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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.

It’s moving season, so this morning has been tightly packed with coffee and boxes. Not the least of the latter being comic boxes. I’m not going to sugarcoat this folks, my brother has left me with the full weight of his adolescent comic collecting fruits; eight long-boxes and two milk-crates filled with BD. The quantity is ludicrous and makes my own collection (4 long-boxes) seem piddly and restrained…chalk that up to scruples. I can’t help but feel a little injured at the responsibility of being my brother’s keeper (of comics), nevertheless I am obliged to be graceful and so I shall be, in my own way… by complaining.

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