"Not much chance for survival, If the Neon SPIDEY is right."

Neon Spider-Man © Marvel Comics

By Corey Breen
Inks, Colors done in CS3

The next pin-up I did was of Spider-Man's new costume designed by one of my top ten comic book illustrators of all time, Humberto Ramos! His art is below:

By Humberto Ramos

You must know by now how excited I get about new costumes, and whatnot, and since this is Spider-Man, I just HAD to draw this new costume. I actually REALLY like it. The costume probably makes little to no sense at all, but like I said yesterday, who CARES! It looks AWESOME! LOL

So I took a stab at it, trying to also keep up my theme of extreme perspective and foreshortening. Although, now you may say, "but Corey, this looks eerily similar to your past drawings of Spidey, and also of the Batman Beyond Drawing you just blogged a couple of days ago. What's up with that?" And I would say, yeah, you are kinda right. Not on purpose. I love flipping Spider-Man and Batman upside down, in jumping poses, so I tried to do that again here, and it did subconsciously come out very similar to previous pieces. But they are different, and really, every position has been done so many times in comics, if I come close to repeating myself sometimes, sue me. LOL I do tend to draw that same bent leg a lot to, so I do have to be careful of that. Drawing is a never ending learning process, so you have to know your short comings and just try to improve next time.

Anyway, it is what it is, and I have a BLAST drawing, digitally inking, and coloring this bad boy, so really, that's all that matters to me. I hope you like it too. Believe it or not, a LOT of planning and sketches went into this piece. For something that came out similar to positions I have closely used in the past, the process was 100 % original. I'll run down everything that went into drawing and coloring this piece below:

Thumbnail Sketch #1

This was the first thumbnail I did. I was just trying to get a cool areal shot of Spider-Man, so I sketched this tiny drawing out. I liked it, but wanted an more dynamic shot. Whenever I draw Spider-Man, I always try to go a little crazy with the shot. In retrospect, I probably should have done this sketch out to a finished piece. (Hmmm, Maybe I will...) But for this piece, I wanted more, so, I tried again.

Thumbnail Sketch #2

I drew this thumbnail sketch, and I was like, BAM!, yeah, I love it. I liked the first one, but this is gonna be FUN to draw. I was convinced, so I went with this design.

Thumbnail Sketch #3 & #4

These two sketches came next, and even though I was convinced I was drawing out thumbnail #2, I try two more poses. I do that sometimes, even if I know what the position I want to draw will be. For one reason is that, when I was working on thumbnail #2, I got a couple more ideas, so I wanted to make sure I got those ideas down on paper too. You always want to get all your ideas for a drawing out, just to make sure you know which one you really want to do. I drew these, and they were ok, and it also convinced me that yes, thumbnail #2 is the one I want.

Final Sketch 8.5 x 11

So after I knew which one I wanted to do, I redrew it on 8.5 x 11 loose-leaf laser copy paper (it's the paper I love to draw on). A lot of people HATE the paper I draw on (mostly because it is hard to ink on it), but I LOVE it! I find that the laser smoothness of the paper lends itself PERFECTLY to my style and the mechanical pencil that I use (.5mm HB lead pencil). Most of the time, I go to the photocopy machine and blow up the thumbnail that I did, and then lightbox this step, but since I did all those thumbnails, I felt really loose and in the groove so I just redrew it. I think it worked out in this case, but I do usually lightbox a blown up thumbnail, if only to make sure I get it like the sketch, because that's where I felt I nailed the gesture.

Finished Pencils on Laser Paper

Once I had the image redrawn, I just went right into the finished pencils. I love this part. The gesture and sketches are the most fun of any artist's work, they would say, and I agree, because it's where you get out those ideas that are in your brain, and those images that we see in our heads, but I also REALLY love detailing as well. It's the most relaxing part of drawing, I feel. Sketching can sometimes get frustrating because you are trying to replicate what you see in your head, and make sense of the reality of what comes out on the page. But when you get to this part, you go on auto pilot and just DRAW! Sometimes I am at this part, and all the sudden, two hours have passed, I look up, and look at the drawing and it's completed pencils. That's what happened with this piece. I looked up, and it was done, and I was like, WHOA, I did that? LOL
I also added in the classic, cheesy design oriented generic background. I love these backgrounds for pin-ups, because it gives your piece a finished look, not much goes into them, and it gives a piece a nice graphic quality to it. It's great for convention sketches, or simple pin-up work like this piece. I would not recommend it for finished comic work though, it wont fly. For something like this, for fun though, it works perfectly!

