sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Independent comics really went huge in the mid-80s. With the Epic Line came Starlin and Dreadstar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 With Steve "the Dude" Rude and Mike Baron came Nexus... My lettering skills apparently sucked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 And, of course, there was American Flagg... which probably wouldn't have passed the Comic Code Authority. Note: I found a straight edge. Drawing those stars was amazingly difficult actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 (edited) DC comics started printing Baxter paper copies of New Teen Titans... and I speculated on them. To this day, I still have dozens of copies of the early baxter issues. The problem with drawing with markers is that if you screw up, you can't fix it. (I hadn't realized you could fix things with white paint... Even then, my watercolor markers wouldn't have been able to color over that new texture.) As seen in that colored over planet in the black area by Trigon's right arm. Edited September 14, 2009 by sckao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 When I was introduced to Barry Windsor-Smith on Machine Man and various X-men fill-in issues (having missed his earlier work), I was impressed. Yeah, it's pretty strange for someone to actually DRAW their own comic posters. The only poster I ever purchased back then was a Frazetta print. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 (edited) Then John Byrne went and created a new superteam, Alpha Flight. This one really used up a lot of yellow.... I mean, these are 24" x 36" posters. Clearly, from the marker strokes, I had no idea how to adequately color in a consistent fashion. The clouds are still weird... Edited September 14, 2009 by sckao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 When Tim Truman showed up with Grim Jack, I really liked his art style. The lettering is indicative of something called "Bad Planning". Evidently, I stole this from the back cover of StarSlayer #17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Concurrently with these posters, I also did some art for the high school literary magazine... I probably stole this from either Korak or Tarzan... I think that ape already died from having me twist his body in an impossible position... so there was already no hope of rescue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 This seems to be a Hildebrandt Unicorn... And obviously I didn't like drawing feet... or in this case, flippers. I started doing those rocks like that because of Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein. Which led to this failed experiment... To this day, I still think Dracula looks like Sam from Cheers, the tv show. Yeah... that's Thor's Hammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 As a byproduct of playing Dungeons and Dragons (and being the Dungeon Master), this was to be expected: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 And finally, a shot that shows I started using light and shadow... This was probably done when I was 16. Still no formal training or even an art class. I don't think I took my first art class until as a senior in high school or college actually. Thanks for allowing me to show some stuff from my childhood. (thumbs u I remember a whole bunch of smaller 11x14 sketches and drawings I did when I was even younger, but those seem to have been lost into the ether... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mica Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flee-Marquette Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karma23 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Excellent work Shin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiverbones Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Awesome Shin! Great Stuff!!! I really like the Totleben like inking on the Dr. Strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sckao Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Thanks! I read the Alan Moore Swamp Things... but that was a vampire. (Since Wrightson had drawn Frankenstein...) I've since realized that the posters were 24x36 and not 18x24. I remember always scrambling for markers of certain colors when buying those cheap packs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageComics Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Shin, that was really, really cool. Loved seeing the old school pics. Looking at your work sends me back to my childhood. You were so 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze_rules Posted September 14, 2009 Author Share Posted September 14, 2009 great stuff. I managed to dig up some older stuff I translated to digital for coloring. I actually forgot the password on an old laptop, and recently found a way to get it back! I'll post a bit later when I get it transferred over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze_rules Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 original sketch/inks: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze_rules Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 This was the 1st post on the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
