My Quest To Make A Living As A Comic Book Superhero Artist

New Comic Book Characters Art Ryan Reynolds As Green Lantern

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:17:00 +0000

My new comic book character painting is of Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. Work is in progress on a Green Lantern movie starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan and Green Lantern. From what I understand the costume will actually be CG. It’ll be interesting to see how they pull that off.

This painting is based on the Entertainment Weekly cover that features Reynolds as Green Lantern. Like all of my paintings, this one was done in oils. I apologize for not having a break like I usually do from pencils to final product, but I was working on a commission at the same time I was doing this and it slipped my mind to get photos of the progress.

I have this painting up for sell on eBay. If you would like to buy it just click this Green Lantern link and check it out.

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Watch me as I do some of my comic book characters painting!

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

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Comic Book Character Commission – Superman vs Darkseid

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:12:00 +0000

This Superman vs. Darkseid painting is the fifth in a series of DC comic book character commissions that a guy named Zach has had done. As I mentioned in the Wonder Woman Commission post, he also plans to have two more DC comics characters done before the end of the year, which will makeup all of the original Justice League.

Zach also tells that in 2011 will have me do Marvel comic characters from the Avengers. He has had me do the commissions based on models of the characters and if he continues that form, it will be interesting to see what he has in store for me.

Okay, these are the steps I took to do this painting.

PENCILS

ACRYLICS

This is done in flat colors to map everything out

OILS

This is the finished painting. If you would like for me to do a painting for you leave a comment with your contact information and I will get back to you.

I hope you liked seeing this painting in its different stages and I hope you take time to check out the other information this blog has to offer.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

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My Second 8x10 Avatar Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:52:00 +0000

All this week I've been showing off some of my Avatar art. Today I'm going to show you my second 8x10 Avatar painting. Yesterday you saw my First 8x10 Avatar painting. You have also seen my First Avatar ACEO painting and my Second Avatar ACEO painting. This will be the last day of Avatar art for a while.

Just like with the other paintings, I will show this painting in three stages. Also just like the other paintings there is a more detailed video of me doing this painting.

PENCILS

ACRYLICS

This is done in flat colors to map everything out

OILS

This where everything comes together

Here is My Second Avatar 8"x10" Oil Painting video for this painting.

Update 7/27/10:
This painting is sold so it is no longer available.

See my other Avatar videos of my First 8x10 Avatar Painting, my First Avatar ACEO Painting, my Second Avatar ACEO Painting, Drawing Jake Sully from the Avatar movie and How To Draw Your Own Avatar Character

Check out my comic book characters art videos.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

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My First 8x10 Avatar Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:13:00 +0000

Last week I have showed you my First Avatar ACEO painting and my Second Avatar ACEO painting. Today I am going to show you my first 8x10 inch Avatar painting.

Just like with the ACEO paintings, I going to show this painting in three stages from the pencils to the finish. There is also see a video for this painting showing it being done.

PENCILS

ACRYLICS

This is done in flat colors to map everything out

OILS

This where everything comes together

Here is My First Avatar 8"x10" Oil Painting video for this painting, which shows in more detail how it was done. I sold this painting over the weekend so it is not available.

See my other Avatar videos of my First Avatar ACEO Painting, my Second Avatar ACEO Painting, Drawing Jake Sully from the Avatar movie and How To Draw Your Own Avatar Character

Check out my comic book characters art videos.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

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My Second Avatar ACEO Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:33:00 +0000

Yesterday I showed you my first Avatar ACEO painting and as promised today I will show you my second one.

This painting is based on the picture show on the poster advertisements. I like this because it is so mysterious yet wondrous looking.

Like yesterdays painting you will have a chance to buy these painting as well. It will be listed on eBay and I will post the link on this blog.

Just like the first Avatar ACEO painting, this one is shown in three stages from the pencils to the finished product and is sketch card size, which is 2.5x 3.5 inches. There is also a video for this one as well showing me doing this painting.

PENCILS

ACRYLICS

This is done in flat colors to map everything out

OILS

This where everything comes together

Check out My Second Avatar ACEO Oil Painting video for this painting to see in more detail how it was done. Also checkout the video for yesterdays painting. If you would like to get this Avatar ACEO painting go to eBay and Buy It Now.

