Nubia–long-lost daughter of Hippolyta and twin sister of Diana!

My redesign draws from her pre-Crisis lore, especially the costume from her appearance in Super Friends #25 (penciled by Ramona Fradon, so presumably the costume was designed by Fradon as well). I like how that particular ensemble made her look like a superhero rather than a regular Amazonian warrior, further illustrating that she is every bit the parallel and equal of Wonder Woman. I did my best to uphold that philosophy while revising her costume, hopefully that comes across!

Here’s Batman, completing DC’s Trinity! (The holster at his side is a grapple gun btw)

Having fun with this DC line-up, and now that I’ve got the main three down, I wanna veer off into some more obscure corners of the infinite earths. Stay tuned!

The drawing I posted for Superman Day is actually part of a larger line-up of DC characters that I’ve been working on, so here’s Wonder Woman!

Superman Day 2025!

I started this drawing of Rex and Sapphire earlier this year when Ramona Fradon passed away… seeing the glimpse of Metamorpho in the Superman trailer spurred me to go back and put the finishing touches on this!

I missed Batman Day last week, and also I didn’t draw Batman. Instead I created a new Batgirl, inspired by a 1989 merch catalog, because why not! I drew her both with and without a jacket because I’m thorough like that.

Been playing with some brushes I don’t normally use, and trying some new things–here’s a quick one for Superman’s 85th anniversary! (Late by a few days though 😅)

Another one for my berzerk buddy @happymonkeyshoes’s SYMBIOTE SUNDAYS! Slightly late, but don’t make a fuss, or Venom is gonna eat your brain! 🕷

My demented pal @happymonkeyshoes, has been having some twisted alien fun with SYMBIOTE SUNDAYS, and invited me to join in the madness! So here’s Carnage, violently bursting forth with an almost audible SPLORCH. (Check my Instagram for a quick video showing some of my process)

So, last year I drew redesigns of Kwannon and Betsy from the X-Men, then decided to draw a psychic fusion of the two, and the first drawing above was the initial result. When I stepped back, I felt like something was off with it, and the more I looked at it, the more I disliked it. Finally I decided to scrap the drawing, and I never posted it (until now). (At the time, I decided to start over and complete a more streamlined and straightforward attempt–click here to revisit that result along with my drawings of Kwannon, Betsy, and Logan)

But back to the bad one 😆… it’s a pretty weak, cluttered composition, and lacks the sketchy energy of the character redesigns I was doing, yet also falls short of being a more polished drawing. I think it was a case where I was feeling a bit ambitious and got carried away with that momentum, yet failed to balance it with sufficient forethought and planning. I know that for my own process, I need to take care of composition and planning issues as early as possible–thinking “I’ll fix this as I go” pretty much never works out.

Anywayzzz, I recently stumbled back on this drawing while sorting through my files. With the benefit of some distance, I felt it was an interesting artifact after-the-fact… a byproduct of the process. And the story is maybe worth sharing just in case anyone else is out there kinda whiffing it on the first try? 🤔😆

When I was a little kid, Kang the Conqueror was the action figure from Secret Wars who I didn’t recognize and had a funny shaped helmet (I wasn’t reading comics yet). When I was a little older and devoting all my meager allowance-based resources to comics, I still didn’t ‘get’ the character.

A few years later and that all changed when Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco’s Avengers Forever came out, and finally I understood the greatness of Kang the Conqueror. No shortage of credit goes to Kurt Busiek for his epic writing, but of course today my mind is on Carlos Pacheco who we lost yesterday. An incredible artist and storyteller, every single panel that he drew was a masterpiece, and every character was a star. Gone far too soon, RIP.

Happy Batman Day! This design goes along with my ideas from the Sons Of The Bat drawings that I did a zillion years ago. I should probably update those… 🤔

Quick sketch drawn for a friend who loves Peter David era Smart Hulk as much as I do! David’s fun, witty scripts, brought to life by the gorgeous art of Dale Keown and later Gary Frank really solidified my love of comics!

Kitty! (and Lockheed!)

Another warm-up/costume redesign! It is probably very obvious by now that I tend to go very traditional and generally more streamlined when it comes to superhero costumes. And ALWAYS add a katana if applicable, of course.

Ororo!

Warm-up/redesign from the weekend. Had to go with the mohawk! 😎

Last year I started doing some quick superhero redesigns as warm ups, and Kwannon was the first, followed quickly by Betsy Braddock. I really like the idea of having both Kwannon and Betsy around. And I like to think Betsy kept up her ninja skills even after being returned to her own body. Honestly you could fill several story arcs just dealing with Betsy and Kwannon’s lives after finally getting their own bodies back!

With superheroes people always debate which version is better, but my answer is always that I just want all of them. Give me Hal AND Kyle, Miles AND Peter, Barry AND Wally AND Jay, and of course Kwannon AND Betsy. And the great thing about superheroes is that you really can have your cake and eat it too! Just that sometimes that cake is another cake in disguise, or a clone, or from an alternate dimension, etc. 😉

The next one is a little off-book… Kwannon and Betsy discover they can temporarily fuse their minds and bodies to transform into the entity known as PSYLOCKE—in this form their existing powers are drastically multiplied, but the fusion can only be maintained for a short period of time. (To be honest, when I drew this I was thinking of Steven Universe style fusions, it didn’t occur to me until I was done that psychic fusions already have a precedent in X-Men comics with Onslaught. 😅)

And here’s a Logan too. Shout out to old school whiskers and smaller ‘ears’!