Inspiration always leads to good things

inspiration |ˌinspəˈrā sh ən|
noun
1 the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative.
• the quality of having been so stimulated, esp. when evident in something : a rare moment of inspiration in an otherwise dull display.
• a person or thing that stimulates in this way : he is an inspiration to everyone.
• a sudden brilliant, creative, or timely idea : then I had an inspiration.

Many people have inspired me to do some creative stuff.  I think it’s a good to have inspirational people around or at least follow them on their social network of choice. My wife has her group and I have mine because we each do something different in our creative journey through life. I thought of a couple of projects i’ve done in the last month due to some ‘moments of inspiration’… so to those who’ve inspired… thanks!

Here’s Eric Merced’s Captain America (below)  that lead to the inspiration…

You can see Eric Merced’s work at his site http://ericmerced.com/

Inspired by my brother and Chris Manuel

Inspired by Oran Parker and Thom Trahan (it's his favorite hero)

Oran Parker really got me thinking about this traditional inking stuff… that may seem weird to allot of you but I started in digital first… then went back and “discovered” the traditional medium of comic art.

You can see more of Oran Parker’s work here on his blog…  http://www.oranparker.com/

I’m batman

I thought I would try a batman piece using allot of ink – traditional style with a sable brush. My brother loves batman so I was also going to use this as a present to him. I’m working on the color now and will post that version later.

The jetsons, er… Jessens

My wife requested an image for her home page on her blog. A parody of the jetsons, but with our last name – Jessen. I think I got the likenesses down the best I could. I used illustrator for the inking and Photoshop for the color.

Thor

Started traditional inking my first heroic character – Thor. Used sable 3 brush and black India ink. Colored with prismacolors.

It’s that time of the year – Family Photos!

Great photos taken by the Jason Hardesty and his Canon 5D Mark II