Illustrator, writer, designer, juggernaut of ideas based in the Newest of Yorks.
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The Beast
My approach with Hank here is that he’s a geneticist, first and foremost. Probably one of the few X-Men with an actual career. He gives lectures, conducts research, writes books, has a podcast, appears on the Daily Show, and, from time to time, saves innocents from danger. Just an extraordinary individual.
I gave him a standard X-Men uniform based on a mix of Jim Lee’s Jean Grey costume and Frank Quitely’s designs. I added a shirt and tie because he’d totally wear that. I figure if cops and James Bond can wear shirts and ties while running and making punches, so can Dr. Hank McCoy.
As for the actual beast-like appearance - Seven foot tall fur-less bonobo! More than any other X-Man, Hank is all about evolution so I figured I’d have his appearance be that of an overgrown pygmy love chimp. Keepin’ it in the hominid family. Also - No blue. Blue is for non-mammals. And Nightcrawler.
Drawn for Project: Rooftop. Here are some other character reinterpretations.
borntoscare asked: I am madly in love with your work, especially your redesigns, you make such drastic changes without making the character any less iconic or making them to edgy or different. n.n Also, have you done redesigns of Dr. Doom or Dr. Strange by any chance??
Thank you! I did draw Doctor Von Doom a while back (over here), but I’ve yet to give Doctor Strange a shot. I have some ideas for the guy, but nothing that screams “draw me!”.
Green Lantern
This has always been one of my favorite concepts in comics. My take on the GLs is that they get their power from a macroorganism that isn’t even aware they exist. With that in mind I wanted to give them a biological look. The GLs are basically wrapped in a gelatinous layer of large cells. The GL symbol, which is constantly pulsating, is actually a composite nucleus. The cells’ energies are focused through the host species’ tool building appendages, which in humans would be the fingers. The ‘mask’ is actually a breathing apparatus that, in humans, grows out from the nostrils. It extends into the respiratory system and connects to the rest of the ‘suit’ through the pores on the chest.
My boy here is Kyle Rayner, the greatest of them all, as far as I’m concerned. Considering he’s a freelance designer/illustrator I wanted to give him a slightly disheveled look.
I have a big ol’ alternate Lantern Spectrum mythology in my brain that I might use for something else some day, a teeny bit of which can be seen here.
Drawn for Project: Rooftop. Here are some other character reinterpretations.
Here are my final dealies for Jon Morris’ fantastic OHOTMU Reduxe blog.
The Centaurians, Krylorians, and Kymellians are represented in my version by Yondu, Bereet, and Aelfyre Whitemane respectively.
Here are the originals…
Cover seal for the new sketchbook. This is always an exciting time.
I’ve had a busy week, so this is a day late for the festivities.
Superman fascinates me more than any other single super hero, and possibly more than any other fictional character. This is due to a number of reasons, but a large part of it has to do with him being the ultimate immigrant. Anyway, I could talk about the guy forever, but I’m not gonna do that here. Ask me at a convention or at a bar and I’ll vomit my interpretation out all over the place though.
Thank you Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for giving us such an enduring modern myth.
Happy Friday, folks.
In case some of you guys thought I forgot about Proxy…
This is a recolored panel from Leave This Bright World. I wanted to try some loose digital painting, which is something I haven’t done in years.
Stay tuned for some LTBW news in the coming days.
Also - Happy Wednesday! Here’s a humpsong…
Once again I’m breaking my rule and posting about a Kickstarter project. Dracula: Son of the Dragon is a comic by Mark Sable and Salgood Sam which bridges the stories of the historical Vlad the Impaler and the Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula. Aside from the fascinating concept it also looks amaaaazing.
As you may have seen I drew an accompanying pin up as incentive for the campaign. You can check it out in it’s entirety if you contribute.
They’re a week short of meeting their deadline and only slightly over half of their goal amount. Please go and support this comic! I really wanna read it.
Drawn in Liam Byrne’s sketchbook. Marking my territory.
Yo! I drew a Vlad the Impaler for Mark Sable & Salgood Sam’s Dracula: Son of the Dragon.
p.s. - Who’s going to MoCCA Fest tomorrow? I’m not exhibiting, but I’ll be there snatchin’ up comics with Montreal’s own Liam Byrne.
Alright, alright, if it wasn’t obvious already the Jimmy Olsen post from the other day was an April Fool’s Day prank. Charline wanted to do something special and I’d been wanting to draw something featuring the kid for a while, so there ya go.
I didn’t get to finish the second preview page in time for Monday, but here’s the whole dealie as it was originally intended to be seen.
The basic idea was that Jimmy would be stranded on a parallel Earth & rather than trying to find a way back home he’d just build a new life for himself. I drew the teeny character sketches at the end there immediately after I had the idea.
You guys should maybe follow me on the Instagrams. I sometimes post sketches and in-progress shots and such like the Spidermans here.
Name’s @heybrutesaysay.
I usually only share personal stuff on this blog, but Mini Comics Included has only 2 hours to go on it’s Kickstarter run and I really want to see this sucker get made. It’s a bunch of amazing looking comics which are based on those wonderful little comics which would be packaged with many 80’s action figure lines.
GO!
