Green Lantern Abin Sur Commission Painting

I recently did my third Green Lantern commission. This one was a bit more involved than the others and featured the meeting of Abin Sur and Hal Jordan. For those who don't know who Abin Sur is, he is the Green Lantern that gave Hal Jordan his ring.

This painting takes place when Hal Jordan, after being summoned by Abin’s ring finds Abin Sur dying in his spaceship and Abin gives Hal the ring.

The Green Lantern is one of my favorite comic book characters to do. I like the costume and the things the ring can do. My favorite Green Lantern artist of all time is Gil Kane.

Below is the painting from pencil to finished painting.

Pencil On Canvas


First Stage: Flat Acrylic Colors


Second Stage: Background Oils


Final Stage: The Characters Done And Painting Signed And Dated


I hope you enjoyed this look at this Green Lantern commission. If you would like to have a commission done e-mail me at mbridges54@gmail.com

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My YouSayToo Dream Gift Post

I have decided to enter this blog in the YouSayToo Dream Gift Awards contest. Entering this contest will give me a chance to win my $1000 holiday dream gift, which is an updated computer so I can do video editing on it.

There will be ten winners in this contest. The first place winner will get the $1000 dream gift and the nine runner-ups will get a fun gift of their choice. I would choose the Retro Web Cam, which looks great. But I plan to win.

The reason I think this blog should win is because I not only show good quality art like the one below I also show how I do that artwork. There are also lessons on how to draw comic book characters.



If you have a blog you can also enter the YouSayToo Dream Gift Awards. Just click the link and become a member of YouSayToo, add your blog to the site and do a post about the YouSayToo Dream Gift Awards like this one.

By the way you can add as many blogs as you have and enter them all in the contest. YouSayToo also shares their revenue with bloggers so you can make money just for having your blog there.

Go ahead and join YouSayToo and enter your blog in the Dream Gift Awards. The deadline for entering is January 31 2010. You could be one of the nine runner-ups since I will win the main prize. LOL! Good Luck!


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My Comic Book Character Art On eBay

I have some of my comic character art up for auction on eBay. If you would to own some of my artwork you can go buy them now. Here is what I have up.

Scarlet Witch Painting

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Three Jokers Painting

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Jake Sully Avatar Drawing

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Original Avatar Drawing

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I also have a commission Buy Now auction up so check that out too.

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The Start Of My Avatar ACEO Paintings

Below you can see the pencils for a couple of Avatar ACEO paintings I will be working on. I just wanted to show them here and when I have them done I will show their progression. This post however will end my week of Avatar posts and I will return to posting about my comic book characters art.





You can also look forward to seeing posts on how to draw some of your favorite comic book superheroes like Spider-Man, Batman, The Thing and others. I will also be doing more artwork of female superheroes. I may even throw in some artwork of some of my own comic book characters. So be sure to keep dropping by there will be a lot to see.


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A Quick Avatar Drawing Sketch Card

Today is a short post. I just wanted to show you this quick drawing sketch card I did. This is the first Avatar sketch card drawing that I have done. This is a drawing of Jake Sully in his Na 'vi body. Click the image to the right to see a larger version.

I plan to do more Avatar sketch cards along with some ACEO paintings. I have already started a couple of 8”x10” Avatar paintings and will post them when they're done and I'll show their progression.

You can see a video of how I did this drawing by clicking this Avatar Drawing link.

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How To Create Your Own Avatar Character Part 2 – The Body

Yesterday I showed you how to draw your own Na 'vi character head. The Na 'vi are the alien beings from the movie “Avatar” Today we are going to draw the whole Na 'vi character, body and all. This exercise gives you an idea of how you can combine the human form with features from other life forms to create a whole different life form that looks convincing (the Na 'vi are a combination of human with slight cat features). These new life forms could make for interesting comic book characters.

Okay, I always start with simple shapes, it makes it easier to see how the drawing will work. I start with the head shape and then draw shapes for the other body parts. The body and legs of the Na 'vi are a bit longer and slimmer than humans. This gives them a sleek catlike look.



Now you want to start making the necessary changes to the head and body by sculpting out the shapes.




Now that all of the shapes are sculpted we start putting some details like muscle, eyes and hair in.



Now lets put on some clothing. The Na 'vi don't really wear a lot of clothing so this part is fairly easy. I forgot to add the tail so I added it here.




Once all the line work is done you can make your drawing come alive by adding some shading. The Na 'vi has stripes all over their body so I add them during the shading stage. Now your Na’vi is done.



I did this drawing fairly quick so it's not really the quality I usually do. I hope you had fun doing these Avatar drawings the last two days.

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How To Create Your Own Avatar Character Part 1 – The Head

In this post I continue with my obsession with the movie “Avatar”. This time I going to show you how to create a Na 'vi, the alien beings from the movie. The Na 'vi are actually a mixture humans and cats so when creating a one you have to keep that in mind. By learning how to draw the Na 'vi you could come up with your own mixture of human and something else to use as one of your comic book characters maybe.

We will start with just drawing a Na 'vi head. The first thing you want to start with is the shape of the head. This shape will be something like an oval, but you can modify it as you see fit. Below are some shapes that can be used.



This next image shows the head shape I came up with. The one thing to keep in mind is that like cats there is a wider space between the Na 'vi's eyes so the head shape should allow for that.



Now you want to give the shape a little more detail so that it looks more like a head. Lets also add the neck and shoulders to this head. I will also put on the ears, which you will notice is a bit higher on the head than they would be on a human head. Also notice that they look more cat like as well.



Now lets start roughing in the facial features. The Na 'vi have big cat shaped eyes and as I mentioned before there is a bigger space between them than on humans. The nose starts wide at the bridge, but only gets a little thinner as it comes to the tip. Also the nose doesn't protrude like a human nose it is almost flat as it comes down to a cat like nose tip. The mouth is much more human like.



Okay, lets put on some hair and line in a little more detail like the eye balls and neck muscles.



Now that the features are all mapped out we can do some shading to make the drawing come alive. The Na 'vi also have stripe like designs on their face and bodies so when you are doing your shading don't forget to put them in. And there you have it, a nice little Na 'vi character that you created.



You can see a video of how I did this drawing by clicking this How to Draw Your Own Avatar Character link. Tomorrow I will do a whole Na 'vi, body so check back then.

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