Book Covers

Here are three book cover illustrations I have created over the last few years. All three were digitally created in Photoshop and Illustrator. Of the three covers presented here two were for actual printed books and the most recent cover titled NICK NOMAD AND THE HAMMER OF LEMURIA was for an e-book only. Here is the link to it.. http://www.amazon.com/Nick-Nomad-Hammer-Lemuria-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00WLAWHPS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429915344&sr=8-1&keywords=nick+nomad

Tribute Images Of Batman And Hellboy

Batman and Hellboy are two favorite fictional comic book characters of mine. I grew up with Batman comics and the TV shows and started reading Hellboy when it started coming out in the early 90s. Batman celebrated 75 years this year and Hellboy celebrated 20 years and both are in many types of media from comics to films. I created my slightly 3D cardboard style imagery of both characters and created a digital illustration of both as well and all four images are below. So here is to Bob Kane/Bill Finger (Batman) and Mike Mignola (Hellboy) for their fun creations!

Jack Kirby Birthday

Jack Kirby was born August 28, 1917 so I took a pencil image I did a year ago and finished it up in Illustrator. I was lucky enough to me Mr. Kirby a few times and once even at his home thanks to my old friend Britt Wisenbaker. Anyways I had a blast creating this and happy birthday Mr. Kirby in the great beyond!!!

 

Fugitive 45-RWX

Hello all this is my first 2013 digital illustration created in Photoshop and finished in Illustrator. The scene is a robot on the run is it on the right or wrong side of the law? I will let the viewer's imagination finish up the story. Cheers. 

The Find

I was in the mood to create a space scene recently so this is something I came up with. I thought it would be fun to have a more modern star ship coming across a 1950's type rocket ship that is floating near a planet. All this was created in Illustrator.

Batmite!

I saw the final episode today of one of my more recent favorite animated shows BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD. It was a show that really had fun, was very creative and really hit the beats so well! I am one of those types that likes all types of Batman stories and this show went with the more cheerful and fun story lines with the Batman character. The final episode had Batmite manipulating things and it was a blast as usual! So adios to this version of Batman as it was a fun and interesting ride! In honor of this show and the Batmite character himself I creating this image posted below here in Illustrator today.

Some Monsters

It feels like I am still in Halloween mode a week later so I am just going with it. I actually a few of these character below during Halloween. They are all created in Illustrator and just want to have fun scaring you. 

Where has drawrick been?

I was hoping to keep a steady 2 postings a month or more going on, but here we are in October so I missed posting in August and September. Hey they say time flies, but this is ridiculous! So a few things that kept me busy were the San Diego Comic Con, a family reunion in New York, finally wrapping up and publishing my comic book DOCBOT, The Alternative Press Expo. In the mix was also some on site storyboard/presentation drawing at GYRO an ad/media agency. So finally I got back to this blog. In this posting is my FANTASTIC FOUR image I created for the 42nd COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: SAN DIEGO SOUVENIR BOOK. 

Also I am posting a picture of my DOCBOT comic the was co-created by Michael V. Bennett. http://bennettblacklight.com/

For more on DOCBOT....http://docbotcomicbook.blogspot.com/

Now back to creating and in addition looking for more work. Cheers!

 

Holly Horror Beach Summertime Fun

This illustration is a combination of some of my images put together and created with Illustrator. I love monster/horror films and used to watch beach party films, so I combined all the elements of those inspirations here. Today is the first day of summer 2011and that also inspired the creation of this illustration. Have a good summer and enjoy a beach somewhere if you can! Cheers!

Panic In Year Zero

This image or cover for something that doesn't exist yet came out of a small doodle from one of my latest sketchbooks that I just grew fond of. Basically the rough sketch was just of the three robots you see in this image. So I redrew them in Illustrator, added a background and this title just came out of my mind instantly. Will I do anymore with this image? Only the future knows and it is not talking yet.