TRDL 2012 Series, No. 24 – Captain Marvel [2013 Version]
Wrongrobot’s Rudiments Pinup No. 4

This was done for the R3 Art Challenge, the subject being Captain Marvel aka Carol Danvers, specifically the new 2013 costume design that was recently announced.

When I saw the first piece released at a recent convention (as drawn by Ed McGuinness, below) I was quite taken with it. I love the Steve Rogers, Super Soldier costume he was using for the last few years prior to unnecessarily taking up the mantle of Captain America again, and this design follows that one fairly closely, with the symbol in the chest and the striping working up to, and around, the shoulders. Apparently Marvel got a lot of random criticism over the hair and confirmed, or retconned (or preconned?) that it’s just her normal hair pulled back… which I thought was exceptionally rational. The concept for this iteration of Captain marvel is a move towards the ‘Chuck Yeager’ character model… some sort of adventurous derring-do. I don’t know. But I generally liked the costume.

You can find a larger version here.
And as always you can read about some of the design notes in my process pics below.

Bonus variant:
Here’s the Third Rail Thrills pinup series version of the piece for that collection:

And the larger size here.

Artists, come join us on R3 and submit to the jams! The R3 Art Challenge offers new characters weekly, but all jams remain open so you can contribute to any that you like, here:
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/forum … m.php?f=27
or in the TRDL-R3-WeeklyJam group on DA, here:
http://trdl-r3-weeklyjam.deviantart.com/

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Background:

Here’s the new costume revealed…

My pencils, using a pretty classic pinup girl pose. I wasn’t feeling the head, and not just because of the scale issues. So I … Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. 2012 R3 Challenge 13: Captain Marvel 2013 (Marvel)
2. TRDL Tribute: Captain marvel
3. TRDL Tribute – Captain Marvel 2010

TRDL 2012 Series, No. 23 – Dragonbugga (St. Judes Charity Piece)

Terry Malthos, curator of Comic Art Commissions and Comic Art Community, has been championing a charity art program, wherein pieces are presented as merchandise available for sale with all profits going to St. Judes. The inspiration for the project is a child’s sketch of a dinosaur breathing fire (‘Love Dinosaur’)

I almost went in the direction of the bashful gentleman Rex with victorian finery and such, but then I was inspired to do another bugga (my superdeformed little creatures usually drawn on post-its for http://www.whatitoleyou.com )… As it went along I ended up committing to the dragon form rather than pure dino, hence the lil’ wings and the red and blue scheme. Came out pretty nice, and fun to work in a different style.

I even used it as an icon on the desktop, for science.

You can view all the merchandise for sale for charity using this piece here:
http://www.zazzle.com/dinosaurart/gifts … 2062636856

And you can see the other contributions to the project here, including a number of rendered versions of the Love Dinosaur inspiration piece itself:
http://www.zazzle.com/dinosaurart

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Artists, come join us on R3 and submit to the jams! The R3 Art Challenge offers new characters weekly, but all jams remain open so you can contribute to any that you like, here:
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/forum … m.php?f=27
or in the TRDL-R3-WeeklyJam group on DA, here:
http://trdl-r3-weeklyjam.deviantart.com/

Follow this topic in the R3 Forum
here!… Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. TRDL 2012 Series No. 04 – Spazierend Panzer Type B
2. TRDL 2012 Series No. 06 – Spazierend Panzer Group
3. TRDL 2012 Series No. 22 – Iron Man [Silver Centurion]

 

Good news for artists looking to populate older challenges with new art:

I have compiled a spreadsheet of all the jams to date* and sorted it alphabetically for you. You will find the associated forum link for each jam in question, so you can click right to it.
This will be updated weekly.

Note the current jam is always shown in red.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuDrQP27UVZNdEw2WnNWVmlJcHBuaElvUXV0RTAwU1E

Have fun!

*Of course some of these challenges migrated over from the This Week forum prior to it’s collapse, and jams earlier than those are lost to the seas of time and interweb…
Some of the older jam entries have been lost due to the failure of certain public servers like imageshack. More recent stuff has survived.… Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. 2012 R3 Challenge No. 13: Batman- Gotham by Gaslight
2. October 16 2011 – TRDL R3 Art Jam – Magic Challenge
3. 2012 R3 Challenge 13: Captain Marvel 2013 (Marvel)

In 1989, Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola released what is now considered to be the first Elseworlds story for DC: Gotham by Gaslight, setting Batman against a victorian Gotham City. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to draw Batman or any other character from that one-shot.

