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Flash vs. Quicksilver

October 30, 2014 in ART, SUPERHEROES

SUPERHEROES/ART – Flash vs. Quicksilver

Flash vs Quicksilver

 

This week’s Superhero vs. Superhero pits The Flash (DC) vs. Quicksilver (Marvel).  Both have the power of super speed.  Who is the fastest delivery man alive?

Quicksilver is a mutant and is part of the X-Men universe.

For more info on each character, click the hyperlinks above.

I wanted to draw this mostly because I’ve really been enjoying the Flash TV show.  It’s  a lot of fun.

That said, Quicksilver has made his appearance in the feature film X-Men: Days of Future Past, and will also be appearing in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Once again, I drew the preliminary rough drawing in non-photo blue, on the computer, printed it out and inked it by hand.  The only thing I didn’t do by hand is the lettering, which I printed out black when I printed the drawing out to ink.

I mostly used the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen, and for the background a Pentel Standard Brush Pen. But I also used a Micron Pen to ink the details of the character’s faces.

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Red Skull vs. Black Mask

October 23, 2014 in ART, SUPERHEROES

SUPERHEROES/ART -Red Skull vs. Black Mask

Red Skull vs Black Mask

 

In this Superhero vs. Superhero drawing, we have Red Skull (Marvel) vs. Black Mask (DC.) Both characters are villains with skull faces.  But unlike the Ghost Rider vs. Atomic Skull drawing from a few weeks back, they’re heads aren’t on fire.

Since this post is being published in October, I thought I’d make a Halloween themed drawing.  The other theme here is avarice.

In case you weren’t aware, Red Skull is a Captain America villain and Black Mask is a Batman villain. Learn more about them by click the hyperlinks above.

I drew this my usual way, by roughing it out on the computer in non-photo blue, printing it out and then inking it with a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen  for the characters, and a Pentel Standard Brush Pen with grey ink for the background.

I rushed this drawing’s rough. By the when I got to the inking stage I was really unhappy with what I had drawn so I did a lot of redrawing over the print out before I inked it.

I finished inking this at an automotive shop, while my car got an oil change.  That was new.

Even after I was done I wasn’t satisfied and ended up redrawing Black Mask’s face in Photoshop, after the fact.  This drawing gave me a lot of trouble, but I learned a lot doing it.

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Tigra vs. Cheetah

October 16, 2014 in ART, SUPERHEROES

SUPERHEROES/ART – Tigra vs. Cheetah

Tigra vs Cheetah 01

For the Superhero vs. Superhero fight this week, we’ve got Tigra  (Marvel) vs. Cheetah (DC).  They fight because they’re practically the same character, only one is a Tiger and the other a Cheetah. One is a villain, the other is a hero.

Cheetah, by the way is specifically a Wonder Woman villain.

For more info on each character click the hyperlinks on each.

I drew this after having bought the image book GIANT-SIZE KUNG FU BIBLE STORIES anthology comic.  It had an eight page story drawn by Bruce Timm in it, and it made me want to draw girls.

This was drawn in my usual method of roughing out the drawing digitally, in non-photo blue, in  Photoshop and then printing it out to ink it by hand.

This time I used various pens like Microns, a Pentel Pocket pen, and a special felt tip brush pen, whose’s brand I don’t know.

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Rocket Racoon vs. Detective Chimp

October 9, 2014 in SUPERHEROES

SUPERHEROES – Rocket Racoon vs. Detective Chimp

Rocket Racoon vs Detective Chimp

This Superhero vs. Superhero match up is between Rocket Racoon (Marvel) vs. Detective Chimp (DC).  They fight because they’re both silly looking, talking animals, that taken seriously in their respective universes.

Everyone is famiiar with Rocket since he’s from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. You’ve probably never heard of Detective Chimp though.

While Rocket’s origins are science fiction based, Chimp’s origins are magic based. And yes, he wears a deer stacker hat, smokes a pipe, and wears a coat. He also has a bit of an attitude, similar to Rocket.

I became aware of him reading Shadowpact Comics.  Which were basically the pre-New 52 version of Justice League Dark.

You can read more about each character by clicking on their hyperlink.

This drawing, like the one I did two weeks ago, was roughed out digitally.  Although this time when I printed out the nonphoto blue lines, I printed them out 5% darker.  That way I could see the lines better when I inked it.

I was hoping that the blue line wouldn’t show up like with the last drawing.  Unfortunately it did show up.  You can’t see it if you’re not looking for it but it’s there.

Next time I’ll try decreasing the line brightens by 1% to see it shows up.

This drawing was inked using a Pocket Brush Pen.

 

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Dark Superheroes

October 2, 2014 in SUPERHEROES

SUPERHEROES – Dark Superheroes

Dark Superheroes

I was under the impression that the “dark superhero,” trend was dying off.  With animated shows like Teen Titans, Legion of Superheroes, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Batman: Brave & The Bold, and The Avengers: Earth’s Mightest Heroes, I thought we where now in an era where superheroes could be cool without being “dark.”

Then I read the news that Bruce Timm was going to be making some Justice League animated shorts, exclusively for the Machinima website called Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles.

This sounded great, until I read in the description of the shorts. It’s going to have a “darker” version of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman.

Sigh…

So I drew the cartoons above.

It was all drawn digitally.

And yes, if Batman gets any darker, the only thing visible on him will his eyeballs.

 

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