Saturday Sketch: Original Darkchylde

Closing in on the end of the Magik set, here we have Illyana Raputin the first time she manifests as the Darkchylde.  Shortly after manifesting her Soulsword, Illyana battles Belasco and morphs into her Darkchylde aspect.  This aspect of Illyana goes through several variations during the run of the character.  I'll be looking at those later on.

{2.5x3.5,  created in Adobe Photoshop}

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Countdown to SpartanCon: Saturday Sketch

Here are the last of the display pieces for SPARTANCON: two promotional designs for the Saturday Sketch.  These two made me feel happy when I finished them.  It was nice to see all the sketchcards in one place together.  As a bonus, if you look closely at the second page, you'll see a preview of the next two sketches.  Enjoy!

Countdown to SpartanCon: The Devil's Square

"Four lost souls are gathered together to find the most dangerous artifact in all creation.

Their quest will uncover a secret that will change the World.

Forgotten.  Damned.

They have nothing left to lose.
 
God help anyone who stands in their way."

Countdown to SpartanCon: Halloween Outbreak - Night of the Cauldron

Next up for the SPARTANCON display pieces is a promotional teaser piece for The Night of Cauldron event from this past Halloween.

"In the Woodsboro subdivision, trick or treating and costume parties are disrupted as eerie green lights herald a terrifying and deadly turn to All Hallow’s Eve.  A mysterious force is bringing Halloween to life.  As the effect of the green light spreads, no one is unscathed by the horror that follows.  Read all eight chapters of The Night of the Cauldron and follow them to their gut wrenching conclusion at Zombie Bites!

Countdown to SpartanCon: Skin Crawling Comics - The Serpentine Cure

Next up from my SPARTANCON display pieces is more work from Skin Crawling Comics.  Here are a selection of pages I colored from Tatiana Christian's and Jenay Gordon's The Serpentine Cure story.  I'm including Jenay Gordon's inks side by side for comparison.

Countdown to SpartanCon: Skin Crawling Comics - Buried

Next up from my SPARTANCON display pieces is a promotional design for Skin Crawling Comics and a selection of pages I colored from Bryant Dillon's and Chris Thorne's Buried story.  I'm including Chris Thorne's inks side by side for for comparison. 

Countdown to SpartanCon: Horror Blogger Alliance

Next up for the SPARTANCON display pieces are the two tshirt designs I did in 2012 for the Horror Blogger Alliance.  Here is my original spheel on the tshirts with some pics of me and my housemates modeling the shirts.  You can still order the shirts at Jeremy Hawkins's neatoshop store.  Be sure to check out the HBA for a full road map of horror within the blogosphere.  

Countdown to SPARTANCCON

This coming Saturday, May 10th, I will be showing in the Artist's Alley at SPARTANCON. The con will held in downtown Spartanburg at the Main Branch of the library.  Please check out the link for more info.  I only just found out about Spartancon this past week and I was lucky that they still had space available in their artists alley.  I've been rushing about trying to get everything together in time.

From the Archives: What the Owl Said...

I know the text piece here is a bit on the nose, but both these pieces were in my sketchbook from the same time period and I felt they needed to appear together.  At the time I was working at (then) Kinko's copies running a machine called a Docutech.  It had an image manipulation software for document clean up that I occasionally found interesting imagery with.  The word above was one such incidence.  So I enlarged it and printed out a copy.  

Featured Creature: In The Cities

"In the cities, the effects of the plague were much worse.  Within the massive populations of larger cities, the infection spread almost overnight.  The newly dead, enclosed within the complex networks of city infrastructures, were restricted to close quarters and did not disburse into smaller groups as in rural areas.

Psyche Delectus: Shadow Armor

In preparation for its mission,
occultation is engaged.

Saturday Sketch: Wolverine's Skeleton

I hadn't planned on exploring this as a sketch, but as things kept moving with the Magick set, I figured I owed it to Wolvy.  He doesn't actually appear in Magik, but he does show up in the Uncanny X-Men #160 issue that leads into the limited series.  He only appears for a couple of pages at the foot of Belasco's throne but I feel that any dead X-Man deserves remembrance.  His corpse doesn't hold the same emotional impact as Colossus' from the previous sketch, but the fleshless bones of Wolverine are a omen of doom all their own.

Exhumed: Open Skull

Here we have a quick sketch of a strange skull.  With the color reinvestiagtion I wanted to give it an environment to inhabit.  I figured the skull has been sitting about for quite a long time collecting dust in some dark dungeon corner. 

{Sharpie with colors added in Adobe Photoshop}