Draw Draw Challenge #3 - Recreate a comic cover

Draw Draw Challenge continues - redo your favorite cover.
Here's a link to the original image:

www.comicvine.com/the-avengers-the-annihilation-gambit/37...


As soon as I was finished with it, I sort of hated it. Should have made all the action more bombastic - but I've found that I have real issues reference pre-existing images. I want to be true to source material, but in this case I really should have hammed it up, made it more cartoony.

Starfox is Awesome

Let me just explain this - when incapable of directly affecting a situation, Starfox's resolution is to bang a random onlooker with his space junk.

I bet there was a lot of "Where's Starfox?" in the old Avengers days.

(From Avengers 233)

Ronald Kurniawan

How great is this?
I just found this guy and his alphabet stuff is amazing



Old news, I also love Ryan Heshka.

Who I can't find any awesome images to snaggle. So just go look:
http://www.ryanheshka.com/

Draw Draw Challenge #2 : Team Splash

This week's Draw-Draw Challenge was to do a "splash page" of a team looking "bad ass." This is about as close as I get.

Also, really bad halftoning.




It's the Agent of Atlas, if you didn't know. I heard their series just got cancelled, which is a shame, because it's great.


Also, that other draw-draw I talked about awhile back is going to be coming about soon. And I'm going to be painting. Obviously, post-GPT (yes, I know I said there'd be 100...) it's just going to be something different, but I'm hoping for regular updates, and I'm going to start announcing in advance what the Draw Draw Challenges are, so anyone can participate if they'd like.

25 X-Men

I've been on Art Paternity leave for awhile, but i made Drawing Challenge to my friend to draw 25 X-Men in a few hours. He came up embarrassingly short, I, of course, despite being terribly out shape of I triumphed.

You can see the full set on my flickr page or click here to see them all directly.

No. 98 (possibly the end)

I posted this on flickr and facebook in APRIL. And didn't realize it didn't make it here, at all, which is ridiculous, because this is where the guinea pigs live. There are two more GPTs I'd really like to do, just to appease myself, but I don't know when it's ever going to happen. I just had my second daughter (April 23rd) and haven't picked up pen or pencil since. It's a hectic, hectic life.

But, I do want a sense of closure over this. Probably won't be a book. There's just really not enough interest.

Still. If anyone's paying attention...here's a big one...

Webcomics Week

Hey, kids, it's Webcomics Week over at

Whitechapel
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8082&page=1

Whitechapel being Warren Ellis's forums of awesomeness, and Webcomics Week being the week that you get to post what webcomic you're working on, so there's lots of awesome webcomics going on over there. Makes me wish I was able to get my next project actually on the web sooner than this week. Not that it's going up this week, I don't think, probably deeper into the summer after GPT lays down for a very long, probably permanent nap.

Also FreakAngels is over there - which is Warrne's webcomic. Which is totally awesome.

Anyway, I need a place marker for things that look interesting so that I can come back to them. I've meant to do this about a million times because some webcomics are amazing (wondermark, hark a vagrant) and other are really awesome but I tend to forget about them (Dawn of Time, and others that I didn't save somewhere).

So here we go:

Nathan Sorry
http://www.richbarrett.com/nathansorry/2009/02/18/page-1/
Looks really good, it's about a guy who survives (or avoids) 9/11 and gets rich and another identity some how, but probably has all sorts of angst.

Red Light Properties
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=comic&id=58586&page=1&panel=1#comic
Interesting visuals there's some digital collage for sure- it's about a real estate agency that sells haunted houses, and has a drug popping exorcist. the preview looked good.

Marooned
http://www.maroonedcomic.com/
I've started to read marooned several times and liked but didn't love it - it's nicely drawn, looks fun, is sort of a gag strip, but you can tell it looks like it goes some where eventually. Marooned is on the list of comics I forget to ever go back to, because I can't RSS at work, and I didn't save their addies anywhere.

Bellen
http://boxbrown.com/
Box Brown's seemingly auto-biographical comic is awesome. Everyone thinks so. I suggest you look at it. Me too, because I forget.

Astronaut
http://samaraleibner.ca/page-1
This is one that I don't think I've seen mention of - I saw a few panels and it looks great. Simple, elegant. It's a lady too! LADY DRAWER! And not furries. Which is nice. Or magic. Or magic furries. You'd be surprised at how much of that.

That's all of note so far - more to post later, I'm sure.