Key Ingredients

 

Hey look at this key art for the upcoming second season of the smash-hit animated cartoon program "Invincible" from Amazon's Prime Video streaming service.

Yeah, by now you've almost certainly already seen this.  Maybe on the internet, or even on a billboard if you're a person who keeps their stuff in the greater Los Angeles area, but you know what you HAVEN'T seen? (relating to this image, I mean. I'm sure there's a lot of shit you haven't seen.  Not to say you don't get out much or are uncultured or anything like that, it's just that there's a whole shitload of stuff out there, y'know?  You've probably seen more than me, even.  I don't get out much)  You haven't seen the amazing final piece stripped of all the heavy lifting done by my employee Dou Hong and the supremely talented Dave McCaig, to reveal only MY contribution.

Until NOW, anyway. Look:

My line art with guides for shadow/highlight/blood. 

Is that cool?

And as a bonus,

my initial rough.

Ok!  We've hit our limit for today.  See you next time.

As Promised

Hey look at this fella I drew.  Cool, right.

This past weekend I was in NY (New York) for an Invincible screening/q&a at PaleyFest 2023, and during the q&a (moderated by Perri Nemiroff) I was asked about any designs that I may have done for the first season of the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Invincible animated cartoon show on Amazon's Prime Video, and the only thing that really came to mind was this gnarly (though not quite as gnarly as I remembered) first pass at a character who was internally referred to as "ManKong" (I know, we could have done better).  Dude has been stapled together with ape bits and is wearing little undies and that inner thigh is MAYBE just a tiny bit sexy?? Anyway, dude does not look like he would be participating in super hero tryouts, so some adjustments were made and I think in the end, he was probably still too stupid, but oh well what can you do.

Enjoy that!