Finished Pencils off Lightbox on Bristol

Now that the finished pencils were done, I could go straight to inks. I got out a nice comic board, and transfered the pencil image to it using my lightbox. I didn't fill in any blacks in pencil, because whats the point, it's gonna be filled in with ink. I just outlined it all off the trace. It actually works on it's own I think, oddly enough. Now was time to ink it. But before I did, I scanned all my work up to now. I like to scan all I do, no matter if I want to show it or not, just to have everything that goes into creating a piece. This is the perfect example of why I do that, to show my process. And I'm just OCD about stuff like that, lol. I scanned this step in, and realized that it's heavy enough to just go and digitally ink it. With the computer tools we have now as artists, like my AWESOME Cintique at work, why not use them. I am still going to go back and manually ink this page, because I'm gonna send it off to a fan who wants it as a commission. So I will ink this one for reals, and I'll also post that in the future, to show you all the difference between digital inks and hand drawn inks.

Finished Digital Inks with Cintique in Photoshop CS3

So anyway, I decided to just digitally ink this piece in Photoshop. I threw up the threshold of it, and then converted it to a bitmap file. That gave me nice blacks to work from. I then zoomed in, and using my Wacom, just filled in all the blacks using a pencil. Took about half the time it would drawing it by hand, so that was cool Above is the end result! Pretty cool huh?

Color Flats in CS3

Now that it was inked, I just went right into coloring it. This was gonna be a very fast and easy piece to color. It's mostly black, so I just throw in some blues, and then make Spidey's green glowy things pop. I just threw I grad into the background, and BAM!, I was done with the flats. Flatting is what it is called when you first start coloring a piece, and just throw in the colors, like you would just coloring a color-by-numbers image you did as a kid. It's the colorist's way of just using crayons, basically. Just get the colors in there, and you can render til your blue in the face after that. I find this process SO much fun. Other colorists I know, do NOT. I can see why, if you are coloring everyday for a living. Most colorists in the industry hire people to flat their work to save time, and focus more on the rendering. Flatting is pretty simple that anyone can do it, but I find it fun, if only to try and stay in the line, lol.

Final Colored Image

Now that I had my colors down, I just went in with my paint brushes in Photoshop, and rendered it. I like to put my brush on multiply, and go from light to dark. Then I go back in with normal brush, and bend all the grads it created, giving it this painterly quality to it. I don't like to do selections filled with grads all too much. That's better for when you are doing classic comic books coloring, especially for interior work. Oh, and I hate using just all grads. It just comes off bad in my work, anyway. I like to get that painterly look, I think it looks better in my art. Anyway, this is the final colored piece. i was now ready to add some special effects to the piece, and make those glowing neon pieces of Spider-Man's new costume really GLOW!

Final Colored Image with SFX done by Jason Embury

I tried a couple of things, but wasn't happy with it. This I find to be the HARDEST part of coloring. I know things to do, and seen what the masters do first hand on every file I get in at work from them everyday, but it just never seems to work for me. Or it just takes me forever to get something that I think works and looks cool. I was having trouble with the SFX in this piece, so my good friend, and collaborator, master colorist, Jason Embury of Zenescope to help me out with it. He is one of the BUSIEST guys I know, yet still helps me out without question, and he is so awesome for doing so! Colorists continue to be some of the NICEST & BEST people in the industry! He messed around with somethings and sent me back this as something to go by and give me some ideas. It totally worked, and what got me to FINAL image that is posted way up at the top of this post! Thanks for your help, Jason!

