Hand gestures and hour 10 of my Black Cat painting.

Facial gestures and hour 9 of my Black Cat painting.

Hand gestures and part 8 of my Black Cat painting.

 Facial gestures and part 7 of my Black Cat painting.

This is lesson 3 of the Oatley Academy Magic Box. In this lesson we were supposed to use masks to create a creature or character. I ended up with a wasp type creature with big hands. Kinda strange looking but I like him.

 Hand gestures and part 6 of my Black Cat painting

Page 12. This came out pretty good. I was worried about all the black that was going to be in the last panel but I think I found a way to make it work.

Facial Gestures and hour 5 of my Black Cat painting.

Hand gestures and part 4 of my black cat painting

Facial gestures and part 3 of my Black Cat painting.

Hand gestures and part 2 of my Black Cat painting.

Facial gestures and the start of painting of Black Cat from the Spider-man comics.

 Hand gestures and my finished Frazetta copy. I feel pretty good about this one. He was one of the best artist of his generation and has influenced just about every fantasy or sci fi artist living today.

Page 12 pencils. I like where this page is going and am looking forward to seeing the whole thing inked.

 Hand gestures and hour 6 of my Frazetta copy.

Page 11 inked and ready.

Facial gestures and hour 5 of my Frazetta copy.

Hand gestures and hour 4 of my Frazetta copy.

Facial gestures and hour 3 of my Frazetta copy. Also I just realized that I made my 600th post a couple of weeks ago. So yay. Normally I would have done something to celebrate that but I've been to busy to even notice.

Hand gestures and hour 2 of my Frazetta copy.

Facial gestures and the start of a Frank Frazetta copy. Even when his paintings are of people sitting or standing still they still have so much life. They look as if they could jump up at any moment.

 Hand gestures and my finished self portrait. I like the way that it came out. It shows that I've improved a lot since the last time I did a self portrait which was two years ago.

The last part of lesson one for the Oatley Academy, color comps. I used still from movie as the inspiration for the different color choices here. top-right Re-animator, bottom right Conan, bottom left Frozen.

 Facial gestures and hour 6 of my self portraits.

Page 11 pencils of my comic. wheeeeeee.

Hand gestures and hour 5 of my self portrait.

Facial gestures and hour 4 of my self portrait.

Hand gestures and hour 3 of my self portrait.

Facial gestures from pixelovely.com and hour 2 of my self portrait.

Hand gestures from pixelovely.com and hour 1 of a self portrait.

 Bridgeman copies and my final hour of my Matt Dixon copy. I focused on the girl for the most.

Oatley Academy part two. Zorn combined with a crocodile.

 Bridgeman copies and hour 6 of my Matt Dixon copy. Spent most of my time on her face and helmet. Did some other detail work as well.

Page 10 of my comic. I think that I'm getting the hang of inking in Photoshop. This is my favorite page so far because the last three panels where 100% my idea and my writer thought that they where fit the characters really well and established there relationship as a surrogate parent and child relationship.

Bridgeman copies and hour 5 of my Matt Dixon copy.

Bridgman copies and hour 4 of a Matt Dixon copy. Added color to the girls various accessories.

Bridgeman copies and hour 3 of the Matt Dixon copy. Lines done and the under painting done.

Bridgman copies and hour 2 of my Matt Dixon painting. Got the line work pretty much done here.