Really looking forward to coloring this piece!
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Water color pencils are pretty cool.
My Father was the one who suggested this image to me awhile back. He’s one of the reasons why I’m into comics. He’d take me and my brothers to the comic shop regularly when we were young and we all have pretty good comic collections. One of his favorite artists is Jim Steranko, and I gotta say I’m a fan as well. If you didn’t know, this image is an homage to The Incredible Hulk King-Size Special #1 (pictured below). Which was penciled by Mr. Steranko and because I’m a nerd and did far too much research I know that Marie Severin redrew the head.
Might as well show the original original version. Not sure why they needed to change the head but I like this version as well.
So there ya go. Hope I did the homage justice and I managed to get a mini history lesson in there as well. Wishing everyone the best and..
LaTeRz
I was cleaning up my house and found an old painting I started (pictured below) but I guess I gave up on it. I actually threw it in the trash for a minute but then all of a sudden I thought that I could make this thing work somewhat if I blasted it with a sharpie. Okay, I also used some copics and a tiny little bit of white out but the point is that now it’s happily living(?) on my wall as a finished piece.
I know that sometimes as artists we have to use our erasers as much as we use our drawing utensils. Also, sometimes we have to scrap what we are working on and start from scratch, but every once in awhile I guess you can just set a troublesome piece aside give it some time and then view it from a different perspective.
I’m well aware it’s not a masterpiece but I’m happy that it exists instead of me giving up on it and throwing it away.
I got another commissioned request to make a custom card for Star Wars X-wing miniatures. This time they wanted “Backdraft”. This one was interesting because they wanted me to shrink the stats section so that there would be more room for the Art. This made things slightly more complicated but I think I managed to pull it off. So, for anyone else out there who might be making their own custom cards I’ll share some of the process in hopes that it may be of use to some..
On the other two cards I was able to use “Strange Eons” to simply swap out the art and change all the stats. In order to change the size of the cards stats and keep things in proportion I was either going to have to do a lot of photo shopping or get lucky and find a template of some sort. Lucky me I stumbled across said template over at “afewmaneuvers.com” thanks to a user who goes by the user name “GeckoTH”. Way to go man! That’s some nice work your doing. This helped move things along quite a bit. Then, I had to find and install the matching fonts, shrink each layer, and do some creative cutting and pasting.
Unfortunantely, there where still a few missing icons that I needed to finish the job. I grabbed them from either Strange Eons or from other scans on the web.
So with the template all set then I had to create the graphic. My instructions where to draw her in booty shot pose and give her short punk rockish hair. Since there is no art for this character I could do whatever. But, then I decided to give her a blaster.. I know some of you are going to say “Why is she holding a Power 5 Heavy Pistol? She should be holding a SE-44c Blaster Pistol!”, and to that I say.. I just thought it looked cooler for this image. I’m not even sure if I colored the pistol right. It seems to be different on every site I looked at and after a few hours of diving through Star Wars forums my head started to hurt.
Anyways, it’s finished now and I’m going to go get started on the next Ant Guy page.
-LaTeRz