These nasty little guys are blue with white-ish hair. They make a horrible whining moaning noise as they waddle along. They tend to show up in swarms and incapacitate victims with their codependent inertia. Though generally not a lethal threat, if there are enough Needlets present it is possible to be crushed under their combined weight or even smothered by the sheer mass of the swarm. It is best to just run if you see one.
{Graphite}
Until I began doing research for this piece, I was unaware that Mysa Nal, the White Witch from the Legion of Superheroes, had a different appearance previous to her early 80's albino look.
{2.5x3.5, created in Adobe Photoshop}
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Sketches. All copyrights and trademarks are retained by their
respective owners. I make no money from what I am presenting here.
It is presented for portfolio and appreciation purposes only.
Here we have the original Moon Knight as he first appeared in Werewolf By Night. I've always enjoyed how Moon Knight looks a bit like the iconic American ghost image. With his covered face and mostly white costume, he has always had an otherworldly aura to me. This version of his costume was fun to research as before I drew this piece I was mostly familiar with the version from the Bill Sienkiewicz run in the 80's.
{2.5x3.5, created in Adobe Photoshop}
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respective owners. I make no money from what I am presenting here.
It is presented for portfolio and appreciation purposes only.
This was an older digital piece that never really reached a satisfactory level of completion. The piece began as an imagining of DC Comics' Spectre, but quickly departed from that idea once I got into the piece.
{8x6, Digital Images manipulated in Adobe Photoshop}
At the edge of destruction,
he creates structure.
Recommended Listening:
Here's a recent bit of disturbing Photoshop painting play.
{8x5.33, created in Adobe Photoshop}
{2.5x3.5, created in Adobe Photoshop}
I claim no copyright for the properties represented in the Saturday
Sketches. All copyrights and trademarks are retained by their
respective owners. I make no money from what I am presenting here.
It is presented for portfolio and appreciation purposes only.
The light and warmth of summer has passed. Chill winds blow outside. The world is caked in ice, but a fire still burns within. Though the dark half of the year is full upon us, there comes a day for rekindling the fire. Each year on November 23rd I celebrate the re-ignition of failing light with a new piece of art dedicated to one of my favorite comic books series, The Invisibles.
On November 23rd, 1995 Grant Morrison involved the readers of his comic book series The Invisibles in a group act of sigil magick.
Check out the original letters page to see how the idea was
initially presented. Join me today in my annual celebration of The Invisibles Hypersigil!
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The Man-Wolf first appeared as a villain / supporting character in Amazing Spider-man, but went on to appear on his on in Creatures on the Loose and Marvel Premiere. I haven't read many stories with Man-Wolf in them, but I love Marvel creatures and werewolves in general, so here we are. I had a really difficult time bringing this piece to completion. I'm not sure what made Man-Wolf so difficult to draw but I'm glad he's all done.
{2.5x3.5, created in Adobe Photoshop}
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Sketches. All copyrights and trademarks are retained by their
respective owners. I make no money from what I am presenting here.
It is presented for portfolio and appreciation purposes only.
Continuing with the theme of werewolves for this November, here is Warren Griffith from the Creature Commandos.
{2.5x3.5, created in Adobe Photoshop}
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Sketches. All copyrights and trademarks are retained by their
respective owners. I make no money from what I am presenting here.
It is presented for portfolio and appreciation purposes only.
This is the header from May 2014. In this piece I again faced the challenge of the pastel / bright color palette, but luckily the mother zombie takes up a good bit of real estate in the image. With the only light source being the window, that help neutralize things a bit. I did enjoy leaving the happy sunshine and clouds picture mostly bright as a counter point to the horror of the implied action in this scene.
The Skin Crawling Comics
website regularly posts pages to the individual
stories of the anthology every Tuesday and Thursday. I'll be doing an
update at least once a month with links to the newest pages. Drop by and check out the latest updates!
Wrapping up my November werewolves is the serial killer mercenary, Nicholai Apocaloff from from Malibu Comics' Nightman.
This piece was painted in Photoshop. The image was later expanded to become a tshirt design at my Neatoshop.
