To me, my Legion!

[Eddy]

One thing fans always ask me at a convention is, "How do I get a Jim Lee sketch?" And the only thing I'd suggest is patience. I remember asking him about it once myself, before I started working at WildStorm, and he said whoever was persistent enough would eventually get a sketch. Simple, right?

You may get lucky and land one on your first try, but if not, there's always the next show. Or the one after that, but he's got a great memory for faces, so keep trying. And the best part is he doesn't charge anything, so they're free! You just have to be patient.

With Saturn Girl here, Jim went retro using her classic outfit and turned out another great piece from the Planet Comicon show. Hopefully, he'll get to draw her and the rest of The Legion of Super-Heroes someday too.

Uncanny X-Babies #268

[Eddy]

An obvious homage to Jim's Uncanny X-Men #268 cover, one fan asked JJ to redo the characters as X-Babies at the recent Planet Comicon show.

JJ drew it from his memory, so the pose is a little off, but it's still cool to see another fun homage to one of Jim's most popular covers.

Arthur Suydam and Ed McGuiness have also homaged the cover recently too:

Lopez - Supergirls

[Lopez]

Howdy folks, here is my sexy Supergirls commision. Hope everyone digs it. My favorite thing about the pin-up are the villains in the background. Seems to me, the villains are always the funnest characters to draw. Not that I don't have any fun drawing girls too!

Also, if anyone's interested, I'll be taking commisions at gelatomettista@yahoo.com. Anyhow, that's all for now.

See you next time!

Planet Super-Con!

[Eddy]

Con season's off and rolling now with these two sketches from Planet Comicon. The first, is a shot of the final Havok piece after I tweaked it a bit in the computer. And the second, is one of JJ's sketches from the show of Poison Ivy. JJ's been making his way back into comics lately, so fans of his should keep an eye out for him!

I also wanted to thank Chris, Jessie, Kyle and Matt out in Kansas too, who were all great hosts and did everything they could to make it a fun visit! THANKS!

Btw, if Aaron Norton's reading this, thanks for stopping by to say, "Hi!" It's always cool to meet fans from the blog!

Next stop, Super-Con!

Oh, and hope everyone likes the new banner up now. I'll be changing it weekly this month to spotlight all the super-talented artists here!

And yes, that includes Michael Lopez with his sexy Supergirl commission. We'll finally post it next week. Let me add that it's not just one Supergirl or two or even three, but FOUR sexy Supergirls!

Gotham Guardian

[Nome]

Hey guys, Oliver here. This is an original commission I did for Tim Lo in Canada. I wanted Batman to really stand out from the background, so I'm happy with the end result. Working on all the environments for the MMO game, along with Jim's tips, have really helped me grow in doing better backgrounds. I look back at what I did when I first got here and can see how much I've changed.

Thanks again to all of you who responded to my last post and commissioned me for original work. Working at WildStorm keeps me plenty busy with other projects, but it's always nice to find or make some spare time to do commissions.

If any of you out there are still interested in an original piece check out my Comic Art Fans gallery and let me know. I can't promise that I'll have the time to take on anymore but you never know.

White Havok

[Eddy]

If a picture's worth a thousand words, what's a moving picture worth?

Anyway, here's a short clip of Jim doing what he does best back at Planet Comicon and I should have a full report up in a few days.

In the meantime, hope you enjoy this video!

Civil War Poster Final

(entry ricH)

whew. Ok it feels really good to have this done. It was a TON of fun to do and I hope you all enjoyed seeing it come together. The piece is done with tech pens almost 100%. There was a small section I did with a crow quil just because I wanted a little extra bounce on the rocks and debris behind them (hardly noticable with all the stuff in the foreground)

Obviously doing something like this brings up the debate of pencils and inks. I never did this piece to add any fuel to that fire. I did it because the drawing looked fun to work on. I have always been addicted and drawn to mega-detailed work and I think double page spreads are like the "Opus" of that passion~!@!

I hope everyone has a nice and safe holiday weekend and I'll see you all in a few weeks with some new art. Next time it's 100% my stuff.

Again thanks to Leinil Yu for such inspirational art and an opportunity to ink something like this. You rule man!

ricH.

Madureira / Friend- Battle Chasers 1

(entry ricH)

I have been asked about getting together some sort of retrospective of the different art I've inked. I've had some free time lately...and I am getting that all together now. You'll be able to see it all at my ComicArtFans site...here's a link: gallery

This was a test page I did for Joe Madureira for Battle Chasers.(the job had already been filled but I wanted to do this anyway just to see what I could pull off) I'd still like to do something with Joe at some point. I really love his work and I know Joe liked this piece quite a bit at the time I did it.

I'll have the final for that Civil War piece tomorrow.

F Yu 2 (more)

(entry richard friend)

here's the final for the first half:

and here's a work in progress of the second half:

ricH.

F Yu 2

(entry Richard Friend)

This is a piece that Leinil Yu did for a Marvel Civil War poster. I decided after I saw it online that I would give it a shot and do a inked version of the piece for myself. I didn't know at the time Leinil had a version up for inkers to try out on...I just like doing intense work so it was right up my alley: Here's the first 3 steps in the process...(This is a double pager) so use your imagination for now that it's all connected...stay tuned...there's more coming soon.

ricH