One of my projects at school is to create a painting in the style, or at least, the technique of famed comic book illustrator Alex Ross. One of the things that Ross does that sets his work apart from others is that he uses models dressed up in superhero outfits as reference. So we had to take photos of our subject in costume for reference for our painting.The problem for us poor art students is that we don't have the money to hire models and rent out costumes for them to wear, which just may be the crux of the problem solving we are to learn as artists. We must use our own reference in the long run, to create our own masterpieces and to survive in this business.
Well, with such a short time period to get all this done and with the lack of people willing to dress up for me for free, I dug around the Ragzpad and dug out my old Edward Scissorhands hands and slapped on some whiteface, ratted up the hair and had the wifey take some photos of me for reference. Here's what I got. Not the best likeness cuz let's face it, I'm no Johnny Depp, but here is me, as his older, grumpier Edward S.










I look like a tired worn out Edward with a bad early 80's Adrienne Barbeau hardo.
Anyways, I also took some of the pics into photoshop to tweek 'em and get more of the coloring I want to do for the painting, and they turned out kinda neat.




I'll try to post the actual painting when finished.

I need to find me some people who'll model for cheap so I don't haveta do it for myself,cuz what if I need a model for a Vampirella piece? Yikes, just think of the horror of that!


Many other projects are in the works, such as some artwork I want to do featuring some of my fave Marvel Comics characters. I've been reading some old Defenders comics from the 70's and I just love the second and third string characters such as Dr.Strange, Nighthawk, Yondu, Killraven and Warlock.

This is a quick character study of the Japanese superhero Sunfire, to get a nack at drawing his all so cool mask-


and here's a full figure of him, which I want to place a nifty Tokyo skyline behind him and do some stuff with it in Illustrator.


Another piece which will be posted when finished.

And now I leave ya with a Ragzter with a goatee sketch I whipped up for no reason whatsoever.

Tags: adam warlock, alex ross, defenders, edward scissorhands, ragzart, sunfire
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