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I've got a pile of Sketch Cards done up, and every day at 7PM EST (for a while), I will post one for $75.
Today's is DEADPOOL.
When they're gone, they're gone, so get 'em while the gettin's good!
You can find the original for this piece over in my STORE.
I've got a pile of Sketch Cards done up, and every day at 7PM EST (for a while), I will post one for $75.
Today's is THE PUNISHER. I like drawin' good ol' Frank.
When they're gone, they're gone, so get 'em while they're hot!
You can find the original for this piece over in my STORE.
It's been a helluva while since i did daily sketches, but i've recently added COMMISSIONS to the site, and orders are starting to roll in, so i figured i'd post what i've been doing for those as well as some i've done recently just for the hell of it. This costumer requesed Spidey & Green Goblin, with a Romita influence. i had a lot of fun with it, since i'd never drawn GG before.
You can commission your very own piece over in my STORE.
9" x 12", inks & acrylics (w/ Raphael brushes) and Copic Marker on Strathmore toned paper.
Ever since my boys Jason Latour & Robbi Rodriguez created their Marvel smash hit, SPIDER-GWEN, i've been itching to doodle up a symbiote-powered version. So, today, i finally gave it a whirl. Hope you dig it.
You can find the original for this piece over in my STORE.
9" x 12", inks & acrylics (w/ Raphael brushes) and Copic Marker on chipboard.
A few years back, when i was drawing DEADPOOL, Gerry Duggan sent some of the pages featuring DR STRANGE to the great STEVE DITKO, with whom he maintained a sort of pen-pal relationship. Ditko responded simply that the pages contained some "interesting visuals." Given the searing responses i'd heard many have received from Mr Ditko, i took his choice to not eviscerate me as some of the highest praise of my career.
You can find the original for this piece over in my STORE.
8.5" x 9.75, inks & acrylics and Copic Marker on chipboard.
I was looking through my old sketchbook and happened across this rash of drawings which chronicled my early time at Marvel, just after my run on GHOST RIDER with Jason Aaron. Specifically, they were the birth of the idea of PUNISHER: FRANKENCASTLE, and the process of fine tuning it to be both what I wanted, and something that the high-ups at Marvel would get behind.
Rick Remender and I have worked together for many years, and we were trying to cook up a really big and really weird event with our pal Jason Aaron. Rick had some ideas for a gigantic war with Dracula, with a handful of rough-and-tumble headliner superheroes, and we had concocted the idea for Dracula's secret weapon to be a newly rebuilt Frankenstein's Monster, powered by Ghost Rider's Spirit of Vengeance. I though it would be really cool to make his body like a locomotive, with a big furnace and and a greasy engine belching smoke and fire.
I was doodling around trying to flesh out this hotrod idea and i thought what if Frank Castle's ruthless and well-trained brain was put into this monster to make the ultimate weapon? In a flash of brilliant idiocy, the name "FrankenCastle" popped into my head, and I immediately called Rick. He was all about it, and informed me that he was about to have an opening in PUNISHER that could allow us to retrofit a lot of this pitch for use in the main Marvel universe book.
Meanwhile, i was simultaneously trying to cook up a take on Deathlok, because i liked the character, and we were all trying to cook up as much shit to throw at the wall as possible, to see what would stick. This was my first pass, mainly focusing on the head:
Shortly afterward, i cobbled together this ramped-up full-body shot. i basically tried to take every element of the existing old Deathlok design, and crank it though a filter of my influences, from horror to Lobo and 2000AD comics. The arrangement of all the elements of his original design stayed intact, but i tried to give each one a new interpretation.
Axel Alonso was the PUNISHER editor at the time, and he loved to go against the grain. Rick pitched him our ridiculous idea and he ushered us aboard. Through some confluence of perfect conditions or divine providence, we had found the exact right ears to hear our ideas, and had the perfect lead-in to put them into action! Axel saw my concept drawings and said for it to work, it definitely had to feel like Punisher first and foremost. So, i set forth on cobbling together some of these ideas into something visually cohesive and polished enough for the book.
My first draft leaned much more toward the Monster side of things. The costume was classic Frank, but the man inside was lanky and dessicated, not to mention heavily augmented, as i had cannibalized most of my Deathlok design for the project at hand. I merged the electrical insulators with the hotrod engine from my earlier monster design, and more or less transferred all the other elements directly over to Frank.
Marvel liked the direction i was heading but felt i needed to go way more toward the Frank Castle everyone knew and loved. I toned down the death in his face considerably and bulked him up a bit, trying to strike a better balance between Frank Castle and the monster. At their request, i ditched the massive robot claw. I hated to do it, but i agreed that for him to ever heal and return to normal, it made sense (as much as any of this can make sense) that he not be missing entire limbs.
They much preferred this version, but still did not want to see Frank's face so disfigured. So, i cooked up one last version that kept his lips intact and struck what i ultimately believed was the balance we had all sought.
They still expressed concerns about his lankiness, and wanted a more squat bodybuilder physique. I assured them i could do this, and proceeded to purposefully ignore the request, drawing it as I saw fit for the rest of the time, with no regrets on my part or complaint on theirs.
The villain of the series was originally intended to be the late Ulysses Bloodstone, only partially recovered from his long-ago death by volcano, but so angered by Frank and the monsters that he had to jump into action early. For reasons still not entirely clear, we were disallowed from using Ulysses, and instead cooked up an analog replacement, a brand-new old monster hunting cohort of Bloodstone's. In his human form, he was basically a Victorian mad scientist by way of Hammer's Peter Cushing. In his current fighting form, however, he was a charred corpse healing in a vat within a gigantic steampunk robot, who had conveniently also come across a shard of the magical healing artifact, The Bloodstone. I used the furnace, engine, and smokestack elements from my initial iterations of FRANKENCASTLE, with a healthy dollop of Victorian steampunk filigree and flair, heavy on the locomotive angle.
