Batman "Teaser" Sketch

So... I've been following the New 52's Batman... Cuz Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo are fucking GODS!

For those of you not up to speed, the current storyline in the Bat-Books is "Death of the Family".  It deals with the return of the Joker and all sorts of shit hitting the fan...  The chaos spins off into the other bat-books and is building towards a climax in Batman #17, which will be out on February 13th.  Every issue of the story is out except for the finale.

Many people have theories for what will happen at the end... the above pic is a commentary of sorts if the storyline ends the way a lot of people are thinking it will end.  I personally don't subscribe to the "popular theory" cuz it just seems too obvious.  And I think Scott Snyder is a fucking genius, and wouldn't give us the "obvious" ending.  I think it will be something else.  But we got 2 weeks to find out.

Anyway, I'm gonna finish the above and post it on the 13th (maybe the 14th) after the story is out in the world (it should be spoiler free, so don't worry if you haven't read it yet).  And even if the "popular theory" doesn't pan out, the above drawing will still be amusing/entertaining.  Just holding off its publication until Snyder/Capullo tells us what's what.

Crappy sketches of superheroes and whatnot...

So a slight delay in posting... mainly because...

I GOT A NEW COMUTER!!!  WooT!

But yeah, it took a while to get everything set up, installing new software, upgrading to newer versions of some programs.  Figuring out some of the changes to said upgrades, and just getting situated.  So that took some time.

After it was all done, I said... BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD!  And thought I'd draw some epic superhero type action... but it was just frustrating sketch after sketch... all of them kinda crappy and just frustrating.  So, I scanned all the crappy sketches (mostly Spidey) and slapped some color on the sketches in Photoshop... and wah-la.  Today's post!  Yay!

Dino-Doodle... and my 100th post apparently?

When I logged into Blogger to post this, it said that I had 99 posts.  So this would be my 100th post.  Not the 100th drawing, cuz some of those posts had multiple drawings in them... so... yeah...

Happy 100th post to me!!!

Above is a doodle that again, I may or may not have drawn at work...  But I kinda dugged it and thought it'd be fun to photoshop some color on... so that's what I did.  I like the looseness and the scribbly feel to it.  Just kinda of a "fun" piece.  No real meaning or message behind it... just having some fun....

Sexy ladies...

I took a couple life drawing/painting classes in college.  I highly recommend that any artist do that.  Take as many as you can!  It's one of the most important classes you can take!

Anywho, as a person who LOVES comics, a lot of the ladies I drew at the time were "sexy".  Then I fell in love, and became all gentleman like, and kinda stopped drawing "sexy" ladies.  A commission I'm currently working on, involves a little bit of sex appeal.  And as I was trying to draw concept sketches for it... I realised...

I had gotten rusty at drawing "sexy".

So I busted open the internet and used random swimsuit models for a substitute life drawing class.  The above is some of those sketches.  Yes, i know a few them have some really bad proportions (tiny heads!), but really I was studying the hip/shoulder angles, and the way curves work, etc.

Little Green Martian...

Has it really been almost TWO weeks since my last post?  I need to step on it.  And step on it, I shall!

Anywho, the above is a doodle of a little green martian...  Fairly stereotypical alien looking dude.  Green skin, the big vacant eyes, antennae, etc.  Mars'esque background.

Really just a doodle I may (or may not) have done during a slow work day that was Photoshop'd in some color.

More random doodles in the future, and some commissions down the road.  I'd show them now (or their progress), but as a lot of my commissions are usually gifts for people, I don't like to post the progression of work until the recipient of the commission has seen it first.  So, alas, no sneaky-peeky!  But one day.

Random doodle...

Not technically a "new" drawing, I meant to post this months ago, but it never made it to my scanner until now.

One night I was watching television with the future Mrs., and was just kinda randomly doodling... And I was playing with the "Sharpie Pen", and was getting kinda detail oriented, cuz of the very fine point that Sharpie pens provide... and I just let my mind wander.  Above is what came out.  Enjoy.

Happy NEW Post / Commission / Year

Hello... anybody who still reads this.

Sorry for the absence...  Actually no, I'm not.  It's my blog, I do what I want!  HOWEVER, I don't like that I haven't really been as post-y on here as much as I should be.  So with a new year, comes new determination.  This blog was always intended to be a place of quantity over quality.  So I'm determined to post on here as close to daily as is possible for me.  So unless I'm out of town or unable to post, I'd like to post at least once a day on here.  *fingers crossed*

As I'm slightly hung-over from last nights festivities, and I have a long day of work at my day job ahead of me, today's post is a bit of a cop-out as I drew it in the middle of last year.  But, it's new to the blog so it's new!  Above is a commission I was asked to do.  What excited me the MOST about this commission was... I DID NOT KNOW THE CLIENT!!!

Most of the work I've done is for friends.  Which is fun and all, but I'd like to branch out.  So this particular commission is for a friend of a friend.  Who I did not know.  This was great, mainly cuz I could pretty much drop the "friends and family" discount.  I gots to get paid!  Anyway, the client saw the commission I had done for my friend, and she thought it'd be neato to get something similar of her and her man.  So she got my contact info from my friend and contacted me out of the blue and we got the ball rolling on what she wanted and how much.

One challenge was she wanted a print of this, and she wanted it LARGE.  24"x36" large!  That's huge.  I usually draw in pencil, and ink/color on the computer.  And most of the time I draw slightly smaller than whatever I want to print at (cuz my scanner is small).  But this was intended to be printed at 24"x36"!  I couldn't draw 11x14'ish and blow it up.  It'd look bad!   So what I did instead was....   DREW IT AT 24"x36".  I drew it on 8.5"x11" sheets of printer paper, taped them all together.  Drew the thing.  Un-taped all the paper.  Scanned each individual 8.5"x11" sheet into the computer.  Re-assembled them all in Photoshop... touched up lines here and there where stuff didn't quite line up, then went about my normal inking/coloring process.   A LOT of work.  If I had foreseen how complex that was gonna be, I might of charged more.  But live and learn, I suppose.

Anywho, the end result was quite impressive.  She got it just before Thanksgiving and was intended for a Christmas present for her man, but she liked it so much, he got it early for Thanksgiving.  And now I'm sharing it here.

Cool story, eh?

See you tomorrow.