Quit Your Day Job

Here is the thumbnail sketch I did in my journal the other night when I couldn’t get the imagery out of my head so I could get some rotten sleep. For lack of interest’s sake the sleep I had that night was indeed rotten even after I got the stuff out of my mind, in case you were wondering.

So this is fairly new for me, usually I’ll start and finish a drawing on the paper it will end up on. But as I’ve mentioned I had a bunch of ideas that had been rolling around in my head and I had to get some of them down on paper or it was threatening to make me a blurry eyed zombie come go back to work day.

The first thing you may notice is that the helmet depicted in the rough thumbnail is the early 90′ish version which is when I really started heavily reading Iron Man so this is the natural one in my mind. Also, and this is a key decision that was made, his eyes are wide open behind the eye-slits.

I changed my mind on this for a couple of reasons:

1. As his head is slammed into the ground Tony’s eyes would no doubt be shut anyway
2. Having the eyes wide open gave it more of a posed look
3. I like the idea that the helmet hides everything, it’s a little like Batman, I prefer it when the eyes aren’t drawn in on the cowl (I think Robin is the same with his mask).

So I jumped into Photoshop and threw a little colour around the place and was quite happy once again with the result:

One more post on this drawing as I go further and make it into a cover. (ok maybe two)

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