In
Part 1, I tossed up some art from Jr. High on into the early years of High School. Now, I'm going to share some stuff from the latter half of High School (and maybe some College). Just keep in mind that I was young and still learning!
Other than girls and food, the things that primarily occupied my High School mind were comics, Star Trek, and vampires. Slow time in class produced this Dracula sketch that I never finished.
Star Trek was in the front of my mind after the incredible experience at that age of the death of Mr. Spock in STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN -- which is where this sketch got its inspiration. You'll note I started to lay down some inks on it and then never bothered to finish it. Story of my life.
This ink sketch of Daredevil was done entirely using a croquill pen and india ink with no pencils at all. Also done at school during some down time.
Which brings me to something that I started doing in High School (and continues today occasionally when somethig gets stuck in my head). That would be the costume redesign for popular super-heroes (something popularized online at
Project: Rooftop) and original character concepts.
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| The original "MIMIC" |
In this old, ragged X-MEN comic I had left over from when I was little, there was a story featuring a character called "The Mimic" and his mutant power was that he had all the powers of the X-Men themselves. That means, he had wings like Angel, eye-beams like Cyclops, monkey hands and feet like Beast, ice-hurling powers like Iceman, and telekinetic abilities like Marvel Girl.
By the time I was in High School, the most popular comic book published by Marvel was The "New" X-MEN, which was primarily made up (at this time) of Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Sprite. I thought, in my brilliant teenaged brain, that since the original Mimic had sacrificed his life to save the X-Men, that it was time for a "New" Mimic to show up and join the X-Men. So, tis was my update of the original Mimic's costume with elements that demonstrated he was adapting the powers of the current line-up of characters rather than the original line-up.
Ever since the release of the first publicity shot of the Green Arrow costume for the new TV series ARROW, there has been something nagging at me about the costume -- something seemed to be missing. Something very important at that. It finally hit me, and just like when I went in and added the swastika armband to the Red Skull promo shot, I "fixed" the Green Arrow costume and here it is. Now it's just about perfect as far as I'm concerned. There are little changes here and there to costuming that is perfectly reasonable and understandable when translating from comic books to film, but sometimes there are changes for no reason at all...and those are the ones that bug me.
