Marvel Ultra War Series: Iron Man

"Tony Stark, makes you feel...he's the cool exec with the heart of steel.
As Iron Man all jets a blaze...he's fighting and smiting with repulsor rays.
Amazing armor...its Iron Man...a blaze of power...Its IRON MAN!!"

Sorry had to do it.

I was sketching Iron Man one day last week...and it came out pretty decent, so I was like, "you know what would be cool...if I inked this and colored it..." So I did that, and I really liked how it came out...but I couldn't think of a background to use. And I sat on it, and thought about it...and then a great idea jumped into my head. What if I draw all of these Marvel heroes singularly, then add them all together to this big mural type picture at the end? That sounded great, but I don't think I was thinking big enough. What if I drew not only heroes, but drew villains as well on the other side...like they were about to throw down for the biggest Marvel mashup ever?? That sounded too great to pass up. So thats the plan...and if this turns out decent like I'm crossing my fingers that it will, I'll do one for the DC characters too.

So with that said...here's my first hero...my favorite hero (move aside Spiderman, Spiderman 3 tarnished you beyond repair...) Iron Man, aka Tony Starks.

When The Smoke Clears

I don't know what it is about drawing apocalyptic pictures...but I just like doing it. I guess this is sort of a redo of the previous pic in the previous post...I started this like almost right after I finished coloring that drawing. I like this one better...even though something about the guy just doesn't look quite right to me. Maybe its the fact that I can't draw perfect circles? I dunno...live and learn I guess.

Feel free to click the image to see a bigger version, but be warned...the file size eclipses 1.9 megs. What is it with file sizes and .png files?

What's Old Is Now New Again

I was in a little of an art funk and I needed a little bit of inspiration. So I was browsing through my old sketch books and came across a drawing that I did at the beginning of 2006. My artwork has changed since then, but I found a great picture to color and try new things with. I posted this a while ago, and I also posted it a while ago when I was an 'active' member of a comic sketch forum called Pencil Jack. There, it was critiqued that the way that I rendered it, it made him look 'bulbous', but that was the graphic style I liked and was going for (even though in retrospect, I kinda agree)...not being bulbous though. I thought it would look different colored...so I went for it.

In retrospect, my inking then definitely wasn't the greatest...my lines were all wobbly and all over the place...but I tried my best to clean it up a little. It was fun doing this, and while I was doing it...I found out some cool and interesting things...which I'm currently working on...which will be posted soon.

And Now For Something Completely Different...

Trying to learn different things in different programs...and came up with this really quick. Adobe Illustrator isn't all that bad. I'm not really happy with it...there's alot that I still want to change about it...I might post the edits later on.

Snuggle Bear

I had to tweak my blogger template a little (read:I made a completely new template that resembles my old one very closely) because I kept getting BX errors everytime I tried to move and adjust something on my blog. So, hopefully, this one will be much cleaner and easier to work with, but there's still alot of kinks that I'm working out.

You all know the Snuggle Bear right? You don't? Well, this should help...


Well, I just made a random sketch a while ago of this skeleton in a cloak hoodie thing, and I wanted something to spice the picture up with because it was looking rather boring, and out came this. Disturbing and crude I know. The sketch was done with a Bic ball point pen using crosshatching, and then I just did some things to it digitally just to add to it.

Here's the original sketch:
And here it is again with some digital tweaking:


I'm not happy at how the bear came out, I might go back over it with stippling, but hey...it is a sketch, and its not supposed to be perfect.

This is what happens when I'm bored and there's a pen and paper lying around...