Catwoman Issue 7

Hi All,

Sorry this has been so late. It's been busy at home and work! I've posted my reference photos for this one here.

The first is the covergirl of sports illustrated. I wanted Selina kneeling down because the story takes place in Japan. The background actually came first in my head. The classic Japanese Tea room walls, the hanging lanterns and the writing on the wall is "Cat" in Japanese (I hope it does, I just googled it on the net!!!)

Then I wanted Catwoman kneeling as if having tea (kindof.) And I came across the sports illustrated photo.

I included the rough sketch as well there, so you can see that.

Finally, I included 4 drawings of sketch cards that I did for an upcoming auction called Comics for Cure.

"There will be a public exhibition at Comics 2 Games, Florence, Ky location on April 4th 2009. The auction of all the original art cards will go online starting the week before the Sketch Card exhibition and will end that evening. All proceeds from the sale of the cards will go to the American Cancer Society."

www.comicsforcures.com is the website for more info.

See ya,

Paul

Batman 38: A special treat!

Click here! (and enjoy!)

Defiant 33

you can see my comments on the cover at my blog here.
or see the final colored version on my deviantart, here.

New Artist for Seminar

As mentioned in this week's (air date 2/22/09) TWIP Loran Skinkis is no longer able to continue on as cover artist for Semninar. Kristy Plotkin will now assume cover duties starting with next month's release. Congrats, Kristy; and we all wish Loran the best in all of his future artistic endeavours!

Superman: Last Son of Krypton Issue 50

This episode was pretty metal. I absolutely loved it, and drawing this cover. Commentary is here.

Catwoman Issue 6

Hey All,

Here's the cover for Catwoman Issue 6. I mixed some drawing from reference as well as some drawing from my own head. Catwoman was drawn from my head. I thought of a pose and drew it as a stick figure. Then I did alot of scribbling (gesture drawing) until I came up with the right look. I wanted her jumping from the page and so that was why I gave her that pose. I also wanted some foreshortening.

So I had her arm coming forward and threw in her whip doing a little 3D effect as well. The reference drawing came from Charlize Theron photo. I liked it a lot cuz it made her look frustrated that she hasn't caught up yet with Catwoman, yet it shows her overlooking her as she is getting closer and closer.

I did the drawing on a Blue Line art board. I just bought them and decided to try it out. It works well with pencils. The stomps smoothed out the pencils and blended them well.

All in all, I am pretty happy with it. I like the action in the drawing and I like the portrait drawing of Tsarina just so people can see what I think she would look like.

Enjoy!

commentary is below

Defiant, ep. 32

you can view my comments on this piece on my blog, here.