The upside of their misery is that the guest strips done to fill the content void have introduced me to a bunch of new artists. One of my favorites so far is Ramon Perez’s PvP strip.

His own comic Kukuburi is now on my favorites list. I like it so much I drew this little fan art homage:

Over time I’ve come around in my thinking about comic/manga fan art. I used to avoid doing it because I saw too many fan art makers that couldn’t draw without the crutch of the source material. They had gotten locked into bad habits and styles that weren’t their own without learning the theory & practice that was the basis of the art they were copying. However, now that I’m a little more confident in my own drafting abilities, I can see how much I can learn from the getting inside another artist’s thought process by copying. Plus, it’s relaxing to draw within constraints; a blank page can be such a scary thing!

A couple of months ago Project Rooftop announced a Wolverine re-design contest. I had never entered one of their contests and thought Wolvie would be a good place to start, so I sketched a bit but never came up with any stellar ideas before the deadline, just this little drawing which I have now colored in. The winners have just been announced; the grand and first prize entries are drawn in completely different styles yet both are very awesome. You can see them here. Congrats to the winners!