So that concludes this pin-up and the process I took to get to the finished product. I hope you like the piece, and I hope you enjoyed following me through how I work and what it takes to get to that final image. There is no one correct way to get there, it's just how I work most of the time, and a lot of people say that's just too many steps, and just too time consuming, but hey, it works for me, so it keeps me happy!

Next up is Grendel, Hunter Rose!

Until then,

Corey Breen


PS- Be sure to check out Humberto Ramos' Blog at
http://www.humbertoramos.com/blog/

Green with Envy Blues!

Green Lantern © DC Comics
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Next up is Green Lantern! Much like the huge double page spread I did of all the Green Lanterns vs. Sinestro, I have no idea how or why I started drawing this image. Hal is one of my favorite DC characters behind Batman & Robin, so I guess he is just becoming one of my go to characters that I just wind up drawing almost subconsciously. This just started out as a figure drawing and became a Green Lantern pin-up, so go figure.

A lot of these drawings I'm posting this week came from a comment my coworker gave me about my work. He said that lately I've been drawing to many straight forward shots and haven't been doing as much action or extreme perspective images. This hit me pretty hard, because I always try to do something other then a super-hero just standing there. I think it's very boring and just lazy. I always feel I'm better then that and strive for pin-ups that have crazy action poses to them, or limbs crossing, or legs coming at the viewer. In other words, I like trying my best to make dynamic action poses. I didn't like the fact that my coworker said this comment, so I wanted to prove to him that that is one my STRONG points as an illustrator. I feel I am really good at drawing the figure, and I LOVE to stretch things out, extent limps, have characters in crazy positions, and try to really just use my imagination.

I am NOT a photo reference type of comic artist. I feel comic books are suppose to be fantasy, and it's actually more rewarding for me as an artist to try and create everything out of my head. I mean, yes, if I need to draw a car, I will research cars and use reference, but that's just a given. You should always look up stuff to get inspiration and to have a frame of reference for what you want to draw. I'm talking about just using my skills and education, and just DRAWING. Just make a cool a$$ iage, and do your best to make sure it makes sense, and the viewer can know whats going on. It is said in the comic world (among other fields) too often that you "MUST know how to draw things realistically before you can exaggerate them." Yeah, that's true to a certain extent, but I also feel that is just stressed upon too much. I say, as long as you have fun, and you are happy with your drawing, then others will probably like it too. Who cares if I missed a couple of muscles in his arm, or his elbow is too pointy. SCREW that. It's a comic book drawing, and it should look like one. Give an extreme angle, a huge hand, or crazy a$$ muscles to people, and weird a$$ buildings in the background that defy physics. Who cares. I want a viewer to look at my drawings and say either, "wow, that's awesome" or "I don't really dig that so much". Either was is ok with me. In fact, I hope that's how everyone looks at my art.

Anyway, I could go on for DAYS about this subject, but, maybe another time. In the meantime, enjoy this Hal pic, and join me tomorrow for the NEXT image! It gets even better from here, because I feel the next three pin-up's are three of my stronger pieces I've ever done. And they are HUGE examples of pushing the limits of comic poses, so I can finally put my coworkers comments out for good!

CjB

PS- A couple of coworkers have been visiting the Green Lantern Movie film set, and they can't talk, but at least told me that it is gonna be AWESOME! I am just DREAMING that this movie is to this next generation (and mine) what Star Wars felt like back in 1977. I think this movie has the potential to be what Star Wars is to so many. Oh GOD, please, I hope that's true! It has it's work cut out for it, because Avatar is right up there now with Star Wars in my eyes!

PPS- Here is just a little bit of my decision making process on this Green Lantern drawing. I was trying to work out the perspective I wanted on Hal's right arm, so I worked a couple of different poses. I had the arm at first the way it is in the final drawing, but thought I could do more, so I tried a different positioning. But then I realized I completely LOST the extreme "coming at the viewer" arm that I wanted, so I went back to the original. Just a little sample of how I work sometimes. If you draw something cool and don't want to lose it, trace it on a light box, and then you have it to go back to in case the "new" idea is not as good as the old one!

Green Lantern Arm Position Sketches
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Back to the FUTURE!