Also see my videos on Drawing Jake Sully from the Avatar movie and How To Draw Your Own Avatar Character

And check out my comic book characters art videos.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

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My First Avatar ACEO Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:33:00 +0000

Way back in January I announced that I was working on some Avatar paintings and then later some Avatar ACEO paintings. Well those paintings are now finished and I will be posting them all this week.

You will also have a chance to buy these painting as well because I will be listing them on eBay and posting the links on this blog.

Here is the first Avatar ACEO painting shown in three stages from the pencils to the finished product. It is sketch card size, which is 2.5x 3.5 inches. I have also done a video showing me actually doing this painting.

PENCILS

ACRYLICS

This is done in flat colors to map everything out

OILS

This where everything comes together

Checkout My First Avatar ACEO Oil Painting video to see in more detail how this painting was done. If you would like to own this Avatar ACEO painting go to eBay and Buy It Now. Tomorrow I will show you my second ACEO Avatar painting.

Also see my videos on Drawing Jake Sully from the Avatar movie and How To Draw Your Own Avatar Character

And check out my comic book characters art videos.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

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My New Comic Book Character Commission – Wonder Woman

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:39:00 +0000

First of all I want to apologize for not posting for so long, I have been working on some other projects not related to art. Anyway I'm back and this week I will be posting some new art I have done.

I want to start out by showing you the newest Wonder Woman painting I did. This was a commissioned painting for a guy who has far had four paintings done including this one. I am also working in the process of working on a Superman commission for him and he plans to have two more done before the end of this year.

Okay, here are the steps it took for me to do this painting.

PENCILS

ACRYLICS

This is done in flat colors to map everything out

OILS

This is the finished painting. If you would like for me to do a painting for you leave a comment with your contact information and I will get back to you.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this painting. Also be sure to check out my videos of me doing other comic book characters.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

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Get Your Portrait Done At ICanMakeYouArt

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:06:00 +0000

I’m not going to talk about my art today. Today I want to tell you where you can get your portrait done in a comic book art style like Liechtenstein or a pop art style. The name of the place is IcanMakeYouArt.co.uk.

It’s real easy to get your portrait done on canvas here. All you have to do is submit a photo you what as a portrait. The portrait is then illustrated and when you approve it, it is printed on canvas and you receive it the next day. So go get your pop art portrait done at IcanMakeYouArt.co.uk.

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Creating Your Own Super Villain

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Okay we’ve already talked about creating superheroes and creating female superheroes, but where would they be without their counterpart, the super villain? So today we will create one. We’ll use the same techniques that we used to create our heroes.

Our villain will be able to control people’s minds and bust the blood vessels in their brains. Our villain’s name will be Mind Blow.

As you know by now this will be a simple drawing starting with the body shapes just to get the costume design.

First well do our front, back and side view shapes.

Our villain will be wearing a mask so we’ll put that in as we do the costume design.

Now lets put some muscle tone and a few details.

Do the color and we’re done. Oh and you might have noticed that I made a mistake on the side view armband. I made it shorter. OOOPS!

If you would like to see more detail of how to do this check out my How To Make Your Own Super Villain video.

Whatever comic book characters you are creating, the steps we used to create the superhero, female superhero and the super villain will work well.

Here is a great book on creating superheroes and villains.

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Creating Your Own Female Superheroes

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:42:00 +0000

Yesterday we created a superhero male. Today lets create a female superhero. For the most part creating female superheroes is the same as creating their male counterparts. But when you create your female hero you what her to look sexy.

Okay, my female superhero will be able to multiply the moisture in the air into a wave of water as well as control any water that is around her. She will also be able to ride the water waves she creates.

The name of our water controlling female hero will be Splash. She will be in her middle thirties with long black hair with a white streak on the front that goes all the down that back of her hair. Now, on to the design.

Once again this will be a simple drawing just to get the design. Start with the shapes for the body with the front, back and side view.

Splash will have no mask so I will work in the face and the costume, which is like a one-piece swimsuit that covers her neck and leaves her shoulders, arms and legs exposed. She will have high boots and long gloves that come up to her biceps.

Now I’ll add a little detail.

Add some coloring pencil and we are done.

If you would like to see more detail of how to do this check out my How To Make Your Own Female Superhero video and then go create your own female superheroes and see how much it can be.

Next we'll create a super villain.

Here is a great book on creating superheroes and villains.