In the end, not everything ended up where i had thought it would, but with some tinkering around, not much was left on the cutting room floor, and i was able to cook up some pretty cool (if not headache-inducing to draw repeatedly) designs for FRANKENCASTLE, which Rick and i will forever be proud of as our best effort to produce a damn fine run on the PUNISHER.
If you've never read it, you can pick up your very own copy of this massive collection over in my STORE!
Of all the X-Men, i think BEAST is probably my favorite. Here he is, just trying to enjoy a goddamn second of peace.
8.5" x 9.75, inks (w/ Raphael brushes) and Copic Marker on chipboard.
The original art for this piece can be found over in the STORE.
Here's a little peek at an upcoming super-special IRON MAN variant i recently finished, with some color help from my ol' pal John Rauch!
Here's my cover for Marve's upcoming JACK KIRBY monster variants, featuring the terrifying ZETORA! It was an honor to get to contribute to this wave of covers paying tribute to The King. I think this one's going on Captain America.
Colors by my dear old pal, John Rauch!
Felt the itch to draw Venom again, so i did!
8.5" x 9", inks (w/ Raphael brushes) and Copic Marker on chipboard.
The original art for this piece can be found over in the STORE.
Here's my variant cover for DEADPOOL #45, featuring the death of our beloved Merc with a Mouth. I had a lot of fun doing this one, with much love to McNiven and the Wolverine crew.
What is there to say? He's the best at what he does, and what he does ain't pretty.
8.5" x 9", markers on chipboard. The original is up in the STORE.
WAAAUGH! Today's sketch features everyone's favorite hard-luck hero, HOWARD THE DUCK!
this piece is 8.5" x 9", markers on chipboard. The original art is also up in the STORE.
We will be located at Table P55! Click here for a floor map with my booth clearly marked!
Thursday, August 23 (4pm-9pm)
Friday, August 24 (10AM-7PM)
Saturday, August 25 ( 10AM-7PM)
Sunday, August 26th (10AM-5PM)
Hello, everyone!
I just wanted to post a note regarding my schedule for the Fan Expo Canada Convention. We will be set up by Artists’ Alley at Table P55! (We're right next to the Comic Autographing area! Look for the big zombie head! Or click here for a floor map with my booth clearly marked!) As always, we will have plenty of PRE-SIGNED (no waiting in line!) prints, books, shirts and lots of other merchandise for sale at our booth! Please stop by and say hello!
This year, and especially for all you lovely Canadians, we will have many BRAND NEW prints!
Thursday I will be taking part in a SKETCH DUEL with Esad Ribic! To say that I am a little nervous is an understatement! This guy is a beast of an artist, and a beast of a man! The sketch duel will take place at 8pm in panel room 716! For the rest of the day I will be at my table signing books and talking to you!
Friday, I will be presenting the Creating Modern Horrors Workshop at 12pm in panel room 717. If you have ever wanted to know about my process and what it's like to create zombies, monsters, and other ghastly creatures, this workshop is for you! For the rest of the day, I will be at my table signing books and talking to you!
Saturday, I will be taking part in the Marvel Now! panel at 3pm in room 714. Learn more about my upcoming project, DEADPOOL, which I am working on with Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn! The rest of the day, I will be at my table signing books and talking to you!
Sunday, I will be set up at my table all day, signing books and probably eating lots of All Dressed chips!
We are totally looking forward to the trip to Toronto, seeing everyone, and having an absolute blast!
*PS: I am going to eat all of your poutine and peameal bacon. Canada, you are delicious!
I saw these old Deathlok sketches from a couple years ago in my sketchbook the other day and realized i had never shared them. Just fiddling with a take on the character, for no good reason other than to amuse myself.
larger views of each sketch can be found in the GALLERY.
i figured the three main elements of Deathlok are reanimated corpse, cyborg, and soldier, so i tried to shoot for a zombie/Frankenstein/Terminator kind of industrial ass-kicking machine, and keep some of the iconography of the character intact. You'll notice I actually went on to cannibalize quite a bit of this design for what became Punisher: FrankenCastle, so the doodling ended up being pretty damned useful after all!
Please join me as I promote Venom #1 with the fine folks at Up Up and Away on March 9th! Kara and I will be there from 4-8pm and will have plenty of merch for sale. Because I have a limited amount of time there, I will not be taking on any sketches for this signing.Please come by to pick up your copy of Venom #1 and say hey!
Up Up and Away Comics!
4016 Harrison Avenue
(Between Glenmore Ave & Bridgetown Rd)
Cincinnati, OH 45211
On sale this April!
killer colors by John Rauch.
Kara has scanned and catalogued all of my art, and is in the process of putting everything online.As of this post, ALL of my pages from The Walking Dead are online, available for your perusal.
Fear Agent pages are rolling in, and Exterminators, Ghost Rider, Punisher, etc are all just around the corner! Keep checking back to see if anything you're interested in shows up.
If it's not in the Gallery, it's not for sale. and i'm still not taking any new commissions. Thanks!
Kara has scanned and catalogued all of my art, and is in the process of putting everything online.As of this post, ALL of my pages from The Walking Dead are online, available for your perusal.
Fear Agent pages are rolling in, and Exterminators, Ghost Rider, Punisher, etc are all just around the corner! Keep checking back to see if anything you're interested in shows up.
If it's not in the Gallery, it's not for sale. and i'm still not taking any new commissions. Thanks!
