The Hawthorne comic show I was at about a month ago, that Jason swore we’d make a killing at, actually went pretty slow. I did manage to make my money back this time, with a little profit. One guy asked me to do a sketch for him of Spiderman on a blank comic book cover, and when I was done he also bought a Spiderman/Rockwell print that I signed for his (currently gestating) son. I thought that was pretty awesome. Anyway, he found me online afterwards and sent me a message through my site asking about a commission. So Jan, if it’s cool with you, I’m officially counting you as my first non-family-or-friend-fan (although we are facebook buddies now). :)

The commission is to do an illustration redux of the Amazing Fantasy #15 cover, with Jan as the dude being carried by Spiderman. And in honor of receiving the first half of the payment for it in the mail today, I thought I’d share my pencils.

And in totally unrelated news, I got the John Buscema Sketchbook from my aunt for graduation today, courtesy of amazon. Soooo gooooodd…..

So after doing my self portrait and having a rather good time of it, I decided to do a bunch of friends and family for practice. Something to keep me busy and enganged in my down-time. Anyway, this is my youngest sister, Annie.

Stages:

The hair gave me some trouble. I’ll have to find a good way to do that.

Quick self portrait done in photoshop. When I asked Todd what more it needed he said “Don’t do anything else, you’re done! You got your stare down perfect!” Apparently I have a stare. Nice.

Update 5-17: Spent some time cleaning it up and fixing some proportion issues.

Close ups:

Finished the one I was working on and banged out another. 4 to go. Uahhh…

A sketch I did for classmate.