Round 27: The Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker)

I've been fascinated by the Ventriloquist since first seeing him on Batman: The Animated Series.  A timid man  whose personality split to control an overbearing mobster in the form of a puppet named, Scarface.  Not only is Arnold Wesker afraid of his puppet, but his hired guns and various associates are too.  No one acknowledged Arnold, they only look at the puppet.  Its kind of brilliant.

I wanted to try a lot of different things on this one.  A little bit of line coloring, a dash of perspective, and varying up my textures.  As far as the character, I wanted to make it obvious that it was Arnold doing the killing, but his twisted psyche convincing him that its the puppet.

Go to my personal blog to see the original inks and some work in progress shots: NeedYourDisease

Round 27: Mr. Freeze

My real education in Batman came from, Batman the Animated Series.  Like most around my age I had  met "The Challenge of the Superfriends", gone through a "Superpowers" and 60's "Batman and Robin" phase.  Was blown away by Burton's and Miller's Batmen and glowed with spiteful joy when I first read, "Death in the Family".  This was all immaterial when I found the work of Timm and Dini.  The original animated series was a distillation of everything good about Batman including his rogues gallery.  

My favorite, Dr.Victor Fries*.  He isn't in it for money, glory, a twisted sense of entitlement or even, "...to watch it all burn," he's in it for the love of his wife Nora.  Nothing else matters.  It's hard not to root for him especially in the episode, "Heart of Ice".  Do yourself a favor, if you haven't watched it in a while it's one of the best.

As the illustration goes, it's all vector, it was hard to pass up the pun.  

*Can't get this far into the post without mentioning the character design for Freeze was done by another hero of mine, Mike Mignola.

Hawken

I do love me some westerns. And what I love even more than westerns? Good western comics. This is a fan piece I did for the team of Ben & Tim Truman and their book HAWKEN. If you haven't read it yet...really?
You can click on the link to see the the inked line work. Chelzo Studios . Thanks for lookin'. J.

Round 27: Holy Macaroni Batman!

Woo!! Drawing this made me very happy. F yeah Poison Ivy!

R.Crider: Burning For You

Illo for the day job I loosely based on my pal and Drink And Draw Social Club sponsor: John Dudas. What does loosely based mean?  He's a firefighter and I was too lazy to go actually look at pictures of the guy. 

He's got the best comic shop in Cleveland and you should go to it. 

http://www.cnjcomics.com

Tim, Non-Topic Post: WIP GIF

Look! It moves! I felt like making an animation of some older work (mostly so I don't forget how to do it).  I know most of this has been posted before, but now you can view it in all of its animated seizure inducing glory! Or if you want you can always still view the (static) original post right here.

Round 27: The Batman!

With the flurry of posts and busy schedule of the Rust Belt Monsters, we almost forgot to tell you that this Round's theme is The Batman (I always thought that "The" makes it cooler).  We are not immune to the overwhelming coolness that is the Dark Knight.  So in honor of the caped crusader, we will be posting Batman themed works for all to enjoy.  Be sure to bookmark/subscribe for all updates Rust Belt Monster related.

Craig sketcherizes!

Mr. Crider had a good idea sharing some stuff from Dr. Sketchy so I thought I would add my 2 cents.

 These 2 are from Bond girl Sketchy with Dot King with an AMAZING switch as Hans (or maybe Gretel) Blowfeld.

From  the last Dr. Sketchy, it's Freddy Nova as Skeletor!

And finally a quick sketch from the ABW sketchy.