Happy Sketch Saturday-s?

This weeks Hawkman...

And last weeks Wonder Woman!

Both are sold.

Best,

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday! Seems I missed a few...

Question?

Deadpool

Daredevil.

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Brett

Seems I missed a Sketch Saturday post...

So here are a bunch! This weeks was Nightwing!

A big one from last week, Godzilla!

A few quick sketches now, Flash in his TV digs!

And Aquaman, looking sad:(

Here are the pencils for a new con print, specifically PhoenixCon in a few weeks. The whole Flash creative crew will be there so I went a bit bigger. And yes that is Wally in his new 5 years later costume.

All this is already sold.

Best!

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday, last week and this week!

Today is the first annual Hellboy day! Also Sketch Saturday so 2 birds!

Last weeks sketch was Wonder Woman!

Best,

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday! This week, The Shadow NOSE!

The Shadow! Spooky!

And my cover to Superman 29. For some reason they keep messing up the solicits. But I'm doing 28 and 29 then moving back to a regular gig.

Best!

Brett

Were you fooled?

Were you? 

Did you watch that Megalodon Discovery channel special? Do you think Megalodon was real after watching it? You didn't? You don't appear to be alone. While all the articles seem to indicate that LOADS of people were, it appears this is based on an online poll done after the show… so it was incredibly scientific;) People ALWAYS take those seriously. (Meg's ARE real. I used to have a real tooth on my mantel, they're just no longer alive.) So where is all this outrage coming from, because I only seem to see it in articles and blogs… mostly science ones. Can it be that there really aren't lots of people who fell for it? Can it be that this is merely a few people who are outraged for people they believe fell for it? Is the science community actually manufacturing this? Maybe not intentionally, but they do seem to be the ones who are spearheading  this, they seem to the ones incredibly outraged for others who actually didn't fall for it or could care less. I'm sure a few people were fooled after all Mountain Monsters got picked up for a second season and that's all kinds of fake! But the majority of people I've talked too knew it was fake and one guy was left questioning wether it was real or not…

Yes, some of the science was off or based on older estimates, current thinking places them at around 52 feet (it's possible they were longer OR shorter, we only have teeth and a few vertabrae as sharks are mostly cartilage and don't fossilize well. It's possible they had GIANT heads!) But besides some of that, there was OTHER science that people seem to have missed. Underwater camera stuff, hunting of whales, Meg teeth whale tail bones, whale migration patterns and tagging and tracking animals, all real science. The 2 million year old whale was wrong, but that's kind of a tricky thing. They've known about the whale, but they didn't know who that whale was related to until they tested the DNA, it turns out the whale is not related to any other existing whale species, it's related to a line that was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago. I can see how that would get messed up, but it's not right in the show. Some of the other science is, well… speculative. And it would have to be since it's explaining why we haven't seen this animal in 1.5 million years. Its OK to do this in books, just not on TV I guess.

It is funny that the other scientists in the special don't agree with the main lead in this throughout the whole thing they disagree. I liked that a lot. 

Meg lived in warm shallow seas! Or did it? Its true that all the fossils we're found have been from shallow seas, but was it strictly limited to those? Fossils underwater are hard to find and the majority of what we find is all from shallow seas because those shallow seas are now on the surface and easier to get to. By this logic, most known water animals lives in shallow inland seas, we know this isn't true with todays animals so it's doubtful it was true of the pasts. I have a hard time seeing a LARGE shark stuck in shallow seas while it pretty swims away into the deep ocean… These sharks lived for 25 million years, I'm sure they're environment shifted and moved with the continents.

Could they still exist? It's very, very doubtful they are still alive. I'm sure we would have found whales with Meg teeth in them, especially during the whaling boom of the 1800's. BUT it's possible they still exist in some form, the ocean is a very large place so I wouldn't rule it out completely. I'll just say this, we have more evidence for the existence of Megalodon than we do for Sasquatch. At least we know Megs lived at some point. We have never found a great ape species in the new world, not even in South or Central America.

Have at thee!

Batman Superman! And Guardian from Alpha Flight!

I keep forgetting to post this! Guardian from Alpha Flight!

And my new twitter avatar for my new book! Yep, as of issue 5 I'll be alternating art duties on Batman/ Superman with Jae Lee! COOL!

Issue 5 has Nightwing!!! Also, Metallo! 

OK, got to get to work on tomorrow's Sketch Saturday!

Brett

Last weeks Sketch Saturday, Superior Spider-Man!

He's swingin'!

Happy Sketch Saturday! This week Superman and Doomsday!

So, what's new?!? Well I'm no longer drawing Nightwing, bummer. BUT I am going to be taking part in DC's Villans Month event, I'll be drawing Batman/Superman 3.1: Doomsday with Greg Pak writing! So this was just me messing around... it's OK, needs a bit of work, he's not big enough.

