Comic Book Sketches

I've reintroduced myself to comic books and in particular comic book art.
I picked up Street Fighter Legends: Sakura issue 1 after checking out the comic store in the centre of the city bus interchange on my rare venture out of the house and into day time. The art is great, and the comic itself is full glossy and the story line is very amusing. I've always liked the Street Fighter storyline which is difficult to get a hold of as it's included in bit's and pieces over the series of games and occasionaly in merchandise and art books which are generally in japanese in Japan.

Since then I also found Street Fighter vol.2 trade paperback which collates the earlier successful series of Street Fighter comics. Unfortunately it's in reduced form (50%!) which sucks, because the art in some issues is great. The pages are still glossy fortunately, and only 1 image (a centre spread) is not fully visible because of the binding of the book.

I've switched to drawing on A4 sheets instead of in my art book. This happened cause I was between sketch books for a while but the move is a good one I think because the paper is whiter, smoother, and landscape format is good for spacing images. Here are the best of a heap of drawings I have been making over the last 2 weeks. Next to none of them are original pictures though. They are free drawn sketches from comic books - after I drew my fave images from the Street Fighter series I dug out a few old X-Men issues by my fave X-Men artist Joe Madureira.













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