Blue Hustle

From The Line It Is Drawn, January 24th, 2020:

Whenever we get new Liners, I always like to try one of the classic themes early on to let them join in on one of our classic bits. So let's do comic book characters in classic paintings! Everyone loves comic characters in classic paintings.

Twitter follower, CyberVenom2001 suggested: Old Guitarist by Picasso with Hypno Hustler.

Check out the other talented Liners' classic interpretations here.

--B

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 40

Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

This week is Dolph Lundgren's portrayal of He-Man from 1987's Masters of the Universe.  Though I was a big He-Man fan, I have to admit, the movie didn't really do it for me.  Oh well.

Enjoy!

--B

Modern-day Nick And Nora

From The Line It Is Drawn, January 17th, 2020:

Suggest a classic novel/play (let's say pre-1950) that our artists will update for modern times, like the new Dracula TV series

Twitter follower, RBPropst suggested: The Thin Man.  I thought drawing Hammet's booze-addled detective couple would be great fun!

Check out the other talented Liners' modern interpretations here.

--B

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 39

Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

Behold! Skeletor's mighty Hover Robot army from the original Filmation series!  This piece was done in Procreate, which I'm still trying to master.

Enjoy!

--B

Frogs

From The Line It Is Drawn, January 10th, 2020:

Simply put - Baby Yoda Goes to the Movies! Work Baby Yoda into a famous movie.

Twitter followers, JohnnyUnusual and KeithAlanMorgan suggested: JAWS!

Check out the other talented Liners' Baby Yoda here.

--B

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 38

Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

Here's the fierce Battle Cat, a still from a gif I did for MOTUesday a while back.  Meow!

Enjoy!

--B

Happy Monthiversary: January!

Here's to the start of a great new year! I love you, beautiful!

--B

MODOK 2020

From The Line It Is Drawn, January 3rd, 2020:

In honor of the new year, come up with a 2020 version of a comic book character!

Twitter followers, werehawk1 suggested: MODOK! Utilizing both Stark and Von Doom tech, AIM reanimates the corpse of MODOK to bring trouble for those in the year 2020! Happy New Year all!

Check out the other talented Liners' 2020 characters here.

--B

MOTU Drawing Challenge, Week 37

Here's the latest challenge from the Masters of the Universe themed drawing challenge on Twitter, #MOTUdrawingchallenge hosted by @MOTUdrawing!

We get King Randor, Eternia's ruling monarch, with a heavy head has he who wears the crown!

Enjoy!

--B

Soar Among The Stars, Professor Xum

We lost a very talented and amazing person recently by name of Xum Yukinori.  I hadn't met Xum directly, but he was a longtime contributor to The Line It Is Drawn segment on Comic Book Resources, which I also count myself as a contributor.  Through email and social media interactions, I grew to admire the man.  His knowledge of DC bronze age comics and his love for the cancelled Green Lantern cartoon were second to none.  Just an all around nice and great guy who loved his family and comics.

Xum was a talented and prolific artist.  Brian Cronin, editor of The Line It Is Drawn compiled a post featuring all of Xum's Line work here.

Xum would work himself into many of the Line pieces as a self-referential character known as the unabashedly conceited Professor Xum.  My homage features the Professor and his beloved Green Lantern, Aya, cruising the cosmos.  You can find the other Liner's tributes here.

Godspeed, Xum.

--B