IRON MAN 3

I was approached by Marvel to illustrate an Iron Man poster for an Iron Man 3 movie tie-in/give-away, in conjunction with Red Baron pizza, featuring the space-faring Starboost armour



The orginal roughs.

 



The pencils

 



The inks

 



The colours by Andy Troy.

 

TEASER

COLLECTION

Other works in my collection:

A wonderful Graham Nolan Bane - presented to me over breakfast.

An interesting look at how the esteemed Mr. Chaykin works.

A really rather lovely Combat Colin by Lew Stringer. Based on my boss at The Place?!

My first chance to ink Steve Epting.  He must have liked it as we worked together many times again.



A page by Michael Gaydos from the magnificent Inferno.



MERRY BUTCHMAS

When we shared a studio a new holiday tradition was established.  That of Butchmas.  Every day of December until Christmas it was determined (by himself, I believe) that Butch Guice would buy a present for himself.

Everyone should have a Butchmas.....but until that time here are some Butch pages from my own collection...

BAT-WIDOW

Brubaker's Run - enCAPsulated

Dr. Connors, I presume....

VETERANS WEEKEND

ALPHA DOG

I take a considerable amount of joy in all the commissions I illustrate.  They're a chance to, at times, tackle characters I don't usually receive the opportunity to play with and the results are almost always very rewarding.  All of them are a breath of fresh air....and I always jump with excitement when someone commissions a 2000ad character.  I've been waiting a loooong time to receive a Johnny Alpha Strontium Dog commission!

This one's actually based on a cover design I produced for House of M:Avengers #3 ( that particular one featuring the Punisher) as it was a particular favourite of the commissionee...

LOOKING BACK



Red Sonja




Ruse's Emma Bishop



GONE BATTY

TWO-FISTED THUNDER

VAMP AND VISION

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

STARS AND MOON



PADME




MOON KNIGHT



NOVEMBER RENEWAL

November is here - time to get some new commission posts up.  I'm going to have to scroll through the previous posts to remind me what I've put up here before ...but for now I'll be contributing some of the illustrations I completed over the summer:

SPIDEY VARIANTS

 I was asked to develop the layouts for 20 interconnecting Spider-Man variant covers showing key moments from his history over the last 50 years of web-slinging.  Here are the rough layouts:

(click on the illustrations for a slide show)

...and then I was asked to illustrate three of the bottom tier (which happens to be the earliest appearances) :

...which were then stunningly coloured by Mr. Frank D'Armata....

...after which I was commissioned to ink the Sean Chen piece...

...and now here's the final versions: