Here Comes.... Daredevil! Man Without Fear!

Good hell, I love Daredevil.
drawn and colored with india ink pens, colored pencil, and a big, fat sharpie.

Poor R2...

  I watched A New Hope and my personal favorite, Empire Strikes Back, this weekend. No time to watch Return of the Jedi, but I'm not missing much. I'm happier without watching Ewoks and mediocre acting. Here's a doodle inspired by one of Luke's oh-so-cheesy lines from A New Hope. 

Spidey

Hopefully the movie kicks as much ass as the trailers. Though it was made by Sony, I still have hope.

Weekly Inspiration 3: Northlanders

  Violent. Gritty. Gory. Yet somehow soft and personal. I love Northlanders. It's a series that chronicles adventures of Vikings, and their unfortunate victims, throughout Europe circa 1000A.D. 

  How does it inspire me, besides just being a beautiful series of comics? The use of blacks. Not making a racial statement here, I'm talking about the inks. I've heard my hero, Ralph Bakshi, say that black is the most important color for a cartoonist, and I took note. But Northlanders really made me see it.  Huge blots of black ink make up a lot of the pages in these books, and it's funny that your mind doesn't find it odd. Black just works. It tells your eye, "This is a dark area," and your mind just fills in the blanks. Definitely gonna look back on these while doing Avalir.

Colors!

  Thinking about all of the work I have yet to do on Avalir, I realized I only had a slight idea of how I was going to color it. I scanned in a recent drawing to play around with it in photoshop. 

I isolated the linework onto a single layer, and filled in flat colors underneath it.

I'm really happy with this look. Early on I planned on coloring Avalir like this, with the inks handling the shading and simple, flat colors to give it the look of old comics. But I kept fiddling and added slight shading with color.

I do think this looks better. More rendered and finished. I guess we'll just see when the time comes to color Avalir. The flat color/inks method still looks great, and is MUCH faster, but I might throw a bit of colored shading into it if another hour shows up in the day.

  Overall I've grown to like this little doodle. It was nice to break out of my comfort zone and play with colors. Thanks for reading.