I think I did this guy as an adversary for Beastie. He’s a superpowered secret service agent. Or may FBI agent. Some branch of the government anyway. (Probably not the IRS.)
Illustration Prep
This is a sketch for an illustration in the first issue of the Glyph magazine. The story being illustrated was Mole by Stephen de Bonrepos.
The Same Only Different
This seems to be the same young woman as the one featured in yesterday’s post. I don’t remember what project she might have been part of any better this morning than I did yesterday.
Girl and Her Wolverine
I couldn’t tell you whether these sketches were for a project or not. They look purposeful to me, like I was trying to figure something out, to get a character’s look worked out.
And Even More Beastie
Beastie’s backstory (at least the second one; the first one, done for the trading card set just had her as superheroine cursed with a trio of demon “assistants) was that she was a former child star. She spent five years on a hit comedy as the cute little kid with super powers around whom wackiness ensued. The twist was that she actually had superpowers. She could lift boulders, bend steel bars and walk away from a fiery car crash. Once she stopped being a cute, smart kid her acting career fell apart because, really, she wasn’t much of an actress. Fortunately her parents had been smart with her money so she wasn’t broke. She still had to work because she wasn’t rich either but at least she could choose her work. And having superpowers in Hollywood meant that she often worked doing stunts or as a bodyguard.
The gent with the dreads is/was her agent or maybe her lawyer. I don’t remember now.
The thing with the teeth is Saur Thirteen, one of those government experiments gone horribly wrong.
And More Beastie
Sketching Beastie was (and is) fun. She’s not beautiful, she wears overalls and likes punching big guys into next week (and bigger monsters into next month). What’s not to like about that?
Pieces of Beastie
Random sketches of Beastie, a character I’d created for a series of “New Hero” trading cards back in 1993 or 1994.
Spiderface and Frankenstein’s Wretch
At the top: the head of some human/spider hybrid. With an elaborate hair do.
At the bottom: a early take on the Frankenstein Monster based on the version in the novel. I don’t remember whether I’d read an excerpt of the novel or just a description of the character. I hadn’t read the novel itself yet. That wouldn’t happen for another six years.
Kitties and Bears and Guys, Oh My!
A variety of sketches, the only two from life being the ones of the cat at the top. The cat would be Paliki, a little black cat that is sitting on my lap as I type this. She definitely wasn’t on my lap when I did the sketches. Or if she was she wasn’t there voluntarily. In 1996 she was a much more nervous, skittish animal. She didn’t like being too close to human beings for too long. And she certainly didn’t demand that I provide her with a lap as she does now.
Expressive
Sketchy sketch sketch.
