Marceline

 

 

who am I?

So yeah, ask me 15 years ago what I would say if my (at that point unborn) kid like pokemon? No F'n way!!!!

Flash forward to present day and the only drawing I do on vacation? A pokemon sketch for Johnny.

 

 

Apparently this pokemon shoots flames out of a log strapped to it's butt???

Donatello

 

Donatello's always been my favorite. True story.

Leonardo in color

 

Busted into the kids' water colors. I haven't used water colors since I was six.

 

Leonardo

 

 

Willy Wonka (the REAL one)

 

This is probably going to go down as one of my personal favorites for awhile...

 

The Doctor

Squirrel Girl

...and finally, Squirrel Girl. (yes, I had to Google it)

Khal Drogo

Edgar Frog

Felt like drawing, put out a call on facebook for a character request. 40 minutes later there was this..

 

Maverick

 

This was a fun commission. After doing the Hulk cover a few weeks back I was asked if I would do a drawing for a boy who is a huge fan of Iron Man and the Avengers. The request was to draw him into a cover and have it ready for his 7th birthday (which is next week). And get this - the kid's name is Maverick! Pretty much needs to be on a Comic book cover with a name like that!! 

 

And here it is all colored with text and logos.

 

I learned 2 things from this project. First- I am NOT a good inker. Black Widow and Hawkeye looked awesome before I inked them. My inking takes work from comic book quality to coloring book quality. Although in my defense the Blue Line paper didn't hold a fine line very well.

 

Secondly - Digital coloring takes a long time and I am not very good at that, either.

 

I also like to criticize my drawings. And of course, by criticize I mean make fun of how horrible they are. Here's a list of things wrong with this picture. The discerning eye may notice that I reused my Hulk drawing. I also used the light box to trace that Iron Man from a pic from one of the movies. Given the project I didn't feel too bad about that. I should have done that for Captain America's shield though. Geeks will note I went one ring short on the shield which prevented me from making the inner circle blue, which is what it is supposed to look like. One of these days I will smarten up and draw from reference. I bet professionals do that all the time. And finally - where the heck is the Hulks left foot?

 

In the end it was still a lot of fun and it gave me opportunity to start playing around with a lot of different techniques.

 

Hopefully, Maverick enjoys it!