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Creating Your Own Comic Book Superheroes

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Today lets create a comic book superhero. Creating comic book superheroes is not as simple as it may seem, it takes a lot of thought. You have to think of a name for your hero, what powers your hero will have, what his costume will look like and what your hero will look like as a civilian.

I’m going to start with the powers my superhero will have. He will be able to shot flames from his hands, create and throw fireballs and he will be able to fly using currents of heat waves that come from his body.

Now that I know what powers my hero will have I can come up with a name for him and I will name him Fire Bug. He will be a young man in his early twenties with black hair in his civilian life, but he will have flaming hair when he’s Fire Bug. Now lets design his costume.

This is going to be a very basic drawing just to see what the costume will look like. First I’ll start with basic shapes for the body front, back and side view using a simple pose.

Fire Bug won’t be wearing a mask so I can put in the facial features, the flaming hair and put in some muscle tone.

Now I can put in the costume design.

I’ll add some color with color pencils and I’m done.

If you would like to see more detail of how to do this check out my How To Make Your Own Superhero video and then go create your own comic book superhero and see how much it can be.

Be sure to check out my posts on creating female superheroes and creating a super villain.

Here is a great book on creating superheroes and villains.

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

My Avatar Paintings Update

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:52:00 +0000

Awhile back I showed you the beginnings of some Avatar paintings that I am working on and you can see them at I'm Working On Some Avatar Art and at The Start Of My Avatar ACEO Paintings. Today I want to show you the progress so far.

8”x10” Paintings

ACEO Paintings

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Get Your Self-Published Comic Book Printed At comiXpress

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:45:00 +0000

The last couple of weeks I have been talking about self-publishing your own comic books, (although last week I really just showed you more of my self-published comic). Today I want to tell you about a site where you can get your comics printed at a very good price.

The name of the site is comiXpress. It has been online since 2004 and was founded by comic creators to help indie, self-publishing and small-press comic book creators get their comic book characters out to the public in print.

They print short runs and print on demand at sizes of standard, mini, zine and digest comic book sizes. They also print trade paperbacks, posters and flyers. You can also sell your comics on their site.

Maybe you’re a comic creator that doesn’t have the money to have thousands of your self-published comics printed in hopes that they will sell. Maybe you just want a hundred printed or have your comic printed as it sales. Than you should really check into comiXpress.

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Got More Pages From My Self-Published Comic Book

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:19:00 +0000

This week I have been posting page from my self-published comic book Area 13 issue one. Today will be the last post from that book and features pages from a story titled Dreamscape, which was written and illustrated by my friend Troy Gillogly.

Troy is now publishing two of his own comic books. One is Wild Breed and Snuffy The Vampire Rabbit. I did a post about Troy and hisself-published comic book awhile back. Visit Troy’s Myspace page for more information on his comics. Meanwhile checkout Troy’s pages from Area 13 issue one.

Oh and by the way you can purchase this book by clicking the Buy Now button under the cover.

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My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Even More Pages From My Self-Published Comic Book

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:41:00 +0000

If you missed yesterday’s post this week I am posting pages from my self-published comic book Area 13 issue one. Yesterday I posted pages from the story I did titled The Boogyman’ll Get Cha. Today it’s pages from a story my friend Roy Dornbusch wrote and illustrated titled Forget Me Not.

Once again if you’re interested in getting a copy of Area 13 issue number one just click the Buy Now button under the cover.

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Painting The Scarlet Witch

More Pages From My Self-Published Comic Book

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:13:00 +0000

I have decide that this week I will feature more pages from my self-published comic book, Area 13. This will be from the first issue (I only published two issues), which was published back in 1997. The pages you will see today are from the story I wrote and illustrated titled The Boogyman’ll Get Cha.

If you’re interested in getting a copy of Area 13 issue number one just click the Buy Now button under the cover.

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My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Xeric Foundation Comic Book Self-Publishing Grants

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:24:00 +0000

Today I want to continue my discussion on self-publishing your own comic book. Publishing a comic book can cost a lot of money whether you decide to do as a hard copy or not. Unless you are going to do everything yourself you may have to hire a writer, a penciler, an inker, a letterer, well you get where I'm going.

Most self-publishers don't have the money to pay for printing let alone pay for talent. They will usually try to get the talent to do the work for recognition or a promise of payment if the book sells well. In a lot of cases these publishers end up getting people of sub-par talent or people that start the project only to disappear in the middle of it leaving the publisher to have to find someone else to finish the project.