And here is this weeks Sketch Saturday offering, Superman! 

Sketch Saturday should be back to full strength starting this week, JLA is done and the Doomsday issue isn't due for awhile:) I'm just finishing up some Trinity War alt covers:)

Best!

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday! This week Blue Bird!

Happy Sketch Saturday! This week an original character... we had pitched using him in Nightwing but was vetoed. Just as well, now I can do what I want with him!

And this is my redesign of Bronze Tiger. I don't know much but the people freaking out on the message boards are very funny and a little blind;)

OK, now to some other news! I will be very busy this month so I'm not sure about Sketch Saturdays. Helping out again on another book and finishing up this Nightwing issue plus I have a con to go to in Phoenix and I need to do some sketches for that... So if I do post stuff it will most likely be more things like Bronze Tiger and then any sketches I get done for the show!

Also, I'm talking to DC about maybe doing a sketchbook. So we'll see!

Best!

Brett

Nightwing Print!

 Heading to Wondercon? Or C2E2? Then head on over to see Norm Rapmund or Andrew Dalhouse (he'll only b at C2E2), they'll have this in print form! Neato right!?!

Best!

Brett

No Sketch Saturday this week, BUT...

How about a sneak peak at Nightwing 21 and a few (corrected) pages from Nightwing 19! 

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Brett

This Sketch Saturday, Superman and WonderWoman

This one is also to help fund dinosaur research. All monies will go to getting Dave Hone to Canada and feeding him while he... a .... researches! 

Also, I'm taking a few weeks off from Sketch Saturday to recharge. With a monthly comic, 3 covers and character designs, I'm beat!

Best!

Brett

Batcave!

Another image I did to help fund Cannibalism in Tyrannosaurs! Feeling generous? Head over and help out! Almost there!!! And a big thank you to Carlos, for the purchase!

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Brett

Creator Owned Comics Day!

Today is #CreatorOwnedDay on twitter. For some reason none of the comic news sites I frequent have even mentioned it. I did a little somethin' somethin for it:

Parsec, still working on this idea... very loose in my head now...

And...

Jacob from my (and Jess's)  Lifeless idea. 

You never know what will be the next Walking Dead or Superman...

Best,

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday this week, Steel and Sewers!

This weeks S.S. was the Man of Steel himself! Superman!

And here was last weeks, Raphael of the TMNT.

Best!

Brett

Announcement for Holiday Image

Every year I try to do one, sometimes 2 (one for comics fans, one for dino fans.) So today at 8pm mountain time I will post it. SInce some people have inquired about buying it. It will be $800. The darn thing took me 9 hours to draw, it has 9 characters on it,  and Jess asked if it was a cover so you know I went all out!

So if you're interested in buying it same rules apply as they do on Sketch Saturday, first come first served. But the one piece per month rule will be lifted as this isn't a SS piece everyone can try. If you just want to see it, I'll post it here and on Twitter:) I hadn't planned on selling it until I started getting requests....

If no one buys it I might make a print of ir for a show next year:)

Best!

Brett

Happy Black Friday?

Jess thought it might be cool to offer up some Black Friday Sketches (if I was really clever I would have Blackest Nighted them.) Anywho, A Donna Troy from DC shorts and Nightwing from Young Justice.

More tomorrow! I was a drawing fool yesterday!

Best,

Brett

9 Warning Signs of an Amateur Artist

I've been getting lots of people looking for art advice on twitter lately. They send me pictures and ask questions (always a good thing!) But I have noticed that some of those pictures are unfinished, like they started it then stopped, like they got bored or were having too many problems with the legs or the hands (trust me, I know how this goes!) And even recently I was asked about colleges with comics classes.

In January I will have been working in the comics biz for 20 years. I graduated from college (they discouraged comic work, or at least some of the teachers did. I did it anyways) in 92 with a 2 year degree (degrees are pretty mush useless in comics, but I figured is I flamed out I could always go back for something else.) I REALLY have little to no knowledge of what's out there school wise now, so I'm pretty useless there. BUT you do pick up things, and even now I'm still learning, which brings me to the point of this post.

Today on the twitter, I came across this; 9 Warning Signs of an Amateur Artist. This is fantastic! If you want to be a professional comic artist, writer, inker, colorist then THIS is your Bill of Rights, you're 10 Commandments. I will admit I do fall into the last one a bit, but I am trying to reach out (I have to say, twitter is great for that!)

Go read! Learn! Enjoy! And then DO!

Best,

Brett

Happy Sketch Saturday! This Week Cyclops!

Was feeling nostalgic! All from memory! GO X-Factor!

Best,

Brett