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Sketch-A-Day 365!!!!

2010-12-31T13:53:00.001-08:00

THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE IS A BIG FUCKING NUMBER!!!

Holy shit balls, that took a while. So the first image is of my old guy superhero STARBLAST drawn by the amazing Cory Walker. He was the inspiration behind starting this Sketch-A-Day for 365 thing and so it's only fitting that it be ended with a drawing from him. I colored it up for your viewing enjoyment.

The next drawing is of another star-themed character from the Major City Universe is a spandex version of his costume...I really need to work on my coloring more-- yowza! It's been a while.

I'm going to neglect the fuck out of this blog for a couple weeks. After that activity might start to slowly return.

Thanks for lookin folks!!
-matt

Sketch-A-Day 364

2010-12-30T01:36:00.000-08:00

Somehow I'm already at 365...I'm guessing it was fucking leap year or something. Leave it to me to pick a fucking 366 day year to do this sketch every day challenge bullshit. I still have a special double-post planned for tomorrow, so I'll make sure that no matter what, this whole Sketch-A-Day fiasco counts and is official.

This is and old character that came from a story that I don't think I can even do anymore (because it's equivalent has already shown up in another book). I still really like the ideas behind it and may just do it anyway.

This is why you don't procrastinate, kids.

EDIT: nope, i fucked up the numbering

Sketch-A-Day 363

2010-12-29T01:36:00.000-08:00

Black Terror (from reference) again...running up the hill WWII style. I figure he'd ditch the cape at this point.

Sketch-A-Day 362

2010-12-28T10:30:00.001-08:00

here's Dura-Girl with some Bettie Page bangs and some costume tweaks...not good-- i suck at drawing chicks

Sketch-A-Day 361

2010-12-27T10:24:00.000-08:00

a young Libby Shore before she was the super heroine, Dura-Girl, she was the child spokesperson for the Dura-Glow Detergent line of products. She adopted her advertisement outfit for her hero costume.

Sketch-A-Day 360

2010-12-26T15:52:00.000-08:00

messing around with the Archies comics style

eh

Sketch-A-Day 359

2010-12-25T21:48:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas, folks!!

5 days left-- Here's Tim Terror

Sketch-A-Day 358

2010-12-24T09:59:00.000-08:00

Christmas Eve-- today is all about amping everything up for the kids so that they're in a frenzy for tomorrow morning.

So here's Danny Garrety as a kid

Sketch-A-Day 357

2010-12-23T19:26:00.001-08:00

Black Terror bust

Sketch-A-Day 356

2010-12-22T10:34:00.000-08:00

here's Bob and Tim, the Terror Twins. I found an old story i wrote about these public domain dominators. I still REALLY like the story, but I'd definitely have to wait until all that Project Superheroes crap is done.

Sketch-A-Day 355

2010-12-21T01:44:00.000-08:00

Dominic Myers, all street fighter punked out

less than 10 to go

Sketch-A-Day 354

2010-12-20T11:50:00.000-08:00

some more Blockade

Sketch-A-Day 353

2010-12-19T00:41:00.001-08:00

another Samnee swipe-- it's hard to put Bulletproof Beetle away and work on other stuff.

Here's an instance where the whole "bulletproof" part doesn't seem to live up to it's name.

Sketch-A-Day 352

2010-12-18T22:19:00.000-08:00

here's the old look for a hero called BLOCKADE, that i'm in mid-process of redesigning.

I already fixed his head digitally (so it's more in proportion) but i thought it fair to post the actual drawing

Sketch-A-Day 351

2010-12-17T01:02:00.000-08:00

here's a knocked down fat guy...with old man hair and a push broom mustache...and a HORRIBLE fucking hand

Sketch-A-Day 350

2010-12-16T11:00:00.000-08:00

another WyA swipe. It amazes me that the guy can draw such massive figures and still have them appear properly weighted. I can't get any of my KRAGG drawings to look cool (unless they're pretty cartoony)...so i've resorted to thievery...and not drawing feet.

Sketch-A-Day 349

2010-12-15T11:40:00.000-08:00

I've been doing some studies off WyA...well more like just wanting to see what some of my guys would look like if he drew them. I really love how he works solid anatomy work into an image that's not too far from a cartoon-like appearance.

I'm working on adding less angles and correct anatomy where it counts, for form and value and all that shit

Sketch-A-Day 348

2010-12-14T11:12:00.000-08:00

anytime i try to draw a cool looking flying superhero, they come off REALLY fruity...that's what i get for trusting my instincts and/or not using reference

Sketch-A-Day 347

2010-12-13T18:49:00.000-08:00

some digital tentacles for a thing

Sketch-A-Day 346

2010-12-12T11:25:00.000-08:00

P-p-p-p-p-LEASE!

