Paladin's Art Thread

I've deliberately left Dusty's face blank for the reader.
I dunno if I want to properly unmask him or not.

Another Chokecherry...now with facial art!

Awesome.
Love the colors.
Zippers on the boots are a nice detail.

Just some experimentin'...

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Added facial hair...I prefer this...

I'm warming up to the look.

I'm still saving a descriptive unmasking for a special scene in the middle of the book though.

This one turned out better than it should have, though I'm still not altogether happy with it.

Experimenting with different coloring/inking techniques. I *really* suck as an inker...

Wanted to do something quick tonight, just to practice posing and displaying emotion...

This one I call "Occupational Hazards of Being a Superhero's Girlfriend"


Just for larfs, here's the sketch I started with...I changed quite a few details...

A work in progress:

:squee:

Okay, the finished artwork. I'm pretty happy with it, though, naturally, I see a whole bunch of things wrong with it.

THERE!
Finally cracked chapter 21, thus canonizing Chokecherry Mark 2, thus making it spoiler-free to finally post your pics!

http://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2014/01/chokecherry-mark-2-by-paladin.html

http://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2014/01/jade-shade-cover-2-by-paladin.html

Chokecherry Mark 2 facial art concept...

Love it!

http://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2014/01/chokecherry-mark-25-by-paladin.html

Just fartin' around...this one's for Lanz...

(No, I didn't feel like drawing a million individual feathers...)

Cool!

Some stuff from my sketchbook.

Superhero action pose. A lot wrong, but quite a bit right, too...


Some random faces...


Chokecherry faces...


More faces. Interesting bit: the woman's face in the center of the top row was drawn from a photo and it's a so-so likeness. I drew the same woman below and to the left--using my drawing and NOT the photo as a guide--and it is an absolute DEAD-ON reproduction of the original photo. Not sure how that works...


Chokecherry's Friday night out...


Some famous faces. I suppose a couple of these are passable...


Superhero transformation. I kinda like this and might do more with it once I finalize the costume.


Some interesting faces. These came out well, considering I was drawing them from the screen of my phone.


Partners!


Crime scene.

That might be the best picture of Vega I've ever seen!

Trying my hand at developing realistic settings. This one is real quick and dirty, but I think it has the feel of a "real" place. I took a reference photo of a New Orleans bar, tweaked a few details, and sketched it out at lunch. Came home, scanned it, colored it and--voila!--Tommy's Tavern, where my main characters go for a drink.

Yeah, I think it does.

My (very) rough concept of the tavern's interior:

Gus having a drink and chatting with Tommy the bartender...




Chokecherry with a little influence from Nat Dormer...


Nat's already halfway to having Cherry's hairstyle...

Added that Chokecherry, plus a couple I was late on.

http://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-bushel-of-chokecherries-by-paladin.html

Latest dabblings...

The Solution in an action pose...


And I painted Gus and Tommy using a technique I just watched a video about. I don't have the hang of it yet, but I like it! This image is absolutely infused with RED--the dominant color I wanted to set the mood--and at first the colors seemed all wrong...but as I painted more and more, it really started to take on a look I like...

Wonder Woman (copied and tweaked from a drawing by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez)...



Garcia-Lopez was my favorite comic artist when I was a kid. He made DC's superheroes look so...real. Some examples of his work:










He still does art for DC, but he's kinda changed to a more exaggerated style that I don't like as much.

He did Batman/Hulk?
He's one of my heroes then.