Bleez Vs. Morrigan

Red Lantern Vs. Video Game Queen....  I really do enjoy doing the battle images.  I always keep it pretty neutral, not picking a side one way or the other, but the concepts are always fun to put together.  Seeing a creature of rage go against someone who is very whimsical and playful is fun.  I got to play with the colors in this too being that this is entirely done by hand, so pushing the paint around brought me on an interesting journey....

Expect to see more pieces like this from me.....

Brooklyn Burgers

If  you're in or traveling TO Brooklyn, you need to check out this page to know the deal about which burger represents which part of BK http://www.brooklynexposed.com/food-drink/entry/if-brooklyn-were-a-burger/

Illustration by me of course ;-)

Thanos, the Mad Titan

I am in the process of trying to get back to doing traditional media art and am proud to say this was completely done by hand. I have a fine arts background as well as wanting to do the commercial, comic styled art, so revisiting this style was very reinvigorating.  I am not even close to where I want to be, but I am happy with the result..... Below is the finished piece..... now back to more practice!

The New Avengers

One thing i will always love about Marvel Comics is how much they try and relate to the average man on the street.  This team is a team that pretty much has proven themselves and got to break away from hat the typical Avengers were doing and were able to handle NYC and anything else that may need super hero assistance.... plus we actually got to enjoy seeing Heroes during their day to day too. Stuart Immonem's art didn't hurt either ;-)

The colors on this were a departure from my norm and instead of doing them myself as usual, I reached out to Danielle Alexis St. Pierre who has her beautiful art at http://dalexisstpierre.deviantart.com/ .  She knocked these colors out for me and it's been a hit over on deviant art for me=] i wish I was as good as she=]

Kamen Rider Vs. Spider-man

Kamen Rider Vs. Spider-man..... Kamen Rider is similar to the Power Rangers and has had many incarnations throughout the years.  This incarnation is Kamen Rider, The First.  Check wikipedia for more info.

This was commissioned to me at the Supermega Show and Comic extraveganza.  It was nice to be asked to do something that is within my comfort zone yet off base as well to challenge me and bring out something in my work I have yet to do, i.e. so much movement and choreographing. I wanted to create a sense of balance and what better way of donig that than using the Ying &Yang motif.

If you are interested in getting a costume illustration done, send me an e-mail at  thelearningcurv@gmail.com

Thundercats HOOOOOOOOOOO

It's Wednesday and for those in the know, Wednesdays are sacred because thats when the new comics come out that week!  That being said, Saturdays are slowly becoming sacred again too.  Remember Saturday Morning cartoons?  Like Toonami, their baaaaaaaaaack=] 

The morning starts at 9am with Ben 10 who now has a million aliens who he can turn into (future illustration! yea=]). 9:30 has the show that inspired this illustration and that's Thundercats. The cool thing about it is that they brought the show back from the 80's and reinvented it with a more  modern bend. The Thundercats are lords of their world filled with different animals and have lost their kingdom to Mumra who is slowly taking over everything.... there's a lot of twists and suspense in the show, plus the cool designs for the show, so it is well worth tuning in each week.

10am Green Lantern who is starting things FAST with the Red Lanterns being the early protagonists (good idea strangely enough) and the Star Sapphires and Blue Lanterns have been introduced as well. They've alluded to the Yellow Lanterns at a jail where the innmates are tortured by being made to relive your fears over and over again (and the walls are speckled with Yellow crystals, giving Hal Jordan the creeps and a ready villian for next season). 10:30 has Young Justice on the pine and that show is just DC Animation at it's best. 

Over at Nickelodeon is The Legend of Korra at 11 am. This is the 4th season of Avatar, the Last Airbender (there are now new airbenders and they're AWESOME!) I have so many ideas for illustrations for this show, i wish I could get them all done! I think I have seen each episode about two or three times each on Demand and I am not getting tired of it at all. 

Life has gotten better, thank you animators and tv programmers=]

Fun times

I had a chance to do three commissions that had some classic themes to them and that was right up my alley! The three pieces below are the final illustrations completed for a very happy person!

Jonah Hex vs. Adam Strange.  Old vs. New, Earth vs. Sky, Skill vs. Technology..... if you are into the DC Universe, this is a pairing of cult classics with a modern take.  Working on creating the balance in this was the most fun as an artist for me.

Mr. Miracle takes Darkseid's thrown..... Luckily the late great Mike Turner created Darkseid's thrown room in the story ark introducing Supergirl into the DCU.  There are no stairs in that image but I felt it'd make for a nice design element especially since the stairs puts the ruler higher up than those he is lording over. Rendering fire and showing a happy character, such fun=]

Green Lantern, Black Canary and green Arrow, a classic grouping of characters from the 70's. The characters are still around but back then, they were very buddy buddy and worked together quite often.  I wanted to create a classic styled look with again a modern sensibility for this one.  I kept the characters very animated in tone, less rendering and more direct with the lighting to make it look like something that could possibly be seen on tv.....

I made sure not to go too dark with any of these, I've noticed that my colors tend to be very dark so that was something I specifically was mindful of.  I hope you enjoy these, feel free to contact me if you'd like something custom made.