More to keep on coming:

     One of the things that I've noticed while doing this piece (two original characters battling it out) is that the PITT brush-marker that I brought a couple of years back seems to have lost its tone a bit.  It required a bit of "overpainting" to get the full tone on the foreground character's hair.  Was it a lack of pigment, perhaps?  Or has the brand lost some of its quality, as John Byrne has said a while back?

     All of the sketches posted by me so far this month come from the same sheet of paper.  I'm making use of the large format Brother multi-purpose scanner (model MFC-6490CW) which has been a godsend for the purpose that I would need it for*.  The picture was fully cleaned up in Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9.0.

* The Brother scanner was brought last year to enable me to scan full size comicbook art without the need for breaking it down on a standard flatbed scan, or otherwise burning gasoline to drive to the nearest FedEx/Kinko's Office shop to get it photocopied or scanned for a price.  It has pretty much paid for itself, although I have yet to produce original art for the purpose for which I brought it.

A few more.  First up, an original character who's a major antagonist for a group in one of my comicbook ideas:

Second sketch post for today.  One of my characters in a little action shot:

Third and last:

     I took advantage of a break during a current job to throw this little bit together, using a ball point pen and a length of paper towel.  What I did here was lay out the cover, key panels and a page for a possible story that could be featured in one of my comicbook concepts.  The character (I call her Obsidian Joy) from the second sketch above is captured by the protagonists of the comic involved in one of those Marvelesque "superhero brawls".

     This is basically how most comicbook artists will attempt to iron out the bugs in their work before producing the full-page breakdowns on which their finished work will be based.  I recently saw an example of this with Walt Simonson's interview in the recent (Spring 2011) issue of Draw! magazine.  By contrast, I've once seen fully-penciled "mock-ups" of comicbook issues displayed by Adam Warren (currently the creator behind the Empowered spoof published under the Dark Horse banner).

Once more into the breach, my friends.  Once more.

     Basically, the following should get a PG-13 for suggestive matters.  I'll only say that it also pokes a little fun at the tendency amongst most of us to envision our alien races as basically resembling ourselves (as John Byrne is often quick to observe).

Of course, if I were in the alien lady's place, I'd be asking basically the same thing of the girl staring at me.  "So, what do you look like under that?"

Once again, needed a break from WWI warships and uniforms, so here's another Deathstroke from my TV watching pad - snapshot of a mercenary?

Some people call me the Space Cowboy!