Batman's Harley Quinn! A Very Special Commission!

A pal of mine recently came to me with an idea for a very special commission! He wanted me to create a custom image of Harley Quinn, the Joker's gun moll! However, he wanted to see HQ invading his daughter's school grounds, painting up a rock with some special birthday messages for her! After the work was completed, my pal would then paint the actual "message rock" to match the graphics seen in my artwork! Click below to enlarge each image! 

Below: My initial sketch, with just Harley and the "message rock!"

Below: My final pencils, adding text to the rock, as well as Harley's costume details, etc..

Below: My final inked drawing, with added background, including the main portion of the school building!

Below: The final, Photoshop-colored version!

Below: Harley strikes again! The "real life" painted rock!

POWER RANGERS! 1993 "Magic Pictures" Golden Book Pencil Art!

Just unearthed! Here are a few pages from a 1993 POWER RANGERS "Magic Pictures" kid's book, done for the folks at Golden Books! Each page contained a "hidden" graphic element that kids could reveal using a brush and water, and such books were extremely popular! I took on tons of POWER RANGERS assignments then, from custom comic books (see here) to t-shirt art, and so much more! Click each image below to enlarge!

"Dirty Work!" 5-Page 2012 Comic Book Story! The Original Art!

Below are my five pages for a great new one-shot anthology comic book, ALIENS AMONG US, from Elevator Pitch Press! This story, "Dirty Work," was a tense tale, written by Bret Bernal, and it involves two exterminators, out to take on the task of chasing pests out of a deserted old hulk of a house, only to find that one of them is the real vermin! A fun and frightful comic story, pencilled and inked by me in 2012! All art copyright Bret Bernal and Al Bigley. Click each page below to enlarge!

Below: In that first panel, I wanted our two main characters to be 

humbled by the looming old house...

Below: I based the finally-revealed aliens on a weird mix of spiders and guinea pigs!

Below: The scripted, published pages, as they appeared in ALIENS AMONG US!

WAR GUARD! Comic Book Cover Art! Pencils and Inks!

Here is my cover art for an exciting new comics publisher! This is the front image for WAR GUARD #1, from a group called Advent Comics! It's a great good vs. evil far-reaching adventure, and, in creating this cover art,  I had great fun playing with the various characters that populate the series! Click below to enlarge!


Below: My cover pencil art, worked up from a rough design concept!

Below: The finished penciled and inked cover! 

Want to find out more about this adventurous new line of comics? Just click here!

More DC UNIVERSE Sketchcards! Batman! Green Lantern! Joker!

Here are scans of some of my hand-drawn trading cards, as seen in the DC UNIVERSE set! These "artist's cards" were inserted into boxes as one-of-a-kind incentives to buy the sets! I rendered these using pencils, inks, and colored pencils! It was great to draw some of the more unusual DC characters, such as Martian Manhunter, Hawkman, and Mary Marvel! Click below to enlarge and enjoy! Click here to see past sketchcards!

Hear The 2007 Al Bigley Radio Interviews!

Click below to hear my 2007 radio interviews for Canada's CJAD station! Helmed by the great Peter Anthony Holder, listen in as he asks me about my career, my "how to" book, advice for beginning commercial artists, and so much more!

Want to hear more terrific audio from Peter Anthony Holder? Just click here!

1940s "Golden Age" Batman Sketch! DC Comics!

For this one, I was inspired by images from the first BATMAN stories, published in the late 1930s! Batman was first presented as a sleek, lithe, and "bare-bones" kinda character then, with a simple costume that was soon to evolve...

Below: The first apearance of "The Bat-Man," in a 1939 issue of DETECTIVE COMICS!

I also wanted a simple stance for the character, based on the panel above, so I stared doodling, as you can see in the sketches below:

Below: The final pencils, ready for transfer to the board! I looked at the simple style of Batman's "hood," the odd angle of the ears, the early utility belt, incorporating all...

Below: The final inks, with the border and shadows added to the background...I wanted to use some kind of logo in the composition, and chose a modified 1966 BATMAN TV show logo! It was simple, stark, bold, and had the most drama!