Batman & Robin Beyond © DC Comics
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Batman & Robin Beyond © DC Comics
By Corey Breen
Pencil Sketch

If you've been following me on Twitter or Facebook, I've been saying all week that I got a TON of drawing done on what was my last summer vacation this past weekend. I basically stayed home from Friday until yesterday, Tuesday, drawing. The rest of this week, I promised I'd share a lot of what I got done. I actually have plans to ink and color some of the pieces, and also, one is being inked by my often collaborator, Steve Wands! But I'll share those pieces too, since inks and colors make take longer, and I don't want to hold out after promising to show all the work I did.

Above is the first drawing I will be showing, and this one is kinda an oldie, but goodie. If you remember this drawing from a year ago (or more), then congrats, you really do follow my art. But if you don't, I included the original sketch just below the finished piece. What happened with this piece, I'll never know, but I put it aside after the sketch I did, and never got around to finishing it. Well that changed this past week, because I decided to finish it, so I could warm up to draw all the other pieces I drew this past weekend.

This was a good piece to get my hand all warmed up, and get my juices following to draw all weekend. Artists do that a lot, actually. It's hard to knock off the rust each day, and get into a nice groove to be able to draw all day. But once you knock off that rust, it's really hard to stop. So I went back to this piece so I can just mess around and knock off any rust, so I can get into the drawing groove. And it TOTALLY worked, trust me. All I think the piece came out pretty cool too. Glad I went back and finished the pencils on this one, because it was a piece I meant to finish when I originally drew it. Better late then never, I suppose.

So enjoy this first piece, and it'll be like a warm up for my readers, so you can really get into the next 4-5 pieces I did, and see how much warming up helps create some really good works. Really proud of the work I did his past weekend, and I hope it shows.

CjB

Coming Up-

Green Lantern
Neon Spider-Man Costume
Hunter Rose, Grendel
Darkhawk

PS- I will be showing a LOT of my process with these next posts/drawings, so you can see how I work, what my process is like, and how I get to the finished product. Should be pretty cool, I hope!

Jacket Schmacket!

Wonder Woman © William Moulton Marston
By Corey Breen
Pencil

One more Wonder Woman Sketch for the hell of it. Actually really dug issue #601, so go out there and pick it up, I think you will like it too. Really curious now as to how they will incorporate her into the regular DCU. But I'm sure it will wont be a problem, because, I mean really, Bruce Wayne is jumping through time on his way back to continuity, for God's sake, so anythings possible.

CjB

Green Lantern Corps Spread Colors Revealed!

Green Lantern Corps © DC Comics
Pencils by Corey Breen
Inks by Mike Sellers
Colors by Brian Miller & HiFi Studios

For more about this piece, and other need-to-know comic book news, please visit one of the BEST new Comic Book resource sites on the web, Master Digital Color at

http://masterdigitalcolor.com/

Corey Breen

Riddikulus!

Harry Potter © J.K. Rowling & Warner Brothers Pictures
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Yes, it may sound "Riddikulus!" but I am heading to Disney World to go to the Harry Potter Amusement Park this week for my one year anniversary! Can't wait to drink some Butter Beer soak up all the Riddikulus sights to see!

I will be returning the week of July 19th, so until then, "expecto patronum", I'm OUT y'all!

'You've been married one year, Corey Breen, what are you going to do now?' 'I'm going to Disney World!'

Corey

PS- HOW AMAZING IS THE TRAILER for the next two Potter films, WOW!

Red White and BAD: Top 5 Misguided Patriots

Ed Harris as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC Force Recon
From The Rock © Walt Disney
By Corey Breen
Pencil

My good friends over at Cave Drawing Inc., asked me to help out and do a drawing for their 4th of July Blog post, and my contribution was the main "villain" from the movie, The Rock! Please visit their site to read the post, and check out my artwork as well as some other REALLY talent artists!

http://cavedrawingink.blogspot.com/

Happy July 4th everyone!

CjB

THIS is what it should be!

