Today while trying to compile my '09 Sketchbook I stumbled upon a Con sketch or two that I wanted to clean up and repurpose for the book. The scans weren't great so I started fiddling with THIS ONE to see what I could do in Photoshop and ended up with this:



I tried to keep the pallette pretty minimalist, as I'm working on laying back on the color these days. The blue was a late edition that I'm still not quite sure about but I'm rolling with it for now. I'm debating on inserting a few color pieces into the new sketchbook. If I do this one is on the list of possibles.

I've always been kind of a sucker for WW2 Captain America. I once even pitched an INVADERS book to MARVEL back during the EPIC relaunch in 2002(?)-03(?). I recently found some of those pages and thought they might provide a fun little look at the difference six years or so of tortuous growth can make. Stuff like this is always like year book photos, you wonder "what the hell was I thinking with that hair cut?" Or maybe "Where did it all go?"








So like I said these were for a pitch. I wrote and showed the first couple of issues and got what I felt like was a pretty good response from the powers that be at the time. It looked like if this didn't happen I would at least have a shot of getting some work out of it. But then EPIC fell apart, and I got overwhelmed with grad school and the rest is history. It all worked out, but it's fun to wonder what if sometimes. Re-reading it it's a little slow, and could use a little more imagination thrown in with the grit. If I knew then what I know now I think it could have ended up really cool. Who knows maybe I'll pitch it again someday.

More soon...