And now I'm caught up.
The reason this took me a bit to get up, is that this was a little more involved than my previous catch-up pieces.
No, you're not crazy. You've never heard of The Black Raptor.
This is a self-serving piece, as I need it for my own comic, The Raptor (as you can guess, the antagonist of the story might be partially inspired by this made-up Golden Age hero). I hope that's not too much of a cheat.
As you can tell this is heavily inspired by All-American Comics, and the character himself is based on a bit of Batman (with gun!), Alan Scott Green Lantern, the Blackhawks, and The Red Cross.
A bit of a challenge trying to not drawn exactly like myself. I didn't totally succeed, but limiting my brush choices, and forcing some rendering choices helped.
May even do a Silver Age version of the character (and then gritty 80s version, and pouch-laden 90s, and... gritty Naughties reboot?).
That's a great Golden Age looking cover!
ReplyDeleteWonderful job!
Good colour choices.
ReplyDeleteVery convincing on the whole.
You did a great job of fooling a lot of us, it would seem. Look good man.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there are any rules as to whether you need to stick exactly to the theme or not as long as you did the drawing within 2 hours (sorry, Scott, I couldn't resist);)
ReplyDeleteLooks good - love the dots