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Black Canary By David Miley

Another sketch

before June was

over.

Black Canary and Green Arrow by Joe Bowen

Here's Black Canary as a teenage cheerleader for the Star City High Canaries. Ollie Queen is the quarterback for the East Star City High Arrows, the Canaries' rivals. Ollie is TOTALLY into her, but she can't let down her school by dating him! omglolomfg

Ben Affleck

Just kidding. But here's my Daredevil sketch I did while at work the other day. I'm actually doing all the sketches assigned for the BAZone, it just takes me a while to get to a scanner. So I may be posting all of mine late.

Kid daredevil by Tyler Champion

I thought I'd stick with the same theme.

"The Man Without Fear" by Chris Mooneyham

Matt Murdock is a pimp.

New Challenge

Hey everyone!

Ok, so I know that I haven't put up anything yet and I promise I'll get right to that. Things have just been pretty busy over here. But as for this week's challenge I choose...

BLACK CANARY!

Have fun drawing the Blonde Bombshell!

-Lyss

Daredevil by Joe Ruff

uhh....it's Daredevil. I wanted to do something entirely different, but messed up and had to go with something else.

DARE TO BE STUPID!

B&W and Color versions of Marvel's DareDevil done by yours truly.

Dare to be different

I just got my first set of copics, so I wanted this piece to be an experimentation with them. Im starting to get the hang of them a little bit..I did some sketch card samples playing around with them a bit. I wanted to work in my more cartoony style, but didn't want to abandon the kind of approach I took in my Super-man piece. This is a style I enjoy to work in. I like the rain in the b/w piece better, but I don't think the colors ruined the piece. Ink, ink-wash, and copics on 8.5x11 water color paper

Daredevil by Joe Bowen

Yellow Daredevil! I'll admit that the costume here is heavily influenced by Rafael Grampa's version of Daredevil from his pinup in Daredevil #500.

-Joe

Kingdom Come

Nothing fancy or extraordinary, just felt like sketching and

messing around, I've never drawn the supes from kingdom

come and i thought it would be fun to try to draw an older

superman. I feel like there's a lot of pressure whenever i try

to draw superman, i like this character a lot and if you like a

character a lot you know you have the urge that it has to

be sweet, but whatever, my point here was to play around with the

character's attitude and i really want to focus on this a lot more.

Hope you dig.

Gio.

Kid Superman

I really am not a big fan of superman, so I thought I'd do my own take on this topic.

-Tyler

Red Son

I really liked the Red Son storyline so I decided to draw something from that. I found an old Soviet propaganda poster that has Stalin with a ships wheel and thought it'd be cool to put Superman in there. I ended up having a lot of fun with it. If you haven't read Red Son, go check it out.

Traditional pencils and inks. Digital flats, type, and old paper texture.

-Hoover

This Weeks Challenge . . .

Hey all. Sorry I haven't posted my Supes pic yet. I'll get that in asap, but for those of you who are itching at starting the newest challenge, this weeks will be . . . .

DAREDEVIL!

So show everyone your favorite depiction of the man without fear! Carabet out!

The Quest for Peace?

I think I'm one of maybe two people in the world who like Superman IV:  The Quest for Peace.  I grew up with this one, ladies and gentlemen.  I used to watch it every day for at least a year.  Sure, now that I'm older I can see how tired Christopher Reeve is in the role.  And yes, Gene Hackman really hams it up in this one.  And who can forget The Nuclear Mullet, er... I mean Nuclear Man?But it's part of my childhood, people, and I know that the 5 year-old me would love to see this.  So, this is for all two fans of this film.  

Enjoy,

Chris

Superman by Joe Ruff

So here's my Superman piece...I hope I'll be able to put Batman in every one.

Bizarro Love

Lois is done with Supes, time for some Bizarro action!

Inspired by the great Silver Age covers.

Damn you, Lex Luthor!

A quick one I did today inspired by the crazy-ass Superman covers from the Silver Age. Why can't the Superman comics of today be more like this?

B&W Lineart, and Colored version, of Superman hanging out in his Fortress of Solitude with the Bottle City of Kandor.

Fleischer Stylie

I've never been a big Superman fan, but I do dig the old 1940's look of Supes. I like this for the most part, but coloring it with prismacolors may have been a mistake! Hope you all dig.

- J

Superman by Joe Bowen

My first thought after I chose Superman for the topic was: lace-up boots. Then I decided to draw a Superman design without referencing ANY other Supermans.

After finishing this, I figured the guy looked too young, so I came up with the story that he is a goverment-engineered Superman to combat the original Superman. The original Superman has gone rogue, and the government has used his DNA to create someone to find him.

Also, he keeps a "kripto-knife" in his thigh sheath to kill Superman when he finally finds him.

In the Zone

This week's theme is Superman, and personally I feel like it's a great starting point. Towards the end of third year I kind of abandoned the brush, so a few weeks ago I decided to pick it back up. Boy am I glad I did, and personally I missed it. I love being able to be free and just do things in the moment. This piece was basically me having fun with brush and nib. Enjoy!

*First!*

Well it has come down from on high (Mount Olym-pug) that the first week's theme is "Superman". Not really one for the tights these days, but you can find something fun in everything. Hopefully I'll be able to finish this up and get it less rough sometime in the future, but there it is.

Starring James Coats

The Rules of the Badass Zone

This blog will not begin until school is out. The first "challenge" will be the first week of June.

I'll choose the first theme that week, and everyone can do a sketch. Each subsequent week, a different member will choose a theme.

The definition of "sketch" is pretty open. You can do a rough pencil head-sketch, or a finished digital painting. It's all up to the individual participants.

Peace,

Joe B