Some New Art and Some Bat Statues

Well its the end of the month and I wanted to get one more post in before August. So this is a hodge podge...or what ever they call it.

Ok first up is a quick sketch that came out of a debate with a fellow comic book geek, who was better, DC's Green Arrow or Marvel's Hawkeye. I have enjoyed them both at different times. In my younger days I was a true blue Hawkeye fan. Loved em as the purple archer as well as the red and blue Goliath. However, in my more adult years, Green Arrow, with his robin hood origin story line, his strong convictions to his political and moral beliefs, in other words his complexity, have made him much more appealing to me. What about you? Either way I thought it would be fun to envision a battle between the two.

Second up is a little ditty I sketched up a few weeks ago. I call it my Robot Angel. Could make for a cool full color piece some day.

Last up is a couple shots of my growing Batman Black and White statue collection. These are sculptures of the Dark Knight based on famous Artist interpretations through time. They come out almost once a month or so, I dont get them all but i get the ones based on the likeness of artist I like. Ill list above each pic the artist/character style each one is based on.

See ya in the dog days of August.

BAT





Bats based on the very first image of him drawn by Bob Kane one of his first creators!

Here Bats is based on the incredibly talented visionary, Mike Mignola. Mike is best known for his creation Hellboy. The thing that makes this statue so amazing for me is the way they painted the figure so as to truly make it look like it was a 3 D version of a 2 D Mike Mignola drawing, just love it.



The classic Frank Miller Batman from the now classic The Dark Knight Returns Graphic Novel.



Paul Pope is a wild new artist on the comics scene. His work on the Trade Paperback "Batman Year 100" was unique and fresh. His interpretation of Bats is both retro and futuristic. I love his look for Batman and I loved his art in that story. Definitely a Bat book not to be missed.



Steve Rude is one of my all time favorite comicbook artist. This statue is based on his stylings for the character. You can see his interpretation of bats as well as Superman in the Worlds Finest Trade PaperBack. A really good book with a fun story where Supes and Bats trade enemies as well as cities.