Robert Atkins's Blog, page 42

Incredible Hulk art...

Along with the Iron Man art I've recently finished I had to do some Hulk illustrations for the same line of package art. Here are the initial sketches for the illustration

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Firestar sketch NYCC...

Here was a sketch that I had drawn for Jeremy Dale's wife, Kelly. She has an awesome little sketchbook full of Firestar sketches from some pretty amazing artists. Whenever you see a sketchbook like that, it's hard not to go the extra mile and try to prove yourself. Especially if you're relatively unknown. When you're at the upper echelon rubbing shoulders with Adam Hughes or J. Scott Campbell, then you can get away with a quick face profile sketch that takes you 2 min. and anyone is happy with that.

 If I tried that...please, I don't even want to think about the judgement that would abound. Being such a huge fan of Jeremy's work, I was more than happy to do a sketch for his very nice wife when she asked. Plus my son is a huge fan of the early 80's Spiderman and his Amazing Friends cartoon and Firestar is one of his favorites as well. So I knew if I did a sketch and printed it off to hang on his wall, I'd get extra points there.

The downside was I only got a quick picture taken of this with my phone, so I had to clean it up a lot, and the resolution was pretty cruddy. But at least I have it to show now.

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EDIT: I seriously dont know what I was thinking when I posted this initial blog post calling this character "Fire BIRD"??? Anyway, I know it's Firestar, all I can say is that I'm sleep deprived. That's it.
Thanks to Shane for letting me know, and for not making fun of me toooo much. heh. sigh indeed.
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Iron Man Colors...

Here is the last step on the production art for this character. This was for some package art that I worked on recently. Colors by Simon Gough. Doing package art was a fun change of pace from the regular penciled pages of doing comics. First and foremost I enjoy telling stories with my work, but occasionally, it's fun just to draw a cool character too.

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As always, you can see how it really comes to life with the color stage. 

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Iron Man Inks...

After the final sketch was chosen I enlarged the piece and went straight to inks as a time saver. The final piece was done on 11x17 to make sure the details were crisp when reduced to fit on the package art. However, the size reduction also dictated that I don't put too much rendering on the figure. If I went in and made everything look metallic and shiny, then when the art is shrunk down to fit on the package, it could muddy up all the details. Also I knew I'd have Simon Gough on board to color this for me on the project, and he does a fantastic job creating volume with open line art.

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Iron Man...

A series of Iron Man sketches, this wasn't for a commission, it was actually for a package art project. I can't go into details about the project, but it was certainly fun to do and I got permission to show the artwork.

This first sketch only made it to the break down stage. I have this done in light pencils on 9x12. If you're interested in purchasing this piece I can do the inks on it to finish it for my normal sketch rate.

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Current Breakdowns on 9x12
 final inks done with purchase -
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This was a second option for the package art, which they chose to go with, just had a slight adjustment for the final.


Moving the right arm forward for a double-handed repulsor blast for the final piece. This is the sketch that was chosen.
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Self Portrait...

I was asked to do a self portrait for the Comics Experience website that I teach with. I've been teaching online art courses here for a couple years now, and Andy Schmidt is revamping the website very soon. He asked me to do a portrait and some art for the banners for each course that I'm teaching. It was a lot of fun to do and a nice change of pace.

The portrait, man I haven't had to do one of these since I was in High School. I suck at portraits in general, and it's not something I enjoy doing. So I put this off subconsciously for quite a while not really knowing what I would do, and a little intimidated to try. I don't like looking at my work that much to begin with, let alone when it's a picture of me.

As it turned out, I was able to draw this relatively quick once I had an idea and got started on it. It ended up being pretty painless and I think an accurate enough portrait.

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I'll post the banner art next. Loads more fun than having to do this one. 
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Dr. Doom!!!

Another color commission by myself and Simon Gough. This was a blank cover sketch I did awhile back. What I like most about these covers is that with the title and publisher info on the book, it looks like a complete finished cover when it's all colored up.

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Here's the line art, you can really see how much Simon adds to the piece!

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Cobra Commission Colors...

Here are the final colors on a Cobra commission that I finished a while back. If you missed the line art post, here's a link back to it...

Cobra Commission Line Art
Colors are by Simon Gough, my partner in crime!
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From Left to Right: Roddy Piper, Zartan, Storm Shadow, Firefly and Slice!
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Stingray colors...

Here is the color version of the Stingray cover for the Marvel Collectibles Magazine that will be out next month. Colors by Simon Gough, Inks by Juan Castro.

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Stingray Inks...

 I was planning on inking this myself but I've been so pressed for time lately, I got my friend Juan Castro to ink this for me. Juan has inked the Snake Eyes series that I penciled along with many other books.

I left this a little more loose in the pencils that I typically do when I know someone else would be inking it, but he did a fantastic job finishing the piece!

Again this will be on the cover to the Eaglemoss Marvel Collectibles Magazine this Jan. I believe. I'll post the colors by Simon Gough tomorrow!
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Inks by Juan Castro
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