Hell-oh?

Another scan of a commission I did sometime last year. Thought I'd add some color to it to see if I could without over-working it. You know, this is a classic sketch of what I dislike in comics. The fact that I did the obligatory "I'm-holding-a-gun-up-near-my-head-and-striking-a-pose-of-ominous-awareness" means that I was drawing for the audience and not myself. I guess that's okay, but then the work gets dumbed down.
Personally if I had put more time into the concept and less in the drawing, I'm sure I could have come up with him doing something infinitely more interesting...like cleaning his gun or some such.

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Doom's Day is Nigh

A sketch I did for someone last year. I was lucky enough to get a scan of it recently. Oh lucky day.

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Hawaiian Dick: Color Roughs Pt. 1

These are the first round of color roughs for the Hawaiian Dick project I'm working on with B. Clay Moore in my very spare time. Had a hunger to find out how I might tackle the color in these. More later...
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Claws of Fury

An attempt at a quick Wolverine...but not quick enough for my taste. Still need to loosen up more. My struggle is with my desire for good draftsmanship, and good energy. It's like pairing Dean Cornwell with Sergei Bongart...or comic in terms Jose Luis Garcia Lopez with Bill Sienkiewicz.

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Art Jam II

For more awesomeness, check out Augie Pagan the master of ceremonies.

Hawkman Sketch

Inspired by Travis Kotzebue.
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Value Studies

The first is from a color photo. The idea behind keeping it color and not converting it to grayscale is to train my eye to see the values in color. I'd like to do more of this from life, but I have a problem with consistency. My paints dry out in between when I can really settle in and do stuff. I've got so many other things going on. So I'm thinking I'm going to take up the gouache and watercolor until things change.

This is just out of my head. I'm feeling my way through an emotional moment for this character using my backlog of life-drawing to keep it "real". Again, doing this kind value study is something I've not had a lot of experience in doing. Even with pencil I tend to not fully render stuff. And I do like pencil.
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The Scourge and Plunder of Style and Grace (in no particular order)!

Working towards things to look like such.
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The Beginning

What more can be said?
I mean really when you trace photos like this all you really have is the focus of composition and storytelling. I see a lot of this approach in comics, but in a lot of cases the storytelling is lacking. The people are always looking at you the viewer. Some people may believe that it is more intimate and involving, but I don't. It's a total immersion in reality to some but the reality is that this is the end of the comic draftsmen's craft. If we keep pushing our way toward the end product of film, then we certainly will be pining for the good ol' days of expression with brush and mind.
It's just a matter of time...
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