Superhero Girl Fanart

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Some Adventures of Superhero Girl fanart. The book just came out in color. So excited. Faith Erin Hicks will be at Stumptown in April.

I did the fan art with my noodlers pen and erased it before the ink was totally dry. Whoops. The other characters are my Superhero Woman and Sidekick Dog that I made up in highschool

Posting

Phew! I gotta get posting. Now that Abe has a job, I think I need to start scanning my own art in. :| So lazy. He will still have to photograph the color ones for me though.

Amy Farrah Fowler from last weeks show. Her head and body are out of proportion, but let's say I did that on purpose. Almost none of the gray scanned in either. Bah.

I got an awesome new fountain pen - Noodlers. It uses a plunger to refill from a bottle of ink straight into the nib. Crazy. I love it. I got blue-black ink, but Abe scanned this in black and white.

This is an image Torrid posted on Facebook, I think. Someone's "nice" look from a naughty and nice contest. The gray didn't scan well.

I also posted a Nadine and Cob drawing on Ink Tub, so don't forget to check there.

Blacksad

Blacksad, written by Juan Diaz Canales and art by Juanjo Guarnido
Published October 20, 2010

At Stumptown last year, Abe picked up Blacksad from the Darkhorse booth. The lady there gave it such praise, he couldn't resist. And it was worth him having to carry another hardback in his backpack for hours.

The art is by Juanjo Guardino, who worked at Disney in Paris for a while, and you can telll. Amazing art in the great classic-style Disney illustration. I kept thinking of 101 Dalmations because of the style and the actual setting. Subtle watercolors add to the nostalgia. The characters are all animals with people bodies (essentially).  And Disney animal faces they are. Those expressive eyes! It was a little disconcerting to see my childhood-memory style used for such adult themes, but damn it looks good.


The book actually contains three stories that follow the cat John Blacksad. His life kinda sicks, bu he does help some people. The characters are all essentially caricatures of themselves, in a good way. Seems like a method that Eisner could get behind - the animal heads are like shorthand to the type of person we are dealing with.

The only negative I had is that the women were less animal than the men. I often couldn't tell you what animal they were supposed to be. I can always tell with the men. The women also had earrings where their human ears would be instead of on their animal ears. But these are minor complaints even though they really bugged me.

Anyways, by the end, all I wanted was more. Warning, though. These guys pull no punches and really use this animal shorthand to discuss some painful topics from that era (and now unfortunately), like racism and war crimes. Like Maus, the animal metaphors are a good way to soften teh blows into more easily managed chunks.

I assumed based on the date of the publication that I shouldn't expect more. That would be too much to ask, wouldn't it? NO! There is another one that came out this July. I will definitely be grabbing it when I can.

I like it enough, I drew a little bit of fan art.

I also did some practice by copying some of the faces in the book. Seriously good stuff - I am not that good.

Not feeling well.

Some drawings from the week. I wrote a post about commas for work that included a Batmower.

 This is actually from my head. I saw a girl sort of dressed like this the other day. Not the hat.

And I think I have a bit of food poisoning after eating out today for lunch. But it was kind of ... slow... so I played video games on my tablet while I waited. :S

INKtober Day 1

It's INKtober. Here's some inkings.
These first two were from yesterday, so Day 1.

 From The Sartorialist.

Water beast!
This is a drawing a did based on the cover of Regina Spektor's new album "What we saw from the cheap seats." Enjoying that album, by the way.

Here's some fan art for Witch and Knight, a top notch web comic. Go read it. It's awesome. She's busy for a couple weeks, so now's a good time to catch up.

Poison Ivy

Started this last Wednesday at Drink and Draw. Finished it Sunday evening when relaxing after Jet City Comic Show on Saturday (when I got to draw on it a little, too).


Poison Ivy by ~lunavalse on deviantART

Harley Quinn

Harley will protect you Joker by ~lunavalse on deviantART

I am really enjoying trying out some different Harley Quinn outfits.

Wilfred

I am loving the show Wilfred, so here is some fan art.


Wilfred couch by ~lunavalse on deviantART

I also love Murder, She Wrote, so here is some more fan art! Not as good though.