Drawings From The Porch & Bus

Robot


Iron Man, Model I, Mark I


Goofball Guy


Unfinished Zombie

I've been tooling around with my red and blue pencils and came up with these beauties in their varying finished states, drawn either on my front porch or riding the enigmatic and thrilling RIPTA 60 to Providence and back. I've been trying to stay off the computer lately and do more sketching on paper, which I prefer more so on the porch than the bus. Below is a bonus, a crayon-drawn robot drawn on a paper placemat at A-1 Pizza, which is neither porch nor bus.



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No Quarter Asked, None Given

Here's the flag that would fly from my mast were I a pirate. Pretty fierce.

I will be taking somewhat of a break from the blog this month, so you might not see many posts for June 2011. I'd like to try and get back to creating more by hand and refocusing on my own concepts. Drawing Thor and Luke Cage is fun and all, but after awhile, all you have is a pile of fan art. I miss the whacky stuff that spills out of me own noggin.

While the computer is a great tool, I find I rely on it too much. I'd like to rediscover some varied media and strengthen my drawing and composition skills. Besides, I have too much blank paper in the apartment.

Beyond that, it's a pirate's life for me. Yo ho.

--B

I Cornered NAMOR THE SUBMARINER... Twice

Another piece submitted to the great blog, Cornered, where artists reinterpret the spot illustrations that appear on comic book covers. Check it out for some really great pieces.

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The Red Ghost And His Super Apes

Brilliant Soviet scientist Ivan Kragoff, with his three trained primate buddies, gained super powers from cosmic rays while attempting to beat the Americans to the moon. Kragoff finds he has the ability to become intangible, while his gorilla gains super strength, his orangutan the mastery over magnetism, and baboon the ability to shape shift. Adopting the colorful name the Red Ghost, Kragoff and his Super Apes have long become a thorn in the Fantastic Four's side.

MAY-VEL continues all month long, a drawing challenge tackled by myself and Pedro Delgado. To see his superb rendering of the Red Ghost, go here.

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Luke Cage Repaneled

Taken from the fifth panel of page eight of Luke Cage, Hero For Hire #8, another piece submitted to Repaneled. Go check out other great work there.

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Sad Robot

Quick sketch. Sad robot is sad.

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Thundra

Everyone's favorite Femizon from a distant, alternate future: Thundra! And her boy toy, Ben Grimm. Continuing on with the MAY-VEL drawing challenge with Pedro Delgado, check out his sweet version of the muscular maiden here.

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5-Minute Marvels: The Inhumans!

Friend Tim Miner hosts a great blog called 5-Minute Marvels, where he, along with his daughters Grace and Cate, spends five minutes drawing a Marvel comic character (though not just) to be posted on their blog. Over time they have amassed a fine collection of talented web-followers who join them in cranking out five-minute drawings, an impressive roster of names at that. I recently threw myself in the mix. Tim knew I had a love for all things Kirby and suggested we draw the Inhumans, specifically the characters referenced on the cover of FF #54. So I went to work and tried to do a quick rendition of the Attilan Royal Family. I decided to do a longer inking job and an even longer coloring job to post here. Check out Tim and Grace's great Inhumans pieces, along with mine, here. Thanks for including me, guys, let's do it again real soon.

For a little process view of how I draw in Flash, see below:



1. I begin by sketching each character on a separate layer in Flash. The different colors for the figures is only so I can tell them apart when drawing each one together in a composition. I pulled them all apart, as seen on the right, to illustrate how they were drawn separately. Each character was sketched out in less than 5-minutes individually to keep with the project's essence.



2. Wanting to finish the piece for my own purposes, I threw down a quick ink on yet another layer. After erasing the sketch layers, I export the piece to Photoshop.



3. I start coloring in the CMY channels over the black ink layer. Here's the initial coloring. Adding effects and filters and elf dust, I turned this colored piece into an "aged, newsprint comic book" illustration as seen at the top of the post. Done!

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Teaching Comic Strips At The Museum

I had the chance to meet a bunch of great kids at the Newport Art Museum today for a birthday, where the birthday boy wished to learn about drawing comic books (I had these prepped to teach about comic strips, but could easily translate the concept into comic books. He is a Marvel fan). I prepared the above pages and created Bugging Out yesterday to help teach about making comics. All the kids were really cool and did some great drawings, and a few inked and colored some sketches I did for them. Overall, we all had fun and I really enjoyed interacting with them all.

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Luke Cage, Hero For Hire

Who would bust into the Baxter Building, toss around the Fantastic Four, ask to borrow a rocket, fly to Latveria, and then proceed to put a smack down on Dr. Doom until he pays up the $200 he stiffed you for a job? Sweet Christmas, Luke Cage would, you jive turkey. Another MAY-VEL piece coinciding with Pedro's, which you can check out here. Up next? Thundra, baby.

Yesterday's post and comments are gone due to a Blogger snafu. I guess during a maintenance or new design run, they knocked out all service and deleted yesterday's doings affecting everyone with a blogger account. Too bad, that Hulk cover was getting decent traffic and was featured on another blog, all of which, at this moment, is gone. Hopefully they will get those restored.

--B