Wonder Woman © William Moulton Marston

Art by Jim Lee
Fixed art over Jim Lee by Charlie Roode
Extra fixes by Corey Breen

Wonder Woman © William Moulton Marston

Art by Jim Lee
Fixed art over Jim Lee by Charlie Roode

Charlie Roode (@gradunza on Twitter) made his own "fix" of the new Wonder Woman costume... and I like it, but it needed to go EVEN more! So I went in and made some MORE changes on it! What do you all think?

I added stars on the bracelets instead of the "W"'s. I changed her to having pants again, but WITH the boots! Then I made he corset good all RED, WHITE, and BLUE! And of coarse, kept the jacket OFF!

I think this is what it should be, I LOVE it now, and will be drawing THIS outfit when I get a chance!

Later, have a GREAT 4th of July!

CjB

USA! USA! USA!

USA forward Landon Donovan
By Corey Breen
Pencil
Based on a Photo by EPA

2pm! June 27th! ABC! Estados Unidos vs. Ghana for a chance to go to the FIFA World Cup Quarter Finals!

GO USA! GO USA! GO USA!

Good luck USA, and even if you lose, thank you so much for that win over Algeria! I will never forget where I was with my coworkers, in front of my computer, streaming live from http://atdhe.net/ and the reaction we all had watching it! When they scored, I jumped about 10 feet in the air right on to my coworker, Julio, who was delirious in excitement! It was one of the best celebrations I've ever had, and reminded me much of when the NY Giants won the Superbowl. Nothing will ever match THAT, but this was so exhilarating and my heart was beating so fast for hours after the victory!

It was sports at it's VERY BEST, as well as ultimate pride in your country! Very proud of of our team, and I hope I captured even a little bit of that excitement in my drawing of the winning goal at 91 minutes this past Wednesday!

I'm very nervous about the game, I want us to win so badly, yet very EXCITED to just watch them play and root them on! So, Let's do THIS, USA!

Corey

The ALL NEW Wonder Woman!

Wonder Woman © William Moulton Marston
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Wonder Woman © William Moulton Marston
Art by Jim Lee

Now that it's FINALLY been made public, I can share with you my take on the ALL NEW Wonder Woman costume designed by Jim Lee! I actually had this all ready to be posted last week, but realized Wonder Woman #600 doesn't come out until tomorrow, so I had to wait.

Read all about the BIG news here:

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/06/29/unveiling-wonder-woman%E2%80%99s-new-costume-direction/

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/new-wonder-woman-costume-100629.html

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26929

I'm a complete sucker for new costumes or characters hidden behind masks, and there's a mystery as to who it is. I love when a character gets an "All New, All Different" direction. I think it comes from my love of character design and costume/ character creation. I love art of books that have tons of drawings of different costumes and looks. So I get REALLY excited when an establish character gets a make over. I know a lot of the times it is pure gimmick to get more readers or just doing it to "do it" when no real story element is involved. When it's done right, it is so much better, but even still, I always fall for the revamped looks. I loved it when Snake-Eyes changed from his commando outfit to his visor look. I loved it when Tim Drake took over as Robin, and wore pants. I LOVED it when Spoiler took over as Robin as a girl. I love it when Spider-Man changes his costume, despite all the TERRIBLE designs he's gone through. There have been so many throughout the years, and even if the costume is horrible, I always wind up at least liking the idea behind it, if only because I feel superheroes should always have different outfits to wear.

Much like Star Wars, why can't superheroes change outfits occasionally? Much like Luke had his Hoth gear, and X-Wing flight suit, and his black Jedi wear. I loved that there was slave Leia, and Leia as Bousch. I'm even a fan of when Batman has to use a different outfit to say, so deep sea diving, lol. Most of Batman's outfits like that were for terrible different toys to sell as many as they could, but some of them just made sense. If Batman needs to jump out of a plane, much like Jim Lee had him do in Hush, he wears the appropriate suit. I don't know WHY superheroes feel that they need to wear ONE and only one outfit for a long, LONG time. If Spider-Man wants to go out in his black suit, why must it be such a BIG deal in comics. Why does it always have to be an EVENT?! If Superman wants to wear his black suit (which I LOVED), he should. Same with Wonder Woman. She has her warrior armor, and her classic spandex. If she is going to war, she should wear the appropriate outfit. Makes sense doesn't it?

