If I recall correctly, during a vacation back home, I had some new pens I wanted to try out and I had just gone digging into the few surviving comics from my childhood collection - the 400 or so comics were reduced to about 80 when the basement of my parents house flooded. Which is lame.
I had pulled out a Ghost Rider Annual that Chris Bachelo had drawn.
When I think about it, the Punisher's visual is as iconic as his character - and both are very simple.
Black and white, utility and a skull. Both attitude and what Frank looks like.
Must be part of the reason people love to write and draw the character.
Another comic idea where the Lord of Lies himself spins a crucial cog in a machine of mischief and misfortune.
On the right hand side is evidence where I've flipped open my book, thought 'Christ, that's a shit drawing' and done another to see just how far I've come.
Hardest critic I have is myself. Which is the way it ought to be.
Burne Hogarth does some seriously cool books on faces and anatomical proportion.
He does books on lighting and other stuff, but his anatomical are my favorites.
He managages (probably like most of the best) to apply cubism to bodies while keeping them flesh.
Learned a lot, and still will from the books.
Got to ask myself "Why the hell would a warrior have half her face covered? That's just gotta be stupid.
I heard that most pirates wearing an eyepatch weren't actually missing an eye, but getting that eye used to seeing in the dark, SO when they would raid a ship at night they'd move the patch and be able to see better.
... And there's a "NO HAPPY ENDINGS" logo to the top right, and someone's underwear in the bottom right.
It's a crazy little guy who smells a lot, and he's unfortunately disfigured so they call him "The Butt"
He's the butt of jokes. The final third of the band "Ifs, Ands"
Frequently "himself's" heads with others...
The jokes are horrible...
Yeah, that's right, McHalloweeny Pants. Let the jokes fly.
I think it's a pretty crazy and cool idea though.
Top right is a hand study, as the date says October 98