Jim Calafiore

Daily sketch: DOCTOR BONG! Anyone remember Dr Bong?

Morning sketch: DOCTOR STRANGE! summoning a tiny CLEA. Anyone know if she had a last name?

Morning sketch: COLOSSUS! Started drawing just a bulky figure without a character in mind. It evolved into Peter.

BATMAN! I’m on the road for a few days, so only time for the 5x8 daily sketchbook sketches. Wanted to work on extreme down-angle here, which I sometimes have trouble with.

WOLVERINE! The whole flip book in one video. I looped it once. The flip book actually didn’t work out. Working on each page loosened the spine. They’re misaligned. So I’ll be breaking it up; any and all of these are available.

WOLVERINE! Flip book. Last three pages. Anyone who remembers the very first page of this, the last page matches. It’s a loop. Video of the whole thing coming tomorrow.

WOLVERINE! Flip book. Next three pages. Oops, I think he noticed us…

WOLVERINE! Flip book. Next four pages. I mis-counted. NOW there’s only six to go.

WOLVERINE! Flip book. Next four pages. Six left to go…

WOLVERINE! Flip book. Next four pages. It’s getting serious.

WOLVERINE! Flip book. Next four frames. And yes those are his fingers on the last frame.

Morning sketch: WOLVERINE! vs ninjas. Decided to get back to the flip book I forgot about. Here’s the next sequence. Nunchucks!

MORBIUS! I forgot to post the in-progress pics, which I always think are fun to show. Here it is with the finished version again.

THE PHANTOM’s daughter JEDDA from DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH. This issue 8 page when printed had a series of tiger heads overlaid in photoshop. For the collector getting the original, I went back in to add the tiger. I think it carries well.

MORBIUS, THE LIVING VAMPIRE! 9x12 Finished colors. I wanted to let the blacks bleed into him, and have the all the red be one solid color and blend in with his costume red and see if it read okay. Verdict? (This is available.)

MORBIUS, THE LIVING VAMPIRE! Working on a 9x12 color piece. These are the pencils. I’m going to try something different with the color. We’ll see how it goes…

GALACTUS & SILVER SURFER! Finished! This is available for anyone interested.

GALACTUS & SILVER SURFER! 11x17 Color stage done. Always interesting to see without the blacks filled in yet. And you can see where my test scribbles in those areas.

GALACTUS & THE SILVER SURFER! 11x17 in progress. This’ll be in color, so this is the basic outlines without the blacks filled in. Next step: color.

SUPERMAN! Tried another one of the design things. It’s an interesting effect.

HARLEY QUINN & WHITE RABBIT! Finished the other two bomber nose-art pinups

THE FLASH! 9x12. Weird idea I had for a design-y thing. Converted the line work into vertical lines so the background shows through. Interesting effect.

RED SONJA! Finished bomber nose-art inspired commission. She is a She Devil.

RED SONJA! Pencils for the second bomber nose-art pin-up. SHE DEVIL.

Morning sketch: OOGIE BOOGIE! Collector requested. After this, I’d have to move on to the secondary characters; the big guy with the axe in his head would be fun.

WHITE RABBIT! Pencils. Starting some new B52 bomber nose art inspired pinups. I wasn’t familiar with this Batman villain. Most time consuming part is the hand lettering. On to inks…

KINGPIN! 9x12 con-style head sketch. Purple’s pretty strong, but it just isn’t the Kingpin without the purple ascot. This is available btw.

CAPTAIN AMERICA with the RED SKULL! 11x17 commission. It was also a bit of an experiment to see how the markers could hold the background. There’s no black inking in the background.

No drawing today. One guess why. (And it ain’t football.)

Finished colors for the cover for the new book ONES & ZEROES. Their Kickstarter starts soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mdo... The original art will be a pledge level I believe.