Space Ghost Revisited!

Took a moment for myself early Saturday morning as I was up early and the family was still sleeping to digitally ink an older drawing. Still trying to keep a "Terry Austin" feel to it.

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More Fighting American!

I got up early the other morning and while the house was quiet, I doodled on my ipad. I had my Fighting American picture scanned in and I decided to digitally ink it as well and try to emulate Terry Austin's distinctive look. To my eye, I was at least mildly successful and I had a fun time to boot.

Enjoy!

Here is the inked version and a detail as well.

Fighting American!

I've been listing to Rob Liefeld's podcast a lot lately. I've never really been a big fan of his work but we are about the same age and we grew up loving the exact same comics, so hear him talk about all the same characters and storylines that are still on my shelf and long boxes is pretty cool. I just heard him speak of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's other patriotic super-hero, Fighting American! And he even referenced the same hard cover collection that introduced me to the character back in the 80's. So, of course I had to take it down and begin re-reading it after all these years. Love it!!! So I was more than a bit inspired to draw the character myself. I did streamline the costume a bit and thought the mask would work better as a helmet like Chris Evans Captain America costume, not that you can really tell in the angle of my pose, and I added a flagpole as a weapon opposed to Cap's shield. And I drew this on real paper with real ink and watercolors too! 

Enjoy!

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