Ninja Practice

I do all my sketching on regular bond paper nowadays and keep those drawings in 3-ring office binders. If I get enough sketches revolving around a particular story idea I collect them from my sketch binder and move them into their very own binder.
The binder these drawings come from is called "Ninja Island". That may or may not be a working title.

Summers Lovin'

One more super-hero doodle before the weekend. Feeling a bit nostalgic and I drew some of the X-Men of my youth. Fun fact: The collection of the Dark Phoenix saga was the first trade I ever bought. I was 10 years old and the ending almost made me cry. I was hooked.

Have a good weekend, all!

More Supes For You

Some more super heroes from my late night doodles. I had a lot of fun just laying in uncomplicated, flat colors on the characters. No painterly strokes, no gradients, no shadows and sculpting. Keep it simple.
The Captain Marvel one is my favorite so far.
Below is the original page of sketches I grabbed these guys from.

I Know, I Know...

...it's been a long time since I posted. Nothing exciting or dramatic to report--I've just been very, very busy. Because I've been so busy I've had no time to do commissions lately and the only drawing I've done has been work related and in each case it's stuff I can't really share. That's left me with nothing to put up here. Because my output isn't going to change much over the next few months I'm going to shift gears and start posting more fun and cartoony skethbook stuff (like what you see here). I love just doing these little exercises every now and then (usually in bed before lights out) and I'm going to start posting much more of this time stuff.
I hope you enjoy!

Kooky Bayou

Been busy, busy, busy. I had meant to post these images for a couple weeks now but I've only just now found the time. I really like both of these, although I will admit that the Madman piece gave me a headache. I just couldn't figure out the right composition for the piece. I ended up drawing the thing in it's entirety three times before settling on this one. The other two would have been fine drawings but I'm glad I pushed through the mental block because this one really captures best what I was going for. The Swamp Thing was just a blast to do. I love drawing "monsters"!
Plus, he's 100% organic so he's good for you.

Old Soldiers Never Die...

Can't stay long--I've got a lot of work to do! Just wanted to drop in to share this recent commission I did. It's no secret that I've been a big fan of Epting and Brubaker's run on Captain America. So to get the opportunity to do this commemoration piece was a blast.
Hope you like it!

On Comet, On Beppo, On Krypto, On Streaky...

Now before any purists get on my case about Ace the Bat-Hound being in the Legion of Super-Pets let me point out that the guy who commissioned this piece created a work around. He wanted Ace but he also wanted to be true to super animal continuity so...this Ace is actually Legion of Super-Pets member, the shape-shifting, Proty II! Clever right? Anyway, I hope it shows in this piece that I had a blast drawing this. I had a couple friends who said it sounded like a nightmare assignment (animals can be hard to draw) but I was excited about the challenge.
I hope you all like it!