Torpedo Sketch

A sketch of Torpeo. I'm a big fan of Jordi Bernet and his Torpedo is great. (And I should add that the first two Torpedo stories were of course drawn by Alex Toth, who is also one of my personal heroes.)  I have been sketching quite a few Torpedos recently, he is pretty tough to draw. I think this one turned out okay, though.

Ink on paper (Papermate Flair & Pentell Sign).

Nosferatu Sketches

Since Halloween is almost upon us I thought it'd be nice to share these sketches of Nosferatu I did earlier this week. He's a fun character to draw. I watched the orginal 1922 film earlier this week, it is in the public domain and full versions can be found on youtube and vimeo. 

I did the sketches above before watching the film and as you can see I gave him normal vampire teeth, instead of the silly evil-bunny teeth he has in the film. The sketches below I did while watching the final scene: death by rooster!

 

One More Tony

Just when I accepted that Tony Soprano is impossible to draw I doodled this. One of those happy little accidents I guess...

Woke Up This Morning

If you follow me on Twitter you might have hear me say that I'm currently rewatching The Sopranos. I'm now half way season three, and I'm happy to see Ralphie again: Joe Pantoliano plays the greatest scumbags.

Ever since I started watching the Sopranos for the first time, I have done sketches of Tony. But he is just impossible to draw. Maybe it's because he is so inseparable from James Gandolfini, the actor that portrays him.

Anyway, these are two of my latest attempts, I like 'em as drawings but they are not Tony. In the end I got frustrated and tried Jimmy Altieri, a character from the first season. He's that guy at the bottom. 

Ink on paper, digital colors.

Coloring Denis Bodart's Hellboy Cover

I am a big fan of Denis Bodart's work. This Belgian artist makes some amazing comics. He is probably best known for his Green Manor series, a series of short stories about a  Gentleman's club in nineteenth century London, with rather violent members. He has done a lot of other stuff too, but it is hard to find most of it here in Amsterdam. (I believe that apart from Green Manor and his very first comic Saint-Germain des Morts, his work has not been translated.) Luckily we are living in this digital age, where artists have blogs to share their work!

Last week there was an awesome post on Denis' blog showing a drawing of a Hellboy cover. I posted this drawing on my tumblr and mentioned that I'd love to see it colored. The next evening I started to color it myself, using Photoshop. I didn't intend to finsih it, it was just a little experiment. I have always loved Hellboy and am a real admirer of the understated coloring by Dave Stewart.

Because I had a lot of fun coloring this thing I kept going at it, even though I actually had something else I had to do. Some hours later I had done this entire mock-up of a Hellboy cover. Even though I quickly discovered that I'm really not Dave Stewart I sure had fun and learned some things in the process too.

I posted this colored cover on my tumblr and of course I dropped Tony Lariviere (the moderator of Denis' blog) a line, to inform him that I had used this image on my blog. And this morning I discover that he has actually posted it on Denis' blog! A pretty good way to start my day!  

Below is Denis Bodart's original drawing, the image above is the colored cover mock-up I did.