Superfriends

I'm a little late posting this one, but I thought I'd throw it out here anyway. I did this for my fall festival superhero basket that was auctioned off to raise money for my school. The basket had action figures, heroclix, coloring books, and the 11x17 drawing. I think it ended up being the top basket in the auction bringing in over $200! Happy was I!

Emerald Archer

Here's another of my Christmas sketches for my sixth graders. I really like how this one came out. Green Arrow can be a little tricky with that wack-a-doo hat, but he's definitely a fan favorite among my wife, brother, and kids at school though. Hope you dig!

Blue Christmas Elf

Here's another Christmas sketch for a sixth grader. This elf is definitely not one of Santa's little helpers, but Nightcrawler's teleportation would help explain how the jolly ol' fat man makes it up and down those chimneys so fast! Hope you like!

All I want for Christmas is a...Green Scar?

Yup! At least that's the sketch this sixth grader wanted for his Christmas sketch. This version of the Green Goliath has caused quite a stir among the Heroclix community in the sixth grade. Hulk Smash! Anyway, it was supercool getting this request-check back for more Christmas commishes soon!

Daredevil the Man Without Fear

Here's a commission that I did right after the Fall Festival gig at my school. I wanted to do a little extra on this one, so I threw in a little villain profile action in the background for fun. Also, tossed a Matt Murdock mugshot right there in front. Hope you dig it! Hope to color it soon-check back later!

Fall Festival

This past Friday I was able to do something that I've never done before. I had a sketch booth at my school's fall festival. Oh man, I had a blast. The sketches were done in pencil and inked or colored with sharpies or markers on 5x7 card stock. I had about 15 made up before the festival to display at my booth so people could see what they would be getting. I did mostly supers, but also had a few mascots, princesses, and toons as well. I even did a Barney Fife! I started at 5 and didn't stop sketchin' until about 9:30. When the eraser dust had cleared, I had sold over 30 of my sketches. I was super excited that I was able to raise over $100(sketches were $3) for our school! Lookin' forward to the next time!

Philip Rivers-GO BOLTS!

I've been a Rivers fan since he started against Arkansas St. as a Wolfpack freshman a long while back. I thought I'd try my hand at sketching him in All Star Vinyl(Upper Deck sports figurines that are very cool) style for fun. Dig it!

Sequential Stuff

Hey! Just wanted to show you that I've been busy drawing and coloring a book that my friend is writing. I've seen about eight pages from the script and have finished drawing seven of them. The coloring has been a fun learning process, but a slow one. I thought I'd post page two colored to let you see a little of what's to come. More to come soon!

Heroes Con!

Just wanted to throw out the annual Heroes Convention blog post out before it got too far gone. We had a great time at the show this year in Charlotte. It was a blast goin through artist alley checkin out all the sketches, prints, and books the artist had. I got to see some old friends and pick up some cool con sketches from some uber-talented artist. This year we also did a couple of first. We went to the auction on Saturday night, and I participated in the 20 minute quick draw contest. The sketch contest was pretty cool. Shanna watched and took pics as I sketched with my chunky digits as fast as I could. I think the sketch turned out pretty cool for only having 20 minutes. Anyway, thanks to all those who had a part in making Heroes Con '09 a great time!

The Magnificent Mastersons

Here on Earth's Mightiest Mortal we spare no expense to bring you the hottest new comic book information on the web. Today is no exception. For the very first time anywhere, I would like to introduce to you my very own creation-The Magnificent Mastersons. I have been working on their story and thought I'd get them on paper to help visualize them as they face off against the evil Body Count. The story will be full of action, drama, and alliteration. Hopefully soon I'll finish up the first story arc and get some sequentials posted. Until then, I'll try to get some bio's and pinups done to post. Let me know what you think!

