Monday, April 30, 2012

Goblyn Queen

#15 is Goblyn Queen! Poor, poor Madelyn Pryor.

Next: Beast!

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Cannonball

#14 is Sam Guthrie aka Cannonball!

Next up: Goblyn Queen!

Friday, April 27, 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Colossus

#12 of our Daily X-men sketches is Colossus aka Piotr Rasputin, here in gentle artist mode.
Next up: Shadowcat!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Wolverine meets Freddie Mercury.

I had to accept Colleen Coover's invitation to recreate this masterpiece. (There will be an inked version eventually.)

Bishop!

...is #11. Real quick, this one, because I need to get my Freddie Mercury on.



Tuesday, April 24, 2012

My favorite Phoenix.

#10 is Rachel Summers/Grey, back in the Excalibur days

Monday, April 23, 2012

Magik!

#9 is Colossus' poor, cursed little sister, Illyana Rasputin aka Magik.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Boom-Boom!

#8 of our Daily X-men sketches.
Next: Magik!

Laurelhurst Park, Portland.

I made this for my mom's birthday with grey and black markers.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Danielle Moonstar aka Psyche aka Mirage

Here she is,  #5 in our Daily Sketch Challenge. 
Update: My husband's amazing version here!


Monday, April 16, 2012

Quicksilver

#3 on our Daily X-men Sketch list is Pietro Maximoff aka Quicksilver.

Update: Jesse's!

Next up: Domino!

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Siryn! With a tiny guest star.

Here's the second character in our Daily X-men Sketch Challenge:

She's one of my favorite X-ladies, thanks in no small measure to Peter David. Here she is, with a fan.

Update: And here's Jesse's!

Friday, April 13, 2012

You tell'em, Havok.

My Decent Half and I have embarked on a sketch challenge. One pencil sketch a night is the goal for now, but we'll see...
Since we didn't feel imaginative, we decided that "X-men" was to be the topic. We printed out a list of X-men and threw the names into a hat. The first name I pulled was - I kid you not - Wolverine. That just wasn't right. Back in the hat he went. Instead, we have:



 Havoook! This is my attempt. Jesse's will come soon.

Update: Here's Jesse's!

Next up: Siryn!

Monday, April 2, 2012

Mermaid.

Practicing inking water texture. A fan-shaped brush turned out to be my friend. I used that, whatever tools I had on hand to fill in all the black, and grey brush pens for her skin.