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_by_Gaslight

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The TRDL/ R3 Jam runs weekly but remains open indefinitely. It can be found on the Third Rail Design Lab R3 Forum here: http://thirdraildesignlab.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=27
And on DeviantArt in the TRDL R3 WeeklyJam group here: http://trdl-r3-weeklyjam.deviantart.com/

NEW: A spreadsheet of all R3 Challenge threads to date can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuDrQP27UVZNdEw2WnNWVmlJcHBuaElvUXV0RTAwU1E
Look for the character you want to add and you may find an existing challenge to use…… Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. 2012 R3 Challenge 13: Captain Marvel 2013 (Marvel)
2. October 16 2011 – TRDL R3 Art Jam – Magic Challenge
3. TRDL Tribute: Batman: Year One

As many of you know, I’m holding an art swap project for 2012, which is hosted on dA. Everyone interested signs up and hops in the queue. On a roughly monthly basis, we move down the list and each draw an OC (Original Character) that the other created. On my end, there are 350+ characters and teams in the TRDL Universe. You can work on anyone that inspires you. And you can point me at any of your characters specifically, or let me choose.

The resulting pieces will be featured in a gallery on http://TRDL-R3-WeeklyJam.deviantart.com , our sister site for the R3 Art Challenge: (which is already started) and on the main TRDL 3.0 site once the relaunch is complete, int he Friends of TRDL fan art section.

If you are interested, hop on here:
http://thirdraildesignlab.deviantart.co … -287293413

If you aren’t on dA, let me know and I’ll add you to this manually.
Remember, this is for OCs only.
And this is not intended to take away from paid work, so schedule is flexible.
The intent is to encourage and celebrate the creation of original characters

thom

Follow this topic in the R3 Forum
here!… Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. TRDL 2012 Series No. 02 – Admiral Hamilton (Time Traveler)
2. TRDL 2012 Series No. 20 – El Jefe
3. TRDL 2012 Series No. 21 – Anansi

I have been lax in announcing the weekly character/theme for the TRDL R3 Challenge. Let’s solve that right now…

2012 R3 Challenge 13: Captain Marvel 2013 (Marvel)

In 2013, Captain Marvel (aka Carol Danvers) ie being given a Kree makeover, moving her into alignment with the cosmic Captain Marvel themes… this is your chance to take a crack at the new look. With or without Kree helmet. [Costume courtesy of Jamie McKelvie, cover art is EdM...]

More info here:

http://marvel.com/news/story/18290/wondercon_2012_captain_marvel

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The TRDL/ R3 Jam runs weekly but remains open indefinitely. It can be found on the Third Rail Design Lab R3 Forum here: http://thirdraildesignlab.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=27
And on DeviantArt in the TRDL R3 WeeklyJam group here: http://trdl-r3-weeklyjam.deviantart.com/… Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. 2012 R3 Challenge No. 13: Batman- Gotham by Gaslight
2. TRDL 2012 Series No. 17 – Captain Cold [TRDL Redesign]
3. October 16 2011 – TRDL R3 Art Jam – Magic Challenge

TRDL 2012 Series, No. 22 – Alice in Wonderland 01 [For the What is the Use of a Book without Pictures project]

What is the Use of a Book Without Pictures is an ambitious project that involves telling the Alice in Wonderland story entirely visually. All art is based on individual passages, and assembled together across wildly disparate styles and approaches to produce a surreal storytelling experience. The published volume will necessarily be massive. You can see the work done to date through the FB page here.

My passage:

"Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it…"

Surveying the work done so far, which features artists ranging from mixed media works to famous illustrators of different styles, mine is definitely one of the more traditional in terms of sequential art storytelling, which actually makes it kind of unique in a way, I suppose. Very cool.

You can find a larger version here.
And as always you can read about some of the design notes in my process pics below.

Artists, come join us on R3 and submit to the jams! The R3 Illustration Jam offers new characters weekly, but all jams remain open so you can contribute to any that you like, here:
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/forum … m.php?f=27
or in the TRDL-R3-WeeklyJam group on DA, here:
http://trdl-r3-weeklyjam.deviantart.com/

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Background:

A sample of classic illustration along with my text, as it happens. I love the vintage illustrated Lewis Carroll stuff that I find here and there, and I initially was planning on doing something very different than my personal style, but I was struck that if I took the text, applied more style to the narrative, and didn’t use … Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. TRDL Tribute: American McGee’s Alice in Wonderland
2. TRDL 2012 Series No. 09 – Baroness
3. TRDL 2012 Series No. 12 – Spoiler

TRDL 2012 Series, No. 22 – Iron Man – Silver Centurion Armor [TRDL Iron Man Series]

This was done for my TRDL Iron Man Series, in which I attempt to draw all versions of Iron Man for no good reason.

