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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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    Sketch Card – Thor of the Avengers

    I’ve decided to do a quick pencil drawing every few days. What better way then to draw on a Sketch Card. It give me the opportunity to practice drawing different characters, and it’s also fun! Sketch cards are the sized of collectible cards. They’ve become...

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    Sketch Card – Hawkeye of the Avengers

    A few months ago I ordered some cool sketch cards on-line. These were trading card size, 2.5″ x 3″ Bristol board paper. Well I finally got around to actually drawing on one last night. In the middle of cleaning my apartment I was struck with...

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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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    Marvel Comics – The Heroic Age – Fan Blog Site

    This last week Marvel Comics has been promoting their new event called The Heroic Age. It was hinted last year with a teaser showing Thor, Captain America and Iron Man in shadow. the last few years in the Marvel Universe have been very dark. There...

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    Thor Movie Open Casting Call in Santa Fe

    Disney/Marvel will be casting for principal roles and extras to appear in new Thor feature film when it begins filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico this March. Open Casting Call Details: Ages 18 and over may attend. You are welcome to bring non-returnable photos of kids interested...

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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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    Free Comic Book Resources – Scene Design Page

    One of the most important things when drawing a comic book is the background. You can have the most stylized or realistic characters, but if the background is weak then the whole comic can suffer. Things on your paper will just not look right. If...

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