X-Men by Troy Hoover

Warpath is cool.

Frank Frazetta by Troy Hoover

Everyone loves Death Dealer! How about a Native American Death Dealer? I really wanted to take this topic as an opportunity to mess around with digital painting again. Still seems to be something I can't totally grasp. I think it's the blending technique that gets me, can't really find a way to make it work the same way real paints do. Anyways I decided to re-paint an existing Frazetta layout as an homage and I put a little twist on it with the Native American thing.

Tonto

I am not very familiar with this character, but thought I'd give him a shot.

Nobody

Xebeche from Dead Man

Native American Spider-man

Chief Man-of-Bats

Quick one for this week. The Native American Batman from Morrison's Batman run (hey, can you tell I like Grant's comics?).

Native American Girl

Cowboys and Indians

So I drew this originally on brown paper with a HB pencil and a whit chalk pencil. I thought it looked better in the blueish "night" scheme. Anyway, kind of a quickie but fun none-the-less. So no one managed to find a way to fit in Game of Thrones this week?

Wow-ahkan

Sorry for bringing the blog down with this one.  I ran out of time because I was farting around... I mean I was really busy with other stuff.  Yeah.

Apocalypto

Maybe not the most historically accurate movie ever made, but certainly one of the most exciting!

Apache Justice

This is the Apache Warrior Geronimo... a little Moebius influence in this one.

Native American

I was dreading doing this week's topic, until I started working on it. I admit this isn't anything special or any person in particular, just a guy standing there, but damn was it fun to draw and ink. I was at a loss for what to do, so I just did some quick reference, found some interesting images, and this ended up coming out on my end. I didn't bother erasing the pencils or adjusting the levels too much because it gave it a raw feeling, and felt that was appropriate for the subject matter. Before this drawing I didn't really have any interest on doing something native american, but now I can't wait to do another!

Red Crow

Chief Red Crow from Scalped. Had to do kind of a quickie this week, due to my work schedule.

Turn of the century renegade

One of the reasons I am so interested in the American west during the mid 1800's through the turn of the century is the mixing of all the different cultures. I like the use in movies and books of Native Americans wearing American army clothing or weapons. Did they trade for them? Or are they trophies of battle? So I just came up with this dude whose been through some stuff and got some trophies of his own. Went a little more cartoony/exaggeration for fun on this one and inked it all in brush to get a little more use out of it. I'm mostly a nib guy.

Sky

Meh. Sketchy stuff here :/