This was the armor that started it all for me. This dates me somewhat, but even after seeing and enjoying earlier versions of Iron Man in my scattered Marvel reading growing up, I only started collecting Iron Man on a monthly basis around #165 or so, and then went backwards to about #100, and scattered ones prior. But all through the disgraced Tony period (in which Tony, losing the battle with the bottle a second time, loses Stark Industries to Obadiah Stane and takes a hike, with Rhodey taking on the Iron Man mantle full time) I was annoyed by both plot and art, and it was getting rough: I didn’t like McDonnell’s knee-knocked poses and a lot of the inks, and I was bored by Rhodey being a bitch about his headaches and Tony running a vague startup in what apparently was a desert wasteland, from within a geodesic dome filled with a few card tables, and no shaving razors. I appreciated the character arc, but I was getting bored as a young reader. And then it all came together: Tony couldn’t help but get up in a new version of the MK I armor, things got heated between him and Rhodey, and then he went after Stane, culminating in one of my favorite Iron Man stories ever. So, in keeping with all that excitement, I was super thrilled by the Silver Centurion armor. Unlike many die-hards of the day I remember whining about it in the comic shop, I didn’t mind the red/white scheme (hints of my love … Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. TRDL 2011 Series, No. 13: Iron Man Series – Stealth Armor
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3. TRDL 2011 Series No. 35 – Iron Man vs. Batman

TRDL 2012 Series, No. 21 – Anansi [Created by Dawnsknight]

This was done for the TRDL OC Art Swap 2012. If you have OCs and want to trade some art for art, you can sign up here.

Anansi is a character created by dA member Dawnsknight. There’s a strong spider influence here, with the abilities, the multiple eyes on the head and hands, and the concealed forearm fangs. But there’s also a chitinous armor thing happening, so it was an interesting design to interpret. You can see the creator’s notes in the process section below. I tried to stay on model as much as possible, deviations being limited to lightening up the hand eyes for clarity and adding a textured overlapping weave to the chitinous armor. Good stuff!

You can find a larger version here.
And as always you can read about some of the design notes in my process pics below.

Artists, come join us on R3 and submit to the jams! The R3 Illustration Jam offers new characters weekly, but all jams remain open so you can contribute to any that you like, here:
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/forum … m.php?f=27
or in the TRDL-R3-WeeklyJam group on DA, here:
http://trdl-r3-weeklyjam.deviantart.com/

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Background:

Here’s the original material Dawnsknight provided, along with a narrative.

The original pencils and inks aren’t particularly interesting, being a standing shot of a monochrome, featureless black figure, since I don’t ink my blacks. But it’s a start. I was going for a built, lanky physique, like Awesome on Chuck.

I decided to redraw the feet. So here those are.

Flats. I used a dark grey/blue so I would have a surface to shade/highlight rather than solid black.

Highlights and small features.

A view of the design of the chitinous armor.

Love playing with other people’s toys!

Thanks … Read on for more awesome…

Related posts:

1. TRDL 2012 Series No. 22 – Iron Man [Silver Centurion]
2. TRDL 2012 Series No. 20 – El Jefe
3. TRDL 2012 Series No. 18 – the Red Hulk

TRDL 2012 Series, No. 20 – El Jefe [TRDL Original Universe]

This was done for the TRDL R3 Jam this week, the subject being a theme jam: WEAPON.

This week I saw an opportunity to do a little double-duty. I had pencils for one of the TRDL Original Universe characters for the new sourcebooks in the queue for inks, and he has a weapon, so there you go! This character was originally called Big Brother when released in 2005. For the redesign, I’ve streamlined the design of the bodysuit, abstracted the ‘staring eye’ motif to be isolated at the shoulders, and stripped him of the electrified glove the original carried, limiting him to the mace. I also shifted him to Central America, an area of posthuman development that gets a lot of attention in the new sourcebooks. I won’t go into the changes to the character origin here, as that will be int he published material, but I’m imagining him as having started out with the self-applied handle ‘Big Brother’ but was so often referred to by the locals as ‘El Jefe’ that he just gave up an adopted it; while the original character was a posthuman bounty hunter, he’s now envisioned as one of the recipients of the black market posthuman development labs in Jalisco, a self-made guy who is avenging the deaths of his loved ones by going after regional gangers who he holds responsible.

You can find a larger version here.
And as always you can read about some of the design notes in my process pics below.

Artists, come join us on R3 and submit to the jams! The R3 Illustration Jam offers new characters weekly, but all jams remain open so you can contribute to any that you like, here:
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/forum … m.php?f=27
or in … Read on for more awesome…

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1. TRDL 2012 Series No. 16 – Maris Brood
2. TRDL 2012 Series No. 14 – Miranda Lawson [Mass Effect]
3. TRDL 2012 Series No. 12 – Spoiler

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