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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

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

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some shadow reference drawn from Smith

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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.

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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.

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

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

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an older Garrety

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taking a stab at cartoony drawing again

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this is a "drawing while not looking" exercise...i did it three times...this was the third one

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Atomica with Danny Garrety looking on...she's got a little bit of the whole "Attack of the 50 foot Woman" thing going on. Only she doesn't really get up to 50 feet tall. She's more of the 18-20 foot woman.

This is the initial sketch, in the final I'll be overlapping Garrety a little bit to help with scale and to line up their glances a little better.

(thank you Bettie Page reference)

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almost a scene-- this represents a pivotal moment in Garrety's life. The event that pushes him into using the scarab stone and becoming a hero type guy.

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attempted a shadowy knife swing...i like the shadowy areas (that aren't filled yet) but the whole top half looks all squatty.

and i forgot to draw his hair and inked his head like he has the skullcap on...oops

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more photo reference

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Oh! a crouched hip-shot...that's a plus +7 damage

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overall looking WAY too dainty for my tastes...the pinky was a bad choice

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OooOOooo, shadowy

so today is my wife's birthday, Jack Kirby's birthday, and "Read a Comic in Public Day."

busy busy busy

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after Keown, after Kirby

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Danny looking a little more dapper than usual

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I'm going through and plotting the different story arcs through out Danny's life and it always helps me to have some visuals along the way. I do my best writing when I have a picture to stare at to help my envisionings.

This is Danny as he first enters college at Golden State University in 1912.