Earth-2 Huntress: Helena Wayne

This is a commission that I did for my friend and writer, J.H. Moffat who runs the online urban fiction magazine, Drops of Crimson.  This piece is of the Earth-2 Huntress, Helena Wayne.  Earth-2 was a parallel earth where Batman and Catwoman had their career in the 1940's and ended up marrying and having a daughter, Helena.  Catwoman was eventually killed, and Batman died, and Helena carried on their legacy as the Huntress.

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Pencils, Ink, Prismacolor Color Pencils, Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
©Kevenn T. Smith 2011

Earth-2 Huntress ©DC Comics 2011

Singular Sensation: Polychrome

The third entry in my Singular Sensation series is of another character that I drew for the wrap-around cover of Oziana #37, Polychrome.  This was the third time I had drawn Polychrome, and only the second time I had colored a drawing of her.  She is a fairy and the daughter of the rainbow, and coloring her can be quite a complicated process.  In the books, she is always described and depicted as wearing a dress in rainbow colors.  I didn't want the colors to just be plain vertical stripes.  That would be boring.  It was a fun challenge to have them blend all together in a diagonal direction.  In the books, she's usually always dancing about, so it was very important that there be a sense of energy going on.

Polychrome is a visually fascinating character to me, like Scraps the Patchwork Girl, because of all the colors involved.  The great thing about the two characters is seeing how two characters full of different colors can also look so differently.  Scraps is a loud and boisterous character in the books, so her colors need to be intense.  Polychrome is usually written as a sweet and passive character, so I use tones that are, in comparison, more subdued on her.
Pencils, Ink, Prismacolor Color Pencils, Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
©Kevenn T. Smith 2011

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Singular Sensation: Pig Guard

This second entry in my Singular Sensation series is of a character drawn for the cover of Oziana #37.  I simply call him "Pig Guard."  I got a request to draw characters that appeared in stories in the issue, but I didn't always have access to the actual stories.  In some cases, all I got was copies of artwork being used to illustrate the stories.  In this case, all I had was an illustration to go on, but one that really captured my imagination.  I am a big fan of the work that The Four Horsemen studio did on updating Mattel's Masters of the Universe property for the 2002 line.  The amount of detail they put into each of the character re-designs continues to impress me.  When I saw the illustration of this "Pig Guard" character, I thought it would be a really fun idea to give him that same kind of approach.  I wanted to put more detail into his look and to introduce a more aggressive and physical element to the entire wrap-around cover piece.

In the cover piece, the Pig Guard was going to be fighting on the same side as Bastinda, the Russian version of the Wicked Witch of the West.  I thought it would be a nice homage to the Winkie Soldiers in the MGM musical movie version of The Wizard of Oz if I made the Pig Guard's skin green.  However, when I thought about that, I worried that some people would think that I was trying to rip off the Gammorean Guards in the palace of Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi.  So that idea was nixed.  I still wanted to make the Pig Guard look more otherwordly, instead of a pink, tan, or brown skin tones that one usually found on a pig.  That's when I hit upon the idea to make the skin tone a nice "decayed blue."  It really worked too!  I thought I was being so original, until a friend pointed out that Gannon, the Big Boss in The Legend of Zelda game for Nintendo, was a big blue pig.  It's true, there really is nothing entirely new!  I haven't played that game in years, but from what I remember of the character, I think I made this Pig Guard look significantly different.


Pencils, Ink, Prismacolor Color Pencils, Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
©Kevenn T. Smith 2011

Singular Sensation: Scraps the Patchwork Girl of Oz

This is the first entry in a series of posts I plan on doing for this site that will showcase individual pieces of artwork that are used in larger pieces of work.  Some of the pieces I work on are created in a collage-like manner.  Creating work in that way allows me options in placement and makes doing things like special effects a lot easier.  However, sometimes, the entire drawing doesn't always get showcased, or is showcased at a size that doesn't fully show off all the detail put into it.

This first "singular sensation" is to show off the full rendering of the Patchwork Girl illustration that I created for the title of this site.  Now, all the different patterns and colors used in composing Scraps can be seen, all the way down to her shoes.  Scraps is my favorite character from the Oz books.  I felt that her colorful look and personality was the perfect central face for the first image that shows up on this site.


Pencils, Ink, Prismacolor Color Pencils, Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.
©Kevenn T. Smith 2011
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Garden Walk

This is a piece that I did of my paternal grandmother.  I used a different approach to it than I normally do, and I really like the way it turned out.  I wanted to be a little less precise with the background, so instead of drawing it in with pencil, and then inking over it, I opted to only use the Prismacolor color pencils on it.



Pencils, Ink, and Prismacolor Color Pencils.
©Kevenn T. Smith 2011