Prophet Profit

Prophet
By: (w) Brandon Graham and (p) Simon Roy

Picked this up at my LCS and was pretty floored by it.  Effortlessly filled with some great Sci-Fi ideas and a storytelling momentum that has me really hooked to faithfully follow each of the panels, and care about all the little details.

So I drew the titular guy.  John... er... Prophet.

8.5x11. ink pen.
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Ironmanning

Some "Ironman" pages I did for practice and exercise.  Fun pages, VERY simple.  Meant to merely show storytelling abilities.  I chose the classic Marvel Ironman cause that's how I roll.

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Cover:

Page 1:

Will fill title card later - "Ironman in: Doom's (Mid)Day Device"

Page 2:

Page 3:

Seems like a million years ago that I drafted up the thumbnails for this, as it was part of my entry to a thing called "comic book idol" hosted at CBR.  I recieved honorable mentions, but didn't get to compete in the full contest... and with good cause.

My intention was to show my potential, but they're a little too rough to be taken seriously... (can be viewed below).  So I decided to complete this challenge I gave myself a lifetime ago and I'll post a NEW, completed page each day over the course of this week.  So bookmark this, or just keep up with me on Twitter or FB for the updates.

Uncanny X-men

Drew this last night when I shoulda been sleeping.  Pretty fast and loose actually.

Whenever I think of classic Marvel, my buddy Jordan always comes to mind.

Ink pen. 8.5x11
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Madman

 Mike Allred's ever-enduring "Madman."  Loved this and the X-statix.  Mayhaps I'll draw them soon too.

This drawing, as quoted by Mr. Allred himself is, "PRIMO."  That's a compliment... in all capitals ladies and germs.

Ink pen.
Click to see a madness sized amount of Madman.

The Goon

Eric Powell's "The Goon" is a series published by Darkhorse Comics.  It also could be the subject of an animated feature by David Fincher, should the stars align.

My pencil sketch can be seen here.

8.5x11.  Ink.
Click The Goon's ugly mug to see the image bigger.

Sweet Tooth Redux

Jeoperd and Gus.  Together again for the first time.

Read vol. 3 today and then BAM, here we are.

Ink Pen. 8.5x11
Clickity-click to magnify.

Ghost

Quick ghost pencil sketch

Gimme gimme some of that vampire money.

Realized I have alot of sequentials in development that can't be shown yet, so I thought I should do a few fun ones here and there.

It was just going to be quick page, in and out, thought I'd quickly sketch out a page as a warm up and move on, but as an artist I was compelled to dwell and add and change.  And boy, I did just that.  I can't really tell you where the idea came from, happened organically.  Modern indiana jones pulls his vampire friend from a black tie affair and races to find a mysterious game-changer "macguffin" in the face of oblivion.  Yeah.  ridiculous.

The lettering is probably the worst possible job anyone has ever done.

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11x17. ink pen & marker
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without lettering...

It might be worth noting that I actually wrote/drew this BACKWARD.  Meaning I created the last panel first and then composed a short story to get to that point.  Working backward panel by panel crafting a little story.  Strange, but true.

Wolverines

Bought issues 300 and 301 on a whim.  Good enough stuff (I'm no wolverine snob).    Haven't read any of the Jason Aaron stuff, but he likes to use chapters in that comic.  A lot.

There was a fun sequence in 301 that inspired the bottom sketch.  Wolverine gets blown up, and he emerges the smoke basically just a pile of angry bloody muscle and he regrows his skin and hair over the next page or two.

Silver Samurai having his sword behind his back as defense really makes no sense, but drew it nonetheless.

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The first image was a bit of a brush pen test.

American Vampire

Scott Snyder's (writer) American Vampire, while I thought disjointed and simply a fun hodge-podge of a stories set in different american periods of history w/ vamps but is actually amazing, and it's turning into a well woven, non-linear epic saga.  And its good.  Very good.  Raphael Albuquerque quite admirably draws almost every issue of the Ongoing series.

"Survival of the Fittest," my first exposure to Sean Murphy really kicked my drawing ass back in gear in the fall.  I had already started drawing quite a bit, but there's this looseness to his work that is really compelling.  He also probably draws the best boots in all of comics.  Anyway his style definitely influenced my comic-drawing resurgence and the SOTF piece below.  I probably drew it in like 20 mins. Drawn extremely fast and loose.

There's also a Travis Kidd sketch for good measure.

Pen and Ink 11x17 and 8.5x11
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Hellboy

Kinda goes without saying, right?

But I'll say this much...

Mike Mignola, whom I've loved since Matt Flint sold me the "cosmic odyssey" mini-series back in like '94-95, created Hellboy.  Most notably a film franchise, sadly, but also a fantastic comic-book series (or series') which has a sprawling lovecraftian universe protected by the titular character and the madcap team of off-the-fringe good-guys, the B.P.R.D. (a group that will make a future post for sure)

Inkpen. 8.5x11.
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The Amazing Joy Buzzards

The Amazing Joy Buzzards are a band that travels the world solving mysteries and performing face-melting rock shows.  After reading the book I did a flurry of sketches.  Seen below.

Brought to life by the talented duo of Mark Andrew Smith and Dan Hipp.  Mark has some fantastic all ages books out: Gladstone's school for world conquerors and The New Brighton Archaeological society.  So does Mr. Hipp.  Check out his fun, incredible, chemical-coloured and sometimes very poignant BLOG.  He has this Empire strikes back image a few pages in that kills me.

pencil and ink pen.  11x17.
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SWEET TOOTH

Jeff Lemire's Vertigo title, the post-apocalypic "Sweet Tooth"  is a great, fast and poetic kinda read (buy IT and other titles here).

He won the "First drawing in my new blog award" and recieves the coveted no-prize.

Pencil 8.5x11.  Click to embiggen.

New Art Blog

Needed a place to put all the drawings I do that aren't "New 52" related.  As you'll see I do draw...more.  Still very much comic-book related, but I'm sure a few classical pieces will show up now and then.

In the spirit of support, I'll link as much as I can to other creators and authors works that I may "cover" here.

Thanks for checking it out!