Sketch-A-Day 345

2010-12-11T14:54:00.001-08:00

and another

Sketch-A-Day 344

2010-12-11T14:52:00.000-08:00

some more colored stuff

Sketch-A-Day 343

2010-12-09T21:03:00.000-08:00

yup

Sketch-A-Day 342

2010-12-08T08:25:00.000-08:00

BpB on the run (colored up)

Sketch-A-Day 341

2010-12-07T00:17:00.000-08:00

old ass sketches colored up...drawing sucks ass

Sketch-A-Day 340

2010-12-06T14:50:00.000-08:00

still not in much of a drawing mood...hopefully some colors will have to count as a "sketch"

Sketch-A-Day 339

2010-12-05T10:39:00.001-08:00

and old Invincible colored up

Sketch-A-Day 338

2010-12-05T10:37:00.000-08:00

here's an old group shot colored up

Sketch-A-Day 337

2010-12-03T11:59:00.001-08:00

working on another band drawing...cartoonyness

Sketch-A-Day 336

2010-12-02T02:25:00.001-08:00

here's Dura-Girl with her hair down (and shitty bangs that i'm gonna fix) instead of the pig tail look. Her whole design has always been cheese cakey but the last time i drew the pigtails it just came off even more ridiculous than usual.

i dunno

Sketch-A-Day 335

2010-12-01T00:57:00.001-08:00

Good Ol' Bulletproof Beetle puttin up his dukes. Today is Dec 1st...this marks the "one month left" point. I am almost done with these gawd-awful daily sketches.

I have to say that I'm a bit worried about my level of comic booking after the daily sketches come to an end. These stupid daily posts are one of the only things keeping me involved. I've all but abandoned all my comic book work lately. A mixture of apathy and defeated feelings when it comes to a "hobby" that eats so much time and money and doesn't give much back.

Hopefully in the new year I'll jump back in and at the very least get the MAM 2011 Annual out and done. Until then, there's 30 more sketches coming your way.

Today's is BpB in a fighting stance. My way of saying BRING IT ON!

Sketch-A-Day 334

2010-11-30T00:10:00.000-08:00

here's a wannabe Fleischer-style Megabolt...kinda

Sketch-A-Day 333

2010-11-29T00:11:00.000-08:00

Megabolt zooming off to the rescue

Sketch-A-Day 332

2010-11-28T20:46:00.000-08:00

some shadow reference drawn from Smith

Sketch-A-Day 331

2010-11-27T11:17:00.000-08:00

this is an "Abandoned Concept Art" origin scene bonus!

Sketch-A-Day 330

2010-11-26T11:53:00.000-08:00

more "Abandoned Concept Art"

This was a solar being called the Cadet. It was only really ever for a short story...but i was actually gonna draw it. Obviously that didn't happen. I've waved bye-bye to the pipe dream of drawing my own content.

Sketch-A-Day 329

2010-11-25T02:57:00.000-08:00

So for Thanksgiving, I throw out a special "Abandoned Concept Art." This one (drawn by Scotty) and colored/designed by me was for something we were REALLY in love with for a while. I hope we get back to this one, ghosts, steampunk, and Victorian era London...fuckin cool shit.

I think Scotty and I like goggles

Sketch-A-Day 328

2010-11-24T14:49:00.000-08:00

here's some roughs for an anthology story that I was gonna be a part of...I don't know if the anthology is just not happening any more or if it's under wraps still. Our main character is a "Ryu Hito" or human-dragon, named Ha Tsume...I really liked the story details I came up with for this one. The story itself was too short to really do anything cool, but the set-up was fun.

kinda fitting to post this on the premier of the Firebreather flick.

Sketch-A-Day 327

2010-11-23T02:13:00.000-08:00

Some more shit that's never seen the light of day. A little change for "Abandoned Concept Art" week, here's some sequential roughs to show that sometimes the projects got further along than others before they got shit-canned.

This one had a couple of badass artists connected to it at two different points in time.

Sketch-A-Day 326

2010-11-22T11:25:00.000-08:00

Not exactly an "Abandoned Concept Art" piece, but almost. It's part of a big, and very, divergent storyline within the Major City Universe (which lately has been feeling pretty abandoned).

Obviously you can see that this has something to do with Megabolt and Everyman.

Sketch-A-Day 325

2010-11-21T18:36:00.000-08:00

More "Abandoned Concept Art." This was for a cartoony addition to the Major City Universe called "Superhero Support Group." It was a bunch of F-List superheroes and failed sidekicks getting together to talk about their struggles in tights and capes. The organizer/counselor guy was named Gary and used to be a shit telekinetic hero called "Zero-G."

Sketch-A-Day 324

2010-11-20T10:13:00.000-08:00

not really a sketch...but whatever. This is part of a new series: Abandoned Concept Art! For the next few days, I'll post design roughs, concept sketches and/or stuff like that from story ideas that have fallen by the wayside or that have been shit-canned with extreme prejudice.

