Hail Megatron

LOB-STAR! Johnson.

Its lobster Johnson! From the Hellboy Universe, so if you might want to find out about it. I have been playing around pentel brush pen… the kind the all the greats use. pretty much i know these are sloppy, but its getting use to it. it flows like a brush because it is a brush! now on to our next commercial for things i use. or not.

I have been getting back to where i want to use a lot of blacks in my work. i find it fun and challenging to play with them, see what i can get a way with when i dont want to fully form something. i am sure there are offical art terms for it, but they escape me, because i am not a collector of words, just images.

and insults. i have a vault of insults that i go to when i really care for someone. its not every day you can accuse someone of being a communist witch in cahoots with the inquisition… and that is not even the most valuable of gems.

Let me know what you think.

~Splittingadams

The Doctor and Companion

Its done! using some Experimental methods to help speed up the process, i have decided to play with the coloring of this one quite a bit. Tried to be less painter, and more digital. I like how it came out, and i have been looking for the an appropriate image to use the glowy effect in.

This if you have not guessed by now, is The doctor, with the last seasons companion. Catherin Tate (she is very funny, looker her up). I am sad to see This doctor go, but i am interested in what the new series will be like. Yes, i have a love of some WHO. I have slowly been working my way thru some of the older shows, spanning WAAAAAY back. so there may be more doctors in the future.

And if your looking for prints, you can pick one up in Baltimore, Oct 10 and 11. Going to be sitting at a table drawing things, come by if you want.

~splittingadams.

The Demon, Etrigan!

This is another demon work. i tried to reduce some of the details and colors and stuff. i have to say it is a bit different, but i think i like it. I think next time, this would be a place were i need to get a black brush pen. i like working with a sepia color, but it isn’t solid enough in my mind to hold the shadows like i want.

i am pleased about the the loose coloring i did. i think it adds more overall feel of it. May happs i will try some variations of coloring this way, with differnt types of lines and line work.

tell me about it…

~splittingadams

Gorilla Grodd

Because you didn’t ask for it, or didn’t demand it, the real deal Gorilla Grodd Commission! Got in in me to do this one up. this one has a guest appearance of none other than the Flash. Not sure if the whole Flash Rogue thing will keep going, but super intelligent apes and there need to rule the world seem to have somewhat of an appeal to me i suppose.

Anyway this one was larger than most, wanted to really get into facial details. any who. questions, comments and what not. all things needed to know. let me know what you think, and get a handy dandy commission of your very own.

~splittingadams

the Reverse Flash, Prof. Zoom

Hey kids, I am back with another installment of “Adam listens and knows way too much about comics, and what he doesn’t know, he makes up, but you should like it anyway SHOW”. On this episode, we have The original Reverse flash, professor zoom. He is from the Silver age of DC comics. I only know about him because i am an obsessive listener to a podcast called Tom Vs. The Flash I found this Podcast thru all the various nerdly comic podcast i listen too. He started out Vs. the JLA, and i got hooked. Short and funny, i could go on as to why you should listen to him, but you will have to catch the fever your self.

For this image, i decided to do some crazy arm motion, odd angles and what not. also, i had to envision what the Flash would look like, and um kind of reverse it. i sharpened the chin a bit to make him more menacing. Not sure, i am a bit taken with the flash “rogue gallery” as they are called, just because of some of the villains i have ever heard about, they seem to be the more flamboyant and crazy. I mean really, Mirror master? Captain boomerang? a reverse flash, who in fact is not the complete opposite, other than he is bad and has the colors switched around? not even an EVIL goatee and mustache! That is just standard bad guy flare!!! but all in all it was very enjoyable to work on this.

Questions, comments? Leave them for me to ignore!

~splittingadams

The Green Lantern, Alan Scott

Not sure where this came from, but i wanted to do a green lantern image. My first thought would have been Hal Jordan, but as i was looking i wanted to do something with a cape! enter The Green Lantern, Alan Scott! The original green lantern. Who in fact has nothing to do with the story of the current green lanterns, just in name i guess. you can correct me, because i did little to no research other than to find out what he looks like.

I like how unlike the other kind of monochromatic schemes the other characters seem to have, he has all kinds of colors. some of the versions i saw of him was almost techno colored. Let me know, correct me if you will. ask for more.

~splittingadams

Namor, the sub-mariner

I present to you, for your consideration, The King (or Prince?) of the fabled city of Atlantis! Let his battle cry be “imperious rex!!!” Such a odd, and angry character in my mind. But i guess if i had to breath sea water all the time, i would be a bit pissy.

anyway, this was a fun one to work on. i have been trying to work with mid action poses, or something  a bit more fluid looking, if you will pardon the pun. I imagined that he was a character that was ways in motion, on the attack, ready to defend. If you will notice i left out the eyes. this was an excellent experiment for me, who has  an almost obsessive need to see it all. I have been trying to do more of that in my drawing. Obsessive is too strong a word i think. lazy. now that is a word that i can relate to.

anyway, as always if you have anything you want to see let me know. i am always up for a challenge!

~splittingadams

Super Skrull Attacks!

I got some new markers and went all out. tried to think of an image that i could do with all the colors that i had purchased. and at first it was one with the fantastic 4, but i got lazy right of the bat with that one. so i took the next best step which was a character with all the powers! Villains can be underrated anyway.

I had great fun figuring out how to display all that i wanted with this one. i hope you enjoy and again if you have any suggestions just let me know. i am always open to doing new types of things.

~splittingadams

would you like some tea?

Would you like some Tea? i bet you would! In this latest installment of Adam does commissions, we visit the wonderful world of alice and her land of wonderment. This is the creepy Mad Hatter. It is kind of a cross between teh mad hatter from alice and wonderland and the comicbook mad hatter (batman). Oversized hat on an oversized head is really where i wanted to go with it. I tried to use some very disturbing colors next to each other, and while blue and red are not usually that bad next to one another they can be a little bit jarring.

not sure, i may do a version of the rest of the tea party. if you would like that let me know. and as aways comments are welcome. be aware i will ignore any that dont hail my prowess as the greatest of all time, but i think thats to be expected.

pour me another mr. hare…

~splittingadams