I tried a sort of faux-painted look (it’s all digital) for the background on this. I think it turned out pretty nicely, especially for a for a first attempt.

I’ve been reading a bit of “Dragon Ball” lately and was inspired to try my hand at an Akira Toriyama style “cute car” drawing. I’m not sure I’m entirely happy with how the colors turned out, but I like the drawing well enough to share it anyhow.

S’funny, back in the day when I used to read lots of superhero comics, I was more of a “Marvel guy” than a ‘DC guy” and mostly read Marvel comics, but I rarely draw any Marvel characters. Whenever I do doodle any superheroes, they usually wind up being DC characters. Don’t know why that is… Maybe DC characters are just more iconic? (Or maybe they just have costumes that are easier to remember?)

In any event, Black Widow here is a Marvel character. I tried to play up the 1960′s “mod,” Emma Peel, aspects of her outfit. Don’t know if I succeeded at that but I think the drawing’s half-decent at least.

Check out this hipster, Lulu, and her teddy-bear best friend, Professor Hugg. I drew a sketch of them a few months ago and just recently was inspired to draw her again (although it wound up looking like a different hipster chick all together…). While I was at it, I took the opportunity to ink and color the original:

I imagine them going on wild Scott Pilgrim type adventures together, battling the forces of the un-hip, whilst rocking out (in a very subdued fashion) to some totally wicked indie bands. Maybe I’ll draw a comic about it someday.

Perhaps it’s not Lulu and the Professor in the second image after all, but their bitter rivals, Margo and Doctor Cuddle.

Hopefully, somebody enjoys looking at bored hipster chicks as much as I enjoy drawing them….

A bit of marketing art for of my upcoming book City of Spies.