If you can pay the talent something they are more likely to stay to finish the project. But how can you pay when you don't have the money? Well that's where the Xeric Foundation comes in. The Xeric Foundation gives comic book self-publishing grants for out standing publications.

Proposals for the grant must be submitted in the form of a written request. Proposals are reviewed on a semiannual basis. For all the information on how to apply for the Xeric Foundation comic book self-publishing grant go to their website.

It's not easy to get a grant from the Xeric Foundation. Your work has to be really good. So if you think you have a really good comic book give it a try. You have nothing to lose.

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My Self Published Comic Book

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:05:00 +0000

This week I have been talking about self-publishing your own comic book and exposing your comic book characters to the world. Today I want to talk about my self published comic. The title of the comic is “Area 13”. I only did two issues. The first issue I had printed at a print shop and the second issue I did as a mini comic and copied it at Kinko's.

When I had the first issue printed I knew nothing about what I should do on my end. I didn't know what size images to send. I just sent the size that I thought they could use and if need be they would change the size to what they needed. However that wasn't the case and because I didn't ask for proofs in order to save some money the pages didn't come out like I wanted.

In the future I'm planning to publish my next comic as a PDF. If you're planning to self-publish your comic book in magazine form I suggest you get all the information on what the printer needs.

I have been thinking about putting my two comics in PDF form and offer it as a download for a very low price, but I haven't decided yet. Below are some pages from my comics. Click the images to see a larger version.

Area 13 Issue #1

Area 13 Issue #2

Issue one of Area 13 is a full size comic magazine in black and white. I has three eight page stories by three different creators. I do have some still available. If you are interested in getting one click the Buy It Now button under the cover. The total price for the comic book is $1.65 which includes shipping.

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Self Publishing Your Own Comic Book

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:24:00 +0000

Yesterday I talk about getting your comic book characters out in the public eye by self-publishing. Today I going to give you some ideas on how to go about doing that.

Depending on whether you want to go digital or hard copy there may be a printing cost involved. If you go digital there are a couple of ways you can go. You can go the PDF route and publish your comic book as a downloadable PDF document. You publish your comic as an online book by showing the pages of your book as web pages on your website.

If you decide to go hard copy you will be looking at printing cost. There are a copy of ways you can do hard copy publishing. Lets look at the magazine hard copy. With this option you will need to find a print company that can print comic books. There are several online that specialize in it just do a search for comic book printers and you will see them.

Another hard copy option is comics on CD or DVD. This also counts as a digital option. You can do this a couple of ways. You can put your pages on the CD or DVD in a numbered order and the reader can click on the pages to read them in order. Another option is to set your pages as a slide show. Once your comic book CD is set up you can have it printed at a CD printer or you can do it yourself from your own computer and printer.

To sell your self published comics you can do it on your own website or a website that specialize in selling comics like Comic Space. This applies for both digital and hard copies. For hard copies you can also approach comic shops to see if they are willing to sell your comics there. You can offer them 30% to 50% of the sell price.

This should get you started on self-publishing your own comic and getting your comic book characters out in the world. If you have any questions leave a comment and I will try to answer them. Or just leave a comment and let me know what you think of this post or the blog in general.

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Get Your Comic Book Characters Out By Self Publishing

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:22:00 +0000

It is hard to break into the comic book industry, especially if you want to do your own comic book characters. You have to make connections, do submissions and of course you have to have good artwork. Even if you are lucky enough to finally get a job at a comic book company you have to do the assignments and characters they give you. If you create your own characters it is at the discretion of the company if they publish it or not.

There is a way you can have your characters publish and you have the control over them and that is self-publishing. Self-publishing is very easy now a days with the Internet, PDFs and even lower printing prices from companies specializing in printing comics.

The image in the upper right is the cover of a comic book I self-published back in 1997 (I’ll tell you more about that sometime this week). Back then there was a self-publishing boon. You could find all kinds of self-published comics and there were loads of comic book shops that sold them. It was a time when the only way to get comics was in magazine form. Nobody was doing them online or as PDFs.

Now you have a choice of doing the magazine form or digital. Either way you can do your own sells online and reach a worldwide audience. So if you’re looking to get your own a comic book characters out to the public without the hassle it takes to go through a company then self-publishing is the way to go.

Tomorrow I’ll go through a bit more detail on what it takes to publish your own comic.

