Marvel Week, day 2: Beta Ray Bill

Also known as Beta Ray Thor or Simon Walters. A slightly obscure character, BRB was my favorite part of Thor for a long time.



Didn't really change much here, just drew from BRB's past design, and borrowed a little from Ultimate Thor. The minimal top, lack of cape (why would any superhero have a cape in this day and age?) were inspired by the Ultimates redesign of Thor. I changed the wings on the helmet to a more art deco style, and gave him the fingerless gauntlets from his original, non-thor costume. I choose to give him Cosmic Stormbreaker rather than his regular hammer (I always liked the look better), but left his belt and boots as they've always been.

Marvel Week, day 1: Silver Surfer

It's Marvel Week here at the Sketch Pit. All this week I'll be posting sketches of my interpretations of Marvel characters. And to kick it off, Norrin Radd,the Silver Surfer



The original design for the Silver Surfer, by the great Jack Kirby, is both striking and original, but after all these years the flat silver physique and simple board are a little vanilla. Here, I was playing with the idea that the Surfer is pure energy surrounded by his solid silvery armored shell. I cut out sections of the armor to show the raw energy underneath, trying to mirror actual armor with the remaining solid sections without changing the flat physique. I added the inward curve to the board to give it a more alien look, and to indicate a shield, like greek shields from the bronze age.

The Surfer has always been my favorite comic book character.

Punk'd

A street tough sketch.

Inertial

This was the sketch for a commission piece. City of Heroes again.

Terror from the deep!

Another older piece. You can see the colored version here

Godlings, part deux

Another of the cartoonish little gods. Once inked and colored they should be nice compliments to each other.

Godlings

Cartoonish Egyptian god, which I'm going to try to get into a finished state.
I've got at least one more of these coming to.

Process

Having played Marvel Ultimate Alliance recently, I'm working on some sketches of Marvel characters. Specifically Beta Ray Bill and Silver Surfer. Here's one of the prep sketch pages.



Check back next week for finished sketches ;)

Eberron art

The rare 'female' warforged. Make of it what you will.

More Heroic Activity

Some head sketches, City of Heroes related.

The return of Heroics

Another City of Heroes sketch done for a friend.

Witchy Woman

It's almost 6 years since I did this, and I still like it.

Fantasy Island

Another fantasy trope - the elven swordsman

Hoods'n'things

Just a quickie today. Mysterious masked fellow.

Heroic Favors

This was a sketch of an aquaintences City of Heroes character done as a favor.

Reptile review

A cute little lizard sketch.

Comfort zone

I'm clearly more comfortable drawing mechanical and metal things. I'm not even sure when that happened, but it's true. To continue in that vein, I give you - an armored man and his mechanical pet

Sketch + Finished piece, again

Here's a pretty bare bones sketch



And the fleshed out finished piece it became.

Howdy Doody Time

Where else can you see a sketch of a teleporting cowboy?

The lines, they're back!

Here's the cleaned up version of the piece from before.

Older, finished work.

Here's a piece from a few years back.



You can see the finished version here

Unadulterated Lines

Usually after I'm happy with how a sketch is going, I clean up the lines. Here's a look at a piece before that process.