Sketches:: Models 2

I can identify a few of these at least.

I like Sara Jean Underwood.  That's her on the left.  I'm not sure about the one of the right.  

These next two are also Sara Jean.  Perhaps you can guess she's a Playboy model.  The first one is out of proportion between the head and body.  The next one is a little better.

This is so embarrassing, because this is a character from a story I've written.  The problem is that I don't remember who she's modeled after.  How could I forget?

This is another character from a story of mine.  In this case, the head model was a young picture of another Playboy model, Tawnni Cable.  (She's better known for having long, dark hair.)  The poses were from other models.  The first one is probably based on Patrick Nagel's Grey Lady.  I don't remember the second.  

  

Sketches Models 1

I'm saying "models" here, but really I don't remember who they are.  

This first one is likely someone I knew, but can't identify.  It's a pretty nice charcoal sketch.  Yes, I know.  I don't know how to use a charcoal pencil properly.

I love that red ink pen and it shows.  

More charcoal.  Great hair.  Maybe she was a shampoo ad model?

Oh, a rare nude from me.  I don't draw boobies well.  I get embarrassed.

This is even rarer: a perspective drawing.  I don't do this a lot.  It's not terrible, sort of.  Pretty brave of me to do it in charcoal.  

I will say I like drawing hair with charcoal.

Sketches: Co-workers

Actually only one of the girls in these pictures still works here.  (What the hell am I still doing here?)  I only dated one of them, though I would have gone out with all of them given the opportunity.  I feel like I should probably not say a whole lot here even about the ones that have left. 

This girl worked in HR.  Talk about a very pretty forbidden fruit.

My picture doesn't do this girl justice.  Unfortunately, I didn't know her at all.

This one I had a huge crush on when I started working here.  Regrettably, after she started working in a next door department, we didn't get along.  

Again, my sketch doesn't do this one justice.  She was normally beautiful, but could always turn her looks up a notch.  I remember holding the door for her while she was walking down the hall.  I swear I could hear Dreamweaver playing in the background.

This one was a total sweetheart.

I'm quivering remembering this one.  She was way too hot.

Another sweetheart.

Sigh.  This was the one I dated.

The last one here I have a complicated relationship with.  In spite of some mutual dislike, I really like this sketch. 

Sketches: Comic Books Characters 2

More comic book sketches.  Adam Hughes' Gwen Stacy painting inspired this sketch.  Sorry this is a questionable scan.  Hughes is a great artist.  I had to buy two trades and a back issue to get his three issues of Betty and Veronica, but it was worth it.  He seems to get a lot of criticism because he's a "good girl" artist, the ultimate crime.

This was from a great Mary Jane painting.  Sorry, I don't remember who did it.  I'm pretty happy with how my sketch of it turned out.

More 80's X-Men from Jim Lee.  I don't entirely agree with Psylocke's conversion to an Asian psychic ninja, but admittedly she looked good.

 

Here's a sketch of a cover of a romance comic from maybe the 50's or 60's.  I'm kind of sorry there aren't any romance comics anymore.  I've looked at a bunch of them on the public domain online archives.  Unfortunately, the artwork on many of them is pretty pedestrian.  

The name of this file says, "White Queen."  It sort of looks like her costume.  We'll go with that.

Lastly, here's a Wonder Woman portrait.

Sketches: Comic Books Characters 1

Here's a few old comic book sketches.  The first, at least, I can positively identify.  The Goblin Queen was one of my favorite villains.  I don't know what she's doing now though.  (She has a rather tortured history.)  This was from a Jim Lee drawing from the 80's.

Now we're venturing into the unknown.  I'm sure this was from European graphic novel.  I have no idea what.

Was this a Roxy (Freefall) from Gen 13?  I don't know for sure.  She's pretty cute.

  

We're back on track.  Here's Arwyn from Sojourn in the next two sketches.  I know artist, Greg Land, got a bunch of criticism for possibly tracing photo references and stealing art.  That said, one beat-up trade paperback of Sojourn bought on clearance has inspired some of my best artwork.  I'd like to find some more volumes.  Right now, with DC not publishing anything and Marvel only publishing crap, I'm kind of wishing Crossgen was still around.       

Here's an Alex Raymond sketch from his classic Flash Gordon strip.  The guy was a master.  I did a bunch of sketches from a couple of hardback reprints.  I got those books and Sojourn at Hastings.  And there's something else I'm missing.  I bought a huge number of comics there when they went out of business.  I ended up getting rid of nearly all of them.  That's what I get for buying comics from the 2000's.  I can only regret all of the better trades that I didn't buy there before they disappeared.  I'll scan in some more Flash Gordon stuff at some point.      

Sketches: More Archie Characters

Here's a few more Archie sketches.  First up is one more Bob Montana inspired image.  This was a background character.  He even did glamorous extras.

These next two are of Katy Keene.  She's an Archie Comics character, but generally not affiliated with the gang until recently.  I tried to buy their crossover series, but came up dry at my local comic books store.  Still, I like the character a lot.  I think these are from some 80's appearances.    

Here's a couple of sketches of the vivacious Cheryl Blossom.  These were originally done by long time Archie artist, Dan Parent.  She was introduced into Archie Comics when Veronica started getting too nice and they needed a bad girl.  Her first appearance featured her going topless at the beach, I kid you not! 

Lastly, here are some more Betty and Veronica sketches, which were also originally done by Dan Parent (maybe, much like Archie Comics, I'm having some trouble crediting the correct artist).  I like his pinup material a lot.  This first one was a Free Comic Book Day cover.  I usually always picked up the Archie free comic every year.    

One sexy witch.

One sexy go-go dancer.

Veronica with cute bangs.

Veronica with some hair extensions?  Maybe she just let it grow out.  I should draw a picture of Ronnie with her Jackie O inspired bob cut that she had in the Sixties.   

Sketches: Veronica After Bob Montana 2

As per seminal Archie comic book artist, Dan DeCarlo, Veronica and Betty have the same measurements and the same length hair.  One's blonde and wears it in a ponytail.  The other is brunette and wears it loose.  Personality-wise, Betty is the sweet girl-next-door and Veronica is the  glamorous spoiled rich girl.  Veronica does have a good conscience though, and Betty is quite feisty if provoked. 

In Montana's strips, Veronica is actually pretty nice, but doesn't put up with much crap.  Betty wavers between sweet and psychotic.  The choice for Archie is pretty easy.  The Riverdale CW TV show surprisingly follows the strips somewhat.  Physically, they also kind of go with how I always thought it should be: Betty is cute and athletically well-built, while Veronica is sexy, fashionable, but maybe a bit modestly built.  Either way, it's always the eternal question of Betty or Veronica?