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Today's card is GWENOM.
When it comes to killer costume designs, it's pretty fuckin' tough to beat Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez on SPIDER-GWEN.
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.
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.
Today's card is MAN-THING.
This one is quite small, but i hope you'll find it satisfying, nonetheless.
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.
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.
Today's card is THE RED SKULL.
He's the villain, you guys.
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.
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.
Today's card is SABRETOOTH.
Good ol' Victor is pretty fun to draw.
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.
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.
Today's card is JIGSAW.
As much as i love Punisher, this is somehow the first time i've ever drawn JIGSAW.
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.
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.
Today's card is VENOM.
The monster one, this time.
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.
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.
Today's card is SPIDER-MAN.
sup.
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.
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.
This was a recent commission, for a fellow who wanted to see awesome 90's Danzig as Wolverine.
Needless to say, i had a load of fun on this one.
You can commission your very own piece simply by visiting the SKETCHES section of 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 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.
Ol' Cap has a message for the kids.
You can own this piece! The original is available over in the STORE.
9" x 12", inks & acrylics (w/ Raphael brushes) and Copic Marker on Strathmore toned paper.
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.
As a young hillbilly kid, as many hillbilly kids do, i LOVED all things martial arts, and i haven't changed much. Marvel has a great stable of martial arts-themed characters, and one of the most fun is definitely IRON FIST.
You can find the original for this piece over in my STORE.
8.5" x 9", inks & acrylics (w/ Raphael brushes) and Copic Marker on chipboard.
Sweet Christmas! i've always enjoyed LUKE CAGE, and this new Netflix show is pretty damn enjoyable, too. Great cast, great soundtrack. I'm diggin' 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.
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.
Jack Kirby was the undisputed King of Comics. Nobody before him or since has rivaled the intensity of his output or his feverish creativity. Most of what we know and love in comics is either derived from or came directly from his hand. We all salute this man, who was the paragon of our craft.
This is the design sketch for a little tribute to Kirby that i stuck into my run on Punisher: Franken-Castle, which is the stained glass window from the monsters' church, featuring Kirby's monsters and his vision of God himself, based on several drawings he had done, which may look familiar to readers who remember another iteration of God I have drawn in some comics.
Last week, i did a broadcast where i sketched up a big pile of 5-Minute requests. This time it's another drawing of my crackhead rendition of MORBIUS, THE LIVING VAMPIRE!
8.5" x 11", inks on card stock.
The original art for this piece can be found over in the STORE.
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!
Join Colonel Tony Moore on his Midwest Signing Tour! He'll be hitting 10 cities, with a variety of merchandise and art prints, including a signed and numbered limited edition silkscreen tour poster (only 10 available per shop!), Walking Dead #150 cover prints, and a raffle to win a super-rare painted Sketch Variant Walking Dead #1 Artist Proof Edition (only 1 per shop!). Tony will also be sketching, signing books, kissing hands, and shaking babies.
1/13 - Cincinnati, OH - Up Up and Away (Blue Ash)
2/01 - Pittsburgh, PA - New Dimension Comics
2/02 - Columbus, OH - The Laughing Ogre
2/03 - Lexington, KY - Collectibles, Etc
2/04 - Louisville, KY - The Destination
2/06 - Chicago, IL - Challengers Comics
2/08 - Oshkosh, WI - House of Heroes
2/10 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Comics
2/11 - Indianapolis, IN - Downtown Comics
2/12 - Muncie, IN - Aw Yeah! Comics
Visit the EVENTS page for more information on a stop near you, and tell your friends!
As you my know, i am one of the founders of CINCY COMICON, a fantastic old-school comic book convention where fans can meet the comics industry's top creators, get work from amazing artists, and geek out in all ways with their fellow readers.
This Christmas, we've teamed up with CincySavers.com to offer you 50% OFF on all kinds of admission packages! If you've go a super-fan in your life, this is the perfect gift!
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