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!

Perry the Platypus... Doing the Spider-Man thing...

Okay, I know that proportionately there is a slight size issue between Dr. Doofenshrmitz and Perry the Platypus... but in order to the parody right, I only had so much I could work with...  I'll blame it on some Size-Proportion-Change-inator or something... those things are always faulty.   Anyway, here's Perry the Platypus striking the iconic pose from Amazing Fantasy #15 (the first appearnce of Spider-Man).  It was fun to do.


I was originally gonna do a different Perry/Doofenshrmitz drawing, but I inked it using a standard Sharpie marker, and it looked all childish and lame.  So a week or two later, I took another crack at it, but this time used the much thinner Sharpie PEN, and the line weight worked much better.  Then I colored it in Photoshop, as per usual.

Favorite Villian of ol' Web-Head

Oh Carnage, you're so awesome.

But seriously, Carnage doesn't get anywhere near as much respect in the mighty Marvel universe that Carnage should.  I'm trying to avoid using pronouns, cuz Carnage doesn't have a gender.  In fact, in the current "Carnage" mini-series by Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain, Carnage latches on to a woman.  But the Carnage of my youth was a dude.  You'll never see Carnage in a Spider-Man film, and just glossed over in the cartoons.  Only in the comics is the awesomeness of Carnage ever explored... so go read a (comic) book!

In other news, they say it takes 21 days to establish new habits.  Most New Year's resolutions are desires to change old habits and replace them with new habits.  This blog was a resolution, to establish daily drawing habits... and overall, I say it's been pretty successful.  I need to ween myself off the ballpoint/pen and Sharpie drawings I've done for the past few posts, and do some more artistic exploring... but I do like that the drawing daily has established some very good habits, and I've seen artistic growth in only 3 weeks.

Now if only the weight loss resolution will be as successful.