Rare NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES Style Guide Artwork!

 Here are a few pages of my pencil art done for the NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES style guide, for DC Comics and Warner Bros.!

SHAZAM! Sketch Cover!

 Here's a look at a recent SHAZAM! sketch cover commission! The final art was created using ink, colored pencil, and marker!

Lots of classic 1940s/50s comics art was used for the background panels!

SUPERGIRL Sketch Cover!

Another exciting challenge!

Look below to see my start-to finish progress on this SUPERGIRL sketch cover commission! The finished cover was completed using colored pencil and ink!

Bruce Wayne! Dick Grayson! BATMAN '66 "Secret Identities" Sketch Covers!

Back again with more fun sketch cover commissions!

This time it's a trio of covers depicting the cast of the good guys from the 1966 BATMAN TV series!

"Batman" Bruce Wayne (as portrayed by Adam West), "Robin" Dick Grayson (actor Burt Ward), plus the secret identities of "Green Hornet" Britt Reid (actor Van Williams), and "Kato" (actor Bruce Lee)!

All done in colored pencil, ink, and crayon!

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1950 BATMAN Cover Recreation Painting!

  I always loved this famous action-packed BATMAN cover from 1950, as drawn by Win Mortimer.

I wanted to recreate it in a more realistic manner, so here it is, rendered in ink, marker, colored pencil, and crayon, with text elements added atop the art!

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Alan Napier as "Alfred!" BATMAN '66 Sketch Cover!

  A very unusual sketch cover commission, featuring actor Alan Napier, in his memorable role as Batman's butler, "Alfred Pennyworth" (from the 1966-68 BATMAN TV series)!

Media used: ink, crayon, marker, and colored pencils!

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Yvonne Craig "Barbara Gordon/Batgirl" Sketch Cover!

  Here's another sketch cover commission, spotlighting actress Yvonne Craig, in her role as "Barbara Gordon/Batgirl" (from the 1966-68 BATMAN TV series)!

Media used: ink, crayon, gouache, and colored pencils!

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BATMAN #197 Cover Recreation! Sensational 60s Fun!

 I was recently commissioned to recreate the famous cover to BATMAN #197, but in the style of the 90s BATMAN-THE ANIMATED SERIES!

It was so much fun reinterpreting the art of master comics artist Carmine Infantino, trying to evoke his perfect composition and sense of drama!

The goal was to also retain the original "pop art" colors, as seen on the original 1967 comic book cover!

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Eartha Kitt "Catwoman" Sketch Cover! BATMAN '66!

  Yet another fun sketch cover commission, featuring one of the memorable villains (Catwoman, as portrayed by Eartha Kitt) from the famed 1966 BATMAN TV show!

Media used: ink, crayon, marker, and colored pencils!

See tons more sketch covers here!

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SPIDER-MAN "Steve Ditko Tribute" Sketch Cover!

 I had a ball crafting this fun new sketch cover, a tribute to artist Steve Ditko's amazing artwork from the 60s!

Ink, crayon, colored pencil, and marker!

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Below: The original 1964 Ditko-drawn cover to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #3, inspiration for my sketch cover above!

 

New Batman and Robin Sketch Cover! BATMAN 1966 TV Series!

 Here is a fun commissioned piece!

Using marker, crayon, colored pencils and ink, I created this homage to the famous 1966 BATMAN television show!

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Incredible Hulk Recreation Art!

I've always loved this simple (but dynamic) image of the Hulk, as drawn in the late-60s by comics artist Herb Trimpe.

This is my attempt at a realistic take on said iconic pose, using marker, ink, crayon, colored pencil, and pastel!

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Below: I took tons of pics (with me as the subject) for reference before starting this painting...

Then I stretched, twisted, and manipulated my pics in Photoshop, to get some 

Hulk-like proportions, then used those images to help craft the finished illustration!

Below: Close-up details from the painting.

INCREDIBLE HULK Cover Recreation Painting!

What fun recreating this iconic 1969 INCREDIBLE HULK cover (originally drawn by artist Herb Trimpe)!

Ink, colored pencil, marker, acrylics, and crayon!

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New "Jack Kirby" CAPTAIN AMERICA Sketch Cover!

 What is it about the powerful comic art of Jack Kirby? You simply can't look away from his work, absolutely bursting with dynamic movement, power, and drama!

Here is my take on one of Jack's famous 60s Captain America images, one used on posters, stickers, tee shirts...

Rendered using ink, colored pencil, crayon, watercolor, and marker!

New AVENGERS Sketch Cover! The Vision!

Another fun sketch cover!

Ink, crayon, acrylic, colored pencil, and marker!

New "Jack Kirby" Fantastic Four THING Painting!

 Always wanted to attempt a painting of comic artist Jack Kirby's fantastic mid-60s Thing (from the FANTASTIC FOUR comics) illustration!

Pastel, ink, marker, crayon, acrylic, and colored pencil!

New Spider-Man "Ditko" Sketch Cover!

 Here is a new sketch cover that references Steve Ditko's 60s art on THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN comic book!

Steve was the artist on the book for its first 4 years, and co-created Spidey with writer Stan Lee!

I rendered this tribute cover using ink, colored pencil, crayon, and marker!

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New Wonder Woman Painting!

 Here is a great "just for fun" illustration!

I was going for a kinda "70s air-brushed" retro posterized look, in both the approach and composition, and came darned close!

This was rendered in ink, crayon, and colored pencil!

New 1940 BATMAN #1 Sketch Cover! DC Comics!

 The folks at DC Comics have published an exciting facsimile reprint of BATMAN #1, from 1940, but this time fronted with a (mostly) blank sketch cover!

I couldn't resist the chance to create a sketch that evokes the "Golden Age" period and the feel of the BATMAN movie serials of the day...

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1948/1966 Riddler Sketch Cover! Batman!

Using a recent facsimile reprint of this famous comic book, I combined the cover to DETECTIVE COMICS #140 (which fronted the first 1948 comics appearance of the Riddler character), with a new sketch of the villain as he later appeared on the 1966 BATMAN TV show!

Yep, that's actor Frank Gorshin as the superfoe, in a wild reimagining of this famed Golden-Age comics cover!

All rendered in ink, marker, colored pencils, and crayon!

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