Stevecomix Sketchblog

Who Hates Zombies?

2007-05-17T20:34:00.000-07:00

Jesus does, of course!

Here are some panels from my upcoming story in the anthology: Jesus Hates Zombies - Those Slack-Jaw Blues.

I think it's gonna be big! Here's a link to their Comicspace site: http://www.comicspace.com/jesus_hates_zombies/

Check it out.

Illustration Friday - Neighbor

2007-05-08T17:25:00.000-07:00

This week's Illustration Friday topic is Neighbor. I had drawn the Totoro character for a card around Christmas and thought it would be perfect since he's from the film "My Neighbor Totoro".

Ten Ton Hippo

2007-05-02T21:31:00.000-07:00

Here's a step by step of my latest Sketch Challenge entry. The charater is Hip Flask, a hippo detective from Image Comics.
This is the rough. This is a blown up photocopy of a ball point pen drawing.

These are the inks.

And now the finished drawing.

More Steve Inks!

2007-04-23T21:59:00.000-07:00

This time I got an opportunity to ink comic book giant Mike Wieringo. Here's Mike's sketch: >Another Harry Potter Sketch

This one's by Alex Dunnigan. I colored this one too.

Here's Alex's sketchbook page: http://www.tentonstudios.com/dump/dunnigan/sketchbook/skbook8.jpg

Ten Ton Madman

2007-04-20T12:00:00.000-07:00

Here's my latest Ten Ton Sketch Challenge entry. It's Mike Allred's Madman character.

(it won)Here are the pencils:

Steve the inker?!!

2007-04-17T21:21:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been over a month since I've posted anything. That needs to change.
Lately I've been doing a lot of practice inking. Taking someone else's pencil drawings and adding ink and maybe tones or colors.
Here's some of them and either links to the original or the original itself. I'll post more later.
This is me over Khoi Pham on some X Factor art.

http://www.khoipham.com/images/xfactor17p07lr.jpg

Now over Reilly Brown's Cable and Deadpool pencils.

http://www.oddgodpress.com/reillybrown/samples/page04.jpg

Wired

2007-03-13T21:38:00.000-07:00

The theme for this week's Illustration Friday is "Wired". I've always like this sketchbook doodle. I hope you do to. Leave a comment or two if you want.
"Whenever I'm wired, I like to do the crosswords and mellow out."

Ten Ton Powerman

2007-03-07T21:11:00.000-08:00

Sweet Christmas - it's Luke Cage, Powerman!

I did this one as a redesign for the Ten Ton Challenge. It was kinda fun. Not much of a redesign though. I mean c'mon - made him bald, lost the headband and yellow shirt and added the tatoos. meh. We'll see how it does.

Communication

2007-02-27T20:33:00.000-08:00

This is another oldie that I pulled out for Illustration Friday. This week's subject is "Communication" so this picture of two old, very different friends seemed to fit pretty good.

Jesus Hates Zombies!

2007-02-24T22:30:00.000-08:00

There's a new comic coming out soon that is totally fun to read. It's called Jesus Hates Zombies. Great artwork and a sweet story. I'm looking forward to getting it. Here's my fan art:

And here's a link to the JHZ's Comicspace page: http://www.comicspace.com/jesus_hates_zombies/

Ten Ton Rock

2007-02-14T21:40:00.000-08:00

Here's a pic I did of Sgt. Rock For the Ten Ton Challenge. It's done a little looser than what I normally do and I'm not quite sure I'm happy with it.

Here's the rough sketch. I drew it on one of those medium sized Post-Its and then blew it up with a photocopier. Then it gets traced off onto good paper and inked.

The Non-Metal Church - Oingo Boingo

2007-02-11T12:44:00.000-08:00

OK, I'm deviating from the Metal theme this week because I watched an Oingo Boingo video and was totally inspired.
Here's the video:

Now here's this week's caricature. It's one of Danny Elfman, lead singer of Oingo Boingo and composer of the soundtracks below. I left one version black and white and added color to the other. Let me know what you think.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) – his first orchestral score
Beetlejuice (1988)
Batman (1989) – his first large-scale, full-blown action score. One of his signature scores
Edward Scissorhands (1990) – his personal favorite of his scores
Batman Returns (1992) – including the song Face To Face, co-written with Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - in which he also sang as the lead character's singing voice (Jack Skellington) as well as a supporting roles (Barrel, one of Oogie Boogie's three henchmen, and The Clown with the Tearaway Face).
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Big Fish (2003)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - in which he provided the voices for the Oompa-Loompas in the musical numbers
Corpse Bride (2005) - lends his voice acting talents again for Bonejangles.

