Bingo! Scene1, Page 3

Third page of my webcomic, "Bingo!" Got an additional six page story to post soon. Be on the lookout for that!

DC Workshop page 5

Page 5 of my DC Talent Workshop submission.  The big finish!  Business guys, old west madams and desperadoes, superheroes, and cavemen.  All on one page for you viewing enjoyment!

DC Workshop page 4

Looks like I forgot to post this.  I planned to a few days ago.  Dang.

DC Workshop page 3

Page three of my DC Comics Talent Workshop submission.  More details in the posts below.

DC Workshop page 2

This is the second page of the submission I prepared for this year's DC Talent Workshop.  Like mentioned in my previous post, I used one of the scripts that DC provided on their website.

Birds of Prey sample pages

Earlier this year I penciled five pages from the Birds of Prey #74 script by Gail Simone.  The intention was to use it to fill out my portfolio before heading to some conventions.  It had the added benefit of meeting the requirements for DC's Workshop submission criteria.  Unfortunately I wasn't selected for the Workshop.  Maybe next year.

Nova inks

Working on my inking again.  The original pencils were on 8.5" x 11" but I printed the blue line on 11" x 17" and inked over it.  Nova was done mostly with brush.  The backgrounds were a variety of mediums.  It was beneficial for me since I hadn't inked some of these effects before.  I do NOT like the feathering on the effects.  I think I did okay (by my novice standards) on the feathering on Nova himself.  Just not good on the background.  I suppose there are better ways to tackle these effects (especially the starry background) and hopefully I'll learn those over time.  Mixed bag but it was fun and I think I learned some things.

Inking!

It's been a while since I've worked on any inking so I thought I better pencil in some time.  Er, I mean, INK in some time.  Right?  Anyway, I decided to try my hand at the Daredevil piece I recently finished and a Captain Marvel I did a couple of months ago.  Daredevil was inked mostly with a brush, the brick work was done with a nib and the background buildings with pens.  Captain Marvel was done almost entirely with a brush with the exception of some of her costume details.

Magneto

I did a drawing of Magneto a few years.  Figured it would be a good inking exercise.  Some of it turned out relatively well, and some I really think I struggled with.  It was done mostly with a brush and I know using it can really make some great looking long, flowing lines.  But, I still use my wrist too much rather than my whole forearm or arm and it really puts a damper on my range of motion.

Dr. Strange (da return)

Yikes!  It's been a while since I paid much attention to this blog.  I think one of my problems has been that I have a habit of spending time explaining my process instead of just posting images.  While I do enjoy talking about what went into the creation of the piece, it is time consuming and makes it difficult to keep posting when time is a factor.  So, I'm going to try my best to keep this updated and will start with something I created recently.

Thor vs. Dr. Doom

Ugh!  It has been a long, long time since I've paid any attention to this.  I know my subscribers measure in the single digits (actually, single digit.  As in one.  Hey, Neil!) but one of the points here is to keep up with it and make people want to read it and use it as a promotional tool.  Well, someday at least.  So, I need to get back in the swing of things.

Heroes for Hire sample page 3

Well, I had more of a layoff from here than I would have hoped but I'm back.  Before my somewhat extended absence from blogging I had been posting pages I was working on for my Comicsexperience.com Intro to Comic Art class.  So, without further blathering, here is the final page of the assignment.

Iron Man!

Been a little while again.  I'm just about finished with the last page of the Heroes for Hire samples.  In the meantime I worked on a gift for my nephew, Max.  It was his sixth birthday a few days ago.  He and his younger brother are the only grandkids for both sides of the family so it's safe to say their birthday present loads are pretty substantial.  Considering this I thought I'd take a different route this year.  He's been an Iron Man fan for quite awhile and since I have the ability to make a half ways decent Iron Man drawing (I hope) why not do that for him instead?  Here's what I came up with:

Heroes for Hire page 2

I've been away longer than I had hoped but I finally have page 2 of the Heroes for Hire sample pages I'm working on ready for posting.  It's been done for a number of days now but I've held off posting it here because something was just a bit off.  There are things about the page I like and things I don't like.  That's pretty usual.  But something about the page was bugging me just enough that I had to let it sit for awhile.  I finished making some changes tonight and I am happier with the page now than I was before.  Here's the "finished" product: