Fantastic Four Villains

Slow day at the comic shop today, so I did a bit of sketching between serving and chatting with customers. Sketched out a page worth of head shots of my favorite Fantastic Four villains.

King Of Hearts

The Suit Up exhibition opening was Friday night so I can finally show off the piece I created for said exhibition. For those tuning in, Suit Up is a collaborative project put together by Kate McInnes and Sean Kelly and comprises several artworks from various Australian street, comic, and illustration artists, applying their unique style to playing cards.

The image below went through many revisions before I finished it early November last year, scrapped and began anew three times in total. It was actually a full year in the works, normally I work quicker, but I had a lot going on and probably a few more projects going then I could actually handle. This was also a big exhibition for me, so I wanted to really impress everyone attending.



My biggest source of inspiration was the balls to the wall rock video below.

The video is for Probot's "Shake Your Blood," it features 66 SuicideGirls, Dave Grohl on drums, and Lemmy of Motörhead fame on lead vocals and bass.

Batman 2.0

This was done for the recent "Batman 2.0: The Dynamic Do-Over" contest over at Project: Rooftop, which was inspired by the recent death of Bruce Wayne in Final Crisis. The idea for the contest was to redesign the Batman costume should Dick Grayson take over the mantle of the Dark Knight.

My main source of inspiration was the Batman Beyond costume, which is one of my favorite costume designs alongside the Silver Surfer. I absolutely love the simplicity of the design and tried to create something similar while maintaining elements of the current Batman costume and evoking the spirit of Dick Grayson's Nightwing costume.