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6/24/10

Versus 7 - Darth Maul




And it's another Versus! Today's topic Darth Maul. I liked how this one turned out but again, it comes down to timing for this one. The face and the tattoos was what took up the most time I think. I had skteched out the other arm and the rest of te lightsaber. One thing I have now added to my artistic arsenal is a new pen that allows me to draw white lines. Pretty much all the white on the black suit was done with it, and I love how it looks. Expect me to use it a lot in the future.

6/22/10

Serious Business 7 - Peace Walkin'


Well I hated this one. The greyscale attempt blew. Boo urns.

6/16/10

Versus 6 - Galactus




WOW! Was this one ever a challenge. It was my choice too. There's a damn good reason there's not colour in this one, and it boils down to detail and time. There's so much to Galactus I just didn't have a chance to even try to colour it. Also, there was supposed to be stars on the black, it wasn't supposed to be just a solid black bg. That big white empty space was supposed to contain a clenched Galactus fist. Once again, Time. Keep in mind these are timd battles, 45minutes for both of us. Scott had it right to include as little detail as possible on his helmet.

And finally Scott also has a new blog where he posts his other stuff. You can find that here.

6/15/10

Serious Business 5 - Deadpool


Oh look it's the Merc with a mouth. Good times.And he's in full colour! Glorious!

6/14/10

Serious Business 4 - Aquagirl


This one's for you Blanchard. It's Aquagirl from Batman Beyond.

6/13/10

Serious Business 3 - Kratos


Well I beat God of War one today in the God of War Collection. I beat it years ago when it first came out as well. I was all psyched to draw Kratos afterwards. So I did.

6/11/10

Serious Business 2 - Rainy Mike 2K10


Kind of a play on my old "mike in the rain" image from the comic. It was pissing down when I drew this. thus the inspiration.

6/9/10

Versus - 5 - Judge Dredd




I AM THE LAW!

*Ahem* Sorry bout that... I was channeling the Stallone movie there. Anyway another battle has been waged between myself and Scott, and this time it was over Judge Dredd from the 2000 a.d. Comic. I really liked this one I must say. Even the colours look decent ooutsife of a few mistakes I made on the helmet. Something I missed in my drawing that Scott's has is the lightning bolt pattern of the shine. It shows up in every picture I used for reference so I don't know how I missed it. But whatever. Otherwise it's a good pic. Just ignore that I got lazy and made the gun solid black out of laz... That is to say, out of lack of timing.

Serious Business 1 - Wolverine

So I've decided to start doing this new thing. I have a huge pile of old business cards I can't use so i've decided to start drawing on the back of them. It doesn't take particularly long to do. For example, this quick Wolverine close up took five minutes to throw together:

I can bust these out in good time between the versus battles with Scott and regular 30 minutes of Fury entries. Also I can do whatever on them, it doesn't even need to be a person. Because it's such a small size i can experiment without major difficulty. So look for more Serious Business uploads soon! (other stuff is coming too. Like a new versus very soon)