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

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!

part of a series.  Partially inspired by Franz Masereel.

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.

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.

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.

a bird in a tree

This is my entry for Illustration Friday: instinct

The Thing

It’s… standing there time!

I used a lot of drawings as reference for this, but I’m not telling you which!  I knew exactly what kinda gothic blackletter lettering style I wanted, but I could only find 2 samples on myfonts.com.  (That’s handlettered, but I looked at a font as ref) It’s all about the blocky Germanic letters, the kind German advertising artists would strangely include on Art Deco packages.