Wolverine Warily Weasels his Wicked Way Within (...What??!)

I finally decided to draw one of the life casts I bought long ago from Haunted Studio. It's a brilliant idea—Hollywood studios have rooms full of molds and casts of the faces of stars, made every time one of them does a film requiring a dummy or prosthetic makeup of any kind. Whoever is behind Haunted Studio gathered a massive collection of molds (studios were throwing them out by the hundreds at one point!) and started selling castings to collectors, art students, and fans I suppose—anybody who might want the plastic face of a celebrity on their wall.

This is Christina Ricci. My purpose was to copy it as exactly as I could, paying careful attention to edges and shadows (and the edges of shadows). I'm amazed at the effect it creates when you get the edges all correct—the image seems to leap off the flat surface and become solid. A few more of these, with the same amount of time and effort put in, and I'll be much better at painting faces.

I thought it came out really nice, but wanted to bring a little more life to it, so I added some color here and there and some makeup—the picture screamed out for some blue somewhere.

The hair needs work, and I seem to have forgotten to add the eyebrow. I have a tendency to stop working on things a little before they're done. Really need to address that.

I also bought a life mask of Liam Neeson. I must say they're not great for drawing from because it's just the face itself without a head behind it. That means you end up drawing a disembodied face or actually drawing the cast itself the way I did here (from a photo I took of it). But it is excellent for an edge control exercise.

 There's Wolverine! The weasly wittle wascal! It looks to me like he's laying out to get a tan here, or maybe standing and seen from a little too oblique of an angle. I wanted to try one more body type, though I made him a  little too tall really, He's supposed to be built like a fireplug.

Random practice heads.

Hmmm... these guys almost look suspiciously familiar. Couldn't be—they live in totally separate publishing worlds, aside from the rare crossover event. You must be JOKING to even suggest such a THING!

Batman flutters his cape one last time before yielding the floor to Wolverine.

Drawn with various kinds of specialty markers, including a brush pen and a Fude calligraphy marker. It almost worked, but overall the lines are a bit too crude and thick.

Still fun to color in though! This was a copy from a Marc Silvestri drawing.

So was this one. You know, I'm not sure drawing Wolvie is really going to help me learn how to do hair, unless I want to paint A Flock of Seagulls. Body hair maybe...

And that wraps up my Summer of Superheroes, but there's still one more post covering my art from 2019. Stick around and enjoy one last blast before we launch into the new stuff.