SIX MORE PRE-SEPTEMBER SKETCHES

I was a big fan of the cartoon DUNGEONS & DRAGONS when I was a kid and so I've been occasionally sprinkling in the characters from it in the DSC for my own pleasure.  The thing is, I've never drawn these fellas before, so it's kind of fun to finally interpret them in my own style, even if it is only in brief sketches. 

Here we have Diana, the Acrobat.  A bit impulsive, but a solid leader in the group.  Her magic item was a staff.

Give her a click for a closer look.

I didn't love the look of Catwoman once Darwin Cooke and Ed Brubaker got ahold of her, but it quickly grew on me.  Occasionally I'll see if I can take it out for a spin.  Certainly, her comics were never more compelling than when Brubaker inserted the Black Mask. 

Probably the sketchiest of these sketches is Elektra, who I normally have a better hold of when it comes to portraying her.  Not this time, regardless of the fact that the pose is great, as I have screwed up her proportions a bit.  Still, the pose is neat and that is what I'll take away from it.

If you dare to touch Ms. Natchios, do so with care to view her more up close and personal.

Probably my first portrayal of Kang in pencil as, in the past, he'd never been a favorite.  His uniform is quite complicated and I'm pretty sure I didn't quite get his block-head blocky enough, but it's a solid first effort.  The pose was challenging too, which always makes one of these things more interesting.

Dare to lay cursor on Kang at your own risk for an embiggened look at the world conqueror!

In my last sketch selection, I neglected to post this final piece I outlined for River Tam, the strange teen from SERENITY and FIREFLY.  Joss' little cat-like character is literally on a duct somewhere in the ship, which is common enough for her.

Click to get a bigger look at her, just hope she doesn't have one of her violent episodes when you do!

TORPEDO, I believe, is a Spanish comic drawn by one Jordi Bernet, a brilliant artist in the best Toth style, with all the traits of a Kubert and even hints of Buscema.  It's about a hit man who does just that.

Click for a tighter shot of the killer.

SIX SKETCHY SCHEMES

Wanted to put River Tam in an action pose in these two sketches, but in the first one she seems a little too zen and medicated.  I like the pose, not necessarily the weapons, but it has a good sense of movement frozen, so that's something.

Anyway, click on it for enlargement purposes,

otherwise keep your cursor to yourselves!

This second one had the weirdness about River correct, but there wasn't enough baddie interaction and all of her fury directed at one person wouldn't suffice.  Again, not a bad sense of angelic danger moving around athletically...

Click her for a closer look...

Here we have an example of when a sketch goes as planned and comes out the other end looking

better than I'd planned it.  My first attempt at drawing the Vulture felt right!

Click to enjoy bigger baldness, oldie attitude, and that freshly applied coat of Ben Gay!

Marv being Marv, protecting Katie from the hard-core element, even though he's well beyond the hardest of any guy to ever visit the bar.  Really wanted to get the light and dark right on this one and I think it works as a panel pretty well.

Click it for an enhanced look at the shading and the magic place Marv's left arm disappears to.

 

Ol' Steeljack from Kurt Busiek's ASTRO CITY sure was fun to draw and I think it showed in this sketch of the guy.  Metal skin and the looks of Robert Mitchum and you have this guy down.

Ended up creating a scene in which a mother and child are being saved from a fire.

Click for a closer look at this inferno of sketchery!

Sometimes you force a not-so-good layout to work, when it would be best to leave things as they are and move on to the next attempt.  That's what should've been done below, with Thundra.

I do like how the lower half of her body came out, but the upper needs work.

Click to enhance your experience!

That concludes this session of sketchbook scans, in my attempt to move things that have been piling up on my desktop here on the computer... until then, think about what you did!