Masks Are Fashion, Masks Are Heroic - Green Lantern

This is the 12th entry that I've posted in the series featuring "red carpet" takes on superheroes in costume with masks to promote the pro-social & pro-health practice of mask wearing during a pandemic.

Jessica Cruz survived the murder of her friends in the woods on a camping trip but still had to deal with the trauma of that event. Despite that trauma, she managed to become a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic force that protects the galaxy and its various planets. (space police) Each Green Lantern has a ring whose power is fueled by the courage and will power of the ring bearer. The rings can allow their bearers to fly, shield them from almost anything, provide protection and air in outer space, shoot force beams, create constructs, and more. The rings have to recharge from a power battery that looks like a literal green lantern every so often.

A Green Lantern's costume is usually black, white, and green, but with this look, I wanted to focus on the light aspect of the character and leave out the black elements. Since light is such an important theme in the Green Lantern lore, I wanted to create a garment that was constantly shimmering in the light with all of the sparkles.

Thank you for taking the time to experience this piece.
"Masks Are Fashion, Masks Are Heroic - Green Lantern" by Kevenn T. Smith
Pencil, Ink, Photoshop
©2021 Kevenn T. Smith
Green Lantern ©DC Comics 

Emerald Satellite: Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, Artcard

With DC's Blackest Night event going on right now, Green Lantern is one of DC Comics' hottest properties at the moment.  So of course, there couldn't be a better time to showcase my Green Lantern artcard here on this site.  Hal Jordan is DC's premiere Green Lantern at the moment, so he won out when it came to choosing which Green Lantern to depict.

I've always enjoyed the few times I've drawn "spacescapes" in illustrations, and this piece was no exception.  I wanted to use photographs of some of the planets and moons in our solar system for inspiration when coloring the ones depicted in this artcard, but I wanted to make it clear that this was not our solar system.  As photographs from the Hubble Telescope has shown us, space can be quite colorful, and I definitely wanted to incorporate that into this piece.

For Green Lantern, I used Ray Caspio as a model for the pose.  I also took visual cues from the updated costume in the comics.  For example, I had the Green Lantern symbol on his chest actually project itself as a lazer light projection hovering over his chest.  I always liked Hal Jordan visually because green has always been one of my favorite colors, and also because he was one of the few superheroes who had brown hair.  Most superheroes when I was growing up had blond or black hair, and I liked that he was different in that respect.

This artcard is available as cards, posters, and prints at RedBubble.com!


4.25 x 5.5 inches cardstock.

Pencil, ink, Prismacolor pencil.

Green Lantern ©DC Comics 2011

Art For Mid-Ohio-Con Part 2

Here are more of the artcards that I will be selling at Mid-Ohio-Con this weekend, along with prints of some of the work in my Illustration Gallery:

Superman:


Wonder Woman:

Donna Troy as Wonder Girl:

Supergirl (I wanted to capture the feeling of the aerial ballet in the Supergirl movie starring Helen Slater.):

Green Lantern:

Batgirl:

Nightwing:

Flamebird (based on International Supermodel and D-Listed.com's Hot Slut of the Year 2007, Phoebe Price):