Welcome back! I know I say this every time I post, but all apologies for the delay... This time it wasn't all my fault either. A late night milk/cereal/keyboard fiasco and subsequent laziness left me without a spacebar for about a month. In that time and really as always, I was super-productive with the enjoyable part of my work (ink & tone to the paper) and lagging on the more mundane tasks (scanning & digital cleanup)... So here's all that's accumulated in that time with a massive post of unscanned material waiting in the wings...
I guess you could call this one me at my most comfortable and escapist. If you didn't know, this is how I've drawn myself for about 7 years. Sure, the clothes and hair change as the years go by and my skills have definitely become a bit more refined, but at the matter's heart it all comes down to me wishing I lived in a world that needed a hero and me being able to fill that role handily. Now honestly, I'm a Spidey guy and if his costume were easily alterable without shirking its essence and not such a royal pain to draw in general you'd see me in webbed tights here. But as it stands, I already did a drawing of myself as Bats (http://www.joshualincolnnelson.com/2008/06/in-anticipation-of-dark-knight.html) and thought I'd explore that again when I was hopped up on coffee and indecisive on subject matter...
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This one stresses me out every time I see it. Now, I've done an 100 page graphic novel and a couple 30 page one-shots so I'm really no stranger to longer term projects, but this children's book I'm collaborating with my Dad on is driving me mad with false starts. After 3 months of doodling concepts, I finally got this and feel pretty satisfied with moving forward. Now it's just a matter of drawing about 24 more of these in different poses. Maybe I'll finish it before my Dad hits retirement...
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Not much to say about this one. I started drawing myself, didn't pencil anything around me, and freestyled the background with ink and tone...
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This is a throwback to a drawing I did of Steve Ditko's "The Question" (http://www.joshualincolnnelson.com/2008/08/green-lantern-question-cole-cash.html). Now after further research, I learned that Rorschach from "Watchmen" actually owes more to Ditko's later creation "Mister A" than "The Question". This was in the late 60s, when he really got submerged into Objectivism, Ayn Rand, and solidified himself as the JD Salinger of comics.
Getting to the point, the "Watchmen" film was really about as good as it could get, given the limitations of film, the conflicting interests involved in its production, and Zach Snyder's semi-immaturity and fixation on blood splattering all over the place no matter what the violent act is... So anyway, I thought this movie was fine. I'd never recommend it to someone who hasn't read the book and I think its underlying themes get a little lost amid its action, but it looks great and DOES display an adequate understanding and adoration of its source material... Here's Rorschach in "Watchmen" yellow...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_(comics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_(comics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._A
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
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And lastly, here's easily my greatest quick sketch ever. The color's pretty shabby as I did it with marker, but I think it stands as a good example of what I can throw together in an hour and half at a coffee shop...
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