Hereoes: Secret Invasion Hawkeye and DD

Here are a couple more sketches on those blank Secret Invasion covers. Unfortunately the ink I used on these two was different from the last time, so I wasn't able to erase all of the pencils without taking the majority of ink off the page with 'em. At least now I know what NOT to use next time.

Also, there's a short piece up at Newsarama about Pulp Tales with a bit more preview artwork than has made it out on the internets before. Great lookin' stuff, and apparently Boom! will have a limited number of copies up for grabs at the San Diego Comic-Con if you haven't already ordered yours.

Heroes: Hawkeye & Ant-Man and DD & Elektra

The Hawkeye and Ant-Man piece is a riff on the cover of Avengers #223 ,but I pulled back a bit to show all of Hawkeye.

With the DD piece I had originally planned on having Matt and Elektra fighting in a park in the snow but I didn't want to have two pieces of people in snow (there's a SnakeEyes and Stormshadow piece in the snow that I'll stick up here soon) so I just had them tussling on a clothesline in the city.

Daredevil commission:inks / post# 400!!

Whew, those shafts of light were a heck of a lot easier in the pencils!

Thanks so much to all you folk who've been reading this blog and leaving comments. I really do appreciate it. I couldn't have made it up to post 400 without all your support.
Have a great weekend everybody!

Daredevilcommission: thumbs and pencils

Above are the thumbnails and pencils for another Daredevil commission.
Be sure to check back in tomorrow to see the finished inks.

Batman & Daredevil: pencils & inks

Since some of you decided to sneak a peek at the finished piece already (you know who you are;)I figured I'd go ahead and post both the pencils and inks for this commission.

This one turned out almost exactly how I pictured it in my head, which is actually a pretty rare treat for me.

Oddly enough though, my favorite bit is the acid rain pitting and little cracks on the gargoyles that were added in during the ink stage. It's little things like that which make inking over loose pencils the most fun. If this were all neatly rendered I may not have ended up with those types of little happy accidents.

Thanks again, Matt.

Batman & Daredevil: thumbnails

Let's get back to posting some commission art.
Above are the thumbnails for another of my recent commissions with two of my favorite comic heroes EVER!!
Can you guess which layout we went with? No cheatin' by going to comicartfans, okay?