Marvel One-A-Day - Day 28: Magneto

Tried to focus on shading and hatching on this one, but it came out a bit sloppy. Oh well, the Master of Magnetism, Magneto.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 27: Wasp

Wasp is Marvel's first ever female character. This one was a lot of fun to draw.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 26: Howard the Duck

Not feeling real great tonight. Headache, red eyes, yuck. I had to do something quick and cartoony. Anyhow, here is good old Howard the Duck.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 25: Mimic

Calvin Rankin, sort of like Rogue, he mimics other people's powers. Here you see he has Wolverine's claws, Angel's wings, Cyclops' optic blast, and Colossus' skin.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 24: Valkyrie

It's not Thor but...

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 23: Daredevil

Some of my Facebook friends were asking for more "high profile" heroes. Here is Daredevil dual-wielding some katanas.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 22: The Mastermind Sisters

My first two-pack. These are the Mastermind girls, Regan and Martinique. Daughters of the original Mastermind an old X-Men villain.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 21: Hyperion

3 Weeks in, and going strong!

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 20: Hela

Did some inks on this one. I thought why not make the Norse version of death, super sexy, ala the most recent run on Thor as drawn by Olivier Coipel.

Marko Djurdevic X-Men Wallpaper

My favorite artist made an awesome new X-Men poster so I made it into a wallpaper.

Just right click on it, select "save as". Then if you have two monitors, you can set it to "Tile" and it will stretch across both screens.

Thor the Game!! (Wii)

Some exciting news from the development studio I work at. We are working on the Thor movie tie-in game for the Wii. It promises to be kick-ass so look for it as the movie releases next May! It's been a dream come true working as an environment artist on this game.

http://devblog.redflystudio.com/

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 19: Moon Knight

Moon Knight: Avatar of Konshu. I did him pretty straight-up.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 18: Spider-Woman

Jessica Drew. I gave her the same web pattern I gave Arana.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 17 Black Panther

Since he is mostly black, I had time for some quick colors tonight.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 16: Shadowcat

Kitty Pryde and Lockheed. I thought she might look a little more heroic with long boots.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 15: Dr. Doom

DOOOOOOM!!!!!!

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 14: Namora

And one for the fellas.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 13: Ka-Zar

This one's for the ladies.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 12: Doop

So, here's the deal. My hard work may be paying off. I got to spend the night on an awesome work project, which meant I only had a few minutes to draw my character for the day. So I kind of cheated and did the easiest character on earth to draw: Doop.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 11: Unuscione

Unuscione, a little known X-Men Villain, done per a request.

Marvel One-A-Day- Day 10: Amadeus Cho

This is Amadeus Cho, the sixth, no wait, seventh smartest person in the Marvel U.

Marvel One-A-Day- Day 9: Arana

Not much change to her outfit, just a little web pattern on her shirt.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 8: Loki

I loved the idea of female Loki, but we never got to see "her" without her mink coat. So this is a defrocked version of Loki. Literally. She does not have her frock.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 7: Husk

EDIT: Much better quality image now. Paige always struck me as a tough chick whose look could use a bit more attitude. Plus if you can peel your skin off all the time seems like you'd tat it up whenever you feel like it.

- Posted from my Phone

Marvel One-A-Day- Day 6: Human Torch

EDIT: Ok put up a much better quality image of this sketch. Enjoy.
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Marvel One-a-Day - Day 5: The Kingpin

The Kingpin. All I could think was to go back and envision him before he became the Kingpin. Here he is just a low level mafia thug.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 4: Anole

Per a request, this is Anole, the youngest of the X-Men. He's got one big ole' monster arm which was fun to draw.

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 3: Deathstrike

Marvel One-A-Day - Day 2: Dagger

Here is Dagger of Cloak and Dagger fame, minus Cloak.

My new challenge: Marvel One-A-Day

I have been having a little trouble with motivating myself to draw lately, something which has not been a problem for me in a long time. I have a good job, making artwork for a living, but it's mostly 3D art, and I think I have been down on my own 2D stuff for such a long time now, that it was literally making it difficult for me to pick up a pencil even for fun.

So in order to remind myself that drawing is in fact fun, I decided yesterday that I will do an exercise. I used to fill up notebooks doing this before I decided I wanted to make art my profession, but I thought people might look down on the practice as not "serious art" when I started art school at the Guildhall.

The exercise is one in which I will draw one Marvel comics character everyday, with some kind of new twist on their costume, until I am either doing comics or concept art full time for a living (preferably Marvel comics!) or until I have run through the entire gamut of Marvel characters, which numbers well into the thousands. Because of my busy work schedule, and because I really prefer to do pencils than anything else, most of these will be sketches, but I hopefully will have time and the inspiration to do a few paintings as well.

I have a friend, (you know who you are ;) ) who keeps badgering me to post on my blog. She is a remarkable artist and she is always posting. On her blog, on CA.org, everywhere and anywhere. I wish I had her internal dedication, but I have found that I don't. All I can do is make things fun for myself, and this is my lame attempt at that. My hope is that if I force myself to post though and do something EVERY single day, I will gradually get better at things I desperately need to improve, like anatomy, poses, balance, line quality, action, and design.

At some point, if my characters improve enough I will probably move on to doing panels of my own comics or something of the like. But you know. Baby steps.

I do want to improve my sense of design, so each and every character will have some new element to their look or costume. It will probably be small at first, just little redesigns of the costume. Eventually if this goes well I will try to move on to making Juggernaut steampunk, or Wolverine from the 25th century, or whatever, but for now again baby steps...

So in the spirit of Independence Day, I give you Marvel's grand-daddy of them all, Captain America.