Random Nerdity

Here's some more ink work- this is my unauthorized rendering of Scotty's Beast from Twin Shadow Island (you can see the original pencils in his deviantart gallery).



Okay folks, so I had a few days off from all things electronic and/or web-related...it was weird, but ultimately nice. So I had all kindsa nerdity to catch up on. I'm still nowhere NEAR being done with all the blogs, galleries, submissions, posts, and what-have-you that normally gets monitored daily.



Here's a few jems...




Apparently Marvel's gotta chick Bucky coming out in CaptainAmerica...a "Buckette" if you will. The shitty thing about that already crappy idea, is that they didn't bother going more original with the design. I can forgive the uniform (it matches the original Bucky's) but the WWII goggle wearing chick sportin' a 45 has not-so-recently been done by the good folks over at AtomicRobo. You can see Wegener's prelim designs at his blog. My thing is this: I realize we're all gonna stumble upon similar designs here and there, but for fuck's sake, open your eyes.






So DC has been dropping little images on their website hinting at new titles they will be releasing. So obviously by the image on the far left, it looks like DC will be bringin us some DocSavage action (while cool) and while that image is pretty decent, they should've tapped Godlewski to do it up right.















Just checking out Dark Horse's August Solicitations, is a treat. There's a crapload of Mignola books coming out that month, with Mignola covers t'boot.














BlacklistDA or Daniel Bradford's (as his parent's named him) has finally got his book out. ROBOT-13 is gonna debut at the Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art Festival. Fellow deviants have been treated with sneakpeeks along the way and Daniel has worked on this.

Check it out folks




alright, that's it
-matt

Crappy Workspace

Well here I am, on the bandwagon. A look at my mess of an office. There's usually more toys, but I had to box up a bunch of them while moving shit around, from when the guys were working on the roof and alas....too lazy to put'em back up.

-matt

Dirty Inks over clean lines

Heya folks.

So I've been inking...and every dribble of the black stuff that I put down on page has made me more appreciative of good inkers.

I would be proud to be called a "Fuckin' Tracer!" as long as I was doing a good job. My first major foray into sequential inking was over Scotty's lines for "Found In The Desert" in the MAM Spring issue. I had asked Scott if I could do sketchy stylized inks (ala Barry Windsor-Smith) to give our Western Monster story a little more authentic feel. I thought it turned out alright, but technically I was "trying something else" not actually trying to do a good solid and accurate ink job. There's a few pages that I get to screw up with ink in the next issue of MAM and I'm trying to play it straight. I'm trying to stick to the original art in every way, lineweights, hatching, spot blacks, etc.

When I saw Scotty's lines for his "Pulp Heroes" I decided to cut loose and try some "dirty inks." I tried to limit my use of technical pens and use mostly brushes. I got to leave a tone of voids and even added different values that weren't in the original lineart.

So here ya go...who doesn't love a big Ol' NaziRobot?

-matt

Gun blasts and boxers

Could there be a bigger badass?

Nope.

I'm just apeshit about this guy...

I hope nobody's upset that I keep posting shitty pen drawings instead of full blown colored pieces. This kinda stuff has just been alot more gratifying lately.

...and no, he's not in a planter with demonic shadow shrubbery, no matter what it looks like.

This one's just some random sketchery

Playing with negative space

Not much to say really. I've been really into my new brush pen. It's made me play with "features" of other pens that I've had for a long time: using chisel tip sharpies really quickly to leave dry brush looking marks and working with different fill techniques so that auto level adjustments aren't always a requirement to hide my shitty tell-tale fill lines.

So more demonic shit for your enjoyment.

-matt

"All my favorite singers have stolen all of my best lines."

A while back Scotty and I were joking about how sometimes we feel like somebody must be sneaking into our house at night and rummaging through all of our best ideas. Mainly in response to seeing characters or concepts that come to pass in existing books or even in a new one that mirrors something we've already created. Now obviously these creators are not stealing these ideas from us, but rather inspired by the same things as we are therefor creating something along the same lines.

So Scotty had mentioned two particular rapscallions riffling through his stuff at night, and it created too perfect a picture.

-matt

MAN OF BRONZE

DOC SAVAGE

So here's the final colored version of a drawing that I had started a week or so ago. It took me a while to get through the ink process, colors always go quick (for obvious reasons).

The original was just a little pencil sketch on a regular 3x5 card. I blew it up and inked it (primarily with my new Faber-Castell PITT brush pen...which I LOVE) I wasn't getting the control that I wanted with my TOMBO so I had to venture out and try something new. Anyway, great pen, only a buck-49 at OfficeDepot, I highly recommend it!

thanks for looking
-matt

I'm Green (Ghost) with Envy!

So there's this fuckin guy named Scott Godlewski and he's one of those genius artists who just doesn't seem to realize it yet. Anyway, he's got the character TheGreenGhost, and in his deceiving simplicity is what originally drew me to the character. Then you get in there and you find all the layers, not only in the concept and scope but also physical design.

You can pick up the GreenGhost's first published adventure over at Indyplanet.

I wanted to do a coatless and hatless bust to see if he still retains "the look" that he establishes when fully garbed.


Apparently i thought he should be a hunchback in this one. Oops. I was mostly wanting to play with distressed ziptones.

I like the GreenGhost....can you tell?

Casual Shotgunnery

3x5 card art

in an effort to keep drawing steadily

finishing off Feb

just finishing off the whole "draw every day in Feb post....oops

Draw Every Day

I figure after 3 years it's about time to start utilizing the blog.
I've been doing the whole draw and post an image every day for a month over on DA. Now's as good a time as any to start posting here, I guess.

Here's Feb 26th thru the 1st (in reverse order)

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