Daily Sketch #120

Heroes4Heroes Live Art

It's a bonus Saturday morning sketch! Today's sketch is brought to you by Heroes4Heroes which is a non-profit organization that sends portable media like comics, DVDs, music and more to our troops serving overseas. It's a very cool way that the comics community gives back to men and women in uniform. Last night they held a Live Art charity event at the Arlington Ballpark where comic artist created pieces of art while folks partied and bid on other auction items in a silent auction. At the end of the night the pieces were auctioned away. I saw pieces go for $200-$400 and even a few rare ones for over $1000. Towards the tail end of the evening I teamed up with the kickass Kody Chamberlain of Punks and Tag fame and we created the jam piece below. It felt great to be back in front of an easel!

Daily Sketch #84

Check Out My Thing

Sorry... couldn't resist a little juvenile humor on Friday morning. I thought I'd do a fun superhero sketch for the end of the week. The Thing and Hulk are probably two of the characters I've never been able to render in a way that made me happy. For some reason messing with the proportions to get their size and mass down never quite worked for me. Still not completely happy with this take, but it's better than most of my previous attempts.

In other news, if you have any disposable income right I encourage you to go on Ebay and check out the Hero Initiative's Mike Wieringo Tribute auction to raise money for the worthy charity in Mike's name. I donated an original page of Mike's for the auction.