Little Big Head Adventures

Sea-or pin-up July 4, 2010

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Pencil drawing shaded and colored in Photoshop.
My own creation. “Sea-or”, for an upcoming light-hearted short comic story.

Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool July 2, 2010

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Blue pencil sketch, black pencil clean up, digitally removed blue and added shading in Photo shop.

One thing that has been suggested, is that maybe my style looks more cartoony when I tried to do Hulk ,and Hellblazer, as they are traditionally more serious books, but my Blue Beetle done in basically the same style looks OK, because he is a more light hearted sort of character. It coudl be exaggerated perception of style based on contect, so going with that theory, here is Dead Pool!

Follow up! July 1, 2010

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I was inspired to do a more finished Beetle after all that so here it is! I sketched it out similar to below from my head, then black pencil “inked” it, removed the blue in photoshop, and added some shadow.

Blue Beetle battle.

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So the pic below is an exercise. The most common “negative” critique I get about my comic-style art is that it is too cartoony. This always throws me off because there are many successful mainstream comic artists that I consider very cartoony. Also while I recognize I have a cartoonish edge to my comic work, I am actually striving for sort of realistic, just failing I guess lol. Further, I have trouble recognizing the level of how cartoonty my stuff can be, some sort of personal blind spot I suppose. Recently Quelyn an I were talking about this. She said that the indigo tribe Atom pic I did recently was pretty realistic, but the Phoenix I did was much cartoonier. To me I see no real difference in the style. I certainly did not do anything different in my approach to drawing them. So she suggested I should draw a pic of a guy standing from a reference picture and then dress them as a super hero and that might help me see the differnce. I took it a step further, I did a sketch of Blue Beetle, (Ted Kord), from my head, then did the sketch of the ref pic and dressed it up, then put them away and did another sketch of blue beetle from my head, the 3 below are the result. The third one is more polished that the first one, but part of that is drawing the same guy in the same pose three times in a row. The main difference I see from 1 to 2 , is that 2 had more outside contours of the muscle and form and less interior definition. Probably this is because I can copy a form that is already there and correct, whereas when I am creating it myself I am building the skeleton then muscles and skin up from nothing. I have recently been adding an extra penciling step where I “ink” with the pencils to tighten up lines, and also omit a lot of the interior detail , and connected line work. It’s a lot of extra work, but I was going that way before this, and if the main thing I got out of the “realistic” version pointed the same way I guess I am doing the right thing. I do want a more polished style, but I also remember what Steve Mcniven told me. “Don’t try to draw like other people , do your own style, you will be much happier, and hopefully someone will like it.”, …that sounds great, but then again Neal Adams told me,”you’ll never draw Batman drawing in that cartoony style”….*sigh*

Hunter Master June 16, 2010

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Last of the of 4 pencil drawing/designs for magically created zombie hunters monsters.

Hunter on the fly… June 10, 2010

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The third one is a flyer.

Zombie hunters part 1 June 9, 2010

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2 of 4 pencil drawing/designs for magically created zombie hunters monsters.

Commisioned by Devin Toohey for a project he is working on, more details on that when I have them.

Rough sketch done in black bic pen, scanned and converted to duo shade blue printed out and penciled with a combo, of Ticonderoga #2 HB, and mechanical pencil .05 and .07 size lead.

Jean Grey the Firey Phoenix May 10, 2010

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Did a pencil drawing on 8/12 by 11 paper, scanned it in blew it up to 11×17 converted it to blue line, printed it out in 2 pieces inked it mostly with a Japanese brush pen, with a tiny bit of .03 Pigma pen, scanned the two inked pieces and re-combined them. Then, in Photo shop I redrew/inked about 20 percent of the previously “done” inks. Photo shop for colors, and done for real.

I go back and forth with how tight I need my pencils to be for my own inks/finishes. This piece was one that makes me think YES I need to get some super tight pencils going before moving on.

IHOP Sketch…NJ style May 4, 2010

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So I went to an IHOP today the second one in California, and neither had a skillet, apparently that is a seasonal dish here…WTF is seasonal about eggs and potatoes in a dish with cheese?

Anyway, before leaving good old NJ, I had a skillet and did this doodle/sketch I found while unpacking.

I used a bic pen on the back of a placemat.