Sketch-A-Day 348

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 341

old ass sketches colored up...drawing sucks ass

Sketch-A-Day 338

here's an old group shot colored up

Sketch-A-Day 334

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

Sketch-A-Day 333

Megabolt zooming off to the rescue

Sketch-A-Day 326

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 318

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 312

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 106

here's an odd looking Megabolt all angley style

Sketch-A-Day 83

playing with Megabolt's arrival outfit

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Megabolt tearing his way out of his civilian clothes...because it's Megabolt, you could almost call it Superman fanart when it's not colored and there's no logo showing.

Starshield, RetroRobot, Megabolt and more...

The more being those two little bullets bouncing off of Megabolt's hand.

This is the raw scan of a battle damaged Jimmy (mid-sword fight) and some other stuff. Pen sketches on copy paper.

Megabolt in living color

I used the same pallete that I always do and for some reason the colors look really saturated to me. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that the linework is so much thicker in comparison to my usual stuff.

Josh "The Conqueror" Covey does MEGABOLT!

Joshua Covey did this majestic looking Megabolt for me. I slapped a little color on him. I've been looking for a style that really services the Megabolt that I see in my head when I write him. The first thing I said when Josh emailed this to me was, "Holy shit, that's him!" More so than every time I've drawn him, this looks like Megabolt. He's got the right measure of simplistic cartooniness with depth, shadow and dimension too. Just perfect!

I could fill a gallery with all the awesome versions of the big guy, that other folks have been nice enough to draw for me. (I'll compile some and post a bunch tommorow) But for all their greatness, they always leaned too far in a direction that didn't sit right with me. Too serious or too cartoony, one way or the other, they always looked great (and were a blast to see) but finding the right fit has been tough.

Traditional proportions

I was trying to give Megabolt a more traditional build. No I don't know why. He's always been the super buff-upper-body guy, I guess I wanted to see if he's work with more human proportions. I like the drawing ok, but not the build.

Give me buff or give me death!

MEGABOLT solar vison blast

Here's the raw scan of a Megabolt pinup kinda thing that I'm doing. I got to play with my brush pen and chisel alot at LBCC, so I wanted to try a drawing using them exclusively. It didn't pan out once I needed some really thin lines (i don't have that level of control yet).

I'm trying to get Megabolt into MAM, so I wanna make sure he looks like a credible Golden/Silver Age character, as well as in a style that would reflect that too.

Aside from all the regular abilities that a Superman archetype would have, he's also got sub-zero and solar optic blasts.