Mike Mignola's Hellboy
Hellboy is such a fun character. Mike Mignola created a gem with this guy, so many fun stories to read. The Hellboy movies were great, but the comics are so much more. As are the novels. I've drawn lots of Hellboy pictures over the years, this particular one is the raw inks to a quick skecth I did a few months ago.
Prismacolor Ink Pens on 65# Canson Sketch Paper.
Comic Book Sketch Cover for Rocket Raccoon #1
Pencil, then Prismacolor Ink Pens and Prismacolor Markers
What's not to like about a upright walking pig with armor and an axe?
Pencil, then Prismacolor Ink Pens and Prismacolor Markers on 4" x 6" Cardstock.
A character of my own creation, still in development.
Pen and Ink on 11" x 14" Strathmore Bristol Board. Colored in Photoshop.
Luke, I am your father...
Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars...
Pen and Ink on 9" x 12" Strathmore Bristol Board.
Hanna Dundee from Mark Schultz's Xenozoic Tales.
Pencil, then Pen and Ink on 14" x 17" Stratmore Bristol Board, Digitally Painted in Photoshop.
Artwork for a coloring contest. Original pencil drawings by Bill Maus.
Digitally Painted in Photoshop.
I created this as a present for my friend (at the time) Therese (now my wife). We are both fascinated by filmmaker and writer Kevin Smith, his movies, books and comics and we love the characters of Jay and Silent Bob.
Pencil, then Pen and Ink on 11" x 17" Stratmore Bristol Board.
Voodoo of the WildCATs, I created this for fun. I should ink this someday...
Pencil on 14" x 17" Stratmore Bristol Board.
I created this as a present for my friend Scott Martin.
Pencil, then Pen and Ink on 11" x 17" Stratmore Bristol Board.
Random Sketches
Pencil on 11" x 14" Stratmore Bristol Board.
Princess Leia, Jabba the Hut, and Salacious Crumb
Pencil, then Pen and Ink on 11" x 17" Stratmore Smooth Bristol Board.
I created this for an online art contest. Frank Cho, creator of Liberty Meadows, used to have a weekly comic strip drawing contest. Each week the lucky winner would receive an original Liberty Meadows preliminary sketch signed by Frank. I just happened to be one of the lucky winners!
Pencil, then Pen and Ink on Stratmore Bristol Board, Digitally Painted in Photoshop.
I really enjoyed the old Savage Sword of Conan comic magazines that Marvel Comics used to publish. I loved the black and white artwork on the inside particularly that of John Buscema. Boris Vallejo created some of the best Conan artwork around as covers for this magazine. I was bored one day and decided to sketch one of the covers. The original cover can be seen below as the second image.
Pencil on 11" x 14" Stratmore Bristol Board.
Marvel Comics, The Punisher
Pencil on 11" x 17" Stratmore Bristol Board.
Dale Keown's “Pitt”. This artwork actually appeared as fan art in the back of “Pitt” issue number 18.
Pen and Ink on 12" x 19" Stratmore Bristol Board.
Greg Capullo's “The Creech”. I loved this comic series, it'd be great to see him pick it up again someday.
Pen and Ink on 12" x 19" Stratmore Bristol Board.
Todd McFarlane's “Spawn”. I was a big fan of Todd's back in the day, loved his Spider-Man work.