When Scotty and I were coming up with this idea, we were trying to have a VERY simplified concept line "werewolves in space" and then open that up with a premise that wasn't that hokey. Even though I wasn't the artist (obviously, drawing the stuff out helps me wrap my mind around it sometimes). I was pretty happy with the world we created-- a germaphobic hermetically sealed society infiltrated by the worst infection known to man...Lycanthropy.

Sketch-A-Day 323

2010-11-19T08:51:00.000-08:00

for a thing with a guy

Sketch-A-Day 322

2010-11-18T09:11:00.000-08:00

here's a shit-version of Dura-Girl...I realize she's got pigtails and a cheerleader skirt, but she's not supposed to look like such a ditz.

Sketch-A-Day 321

2010-11-17T11:11:00.000-08:00

Army Beetle action figure...y'know, if BpB was actually in a book and big enough to beCOME an action figure. "DeepSeaDive Beetle with real squirt action" up next.

Danny during his WWII days, his costume blended pretty heavily with grunt fatigues as there were no costume repair shops on the front.

Sketch-A-Day 320

2010-11-16T09:56:00.000-08:00

a pod people band... standing

Sketch-A-Day 319

2010-11-15T08:14:00.000-08:00

this is what's been happening a whole lot more lately...this one gotta "fuck this shit" instead of the usual scribble lines digging through it's center

Sketch-A-Day 318

2010-11-14T12:12:00.000-08:00

it's been along time since i tried on the animated style...it might've been too long, i forgot all the rules

Sketch-A-Day 317

2010-11-13T11:21:00.000-08:00

I suck at proportions- i used a picture from the TeenTitans cartoon, Robin (from my kid's room) as a frame. Eh...you get the idea.

So yesterday was my 400th blog post. Obviously I hadn't used this thing very much before the Sketch-A-Day crap started.

Sketch-A-Day 316

2010-11-12T09:41:00.000-08:00

trying a bow-tie instead (and screwed up the eyes) I'd rather just draw squinty lines...or domino masks for that matter

Sketch-A-Day 315

2010-11-11T10:44:00.000-08:00

A young Danny Garrety on his first adventure...the finding of the Book.

Sketch-A-Day 314

2010-11-10T08:29:00.001-08:00

a little SgtZero (w/help from photo reference). Thanks for watching, Anthony

Sketch-A-Day 313

2010-11-09T20:54:00.000-08:00

Megabolt says, "Hmmm, What do you think?"

Sketch-A-Day 312

2010-11-08T23:51:00.000-08:00

Playing around with MEGABOLT again...it's been a while. Hopefully this takes the design further from CapMarvel while still representing Supes enough.

Sketch-A-Day 311

2010-11-07T01:39:00.001-07:00

Ooh, stance!

Sketch-A-Day 310

2010-11-06T13:00:00.000-07:00

all about form

Sketch-A-Day 309

2010-11-05T00:44:00.001-07:00

a crappy schematic for an ION BOMB...bad comic book science coming your way-- WATCH OUT!

Sketch-A-Day 308

2010-11-04T09:55:00.000-07:00

is it gonna be a jacket? is it gonna be a trenchcoat?
you decide

Sketch-A-Day 307

2010-11-03T09:30:00.000-07:00

warm coat weather

Sketch-A-Day 306

2010-11-02T00:48:00.001-07:00

a little Indy style action

Sketch-A-Day 305

2010-11-01T10:43:00.000-07:00

I haven't really been doing ANY drawing lately (except for the crap i throw up on this thing). I'm always torn between trying to work on becoming a better illustrator (when ultimately it's not my goal). So most of time it feels like a waste of time. I do wish i had AT THE VERY LEAST decent sketching skills so that i can confer story ideas and page layouts.

To kick off November, which is very close to the home stretch of these gawd-awful sketch-a-days, I'll be doing a few quick reference sketches from random other guy's drawings that I have laying around. Some to practice shadow, clothes, form, or whatever the case may be.

Sketch-A-Day 304

2010-10-31T13:52:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween!

...this isn't new at all, but it's on theme.

A couple years ago my buddy and i came up with a very loose idea for an 80's style slasher flick (complete with a commie bad guy butchering navy seals in the Siberian tundra) It was called "Red Scare."

I asked Scotty to sketch out the lumbering brutalizer for me and so I colored it up.

Sketch-A-Day 303

2010-10-30T00:51:00.000-07:00

okay, last over-the-shoulder looking one

Sketch-A-Day 302

2010-10-29T00:38:00.000-07:00

Wha-- McRib? for shame..."over the shoulder" series 3

Sketch-A-Day 301

2010-10-28T14:24:00.000-07:00

another "over-the-shoulder" pulpster sketch

Sketch-A-Day 300

2010-10-27T08:49:00.000-07:00

sketch 300, well fuck balls! You'd think I'd do something all cool and special...a fully colored piece or at least inked...hell, Halloween themed maybe.

hopefully a sketch that i kinda like will have to suffice. I'm probably gonna be doing a few more "random pulpster" guys like this...they're kinda fun. They could be the Spirit, Phantom Reporter, Dick Tracy (with a mask) or one of many different guys when they don't have any real definition or color to them.

