Further sketching for logo for fitness trainer.
Category Archives: 2006
Workout
These sketches were done for a logo for a client who was a fitness coach.
Superhero Noir
This sketch is based on a character design by Nizzibet. A friend of ours asked us to contribute to an anthology he was thinking of putting together around the theme of superhero noir – that is, noir stories featuring superheroes. We didn’t get much farther than a rough draft of the script and this design for the heroine. Ultimately the story was darker than anything Nizz wanted to spend time writing and longer than I was willing to commit time to without getting paid. Unfortunately the anthology never got beyond the talking stage. Too bad. I may not have felt I could contribute to it but I would have liked to have read it.
A Different Morlock
After sketching the plant creature from Morlock 2001 I was inspired to draw a different sort of morlock, the sort that H.G. Wells wrote of. Sort of. This creature is from a graphic novel that I hope to produce someday so I won’t go into detail here. He’s called a morlock because he does live underground (at least figuratively) and he does eat people (literally).
Princess Ozma
This is a scan of the base art. The final version of this illustration is here.
Morlock 2001
One of the Atlas series that got stuck in my imagination was Morlock 2001, the story of an artificial man who transformed into a plant monster. This is a sketch of the monster.
I never actually owned any Atlas comics. My allowance didn’t have room for them. I read, or more properly, looked through them, on comics racks during the scant 4 or 5 months that the company was publishing. Reading the plot descriptions for Morlock 2001 over at the Atlas Archives makes me wonder if I would still find the character fascinating if I’d owned and read the comics. Seems like a depressing series.
Re-Imagining Atlas
The three characters here are re-imagining of Atlas comics characters. I’ve helpfully labeled each sketch so if you’re interested in finding out more about the original version of each character just go to the who’s who section on the other side of that link.
Betsy Bobbin
Betsy Bobbin is second in the earthly girlie trio of Oz. First comes Dorothy, then comes Betsy, then comes Trot. They’re all girls who came from the outside work, specifically America, and were invited to settle in Oz by Princess Ozma. This version of Betsy is for Oz Squad. The image here is a scan of the base artwork used to the color version here.
Father’s Day
I did this illustration for the Father’s Day edition of the church bulletin back in 2006.
Variety
This page was random practice sketches. In the top left is probably a portrait based on a photo. I don’t recognize her otherwise. In the top right is good ol’ Detritus.
In the middle left, Trouble Coyote. In the middle right is probably the Mayor from Finnegan’s Brink, the graphic novel that Nizzibet and I may finish before we drop dead. At the bottom are sketches for King Roach adversaries.
