Daily Sketch...Hank Pym (a.k.a. Giant Man, Ant Man, Yellow Jacket)

To be honest I didn't know much about Hank Pym as a character. I didn't get into reading Avengers until the early 2000's. I was more of an X-Men guy, and I read Captain America as well, but then I read Avengers Forever by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco (one of my favorite artists at the time). In that story Hank Pym plays two different characters at the same time...it's confusing and timey-wimey, but even if you're not well versed in Avengers history, this book is like a crash course in it. I learned there that Hank Pym was a brilliant scientist, was Ant-Man, then reversing his shrinking serum was able to grow into Giant Man. At one point he has a mental breakdown and a second persona emerges and he calls himself Yellow Jacket. Eventually he falls back into the Avengers roll as go-to scientist and is an amalgam of Giant Man and Ant-Man whenever the situations need one ability or the other.

This is obviously very generalized and written by someone who doesn't know the character very well, but there you have it. There are parts of his character I like, and others I don't find very enjoyable to read. I do like that he has this legacy of a variety of identities that he floats between, and the look of these different personas is unique and very fun to draw.

I had this commission request a very long time ago to do a montage piece of these 3 Hank Pym characters together. So here's the pencils. I'll post up the inks very soon!

Hank Pym - 849 Sorry for the bad "scan" this was just a photo from my phone with the drawing on my table. Not sure why I didn't take the time to scan it. There's a nicer scan of the finished inks I'll post.

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