jeremyhaun.com: DAILY SKETCHBOOK/COMMISSION POST (PART 3)

Today's post is a commission that I'd been dying to get to for a while now. Swamp Thing is easily one of my all time favorite characters, yet somehow, up until now, I'd never gotten the opportunity to draw him. As with a lot of characters, this one took a little figuring out as to what my take on him was going to be. That said, I'm not really doing anything revolutionary here. He's essentially the exact same character that has been drawn by a hundred different artists. Still though, in my head there was a bit more, "Now how do I approach this?" than usual.

The piece was done with pen and ink on rough two ply bristol. I toyed with the idea of doing ink washes, but was worried that it'd only mud everything up and I'd lose the detail and grit on the figure.

Another interesting thing about this piece is that it's more of a rough inking style than I usually get the opportunity to use in my work. A lot of my mainstream comics work has had a pretty slick line and somewhere along the way I think people began to really expect that from me. Lately I've had the chance to show more of this rougher inking style to some of my editors and they really seem to dig it. Hopefully this'll lead to me getting to do more of this sort of thing on some upcoming projects.

Alright, that's it for today. I've blathered on long enough. Hope you dig the piece!

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

DAILY SKETCHBOOK/COMMISSION POST (PART 3)