Character Design Archive

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    Aurora Light – Character Design for The REPLICANTS Project

    The idea of Aurora Light came from a challenge to create a superhero team based on an existing team. The REPLICANTS Project created by Dean Rivet. The inspiration for Aurora Light came from Wonder Woman. What I did was look at what makes Wonder Woman...

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    Creating Cool New Characters for The REPLICANTS Project

    I’ve been participating in a fun collaboration with some great comic artist in The REPLICANTS Project. What we are doing is creating our own characters based on existing characters. Similar to how Marvel Comics Squadron Supreme was based on DC Comics Justice League, and how...

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    Book Store Page added to Blog – How To Draw Comics and Resources

    Like most aspiring comic book artists I look to books for instruction, inspirations and resources. Almost as soon as I started reading comics I wanted to create comics too. My introduction to comic creating was Marvel Comics Try-Out Book. This book taught me so much...

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    Free Comic Book Resources – Character Design 180°

    Research is very important when working on a comic book. If I’m going to draw a car, horse or gun then I need to know what it looks like. The same can be said about the characters in the comic too. Back in the 90′s...

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    The Hunter – Character Design – From Sketches to Final Ink – Part 3

    A few months ago I was looking through some of my old drawings. Ones I did while I was a kid up to when I was in collage. I found my original sketches for a character named “The Hunter”.  I had redesigned his history and...

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    The Hunter – Character Design – From Sketches to Final Ink – Part 2

    While looking through some of my drawing from ten years ago I found a character design I did for “The Hunter”. Form that original sketch I redesigned his look and biography. The newer design sketches were a little rough, but they were intentionally quick to get...

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    The Daily Comic Sketch Challenge – 2010 Week 1

    The Daily Comic Sketch Challenge – 2010 Week 1. Last year I did a set of  quick drawing of only 30 minutes each. These drawing were of random comic book characters suggested by friends from Twitter.  I had a major blast drawing them. I really...

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    The Hunter – Character Design – From Sketches to Final Ink – Part 1

    I was going through some of my old sketches the other day. I have a personal treasury of character designs and comic book drawings. Back in the day I would live to come up with new characters.  It seems I don’t draw as much now...

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    I Conquered the 30 Characters Challenge!

    In the month of November Tyler James created an awesome opportunity for creative minds to unite. He put forth the challenge of creating 30 character in 30 day. I of course answered the call. It was also answered by over 25 other artists. Every day...

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    Free Comic Book Resources – Concept Sketch Page

    When drawing your character designs it’s fun to do it on specialized paper. Ofcoure you don’t need a Concept Sketch Page to draw. You can use any type of paper, but it’s cool to have an organized looking paper system. What I’ve done is created...

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