weekend’s NYCC but I haven’t been at my computer in a few days. I hope to have them up by the end of this week. I also have some video from the Anime Masquerade ball. 
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