Great commission, JB. Love the way all the characters are interacting.

The Hulk is the standout for me and reminds me that JB draws a great Hulk. Hope to see more commissions with him.

With the film and this commission, it's a good week to be an Avengers fan.

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Well it ain't Snapper Carr!

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When the Hulk gets this large in an image, I find I have to start piling on the textures, or he gets to looking like the Pillsbury Dough Boy!

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I've mentioned before that someone up at Marvel -- I think it was Al Milgrom -- once commented that there's really no excuse for drawing hands badly, since most people have at least one on the end of each arm.

It does surprise me, sometimes, how many artists, especially in comics, seem not to take advantage of this fact. Seem not to just look at their own hands, when drawing hands. When drawing someone making a fist, for instance, what could be easier than to MAKE A FIST, and LOOK at it?

Yet, so often, fists are drawn as basically square blocks. Flat across the face, flat across the bottom. Yet that's not how they work, is it? When someone makes a fist, the fingers curve around the base of the thumb, so the index finger is further forward than the pinkie. The knuckle of the index finger tends to poke forward, too.