Green Lantern Commission Painting Stage 2

At this stage I want to see what is what so I use flat colors to separate all the objects. I’m using acrylics at this stage because I want this to dry fast so I can get started with the oil paints.

I plan to have a slight glow around the Green Lantern and Sinistro, but I had forgot while I was doing the background and had put the background upon part of the figuresuntil it hit me about the glow. That is why the glow around the figures look so strange.

Next I will add the oils to the background so watch out for that.

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Green Lantern Commission Painting

Yesterday I mentioned that I got a commission to do a Green Lantern painting. The picture to the left is what the buyer wanted me to use as a model for the painting, but he wanted an outer space background so put together the composite you see below.



Below is my pencil sketch on the canvas. Next I will work on the flat colors to separate everything out. Watch for that on tomorrow’s post as I continue to show this Green Lantern painting in progress.



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Remember if you would like to have a painting done of any of your favorite comic book characters let me know by e-mailing me at mbridges54@gmail.com.

If you would to know how I do my paintings check out my How I Do My Comic Book Superhero Paintingsvideo.

This Weeks Painting for Sale “The Hulk”

This weeks painting is of the big green guy "The Incredible Hulk". This painting is only $50 with a shipping charge of $8. The painting is 9”x12” oil on canvas paper. If you would like to buy this painting just click Buy It Now below the image. You will also be able to find the weeks painting for sale in my sidebar.
Remember I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know.

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This Weeks Painting for Sale “Captain America”

This week I want to do something different. Instead of a poster print for sale, I'm going to do a painting for sale. I'm going to try this for a few weeks and see how it goes. This is the first painting. It is of Captain America. This painting is only $50 with a shipping charge of $8. The painting is 9”x12” oil on canvas paper. If you would like to buy this painting just click Buy It Now below the image. You will also be able to find the weeks painting for sale in my sidebar.
Remember I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know.

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Buy It Now

Be sure to check out my new Comic Book Video site. This site has videos comic book artist like Jim Lee, Alex Ross, Todd Mcfarlane, John Romita Sr and more doing what you like to see them doing, drawing. There are also video documentaries on Superman and the history of comics. Check it out.

Also check out My Video on how I do my comic book superhero paintings.Check it out.

This Weeks Print for Sale “The Scarlet Witch”

This week I want to do something different. Instead of a poster print for sale, I'm going to do a painting for sale. I'm going to try this for a few weeks and see how it goes. This is the first painting. It is of Captain America. This painting is $30 with a shipping charge of $8. The painting is 9”x12” on canvas paper. If you would like to buy this painting just click Buy It Now below the image. You will also be able to find the weeks painting for sale in my sidebar.
Remember I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know.

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Buy It Now

Be sure to check out my new Comic Book Video site. This site has videos comic book artist like Jim Lee, Alex Ross, Todd Mcfarlane, John Romita Sr and more doing what you like to see them doing, drawing. There are also video documentaries on Superman and the history of comics. Check it out.

Also check out My Video on how I do my comic book superhero paintings.Check it out.

Alex Ross, Nuff Said

I think what I’m going to do is each week I will talk about a comic book artist I like. I want to start of with an artist I whose work I absolutely love and who is obviously who my comic book superhero paintings influenced by.

Alex Ross was the first to artist to breath life into comic book superheroes. People like Neal Adams and Gene Colan drew superheroes realistically, but Ross made them come alive, he made them real tangible people. His first “Marvels” cover made you wonder if it was somehow some trick photography done to make a man look like he was on fire to be the Human Torch.

Since then Ross has gone on to do some other great works. Kingdom Come, his covers for Astro City and his over sized books on Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Justice Leauge, all of which I have collected.

I must admit that Alex Ross was a big influence on me to do my superhero portraits, although there are other influences that affect my other comic book art and I will talk about them later.