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This represents all content from all the posts, pre-crash. Enjoy. -dZ

I decided to do a technical exercise I haven’t done in a while, something simple in description but difficult in practice. What you do is take a piece of artwork and try to reproduce it. The only rule is that you have to reproduce the compositional essence (arrangement of figures, basic colors, etc). It’s a way of getting into another artists shoes and seeing how your respective styles and techniques solve problems.

For my subject I picked the cover of this comic, “Justice League of America” issue 42, vol.1, February 1966, © DC Comics. Story by Gardner Fox and art by Mike Sekowsky & Frank Giacoia. I liked the layout and the inclusion of a bizarre B-side Silver Age character, in other words I thought it had a lot of personality. As an aside, Metamorpho was actually popular for a while, if you don’t believe me read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorpho

Anyway, here’s mine, click on the thumbnail to bigefy it.

Batman and Robin on a stakeout, drawn in the style of my preferred incarnations: Adam West and Burt Ward.

The weather’s getting cold up here in Montreal. The crispy smell of late fall, beckoning winter, always reminds me of Wolverine and Sabertooth battling in the cold Canadian north.

This one down here was more of an experiment.