Sinister Six

Hey look, Spider-Man fighting the Sinister Six! The Harmful Hexad! The Dastardly Half-Dozen!

Mysterio! The Vulture! Electro! Doctor Octopus! Sandman! Kraven the Hunter getting his face smushed!

This was fun. I got back into inking with my nib pen rather than regular pens, and the lines are so much more fun (to me, at least), though the ink bleeds a smidge on the Moleskine paper.

All those white bits were done in Photoshop to clarify stuff a bit. All the white-out style pens I have leave watery, gray spots rather than quality white. Anyone got any ideas for a good white line, short of breaking out the acrylic paint?

Fantastic Fab Four

A mostly silly idea I had one day: there are four members of the Fantastic Four, and there are four Beatles. How had no one done this mash-up before (I checked the Google.)? I changed the dimensions from square album art to that of a comic cover, mostly because I figured it wouldn't hurt to have cover-type stuff in a portfolio if I ever got one together.

But mostly I just wanted to draw Mister Fantastic's stretchy neck.

What do you think: "Please Please Me" next?

Arm Wrassles

Hercules arm-wrestling the Thing. Duh! It's so self-explanatory it's crazy.

The Romantic Spider-Creep

This is the last spread in my '08 - fall '09 sketchbook, meant to be a romantic send-off to the era. Instead, Spider-Man's tap-tapping at the window has Mary Jane–that's who that's supposed to be–genuinely scared.

Remember how I said I didn't want to do inking? Whatever.

Norse Code

For some reason I have a way easier time drawing in my Moleskine than in my regular 9 x 12 sketchbook. It's kind of a problem.

Here's Loki, sulking, with the Enchantress, sorcery-ing.

It might see the light of inks one day, it might not. I wanna be a penciller, not a tracer, naw mean?

Introductions And Disco Mutants

I like comic books. Wham-pow-kaboom-style comic books.

Art school somehow made me not want to draw muscles in spandex; it somehow twisted my mind into thinking that drawing comics would be an ignoble career choice. Something must have happened since then, though, because now all I want to draw are superheroes.

Here's a drawing of Dazzler, the disco mutant superheroine. My pre-collegiate, high-school self would be proud of me.