Sketch of the Day

Hello hello all!

Short week because of Thanksgiving so here is today’s (And by today, I mean this weeks) Sketch of the, well, whatever…

Been a bit slammed with children’s book stuff so I’ve let updating the site here slide a bit. But, to catch up, here are the missing sketches of the dayseseses…

A couple weeks back I posted an update to an old project, Baron 5, as one of my inktober pieces. Well, today I thought I would share the completed image. I’m working on a blog post about this project too, which hopefully will be finished and posted by the end of the week. Until then, here’s the cover, penciled by Dick Giordano many moons ago, and finished by me last month!

… And here’s today’s Sketch of the Day! Posted here first– How about that. A li’l Superman for Veteran’s Day.

Didn’t feel much like drawing today, so here’s a WIP from the Flare story I am slowing working on…

The other day I got an email from a friend asking if I could do “finishes” on a couple of pin-ups he penciled. Now, for those of you who haven’t heard the term finishes (since it is one they don’t really use in comics nowadays), doing finishes means the penciler is giving you a decent amount of information but they expect you to do some of the heavy lifting too. Now, with “regular” inking you are expected to add a certain amount of yourself to the pages, but there’s a limit with how much you can add before it becomes more your job than the pencilers. Kevin Nowlan is a great example of someone doing finishes, cause no matter whose pencils he works over (with the exception of Mike Minola) when the pages are done it is definitely a Kevin Nowlan job!

For these pieces my friend told me he wanted a combination of his style and my own, and told me to go buck wild on it to get there, so you can see I’ve made a decent amount of adjustments to find the happy middle between his style and mine. It comes through mostly in the faces where I tend to do more referencing than he does, but his figures have a bit more life in them which I struggle to get across.

So, here are a side by side comparison of the pencils by Larry Jarrell, and the finishes I did over them.

When last I left the sketch of the day thread, I was up to #100. That was followed by a long time off, then I started it back up with #inktober, and have continued thus far into November… So, I think this is roughly the 136th sketch of the day.

Yeah, let’s go with that…