STINGRAY

For this week's Ten Ton Sketch Challenge someone choose Stingray, a very obscure character from the Namor Marvel Comics series. The costume didn't really do it for my so I went with a more literal approach of what a mutant Stingray-Man would look like.
Click to see the entry.

Killer Croc

Killer Croc based on the idea that he was created in the '40s and he is a mobster guy a little rough around the edges but who wants to have some style. Batman can not have all the ladys. You can see the preliminary sketches too, if you click on the picture you will see the TenTon Studios Challenge entry on a clean scan.

A Man Named Charlie

This is my Entry for the Original Character Design Contests, it's based on the "Charlie" Song, I think it's a good character to represent Boston and Cambridge. The idea is that this guy get's on the T (at Kendall Station) back in the '40s and is still riding the subway and helping the common folk. The original idea came out a little like The Spirit with The Question's face, so I decided to age him and make him look really poor so no one will suspect that he is really a Super Hero.
You can read about the history of this song, the rest of the lyrics and also listen to it at this MIT site.

SINESTRO

This week's Ten Ton Sketch Challenge is SINESTRO from the Green Lantern comic by DC Comics. There has been several incarnation of the former Green Lantern current Yellow Lantern. I decided to go with a What if we got really hurt version and he had to use the power of fear (that is yellow right?) to keep himself in one piece, literally. The color scheme was pretty interesting, I inked the whole thing with a 0.3 Rapidograph and colored with ShinHan Touch markers.  One of the main rules of the Ten Ton Weekly challenge is that you have to create a physical piece of art (in other words no computer rendering or coloring) so the original background it's a little plain (you can click on the picture to see the original drawing) so the above version has a yellow multiply layer (Photoshop) and it's cropped for size. Visite the Ten Ton Studios Forum to see the other entries and vote after Wednesday's midnight.

Original Character Design Challenge #5 - Local SuperHero

After wining the last Character Design Challenge at the Ten Ton Studios Forum with my MOMUS Character I have the opportunity to set the rules for the next one, so here it is:

>Original Character Design Challenge #5 - Local SuperHero<

The Original Character Design Challenge! Here are the rules... Design a character(s) based on the short description and research materials provided...that's it! Winner gets to be smug about it, and create the details for the next character! 


DEADLINE: posting will start Wednesday at Midnight, March 9st, 2011 and will go till the Weekend (Friday at Midnight) 


CURRENT CHALLENGE:
BUILD A LOCAL SUPER HERO! 
Where every you live (Country, State, City, town, down the bottom the grand canyon) there is crime and a Super hero void, this is your opportunity to help your community. Create a Super Hero that reflect the local culture, tradition and history of the place you live, it could be where you grew up too but let's try to keep it on a place you know and lived in. For extra credit, draw him interaction with your city/town and show he/she belongs there. Think of the reverse way of creating Metropolis for Superman or Gotham City for Batman.

The Thing [TTSC]

The Thing [ TenTon Studios Sketch Challenge) 

MOMUS [TTCC]

This Month's Concept Challenge it's to created a god, inspired by the deity of Uruguayan Carnival "Dios Momo" I did some research to figure out how this god might look, here is the result.
Wikipedia: Momus 
Ten Ton Studios Concept Challenge

KAMANDI: The Last Boy on Earth! [ TTSC ]

Drawing Process at This, I Drew Today.
Ten Ton Studios Sketch Challenge

Future of Boston [Boston Phoenix]

2040: Silverline goes sentient. Governor Affleck bombards self with gamma rays to deal with problem.

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This comic was published today on the Phoenix with a bunch of other excellent panels by the Boston Comics Roundtable.

Another Day, Another Stiff by Michael Brett

"Another Day, Another Stiff" A Mystery by Michael Brett, 1968 60 cents.

Blood The Last Vampire

Ex-Machina [TENTON]

The original had some text that said:
IN TECH WE TRUST
but it got lost in the shuffle.

Not Bullseye it's "Le Cible" [TenTon]

I hate Bullseye costume so I made him French, Inspired by The Killer (Le Tueur) by Matz and Luc Jacamon.

The Walking Dead [TenTon]

Dr. Who's Daleks [TenTon]

via TenTonStudios

Nocturno [Tenton]

After winning the last TenTon Sketch Challenge I got to choose the subject, so went with:

NOCTURNO by Salvador Sanz, you can see some sample pages here. So the following is my entry, you have to click on it to see the whole sketch because it's slightly NSFW. As it's always the case on this Challenge posts if you click on the title it will take you to the Forum page where the contest it's happening live!

This awesome series it's available in Spanish (from Argentina and Spain) and Portuguese from various online retailers and also in Amazon for a lot of money. This awesome creator has a book published by IDW called LEGION, it's cheap and still available online from the publisher.

Interplanetary [TenTon]

ThunderCats [TenTon Studios]

ThunderCats Tribute by Roho
Sumi Ink on Crappy paper, 26x22 inches
via TENTON Studios

Diojenes and The Hobo [TenTon Challenge]

Ok, guys this was a great idea, I was going to be with some adventure stuff but this is a lot more interesting for everyone (I think) and helps me flex some storytelling muscles, and some comedy muscles that are very very rusty, so first some reference:

So this strip ran for years on an Argentinian newspaper, drawn by an Uruguayan artists called Tabare and written by a great comedian named Jorge Ginzburg.
I became familiar with this years later when it was running on magazines called Guambia and Berp! (think of Mad or Cracked). So with out furder adieu, I present to you the last episode of Diogenes and the Hobo (or "Diogenes y el Linyera" in Spanish)...

You can click on this image to see it bigger.