I’ve been using action figure pictures as reference and I found a cool one of Scarlet Spider. I usually don’t add color but I decided to give it a go

This is a character from a short comic strip I was working on, I got a lot of inspiration from the manga Hajime No Ippo.

I love Simon Bisley’s work, huge fan of his over-the-top style in early ’90s Lobo comics. I’ve found that a great way to learn the subtleties of a particular artist is to take a piece of his work and recreate it. I used an iPad with a decent-resolution image of that particular comic book page and just eyeballed it, basically blowing it up on an 11×17-inch page. All my tools are in that photo: Microns, Tombows, a budget Dollar Store fat marker, etc. I was drawing this slowly and methodically, totally unlike Bisley’s (probably) drunken, chaotic fugue state. Got a lot of value here, especially from the chaotic inking line work… like how to make a mess and still make it look good. Kept faithful to the original for about 90% of it, but I did some mods here and there (like the chains on his arm, I used a Ryan Benjamin technique for faking chains; sorta botched it up... but hey that's art). However, the biggest lesson I learned from this exercise is… OMG do I hate drawing chains!! (Funny cuz my previous study was a Todd McFarlane cover of Spider-Man with a lot of his spaghetti webbing… and man, it was grueling to draw that too, but also kinda fun) So yeah, I won’t be creating any of my characters with chains. No way, man. (Btw, the original artwork has Lobo with one foot missing too. I was tempted to fix this, but I thought it’d be fun to leave that in.) Full gallery of images plus references on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visionarystorytelling/

This is my current project for my bestiary. It's supposed to be a human golem with a witch's familiar piloting it. I wanted the familiar to come like the chest-buster alien, but finding references for what I wanted was impossible, so I had to wing it. Can I get some help to make it more gory?

Almost done adding all the human art hacks I currently have 👏🏻