Cap

This is a sketch I started at comic-con, as the show was ending, and the person I did it for was cool enough to let me take it home and spend a little extra time on it, along with a couple other sketches, before I mailed them back. These blank Marvel sketch covers are pretty fun to draw on!

I wanted to do kind of a military-style 1940's poster, since this is the movie version of the Captain. Not going for a likeness here, but more of a comic-movie adaptation. A fun break from work...haha

SDCC 2011

The convention was amazing this year, and I had a great time. This image was created for IDW's panel on Thursday. They are launching a new KISS series in 2012 along with Archie comics, who also has the license for the name.



And, for the first time here, I thought it'd be interesting to post a scan of the underdrawing that I do on every painting before I add acrylic paints and colored pencils. Staring on a grey surface, weather it be a gessoed surface, or just a grey illustration board, gives a nice, even middle tone to the art. That way, only the color, shadows, and highlights need to be added to the piece to achieve the look I need.

Yoto and Tyler Kirkham

These two paintings are part of a 3 painting "motion" comic style animation, to promote the game The Bane of Yoto for Leviathan Games. I'll post a link to the final animated piece when it's ready.

The coolest part about this round of Yoto paintings is that they were penciled by Tyler Kirkham (Green Lantern, Superman, Transformers, Spider-man...and much more). It was an honor to work with him on this and it was fun too! I've posted his pencils below. I transfered them onto an illustration board and used acrylic paints to finsh the illustration. His work is very dynamic and I learned a lot from working over his drawing. Hopefully I can apply a bit of that to new art in the future...