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Wasp
Avengers Sketch Card – Day 10
.05 HB Mechanical Pencil and .03 HB Mechanical Pencil, 20 Minutes.
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Wolverine
Avengers Sketch Card – Day 9
.07 HB Mechanical Pencil, 15 Minutes.
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Spider-Woman
Avengers Sketch Card – Day 8
.07 HB Mechanical Pencil, 18 Minutes.
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Luke Cage
Avengers Sketch Card – Day 7
.07 HB Mechanical Pencil, 12 Minutes.
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Jewel
Avengers Sketch Card – Day 6
.03 H2 Mechanical Pencil, 21 Minutes.
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Moon Knight
Avengers Sketch Card – Day 5
Avengers Sketch Cards day 5 out of 365 days for the year 2011. Originally a West Coast Avenger and now a Secret Avenger, it’s nonother than the original lone wolf Avenger… Moon Knight!
For this card I used a .03 H2 Mechanical pencil, starting with a quick light sketch. Once the roughs were done I darkened and defined with .03 and .05 HB Mechanical pencils. This card took me about 20 minutes from start to end.
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Every so often I like to dig into my collection of old drawings. The ones I did as a kid. Luckily I’ve kept all my childhood drawings. I’m kind of a pack rat when it comes to things from when I was a kid. When I was 11, I put all my toys in plastic bags and put them in storage boxes. Somewhere at my mom’s house are boxes of He-Man, GoBots, Wheeled Warriors, and Star Wars toys. I really enjoy going back and looking at the artwork I did as a kid. It helps to inspire me and my current artwork to see what I use to like to draw.
Here is a drawing I did way back in 1989 of Excalibur. The original image comes from the back cover of Excalibur Issue #8. I remember thinking t was the coolest poster/pinup I’d seen. At this time I was just starting to read X-Men comics, and I really like Excalibur. This was the first time I had read anything with Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Rachael Summers. I knew I just had to draw it. I didn’t start with a pencil or a sketch. I just jumped into drawing with a regular Bic ballpoint pen.
Here’s the original image from the back cover of Excalibur #8 drawn by Comic Artist Ron Lim. In the late 80s, he was one of my favorite artists. Drawing Excalibur, Silver Surfer, and the Infinity Gauntlet.
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Benjamin McCarran, son of original Solarus – Bonus
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History coming soon……..
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The idea of Atomic Blast came from a challenge to create a superhero team based on an existing superhero team. The REPLICANTS Project was created by Dean Rivet. Atomic Blast was inspired by Sunfire of the X-Men.
Susan Rosen’s grandfather Jason Rosen worked on Trinity, the first atomic bomb nuclear weapons test in New Mexico. While working on the test site, Jason was exposed to high radiation levels. Due to a genetic anomaly, he was able to absorb the deadly energies. He found he could control this energy in the form of a green flame. He became a crime fighter known as the Green Flame.
As a child, Susan began to manifest the same power as her grandfather. She keeps it a secret not knowing she inherited the power from him. Susan’s parents died in a car accident when she was 17, leaving Jason as her only living relative. With no one else to take care of Susan, she moved in with him. She discovered he had the same powers as she did. Jason trained Susan in the control of her powers. She decided to follow in his footsteps and become a crime fighter. With his help, she has taken the name Atomic Blast and uses her powers to fight evil.
Here are the different steps I took when creating this character design. First I did my pencil drawing, I use a .5 HB Mechanical pencil. I then scanned and turned the pencils into blue lines. I went ahead and printed the blue lines and inked them. I used a nib pen 102. I then colored it in photoshop. I had fun with this illustration. I tried a few different techniques in the inking and coloring. I am very pleased with the results!
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