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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.

A quick, late-night sketch of my favorite Green Lantern.

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