Classic Avengers characters are always fun to draw. Wanda is another character I haven’t had the chance to draw too often. This was a great commission request from my friend Stephen, who volunteers for the MSP Comic Con.
It’s sort of odd to think that, even though the 1966 Batman TV show had such a lasting influence on me and my generation, I’ve rarely actually drawn this incarnation of these characters. This piece was a very cool commission and was eventually signed by both Adam West and Burt Ward.
Captain America is such a great character. I was very happy to get another crack at Cap because my first attempt at painting him turned out to be a weak homage to Mitchell Hook’s amazing cover to 1967’s The Great Gold Steal paperback. For this painting, I wanted to take full advantage of the character’s …
A big part of what makes Iron Man an interesting character has been the fact that his “super powers” are derived from his armor. So it only seemed appropriate to showcase the different incarnations of Tony Stark’s creation in this piece.
The Punisher was never a big favorite of mine. He didn’t have a rich history to draw from, so I decided to focus on the character doing what he does best: blasting away at some bad guys. Back during my TSR days, I was often “accused” of painting myself into my covers. While I often …
When it came time to paint the covers for this series of Marvel “Pick-a-Path” Adventure paperback books, I usually didn’t have any knowledge of what the story was about. Usually we just had a working title. The cover art was needed for the distributors’ catalogues, so they were painted early in the process. I thought …
This is an old favorite from the 1990 Forgotten Realms Calendar. Funny thing about this piece: After 5 years in the TSR Art Department, this was the only dragon I ever painted. How does the blimp-like gas bag survive a dragon attack, you ask? It’s covered with silver-dragon scales, of course!
This piece was sculpted during a maquette-sculpting workshop taught by fantastic artist and teacher, Ed Binkley. Other than some custom toy work, I hadn’t done much sculpting since college. I decided to try an entire figure, so I used the Mucha-inspired portrait of my wife, Jennifer as my reference
This piece represents an early stage in the visual concept process for an enemy who could actually hold his own in a fight with Wolverine.
This is an obvious salute to the great, John Romita Sr. The best part about submitting art to Marvel for approval in the ‘80s, was getting the “Jazzy One’s” tissue overlay corrections back. It was like going to school, all over again!