This is my first drawing of Greg Buchanan, in preparation for his appearance in “Johnny Saturn” no. 1. Initially, the plan was for him to never remove his sunglasses, and we held to that for a long time. After Greg became Johnny Saturn in his own right, the sunglasses issue no longer made sense, nor [...]
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Attempted as a cool upshot, this illustration more just looks sadly out of proportion. It was also a vain attempt to work out the details on Johnny’s scarred epidermis. I took pride in keeping all those scars and wounds consistent as the series went forward.
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I don’t have any great reason behind putting this picture up, I just kind of like it. It’s me doing what I’m happiest doing, drawing, in my art nook. The art “nook” is actually a second floor dormer. That’s my sketchbook I’m drawing in, redesigning Engine of Destruction, a character coming up quite soon.
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This piece was a proposed cover for Johnny Saturn no. 1, the black & white edition. It’s drawn entirely in design marker, and it uses the collage method of cover composition I’ve used so many times. I loved those collage covers, because so many Marvel Comics, especially those drawn by Gil Kane, were composed this [...]
This was a shaded graphite drawing I did to entertain myself. By this point, Greg Buchanan had been Johnny Saturn for a while, and John Underhall retired, but I kind of missed drawing the old guy. I later tossed the original of this in with a customer’s order just because I wanted to: Sometimes, it’s [...]
Inked in marker, and roughly water colored, this was a proposed cover for the trade-paperback, “Johnny Saturn: Synns of the Father.” This wasn’t bad, but it came nowhere near the attitude I wanted to capture for graphic novel’s cover. It had good foreshortening, but overall it lacked in dynamics.
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This sketch was the cover of the “2006 Special Edition Scott Story Sketchbook,” and that’s the only time it’s seen print. I was well into taking open studio at the Indianapolis Art Center, and I was more than a little influenced by the inspirational pen & ink stylings of my friend, Paul McCall. My pen [...]
What can I really say about a picture like this one? It was drawn to amuse myself, and it serves no conceptual or story-based angle. I’ve always dabbled in more traditional cartooning styles, as you will see in upcoming “Inside the Book” entries. The colors here are done quickly and dirty with Design Markers.
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Drawn years before the storyline in the comic caught up with this, this was my first concept for John Underhall as king of Elysium City and the Mole people. It’s not too far off from what I actually used, really. I dropped the bandage “mask” and cowl, because it struck me as a little too [...]
Johnny Saturn is almost in his final form! The design process had not been long, but a great deal of thought had gone into the character.
It’s interesting to note that in this version, much of Johnny’s uniform was made of puncture resisting webbing: I had been doing quite a bit of research into modern body [...]
