MAN-BAT

Two-Face has always been my favorite Bat-villain but I was always the most creeped out by Man-Bat. Well... Man-Bat and Doctor Phosphorus may be tied actually. A guy with giant wings and big bat head versus a guy with flaming see through skin were both nightmare fuel for little Chris Samnee. Still love 'em both though :)

Okay, I'm gonna go watch the Batman The Animated Series episode On Leather Wings now and try not to hide under the covers too much.

Stay warm out there, kids.

Bat-squat

Before we get into another long stretch of con sketches, this week we'll be back to our old tried-and-true daily themes:)
Try to keep up, okay?

Bat-Monday: Nightwing

The above sketch is another one I did for one of the fine gents who work at my LCS, Fantasy Shop. This sketch just happens to be for Scott, one of the hosts of the Comic Dorks Cast.
They just recently did a series of short interviews during Planet Comicon with the likes of Matt Fraction, Jason Aaron, Kevin Mellon, Dennis Hopeless and Alexander Grecian as well as myself. You can give that episode a listen here.

Hurley Con: Bats vs Cap

'Nother pre Hurley Con "Batman vs" sketch.
Thanks again, Jim.

Hurley Con: Bats vs Deathstroke

This is the first of a few sketches I did before Hurley Con. I'll be posting sketches from the show throughout this week, and most likely a bit into next.

With this one I even managed to get a scan of the pencils as well.

Thanks again, Brian!

Bat-Monday: Black Mask, Clayface and a Marker Test

This started out as just a sheet of paper to test out which of my markers had seen better days... and ended up as this crazy thing.

And here's a shot of Black Mask and Clayface just standin' around.

Also, I just wanted to say a big thanks to all you who made it out to Hurley Con over the weekend. You folks are swell.
I'll post some of the sketches I finished prior to the show next week. In the meantime, if you had me do a sketch for you at the show I'd really appreciate it if you could send me a scan.
Thanks again, everbody. You're all my favorites:D

Bat-Monday: Gentleman Ghost

Gentleman Ghost may be a bit more of a Hawkman villain, but my first encounter with him was in an old issue of Brave and the Bold, so he'll always feel like more of a Batman rogue to me.

Bat-Monday: Penguin

Whaauugh, Whaugghh!! WhAAAUGGHHHH!!!
Just a little sketch today. This is sort of a palette cleanser to all the full blown stuff I've been posting here of late.

Bat-Monday: Off Model Rogues Gallery

I don't think a single one of these little doodles is drawn correctly but they all feel right in their own way.

Bat-Monday: Commission- Final Inks

Pretty happy with how this one turned out. I just realized I drew it on the back of a Marvel board though. For some reason that just doesn't feel right.
Don't forget to get your votes in for the Name a Theme Week Contest. The cut off is Wednesday night.

Bat-Monday: Commission Ligne Claire Inks

I thought this looked kind of neat after I erased all the pencil lines so I figured I'd post it here. This one is for any of you out there who might like to see a bit of the process before I put brush to paper.

Bat-Monday: Commission Pencils

Here are the pencils to the commission I mentioned last Monday.

Leave it to the Joker to try to coax a child away from Batman with a nutcracker fashioned in his own visage:)

Bat-Monday: Commission Sketches

One of the commissions that I've taken on recently is of Batman protecting a small child from the Joker.  Oh, and the Joker is trying to tempt the child with a toy while hiding a gun behind his back.  Sounds easy enough, right?

Above are the four options I gave to choose from.

Can you guess which one we went with?  A big honkin' no-prize to the first person who guesses correctly.

Bat-Monday: Dead End Joker

Hard to believe that this is the same guy who played Richard "Boner" Stabone on Growing Pains, isn't it?

Bat-Monday: So it begins...

I've been struggling for monsters to post here on Mondays, so today marks the start of Bat-Mondays.
A character, and family of characters, I never tire of drawing. They certainly have managed to sneak onto just about any scrap piece of paper I put pencil to.

This sketch was drawn from one of my top 3 favorite Batman films. Batman: Dead End was a short, fan-made film done to promote Sandy Collora's directing skills back in 2003.
In these 7 odd minutes you get a look at the most comic accurate interpretations of these characters ever committed to celluloid.

I hope nobody misses Monster Mondays too much, but I promise loads of fun Bat-stuff to take it's place here in the future.
Check back next Monday for a sketch of the Dead End version of the Joker :)