From The Closet: Batman

Another piece I found while digging everything out of my closet. Just a photocopy of the pencils, unfortunately. No idea what happened to the original art. I drew it for Mark Chiarello at DC to show him that I could draw traditional, slick, superhero art when I sent my mind to it. At the time, I was still heavily influenced by the work of Mike Mignola, but I wanted to add in some other art approaches I'd picked up from guys like Joe Quesada and Ed McGuinness. It was an interesting mix. Never drew a book in this style, which is probably for the best. It took me days to pencil this one piece. That's about four times as long as I usually take.

From The Files: BURNOUT

After my run on SUPERNATURAL: ORIGINS, I was really in the mood to do a superhero thing. I go through phases where I get the urge to draw something slick and superhero-y. Doesn't happen often, but it happens. Since I hadn't drawn any superheroes in a while, I tried my hand at a couple of the characters from Gen13 to show my editor at Wildstorm. This one features Burnout, the team's 'fire' character. I had a lot of fun tightening up my lines and playing with more dynamic shapes, but the MIRROR'S EDGE gig came up before I got a chance to ink it. No complaints from me, but I'd still like to try my hand at a straight-up superhero title someday.