A Mustachioed Menace

I blame/thank Paul Tobin for the idea:

What if: Galactus had a mustache?

After some google-image searching, I've come to the conclusion that Galactus' helmet has a few commonalities, and a lot of other decorative stuff that's up to the artists' discretion. So I kept it pretty simple for this, though I do want to spend some time just going to town on it [the helmet] in the future. 

I know the Avenger's movie franchise is taking aim at Thanos... and I [personally] would love to see a bit of "here's how bad/powerful our villain is" with an opening scene/credits bit of Thanos knocking Galactus around.  He's done it in the comics, let's see him do it on the big screen before the Avengers come to save us all.

And then, of course, because I can - I made Paul Tobin a World Devourer:

Made a few changes to help balance the photo over/under the drawn aspects.
I like the eyes & cosmic eye-...smoke? leaking power? whatever? in this more than the first. 

Spider-Man Coloured

And here's the coloured version.

The clouds were giving me some grief until I remembered a few things.
I think I prefer an instruction of "please add clouds" to a colourist instead of the artist drawing them in, as this can produce a more natural kind of cloud formation. But that's my opinion.

Fantastic Four page - coloured

Aaand here's the flats all coloured up.

Initially saved as a 17meg+ jpg, I resized it down to about 130kb. Gotta love Irfanview.

So the costumes are different from the norm, or any of the redesigns I'm aware of [all-white with some black, and red & black].  I think it works okay - not great or amazing, but it works okay.

The Thing is often orange-y/brown..supposed to be all rock-like. So I spatter-flecked him out with some lighter & darker shades ...pondered trying some marble-style vein/slash designs but it just didn't look good.

Johnny's almost always on fire.. so that's half the team being red[ish] / hot coloured.... and they also tend to be the hot-heads. [moreso Johnny than Ben].

Sue and Reed are the scientists of the team.. so I kept their costumes similar to help balance against the reds/oranges.  Sue's a biologist if I remember right, and would know the value of letting your skin breathe. Yeah, Reed designed the costumes out of ...unstable molecules?... so I'm sure it breathes better than cotton, but nothing breathes as easy as no impediments at all.

Anyhow.. team balance, brains & brawn.. blues and reds.

Fantastic Four page

I don't know about you, but FF means Final Fantasy to me.. probably because I've never been a fan of the Fantastic Four.

There's no script with this bunch of assorted Marvel pages, so I'm just winging it here, feeling a bit adventurous. Also playing with a lot of blue here.

Work in progress - flats.

Some X-men pages from class

This blog is for my art - and the stories behind some of the pieces.

If you follow my twitter account, you may have noticed I've been tweeting about Chris Sotomayor's Intro to Comic Coloring course that I've taken.

Being a mostly self-taught artist, I didn't learn much in the way of theory, but the application of said theories.. man alive, that's one thing - Chris' critiques in class, not just critiques but advice! - that's a world apart.
It looks expensive, and for 6 weeks, it looks really expensive, but let me tell you - it's worth every penny.
Learning not just from critiques of my own work, but of the other folks taking the course.

Before I took +Chris Sotomayor 's class, colouring this would take me about 8 hours:

The below are a couple of the X-men pages I coloured for class. After taking intro to Comics Coloring, already having an idea of the costume colours and effects and such, I can whip off the below pages in about 3-4 hours each.  This makes me a happier person.
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Like I said - that class is worth every penny.