Index Card 2

Not quite index cards.  But I'm still calling it "Index Card" just to keep the free sketch stuff in the same category.  It was one of those free sketch request I get every now and then.  Click here to see my first post about these free sketches. 

These were sent all the way back to Belgium.  Originally, I was sent the two comic books (The Spirit and The New Warriors) along with some blank paper.  The Spirit trade paperback was sorta cool because it was published in a foreign language.  The New Warrior comic was all English.  There was also letter asking for a Hercules sketch.  There were five pieces of blank paper.  So I decided I may as well sketch other stuff on them.  Also did a sketch of Spider-Man, The Spirit and Batman.

Now the other drawing was something I did at the spur of the moment.  I had one extra blank piece of paper and didn't know what else to draw.  I wanted to sketch on all five papers since they came all the way from Belgium and going back.  I thought to myself, what characters are out there that everybody knows of?  Then I looked over to the left and I saw my daughters big bucket of crayons.  I saw all those colors, tips of the crayon and they reminded me of a Pac-Man maze.  You know... the power pellets and the bright dots.  Then I said "I'm drawing Pac Man!  Wouldn't that be funny when they get it back and see this!"  And that's exactly what I did.  After I drew the four monsters, I then drew the fourth monster being gobbled up my Pac Man!   Then colored them with y daughters crayons.

Wonka-Wonka!

Batman commission piece over Adam Hughes

On the left is the Batman pencil sketch by Adam Hughes.  On the right is my inks over it... grey wash and all.

Emma Frost Commission piece over Arthur Adams

Another commission piece over Arthur Adam's hand drawn blue pencils.  On the left is the original pencils sent to me.  On the right, my inks on top of it.  Emma Frost aka White Queen.

Captain Cold

Here's a Captain Cold piece where I inked over Kerry Gammill's pencils for DC Comics.  It was to be used to make a T-Shirt for the DC Originals line of clothing.  Not sure if the T-Shirt was ever made.  If anyone sees one, let me know.

Flashpoint pins

DC Comics sent me a bag of Flashpoint pins.  From what the letter says, everyone who helped out with Flashpoint was sent a complete set of 16 Flashpoint pens which were available exclusively to retailers.  A small token of their gratitude.  What a nice gesture.  In case you're wondering, underneath the bags of pin is just the back of that DC letter.  Even the paper that this letter is printed on is cool,  There are characters on the back of it.

Anyways... I took all the pins and pinned them on the holiday gift DC Comics sent to freelancers last year.  The messenger bag with the DC logo on it.  I thought I blogged about the messenger bag when I got it last year, but it must have slipped my mind.  In any case, here it is now... all decked out with Flashpoint pins.

FLASHPOINT: LOIS LANE AND THE RESISTANCE #3 (OF 3)

Comps for Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance #3 where I've inked over Christian Duce's pencils.

 When I first got pages to work on, I was surprised to see Grifter from the WildCATS.  Which is an indication that characters from the Wildstorm Universe is moving into the DC Universe.

My favorite part about working on this issue was being able to ink Grifter.  First time working on the character.

 Below is the first page splash...

 With colors by Hi-Fi.

DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE 2-PACK ACTION FIGURES - SUPERGIRL vs. SHE-RA

Action figure toy packaging art where I did some work on.

 My black & white inks over Bob McLeod's pencils.

Supergirl

She-Ra

Crystal Castle for the backgrounds.

Back of the actiojn figure 2-pack

Mini poster insert.

BATMAN #713

The last issue of Batman before the DC relaunch.  Batman #713. 

 Helped out on a few pages over Steve Scott's pencils.

Here's a nice collage splash page.  

Double page spread.

With colors and credits to the double page spread.

Here's a splash page, which is also the LAST page of the LAST issue.  Very cool to be able to say that... Last issue, last page.

Colors: Ian Hannan
Letters: Jared K. Fletcher  

GOTHAM CITY SIRENS: STRANGE FRUIT

Hardcovers Grephic Novels of Gotham City Sirens: Strange Fruit.

This reprints some of the work I've done for Gotham City Sirens #17 and #19.  In stores now!

WONDER WOMAN #613

On the left is the regular cover (by Lee Garbett) and the variant cover on the right (by Alex Garner). 

Helped out on six pages.  It's a Wonder Woman vs. Wonder Woman story where I've inked over Travis Moore's pencils.

Original Wonder Woman vs. the Wonder Woman in the new outfit.

The new Wonder Woman outfit here has pants.  Currently in the DC Universe, she's moved on to wearing shorts.

Wonder Woman #613 is in stores now.

DEADPOOL #42

Here's the cover to Deadpool #42.

Cover art: Dave Johnson

My name is spelled incorrectly in this issue.  "WaldOn" with an 'o' instead of the correct way,  Walden with an 'e'.  I don't get how that happens.  My name was mispelled in issue #40, then it was correctly spelled in issue #41.  Now it's back to the same mispelling in #42.  The credit page must have been manually adjusted as each comic goes into publication.

Now onto the inks where I've inked over the talented Carlo Barberi.

Round 3, fight!!!  Nah... that number 3 just represents the cell number in the story.

I like the sparks effect that's coming out of Deadpool's head in panel 1.  Reminds me of how Arthur Adams draws his sparks.

 Now on to another page, from Pencils, to inks, to colors and letters....

Pencils: Carlo Barberi.

Inks: Walden Wong

Colors: Ferran Daniel
Letters: VC's Joe Sabino

OUTSIDERS: THE GREAT DIVIDE tpb

Got a trade paper back comp copy for Outsider The Great Divide.  I blogged about the original comic release here where I've inked just a few pages over Keith Giffen's pencils...  Three pages actually.  It's always a nice surprise to also get a comp for only inking three pages in the whole lot.

In stores now and more info here.

TITANS #38

This marks the last issue of TITANS before the DC Comics' relaunch.  

My inks over Travis Moore's pencils.

Deathstroke splash page.

I lost count of all the characters that i had to ink on this page.  A majority of the DC Characters are in there.

Here's a sequence from pencils to inks to colors...

Pencils: Travis Moore

Inks: Walden Wong

Colors: Jeremy Colwell (as part of Hi-Fi)

In stores now and more info here.

DEADPOOL #41

Deadpool #41 is out where I inked over Carlo Barberi's pencils.

Here's some of the inks as usual.  

Splash page.  Majority of this was done in brush.

One of  the more detailed pages.  More micron and technical pen work here because of all the tiny details.

Then we have this page which is a nice combination of brush, quill, and pen.

BATMAN #712

Box of comps for Batman #712. 

 There were two pencillers for this issue, Steve Scott and Andy Smith.  I was asked to help out on this issue with a deadline cruch.  Some pages were inked over original pencils while others were done in blue line.

Riddler splash page over Steve Scott's pencils.

Double page spread over Steve Scott.

Splash page over Andy Smith.

Interior page over Andy Smith.