The Most Dangerous Game

I watched the 1932 movie "The Most Dangerous Game" last week. It's about the mad Count Zaroff who lives on an isolated island and causes passing ships to wreck so he can hunt the survivors. It was filmed concurrently with King Kong and had most of the same cast, crew & sets. The actors were chewing up the scenery left and right, but it was a fun movie with some nice visuals:

Space Miner

Friday randomness:

Master of the Mystic Arts...

...and 40's matinee idol. Dr. Strange (old) Hollywood style:

Make Mine Marvel

Some misc. Marvel sketches:




'Nuff said!

Brit

I've been enjoying the Brit comic and I thought I'd see what he'd look like if he were modeled more after a younger Michael Caine:

Brown Bag Sketches

I did a few sketches on a brown paper grocery bag while I was doing some laundry over the weekend. A quick Hellboy:


And continuing with my Dark Tower theme from the other day, a Lobstrocity (dum a chum, did a chick):

Nothing great, but I liked being able to work out from a mid tone rather than starting with white paper. I'll have to play with this technique some more.

Is He Strong? Listen Bud...

...he's got radioactive blood!

I drew this Spidey sketch for a friend's son a while back:

Another Page...

...from the story I started a while back. I want to find the time to get this thing wrapped up so I can move on to other stuff:

The Drawing of the Three

I haven't had much time to sketch during lunch lately, so here's the first honest to goodness lunchtime sketch in a while. I take the train to work now, so I'm catching up on about 20 years worth of reading I should have been doing. Right now, I'm working on the second book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, The Drawing of the Three. Here's a quick sketch of Roland, the Gunslinger:

From the Scrap Heap of Time

Early mechanical soldier prototype made by Gage Industries for the U.S. government - never deployed in the field. Found to be too temperamental and afraid of loud noise. Nick-named Lester Leadbelly by the scientists who built him:

Mustache of Power

Thaddeus Gage, super-science adviser to both Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt as well as industrialist, adventurer, and dirigible pilot :

The Rocketeer Flies No More...

I found out from a friend that Dave Stevens, creator of the Rocketeer, passed away this week:
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_03_11.html#014911

RIP

Spy Wars

Just pulling some doodle ideas out of my notebook:


**EDIT - I thought it needed some zazz, so I aged it to look like a still from a long lost cold war era cartoon.

Man of Science...

...Man of Action:

Blood on the Rooftops

Here's a warm-up image I drew for yet another story I've been working on for way too long:

Homefront Heroes

Characters from yet another one of my WWII themed story ideas:

Strong Chins

Just a few quick face studies today:

Think Twice Before You Drop That Bomb!

A little radiation goes a long way:

Uber Monkey

Mind Over Pug

Another Story Page...

I'm going to try and wrap this up this week:

Alien Hijinx

Jack - this one's for you:

Onward & Upward

Sorry for the lack of posts.

Now that the cat's officially out of the bag, I can say that I'm going to be starting a new job in a few weeks. All of the stuff going on related to that has left me with little time to draw, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of things - a quick pulp adventure style drawing today.

Sorry...

Do Over

OK - I'm feeling a bit better and want to get back to the little story I started before the holidays. I never really explained what I was doing, so I'm going to do that now as well as reposting all of the pages so far.

I drew the first page without any idea of what was going on or where the story was headed. I liked the idea of painting myself into a corner with each page and figuring my way out on the next. By the time I got to the third page I had a better idea of where the story was going, but still wanted to play it by ear day by day, page by page. It's a fun and challenging writing exercise and forces me to draw quickly. Each page has taken me about 3 hours from initial idea to scanned and lettered digital file.

The biggest hurdle I face in trying to work on comics in my free time is the amount of time it takes. It's very easy to lose momentum and interest when the work drags out over a long period of time. Not that I would consider these professional quality, but it feels a lot better to finish a full page a day as opposed to the 12 months it took me to draw a 5 page story I did with more traditional techniques a while back.

Enough with the talk - back to the drawing:

Sick

As usual, I got sick over the break and am still suffering from 'cotton head':

Home Stretch

Last post from the road - here's an experiment with ink wash from a long time ago:

Roy Batty

I may have to use some Christmas money to pick up the new Blade Runner final cut DVD's:

Hellboy

I can't believe I've had this blog for over a month and I haven't posted a Hellboy sketch yet:

Merry Christmas

Line art for a billboard design I did about 10 years ago:


I don't have the color version anymore - I probably colored it in Corel Draw and saved it to a long gone floppy disk.