My point is, I LOVE new costumes, and here is the DEBUT of Wonder Woman's NEW costume. I like mostly everything about it, except for maybe the jacket, but it could grow on me. I love her corset, and I like her pants, but the jacket may just be too old school for me. I drew it because even though with new costumes there are aspects that I may not like, I have to try my hand at it anyway to see if I can make it cool. I like my version a lot, and therefore, I think Jim Lee created a really cool ALTERNATE costume that can work really well for the character.

My point is though, that's what it should be; an alternate outfit. For example, if she wants to wear her warrior outfit for a story, she should just do it. If she wants to wear her classic outfit, then she should. When she wants to be more casual, she should wear this outfit. To be honest, I think it makes her TOO covered up actually. She is supposed be a goddess, and super sexy. She is too covered up right now. In an age with Lady Gaga and Miley Cirus, she is WAY out of fashion. I get that she shouldn't be wearing Granny Panties anymore, and I like how the pants solves that issue, but she should not have a jacket covering up her shoulders, which is what REALLY makes a woman a sexy, strong, powerful woman. The jacket makes her look a little too masculine. We'll see though. It looks awesome drawn by Jim, but can other artists match it?

I can't wait until fans see the new costume, and see what they think. Should be interesting. And I can't WAIT until the NEXT character to be "All New, All Different; the New ________!"

Until next time,

CjB

Rocketeer Reboot!?

The Rocketeer © Dave Stevens
By Corey Breen
Pencil

Here is my final drawing of the Rocketeer series I did. I like this one a lot actually. I think because it is framed nicely on the page, and really has a nice sort of illustrated quality to it. Drawing this one, really gave me a brilliant idea too. It made we think how COOL it would be to do a reboot of the character. I wouldn't mind someone doing a new series taking place as it did in the noir/ war story that it was in the 4o's, just to get new comics starting this amazing character, but I'm talking about a NEW series completely, placing the character in MODERN DAY! I really think this seems like a good idea.

Just imagine a Rocketeer book where it takes place in modern day, and if it was written by someone like James Robinson! James wrote my all time favorite comic book series in Starman, so just imagine him writing a Rocketeer book. Much like Starman it would set up a new character in the role, and be a series filled with the same story telling ability James is a master of. He can be the latest in a long line of Rocketeers harking back to the war, and like the Lightning Staff Jack Knight was given, the Rocket Pack could be handed down. Or a new character takes up the mantle after the pack was found, or handed down to him from his grandfather or something. Maybe it's like Batman Beyond where this character stumbles upon it and takes up the reigns and learns the history of it as the story progresses and the character gets caught up in a string of lies and deceit, restarting the struggle of villains getting their hands on the technology! It probably would work best with like a fictional Nazi-like regime, or GI Joe's Cobra, ie a fraction of say, China or North Korea. God, I should just write this myself... lol! Hmmmmmmm...

James is PERFECT for this book. In Starman, James was AMAZING at crafting a long, fleshed out tale. He was the master at foreshadowing. What he wrote in issue six reverberated in issue 55! He was able to give us clues and hints as he went along, and NOTHING was throw away. He made everything MATTER. He said, for example that Jack would go into space. We thought whatever at the time, but when he finally had to go into space, like 50 issues later, it was brilliant. And it wasn't like, "oh, I said Jack has to go to outer space, so let's have him go." No, it was more because the story's next step was outer space, the story dictated the move, and it was not FORCED at all. The way he tied it together was so awesome! Also, the way he was able to take 3-4 different era's and make them all mater and tie into each other, created this "false" history for the character who was really a throw away character before the series. He made us CARE about Ted Knight, and other characters who were Starmen. And don't get me started on the AMAZING character of the Shade! The way the Shade played into the weaving of the story, was nothing shirt of genius!

But wouldn't it be so great to see and read a series in the vain of the masterful Starman, where James was able to tie in history and legacies, and mystery around a new character, but an old legacy? James was also a master at time and setting, and I can see it now; the Rocketeer within a wondrous city (real or imaginary) like Opal City. The possibilities are endless if he could capture even an ounce of that magic again!