Captain and Mary Marvel

Okay, Heroes Con pics and report still coming soon, but I thought I'd throw this one up on the blog tonight. This is one of the first commishes I ever had done. This was done at Heroes Con '07 by Jerry "The Franchize" Gaylord. It is still one of my favorites so I couldn't resist making this another sketch that made my coloring board. This is actually a photo and not a scan of the original. It was a lot of fun to color(although it still took a while). I still have a lot to learn about this digital coloring stuff so I'm off to the digital crayolas. :) Don't forget Heroes pics are on there way!

-Chunky Digits

Captain Marvel Colored

Real quick post tonight because I wanted to get this colored Captain Marvel pic up. Took me a little while to get the hang of it, but here is my first attempt at coloring digitally. Thought it turned out pretty good for a first timer! Heroes Con update and pics to come this week-be back soon!

The Villain

This guy is the Villain from my comic book that I'm dabbling with in my spare time. I don't want to go into many details about this guy yet, but I will say that his name is Body Count. I know,pretty cool, huh? Go ahead, let your imagination run rampant with what his unique abilities or sinister goals may be and let me know what you think.

Colossus

Colossus is the metal muscle man of the X-men. He's also too cool and fun to draw! Here's the big Russian ready to bring the pain to some mutant baddy. Das Vadanya!

New Sketchbook

Here's the Dark Knight from my new sketchbook I bought a couple of weeks ago. When I bought my sketchbook, I wanted to fill every page with a different superhero or villian. Shazam got the top page, but Bats slid into the second slot. Anyway, I got the idea from Andie Tong an artist from the UK at last years Heroescon. Hope to have the book filled with sweet sketches someday soon. So far it's been fun trying to give the characters I love the Branman treatment!

Birrrrd MAN!

Definately not Birrrrd MAN, Hawkman is really a bird by another feather. The hardnosed hero was a childhood favorite of mine on Saturday mornings while watching the Superfriends. It was a no-brainer to try to tackle him on the ole sketch pad. I really liked the way his face and expression came out on this one. Thanks again for lookin'!

Go with a Smile

WoW! Can you believe this will be the second post in two days! Joker gets the billing today because on a rainy day everybody needs a smile. I got to say that I enjoy drawing Mr. J. He just seems to have enough anarchy in his smile to keep you comin' back for more. I'm trying to get some colors on my drawings as well, so I splashed some on Joker and in the background for this one. I think it turned out swell! Thanks for looking and turn that frown upside down!

Feelin' Sketchy

With all this Free Comic Book Day stuff and Heroes Con just around the corner, I've been a little sketchy lately. So I thought I'd share some of the drawings that I've done over the past few weeks. I'm going to try to get a new sketch here every day this week so make sure to check back daily. Here's the first-Chuck and the X-men. Hope you dig!

Free Comic Book Day at Heroes!

Jakeemthundah on deviantART"WoW! What a day! I hope that everyone was able to get out to a comic shop somewhere and enjoy some of the sweetness that is FCBD!

This year my wife and bro got up with me at the crack of dawn to head down to Charlotte, NC to enjoy FCBD at Heroes Aren't Hard To Find. After making my wife(aka Quilting Queen) happy by taking her to a huge fabric store for 2 hours of selecting the fabrics to make her next classic quilts, we were off for the main event!

We arrived at Heroes at 11:30 and began wading through the crowd to pick up copies of the free comics that had been placed throughout the store. Soon after, the artist showed up and began sketching for the crowd that had gathered. Oh, did I mention the artist that showed up were Adam Hughes, Brian Stelfreeze, Mark Brooks, Andy Smith, Allison Sohn, Budd Root, Sanford Greene, Matt Herms, Jason Latour, Chris Schweizer, Chris Brunner, and more! Oh yeah-I know what you're thinking, but it's for real though! Anyway, I was pretty fortunate to walk away with a few sketches and alot of great memories! One of the highlights of the day was watching my bro go wacko from watching Brian Stelfreeze do an incredible water colored Ra's Al Ghul for the girl in front of him. He kept saying, "Branson, you got see this, you gotta see it!" Man, what a great day. It was almost like a prequel to Heroes Con in June. "Let it begin! Let it begin!"