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Painting The Scarlet Witch

My Heroes ACEO And Sketch Cards

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:22:00 +0000

I love the TV show “Heroes ”, beside “Smallville” it is one of the shows I just can’t miss. Although I don’t think it is as good as it was in the first season I do still think it’s a great show.

Anyway, I have done several sketch cards and one ACEO of some of the Heroes characters and I realized I have never showed them here so here they are.

Peter Petreli

Claire And Hiro

Sylar And The Haitian

Niki And Jessica Sanders And Tracey Strauss

Cards For Sale

Claire And Hiro

These last two cards I still have and are up for sale. If you're interested in anyone or both of these cards leave me a comment with your contact info.

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I Have Done Some Artwork For A Book Cover

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:30:00 +0000

I was recently asked to do some artwork to be used for a book cover. Now this book isn't a comic book or about any comic book characters it's more like science fiction book. The story takes place in the future and is about two football leagues. One is human the other is robots.

The robot league has been beating the human league and the word is that human league is obsolete. The fans love the robot league and would rather see them play. There’s a play off and the humans are determined to win to show that they are better than machines.

The cover shows the humans making a touch down over the robots as a ray of hope. Below are the steps I took to create the painting. The image is the original pencil sketch I submitted, but the author wanted more of a retro look. I didn’t take of the pencil on canvas so I don’t have that step.

Pencil sketch.

Flat colors done with acrylic paint. The author wanted me to use an old pulp cover as a reference for the painting.

Here the author wanted me to change the color of the uniforms to more recognizable colors and he also wanted the color of the robots changed. This is my first coat of oils.

This is the finished painting. The title and other lettering will be put in later.

Here is a piece that may be used for the inside of the book.

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My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

Green Lantern Abin Sur Commission Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:43:00 +0000

I recently did my third Green Lantern commission. This one was a bit more involved than the others and featured the meeting of Abin Sur and Hal Jordan. For those who don't know who Abin Sur is, he is the Green Lantern that gave Hal Jordan his ring.

This painting takes place when Hal Jordan, after being summoned by Abin’s ring finds Abin Sur dying in his spaceship and Abin gives Hal the ring.

The Green Lantern is one of my favorite comic book characters to do. I like the costume and the things the ring can do. My favorite Green Lantern artist of all time is Gil Kane.

Below is the painting from pencil to finished painting.

Pencil On Canvas

First Stage: Flat Acrylic Colors

Second Stage: Background Oils

Final Stage: The Characters Done And Painting Signed And Dated

I hope you enjoyed this look at this Green Lantern commission. If you would like to have a commission done e-mail me at mbridges54@gmail.com

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My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

My YouSayToo Dream Gift Post

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:15:00 +0000

I have decided to enter this blog in the YouSayToo Dream Gift Awards contest. Entering this contest will give me a chance to win my $1000 holiday dream gift, which is an updated computer so I can do video editing on it.

There will be ten winners in this contest. The first place winner will get the $1000 dream gift and the nine runner-ups will get a fun gift of their choice. I would choose the Retro Web Cam, which looks great. But I plan to win.

The reason I think this blog should win is because I not only show good quality art like the one below I also show how I do that artwork. There are also lessons on how to draw comic book characters.

If you have a blog you can also enter the YouSayToo Dream Gift Awards. Just click the link and become a member of YouSayToo, add your blog to the site and do a post about the YouSayToo Dream Gift Awards like this one.

By the way you can add as many blogs as you have and enter them all in the contest. YouSayToo also shares their revenue with bloggers so you can make money just for having your blog there.

Go ahead and join YouSayToo and enter your blog in the Dream Gift Awards. The deadline for entering is January 31 2010. You could be one of the nine runner-ups since I will win the main prize. LOL! Good Luck!

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My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

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My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch

My Comic Book Character Art On eBay

noreply@blogger.com (Baby Stroller Reviews) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:31:00 +0000

I have some of my comic character art up for auction on eBay. If you would to own some of my artwork you can go buy them now. Here is what I have up.

Scarlet Witch Painting

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Three Jokers Painting

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Jake Sully Avatar Drawing

Sold

Original Avatar Drawing

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I also have a commission Buy Now auction up so check that out too.

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Check out my comic book characters art videos.

My Hugh Jackman Wolverine Drawing

My Martian Manhunter Painting

My Three Jokers Painting

Painting The Scarlet Witch