In addition to his work with Tim Burton, Elfman has written scores for dozens of other films including:
Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman, 1980)
Back to School, (Alan Metter, 1986)
Big Top Pee-wee (Randal Kleiser, 1988)
Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)
Scrooged (Richard Donner, 1988)
Darkman (Sam Raimi, 1990)
Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990)
Nightbreed (Clive Barker, 1990)
Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1993) (theme)
Sommersby (Jon Amiel, 1993)
Black Beauty (Caroline Thompson, 1994)
Dolores Claiborne (Taylor Hackford, 1995)
Dead Presidents (Hughes Brothers, 1995)
To Die For (Gus Van Sant, 1995)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, 1996)
Freeway (Matthew Bright, 1996)
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)
Men In Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)
Proof of Life (Taylor Hackford, 1999)
Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002) (The instrumental pieces "After Midnight" and "Roxie's Suite")
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002)
Red Dragon (Brett Ratner, 2002)
Hulk (Ang Lee, 2003)
Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
Charlotte's Web (Gary Winick, 2006)

He has also written the theme music for several television series, including:
Pee-wee's Playhouse (some episodes) (1986)
Sledge Hammer! (1986)
The Simpsons (1989)
Beetlejuice (1989)
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
The Flash (1990)
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
Dilbert (1999)
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Point Pleasant (2005)

Ten Ton ...Elvis?!!

2007-02-07T20:36:00.000-08:00

OK, this week's Ten Ton Challenge is an odd one. Take Elvis and combine him with any comic book character. I chose Mojo from the X-Men comics. Mojo +Elvis = MojElvis!

Beware MojElvis!

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Red and Dangerous

2007-01-31T21:22:00.000-08:00

This is recycled blog art but it fits the Illustration Friday theme "Red" pretty good. Not my favorite picture but I think the hair turned out really neat. What can I say? It's a sketchbook piece.

The Red and the Black

2007-01-28T20:35:00.000-08:00

This is an old one that I thought would fit the Illustration Friday theme "Red" pretty well.

Metal Church - Rammstein

2007-01-28T20:18:00.000-08:00

This week's Metal Church features the band Rammstein (one of my current favorites) and a caricature of their keyboard player Christian "Flake" Lorenz.
Flake always seems to be the whipping boy for the band so I picked the video Seemann because it shows Flake in all his glory. Enjoy.

Ten Ton Weapon X

2007-01-24T22:21:00.000-08:00

This is the sketch challenge entry for the week. The subject was "The Escape of Weapon X" or sumpthin' like that. Follow the Ten Ton link on this page and check out some of the other entries too. This is a good one - best challenge in a while!

Wolverine Sketch

2007-01-23T20:44:00.000-08:00

This is one of my workups for this week's sketch challenge. It's Wolverine from the Weapon X story.

Robot Dance

2007-01-21T23:06:00.000-08:00

Fandamonium (A local comic/sci-fi/anime convension)asked me to draw a poster for their upcoming dance and this is what I came up with. It's pretty fun I think.
Unfortunately, After I drew it they announced the theme would have to do with fairy tales. I don't have time for another soooooo here's some fairy tale robots, I guess.
Check out the Fandamonium site. There's a link on this page.

Metal Church : Black Sabbath

2007-01-13T21:06:00.000-08:00

This week's Metal Church sermon is by Black Sabbath and their song Heaven and Hell. Sabbath has had several lead singers and various band members but one thing has always stayed the same - lead guitar by Tony Iommi. HE is the sound of Black Sabbath. Check 'em out:

My pic is sort of rushed this time. I'm going to be out of town for the next few days but I wanted to get something in, even if it's rough. I may come back to it on another day and fix it up right.
(Oh yeah, he's a lefty.)

Ten Ton Loki

2007-01-10T21:52:00.000-08:00

I haven't had time lately to do the Ten Ton Challenge but I worked one in this week. It's not my best and I'm not too happy with it but what the heck.
It's Loki from the Thor comics. He looks way too young. Maybe this is "Teen Loki".

Metal Church : Judas Priest

2007-01-07T20:16:00.000-08:00

This is something new I'm going to try for a while - Metal Church. Each week a fine ass metal video and a caricature of the band (or part of).

This week's band is Judas Priest. I'll start you off with something unplugged just to ease you into it.

The drawing is Rob Halford, the Beast from the Priest.

Let me know what you think, headbanger.

Ten Ton Nausicaa

2006-12-13T21:55:00.000-08:00

Another Sketch Challenge drawing. This time it's the princess from the film "Nausicaa and the Valley of Wind" by Miyazaki. Here's the process:

Pencils

Ink Marker Tones

Hayao Miyazaki

2006-12-10T21:51:00.000-08:00

This week's Ten Ton Challenge is "Anything Miyazaki". As a warm up doodle I did a caricature of the man himself with a terrible Totoro behind him. I don't even attempt caricatures often. Let me know what you think.

Totoro

2006-12-03T22:52:00.000-08:00

I started sketching tonight and came up with this. I hope you enjoy. It's the character from My Neighbor Totoro.