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The Grapplers!  Career criminals, ultimate-division wrestlers and all-around badasses. Lascivious, Letha, Screaming Mimi and Poundcakes.  Poundcakes is my favourite.

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The Masters of Evil!  Moonstone, Whirlwind, Baron Zemo and Titania.  Just found this out about Baron Zemo - he always wears that mask because it is glued to his face with Adhesive X - a super-adhesive that could not be dissolved (except years later by somebody named Paste-pot Pete).  See, Zemo was a nazi scientist who was so evil and reviled that he wore the mask to conceal his identity.  During a fight with Cap, a vat of the stuff got smashed and stuck the hood to his face.  There is rich mythology here.

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The Femizons! Iron Maiden, Superia, Nightshade, and Snapdragon.  These are supervillains bent on world domination and the establishment of women as the dominant gender.  These are their actual outfits.

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The younger generations of the Inhumans!  Alaris, Nahrees, Tonaja, and Jolen.  Full disclosure, I have read some Inhumans, but these characters I am not familiar with.  Started getting into colour and kinda overdid it - gonna stick with fewer colours in the future.  I mean, when possible.  Some costumes are just fashion disasters. 

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Members of the sultry Serpent Society! Black Mamba, Asp, Diamondback, and Anaconda.  At this point I have discovered that for female comic book characters, you really don't have to change their outfits to make them pin-ups. By the time I got to Diamondback I decided that some of these villains would be kinda put out, posing around in their outfits.  So I drew her cranky and it was my favourite up to this point.

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I love drawing pinups.  I am a happily paying member of Suicide Girls and they have some great photos for pose reference.  I also wanted to draw comic book characters - specifically villains because they have the best outfits.  Catwoman and Red Sonja have been drawn all sexy a hojillion times by all kinds of artists, including almost every in-book depiction.  It is hard to caricature or sexy-up a female character that has already been so thoroughly exaggerated, so I wanted to do something different.  I went looking for obscure comic book villains that aren't gonna get a movie any time soon.  Also, I was gonna draw the dudes too.  Because they deserve it just as much.  So here is my first batch. Some of Batman's lesser known foes.  In order like you would read: Livewire, Phobia, Magpie, and Kiteman.

I got markers. I'm gonna use 'em.

Got me a fancy chisel-tip marker.  And a super fine-tip marker (0.05 mm say WHAT!?).  And a white marker. And a mid-tone sketchbook.  I always shied away from markers and pens, I really dig my pencil sketches. I heard a quote from Chris Oatley's podcast: "Fewer marks, more decisions."  And I've been giving that a shot. I dig it.

Patronus charms for Christmas

Did some... I dunno, I guess matte painting?  Some photo manipulation, some painting. My sister and her three sons.  All accomplished wizards. Wicked cool Christmas present, imo.

Rough value pass to finished. No lines, yo.

Modular thumbnailing!

I was shown this video a while back, and I wanted to try my hand at it.  I wasn't sure which shapes that I would need so I tried to copy the shapes that Matt Kohr had made until I got a hand on what I used and what was needed. So here is my pre-made shapes, that I then assembled into the thumbnails below, where my class picked #11 to paint up, so I sketched it out into a more dynamic pose (befitting a steampunk golem pit-fighter), did a full line drawing (whew) and a rough value pass.  Also I stuck in a digital painting that I found a while back that had the right kind of colour pallet.  Should be painted up next week.