Roger Langridge's Blog, page 254

Public Domain Characters Day 7

This is Lightning, from the THUNDER Agents. Why does he have lightning bolts drawn on his chest? Because there wasn't room to write "I'm a Boring Bastard."

Public Domain Characters Day 6

Of all the characters that came up, I think this is the only real dog of the bunch. He's a character called Grey Comet. He takes pictures from planes. That's it! He appeared in something called "Camera Comics". 

Public Domain Characters Day 5

Radior? Radior?? Really?

Public Domain Characters Day 4

This is a character called Countess Siroon, and her mount is apparently a beast from Hell itself. Works for me.

Public Domain Characters Day 3

Zeus! This version is the Fawcett Comics version, from Captain Marvel.

Public Domain Characters Day 2

Today's forgotten loser is some dude called The Scorpion. I prefer the way this guy looks to the Spider-Man villain of the same name, personally...

Public Domain Characters Day 1

So I'm on my way to the Baltimore Comic Convention early tomorrow morning (come and say hello!), after which I'll be attending SPX, and will largely be away from computer screens for a couple of weeks as a result. Unfortunately, in a moment of foolishness this January, I resolved to post something every day this year. What to do, what to do?

Well, this. I have been thinking about public domain characters recently for one reason and another, and I stumbled across this jolly little website in my researches. Rather wonderfully, they've got a button you can press that will throw up a randomly-selected public domain character every time you whack it. So I hit it a dozen times, made a note of who came up, and belted out twelve little drawings earlier today which I'll be posting one at a time until I return from the Americas. These were totally random, so the uncanny suitability of a couple of them really took me by surprise.

Anyway, here's #1 - Xog, King of Saturn. I could draw this guy all day...

Whoops

I call him Wal

Commissioned sketch.

Note to Future Cosplayers

When The Fez is the biggest character in popular entertainment, a day which I'm sure is not far off now,  the trick to cosplaying a man with an invisible head is a black stocking over the face. You're welcome.


(Actually, I'm just faffing about with a Pentel brushpen.)