"And for my next trick..."

"...I'll get cancer and die almost anonimously".

I have to say, Ive never been one of those people rippin their own hair off because of how cool Watchmen is. I mean, I TOTALLY get the historic and narrative relevance of such a HUGE piece of work, but I cant help thinking that probably seeing it unfoil month after month at the time it actually came out must have been enormously more mind-blowing than reading the complete GN now. I mean, I know the reason it looks... obvious? is because basically the whole medium started lifting from it, but it DOES look a bit obvious to me nonetheless.

But then theres Moloch. Amidst the big drama, the killings investigation, the torn superhero aspect, there was this guy who once was a modest supervillain, then retired, basically kept living like you imagine your grampa would, then gets cancer and is very unceremoniously shot in the head. While Captain America or even Superman died heroically in their duty, this guy gets a deadly prostate disease and dies with his slippers and blanket still on. And thats it. I cant help but feel genuinely sorry for this guy, the Bela Lugosi of super-villainy.

Anyway, blue lead and Pentel brushpen on cheap toothy paper plus some digital shenanigans.

L.

"Finish Him!"

Now, that was an EASY post title, for once ;)

Heres my piece, Kabal was an obvious choice for me coz MK3 was the VERY first Pc game I actually saved money for and went out and bought (as opposed to being given as a present or buggin' my parents until they got soft), and I remember I thought him and Striker were the COOLEST.

Also, Baraka was kinda obvious too, coz hes "horror movie night" enough for me to approve ;)

No colorin' or photoshoppin' this week, Im afraid, coz Im fucking swamped. I dont even know why Im still here writing stupidly long blog post while those pages arent gonna pencil and ink themselves.

See ya next week!

L.

"You are not a warrior, you're a beginner!"

The half-blind little bastard...

Am I the only one who actually DIDNT completely hate his movie version? I though underworld overlord/heavyweight champion/weapon dealer was a pretty cool re-imagining...

Anyway, Pentel brushpen and some markers on Bristol, and definitely more Photoshop than usual.

Hadouken!

L.

Not-so-secret Avengers...

I mean, one has badges all over and the other can fucking FLY... Talk about subtle, uh?

Anyway, I dont even remember who came up with the theme but kudos to you guys, its was a really cool book drawn by one of my top 3 fav artist right now (which change every day, but oh well), the fellow Italian Matteo Scalera.

Anyway, got so excited I have 2 sketches today.

Captain Britain, coz Matteo FINALLY made him badass (LOVED the Alan Davis version, but he/you could never take him too seriously).

Pentel, new grainy paper, crappily colored on photoshopped as usual.

And Beast, simply coz I never did before.

Same.

Ok, guys, have to say, its damn good to be back.

LuCa.

"Morphin"? Maybe. "Mighty"? Meh ;)

Aaaand, heres mine.

it took me a bit long coz, FUCK, I realized I know absolutely shit about Power Rangers and had to research like a motherfucker, from the costumes to how many they actually were ;)))

And turns out, I still got it wrong: I found a lot of ref pics on Google, and in all of them there was this Green guy that Chris seems to have a man-crush on ;)

I drew the piece and only later I realized there was also supposed to be a BLUE guy, who apparently has the shittest PR agent coz he appears on like, 5 pics out of 15 on Google (I checked).

Oh well, until we do a specific "Blue Ranger" week, this gotta have to go ;)

REALLY not happy about this piece btw. Might be the weakest Ive done for this plog so far.

Let me know what you guys think.

Peace.

L.

"Blood-sucking Freak!"

Late as usual, heres my doodle.

Morbius, the Living Vampire. Pretty much the COOLEST villain of the 70s. Dont carem uch for its most recent incarnations, but the original Gil Kane version was pure character design heaven, sleek and sinister and just...perfect.

Sorry to break the Venom moment, there ;)

Also, BONUS: to apologize for the lateness, heres another entry. Done in 5 mins, I htink the guy is called Doppleganger, or smthing. Not a great character, just weird, in a cool way (kinda).

Thats it for this week. Peace out.

LuCa.

"...It's ALIVE!"

Heres my piece. Late, as usual, but Im not in London I cant get a scanner before 5-6PM today my internet was shit yadda yadda yadda. And yadda.

Kinda happy with the inking, managed to do it in one take under 35 mins, not too much thinking, not too many doubts, just followed my guts. Its not my most "precise" piece (obviously) but I like how the brush marks behaved.

Then I went in and colored it in like, 5 mins, and this time Im not sure I did the piece a favour or not by coloring. So in case you guys wanna see it, the b/w lineart is here on my blog.

*Insert epic rant in Elvish here*

At the risk of being thrown out of the blog and spat on the streets, I have to admit, Im not really crazy for LOTR. Or for general fantasy, for what matters.

There. I said it.

So, while everybody else was busy drawing elves and dwarves, I was doing the COOLEST thing to ever come out of the movie (which, btw, is WAY better than the book, just to piss you off more): the Nazgul ;)))

Done very quickly, colored even more quickly.

Over and out,

LuCa.

Slash.

Totally heavy metal dude. Obvious choice.

My post was a bit late, sorry guys ;)

L.