Inked 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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    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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    24 Hour Comics Day 2009 – Santa Fe, NM

    This year I participated in the annual 24 Hour Comic. The challenge is to create 24 pages of comic book with in 24 hours. This was the second time I’ve done it. I really had a great time doing it too. At times it felt...

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    24 Hour Comics Day 2009 – Santa Fe, Part 2

    The Half Way Point! Participating in 24 Hour Comics Day. Here I am 12 hours into the challenge. Not as far ahead as I had planned. But still having fun. I originally planned to have the comic done within the 1st 12 hours. I’m actually...

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    24 Hour Comics Day 2009 – Santa Fe, Part 1

    This year I participated in 24 Hour Comics Day again. It was held on October Saturday the 3rd to 4th. I had such a blast with it last year there was no question I would do it again. The goal is to create 24 comic...

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    How to Draw Comics Book Review – How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

    I’ve wanted to be a comic book artist as long as I’ve been reading comics. To be able to play with the heroes I read about. Like most aspiring artists I looked to books to show me the right way to draw comics. How the...

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    Twitter Contest – Original Captain Marvel Drawing – By Comic Book Artist Eric Merced

    I’ve been very active on Twitter for the past few months. I’ve actually maxed out the amount of people I can follow (which is 2001).  I would say that about 80% of the people I follow are comic book artists, writers, and fellow fans. Well...

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    Comic Book Digital Inking Techniques with Illustrator Vector Anchor Points

    I’ve received several requested to show the steps I used to create my digital inking of the Fantastic Four pin up I did of artist Ariel Padilla’s pencils.  I was looking for some art to ink and found the pencils on his DeviantArt page. This...

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    Vader’s Fist – The 501st Legion – Digitally Inked in Adobe Illustrator

    A few months ago I decided to draw Vader’s Fist, the 501st Legion. I’m a huge Star Wars fan and wanted to draw something cool. I usually draw comic book characters but I think it was a fun change to draw some sci-fi stuff. The...

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    24 Hour Comic 2008 – Santa Fe, NM

    I created this comic book in 23 hours with the help of my girlfriend (she inked the pages) for 24 Hour Comic 2008. Click on any of the pages to see larger. If you start with the 1st page you can read the whole comic....

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