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Mar 29 2012
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The Captain America Project #3: J.G. Jones

The Captain America Project: 20 comic artists, 20 drawings of Captain America on one page.

This week:  J.G. Jones (52, Doc Savage)

Watercolor by J.G. Jones
Captain America copyright Marvel Comics

When I approached J.G. Jones in 2010 I was expecting a pen and ink sketch.  It turns out he was doing watercolor commissions all day and he was able to squeeze this request in for me.  Fortunately the paper stock I chose for this jam piece was thick enough to handle watercolors.  I don’t want to play favorites, but this particular head sketch went above and beyond and I couldn’t have been happier.  J.G. is a super nice guy, too.

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Mar 20 2012
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Comics

The Captain America Project #2 – Ethan Van Sciver

The Captain America Project: 20 comic artists, 20 drawings of Captain America on one page.

This week:  Ethan Van Sciver (Green Lantern Reborn, Flash Reborn)

I got this sketch from Ethan Van Sciver shortly after Mike McKone’s at Wizard World New York in 2010.  One thing that surprises me is the varying line weights Ethan was able to achieve with a rapidograph given the actual image area he had to work with was almost half the size of the image below.

Captain America Copyright Marvel Comics

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Mar 15 2012
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The Captain America Project #1 – Mike McKone

In October 2010 I started The Captain America Project.  My goal was to commission 20 comic book artists to draw Captain America on one sheet of 11×17 comic art paper with 20 pre-drawn panels.  Each is panel a little smaller than the size of a baseball card.

Each week I’ll be posting a new panel from the page in the order in which it was drawn.  When the project is complete, I’ll post an image of the entire page.

First up was this sketch by Mike McKone (Teen Titans, Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four).

Captain America Copyright Marvel Comics.

I was very impressed with the amount of detail he added to this sketch given the panel he had to work with was only 2″ by 3″.  The flag in the background was a great touch.

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