Sketch-A-Day 299

2010-10-26T01:51:00.000-07:00

a short coat...Rorschach pulled it off

Sketch-A-Day 298

2010-10-25T17:56:00.000-07:00

the old pulpster standbys

Sketch-A-Day 297

2010-10-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

playing around with the stalkier Nevermen build

Sketch-A-Day 296

2010-10-23T09:56:00.001-07:00

the Last Atlantean...a very important piece of pseudo-history from the Major City Universe

Sketch-A-Day 295

2010-10-22T11:38:00.000-07:00

putting ghosty eyes on Les (in a mutated version of his old look)

eh

Sketch-A-Day 294

2010-10-21T16:04:00.000-07:00

been trying to figure out a short hand on how Samnee does his shapes

Sketch-A-Day 293

2010-10-20T00:16:00.001-07:00

no coat

Sketch-A-Day 292

2010-10-19T16:28:00.000-07:00

not spooky

Sketch-A-Day 291

2010-10-18T22:10:00.000-07:00

the result of some idea bouncing with Scottygod...we'll see

Sketch-A-Day 290

2010-10-17T10:25:00.000-07:00

scribble inks over a head sketch of Scotty's

Sketch-A-Day 289

2010-10-16T17:57:00.000-07:00

finally done w/ this sketch card (this is the pre-toned version). It took me forever to get this done...i'm a shitty commissionist

Sketch-A-Day 288

2010-10-15T07:48:00.000-07:00

TBP TBA

Sketch-A-Day 287

2010-10-14T16:25:00.001-07:00

lead vox

Sketch-A-Day 286

2010-10-13T00:29:00.000-07:00

drums

Sketch-A-Day 285

2010-10-12T18:05:00.000-07:00

guitar

Sketch-A-Day 284

2010-10-12T00:06:00.000-07:00

crappy Cloak

Sketch-A-Day 283

2010-10-10T23:55:00.001-07:00

wolfman-ish

Sketch-A-Day 282

2010-10-09T09:09:00.001-07:00

reworking a commission that got lost in the shuffle (sorry about the quality) or lack of

Sketch-A-Day 281

2010-10-08T12:14:00.001-07:00

socked in the face

Sketch-A-Day 280

2010-10-07T00:27:00.000-07:00

no idea

Sketch-A-Day 279

2010-10-06T10:33:00.000-07:00

even in quick sketchy poses, my proportions are way off

Sketch-A-Day 278

2010-10-05T00:10:00.000-07:00

the kids and i watched IM2 again

Sketch-A-Day 277

2010-10-04T21:15:00.000-07:00

an older Garrety

Sketch-A-Day 276

2010-10-03T00:04:00.001-07:00

Sketch-A-Day 275

2010-10-03T00:03:00.000-07:00

zoooom

Sketch-A-Day 274

2010-10-01T15:35:00.000-07:00

hangin out

Sketch-A-Day 273

2010-09-30T12:35:00.000-07:00

a sketch-note for a scene that'll come down the road

Sketch-A-Day 272

2010-09-29T00:43:00.001-07:00

Oooh, dynamic

Sketch-A-Day 271

2010-09-28T16:11:00.001-07:00

BpB2 hovering

Sketch-A-Day 270

2010-09-27T10:21:00.000-07:00

the second Bulletproof Beetle using his flying hover-shield

Sketch-A-Day 269

2010-09-26T12:20:00.000-07:00

Mmmmmm, blocky shadows

Sketch-A-Day 268

2010-09-25T02:02:00.000-07:00

hopefully it looks cool and not like a fancy pantsy fairy floating around. He's supposed to be hanging onto something (that I didn't draw) and reaching for the falling scarab stone. I realize now he looks like he's doing kung-fu wire work.

Sketch-A-Day 267

2010-09-25T02:00:00.000-07:00

this is a prelim design for a Zombies VS Cheerleaders commission. I posted it last night but it's not on here. So I'm REPLACING it, I didn't miss a post...It still counts.

Sketch-A-Day 266

2010-09-23T00:06:00.000-07:00

Danny in some actual chainmail that hints at his future costume look.

Also, i FINALLY landed on a Scarab Stone design that I'm happy with. I'd always had it look like too much of a logo. If this stone has been around for millenia, then it would make sense that it would be a pretty solid shape (no thin legs poking out to get broken off). This gives the beetle shape while still being solid enough and allows it to look carved too.