Iron Man II Card for Feb. 9

I think I was getting comfortable drawing 'Ol Shell Head here -- not that this is a particularly strong drawing, but that I started knowing where to plop down all the parts in the necessary spots.

When drawing a character I find it takes a dozen or two sketches to feel comfortable with the features and/or design. There's only a few more before I break from the Iron Man sketches and just start drawing whatever marvel character came to mind when I lifted my pencil.

Iron Man II Card for Feb. 8

This one's sort of a riff on the old Iron Man armor -- obviously done without looking at any reference for the old IM armor.

Marvel approved it, so I guess this was close enough to some sort of Iron Man related character. I'm actually reasonably satisfied with it, too. I like the ridges on the helmet that cross over the eyes and mouth -- might do something with that idea in the future on some other character.

Iron Man II Card for Feb. 7

This one reminds me of the Creature From the Black Lagoon.

~R

Iron Man II Card for Feb. 6

A little bit of a cheat -- flying silhouette, but I like how the clouds in the background turned out.

Iron Man II Card for Feb. 5

As promised I'm running a few of the weaker IM2 sketch cards I did. The one above looks like the eyeholes and mouth on Iron Man's mask started sliding down on his face.

If this was for print there would have been a number of ways to fix this, but, as these cards need to be stuffed into card packs most of them automatically go out the window. Other options would require I have more confidence and experience with the card stock I'm working with. The last consideration is that I'm receiving a token payment per card and spending too much time on any one of these can really mess with the deadlines for the work that actually pays bills.

However, I think I'm covered by the con-sketch policy; it's an honest effort, all things considered, and I gotta start working on the next one.


Anyway -- with the magic of Photoshop and a couple of extra minutes with the lasso tool I can tweak the image to look a little more like I would have preferred.

Until tomorrow. . .

Iron Man II Card for Feb. 4

Kinda liked this one. Figured I'd pop this up prior to a few really weak ones due to go up tomorrow and over the weekend.

Iron Man II Card for Feb. 3

I dunno -- when I look at this one I think I managed to put some unintended expression into the "face". If this that a word balloon it'd probably say "What the hell is that?!!"