James is the BEST writer when it comes to tying multiple stories together throughout the length of a series and he would do wonders with this book! I think in making the Rocketeer a legendary character once again by building an EPIC story such as Starman, that has a beginning, middle and end, James Robinson would be the perfect fit here. And drawn by ME, of coarse! LOL

If you haven't read Starman, go out and buy the Hard Covers in stores now, and read them immediately! Trust me when I say that is one of, if not the GREATEST comic series of all time! And then come back and imagine what WONDERS he could do with a character like the Rocketeer if he did it in that vain.

Hope you like this pin-up!

Until next time,

CjB

Color Comet!

The Comet © DC Comics

Colors by Corey Breen

Inks by Steve Wands
Pencils by Corey Breen

The Comet © DC Comics
Inks by Steve Wands
Pencils by Corey Breen

The Comet © DC Comics
Pencils by Corey Breen

The Comet © DC Comics
By Duncan Rouleau

I love working with my good friend, and coworker Steve Wands. He adds so much life and energy to my pieces, when he inks over me. I'm really lucky to have someone who I share so much artist creativity with, who loves my art and vice-versa. I'm very fortunate that he likes to work over me, and I over him, and I get SUPER excited to share our collaborations with everyone.

Here he added his AMAZING inks to my piece for The Comet who was redesigned by fan favorite, Duncan Rouleau, as seen above!

Great work Steve!

Corey

Sky High; Even More Rocketeer!

The Rocketeer © Dave Stevens
By Corey Breen
Pencil

The Rocketeer © Dave Stevens

By Corey Breen
Pencil Thumbnail Enlarged

Blast Off!

The Rocketeer © Dave Stevens
By Corey Breen
Pencil

The Rocketeer © Dave Stevens
By Corey Breen
Pen & Pencil

Some more Rocketeer goodness to blast you off into the weekend! Have a good one everyone!

CjB

Prince of Persia Movie RULES!

Prince of Persia - 2010 © Ubisoft
By Corey Breen
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Please, please, please do yourself a favor and RUN to go see the Prince of Persia movie! If you like fun filled, action packed, old school adventure movies, then you gotta support this movie. I know it did just ok, but it should be doing BETTER! I want it to do at least good enough to make a sequel, because it really deserves it. Much like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, much like the Mummy movies in a lesser extent, and a lot like the Indiana Jones movies, this movie is really deserving of more attention and praise. People need to STOP being so critical of things to the point where they actually miss out on the really good ones.

With a beautiful soundtrack, really good cinematography, good acting, wonderful thrills and action sequences, great pace, heartfelt, funny movie, I enjoyed every SECOND of this movie. Beautiful women abound, great sets and a really engaging plot that kept me wanting it to not end. It's all about the great aspects of why time travel can be such a cool topic when done right, and not muddled by huge gaping holes and conundrums. Not overly complex, the story was what I want to see more movies be. Not every movie has to be the Dark Knight, or as deep and meaningful a film. Sometimes I just want my action/ adventure movies to be FUN! I want to sit back, enjoy the movies, and where it takes me to another time, place, etc. I was definitely whisked away with this movie, and much like where I thought Pirates and Avatar succeeded, it was all about making a exciting adventure film of old.

So do yourself a favor and support this movie and movies like it. I personally LOVE movies like this one, and Pirates, and the yes, the Mummy movies, and Indiana Jones! And even the recent Losers movie! We need these kinda movies; I NEED these kinda movies. The fact that it was panned, was complete BullSH!T, and I think completely ignorant. If you are like me, I think you will really like this flick, and even if there NEVER is a sequel, I at least have this film to watch OVER and OVER again, so I am happy.

Good work to everyone who made this film, I LOVED it! Hope people finally come around to my side. I think it kicked Iron Man 2's A$$ by the way, but it's stupid to even compare. Go out and see it for yourself, and let me know what YOU think!

I hope you at least dig my drawing of Dastan!

Until next time,

Corey Breen

PS- Lots of Rocketeer drawings are coming up next couple of posts!