Wolverine in a Forest!

 

I took way too many breaks in drawing, inking, and coloring this image, so it took a long time.  But I’m glad that I added a bunch of detail for the environment.  Long live the brown costume!

Illustration Friday – Unbalanced

This is my illustration for the Illustration Friday word unbalanced.  This is the second drawing I’ve ever done on a wacom pad, and I love this thing (the wacom tablet).  It’s making me try things out in some kinda new styles.  I mean the drawing is definitely me, but there’s something else coming out.  If I include the actual paintings i’ve done, this is kinda the first time I’ve really painted with a loose hand, and didn’t have it come out terrible.  I feel like this is kind of a Larry Rivers/Basqiuat approach, but that’s probably a bad comparison.  What do you think?

Illustration Friday – strong

this is a drawing of Samson I did for Illustration Friday.  The word is strong.

Motivational Poster for Artists

Motivational Poster for Artists

Originally uploaded by mfinleydesigns

Blot City – Embankment

This is part of a series of drawings.  The first drawing (“Paranoia” a.k.a. “Being Taken Away by the Crowd”) was a lot of fun to do, but I struggled a tiny bit with the colors on this.  In Paranoia, I used all the same colors I wanted to use on this!  I decides I wanted to use different colors, but I wanted a similar color pallette and similar color temperatures.  A big No-Prize to the first person who can tell me what classic ska album cover I used as reference for this!

Blot City – Creep

part of a series.  Partially inspired by Franz Masereel.

Blot City – Paranoia

I like this drawing and hope I’m able to do a bunch more like it.  I feel like it could be a new direction for me.

Illustration Friday – Legendary

My entry for the Illustration Friday word – Legendary.  I wasn’t too happy with this drawing when I first finished drawing it.  After coloring it, I kind of like it, though.

Comics in the 90s vs. Comics Now

I just recently got an old Detective Comics Batman comic, and it made me think of the status of comics in the 90s vs. comics now.  The comic was probably circa 1992, and it had an awesome Matt Wagner cover, and the art inside was really not up to par.  It seems that when there are boom times for the comics industry, the quality of the art really goes down.  In a boom, anybody who can hold a pencil is hired.  Eventually the market crashes, and the bad artists are (mostly) weeded out.

Illo Friday – Instinct

a bird in a tree

This is my entry for Illustration Friday: instinct