Sketch of Black Widow. Love her so much.
JoJo Seames, 2013
Spent an unreasonable amount of time adding color to this late-night doodle. I’m not sure what Loki did to merit this treatment by his darlin’ brother. I think he either put salt in the sugar bowl, or he kidnapped the Hoover Dam.
ink n’ Photoshop
JoJo Seames, 2013
Sorry if you guys are gettin’ tired of seein’ me draw Loki. But, ya know, he is my favorite comics character, the little shit. I just can’t help myself.
watercolor on 140lb cold-press watercolor paper
JoJo Seames, 2013
“…And then shawarma after.”
Commission for CowHatNinja of the delicious shawarma scene from Avengers! This moment takes place after Loki has been defeated, which makes me wonder where the god of mischief could be while they’re chowin’ down. I assume he’s just out of frame, under the table, where Hawkeye is repeatedly stompin’ him in the face. ^w^
This piece was super fun to do.
ink & watercolor; J.E. Seames, 2012
New painting! The Black Widow and Hawkeye…circa 1966-or-so. I love them. Because Natasha seemed to be the only Marvel lady-type character who thought about things besides going shopping and fantasizing about giving haircuts to handsome men. And because Clint was such a sassy molassy. Such faves.
Watercolor on 140lb cold-press watercolor paper; J. E. Seames, 2012
Just read the first issue of Captain Marvel, by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Dexter Soy. LOVED it so much that I immediately had to stop everything else and do this painting.
I love Carol’s new name. Love her rad new hairstyle. Love her new costume. (Boy howdy, if Marvel produced a jacket that looks like top half of her costume, I would buy one so fast.) Love that she’s still got the jaunty hip sash. Love the character interactions. Love the painterly art. (I am saying that I recommend this book.)
Anyway…painting. All watercolor, on 140lb cold-press watercolor paper. Original is for sale.
J. E. Seames, 2012
Been rather depressed today, so here’s a quick little watercolor sketch of my fave funnybook character, Loki. (I find his obvious-but-never-explicitly-commented-upon heavy drinking habit to be a rather endearing character trait.)
watercolor; J. E. Seames, 2012
I loooooooved Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye #1, so I felt compelled to draw this picture of Hawkeye and Pizza Dog, eating some pizza. This book gave me feelings, you guys. It was so good.
ink n’ watercolor on Bristol board; J. E. Seames, 2012
(original for sale)
OmigoshOmigoshOmigosh, “Thor 2” is gonna have MALEKITH in it?!?!?!?! The hammy dark elf who is basically a Sailor Moon villain!! EXCITE!!! (Link)
I was gonna make a comment about how all the Thorverse villains are flashy comparatively-feminine magical fucks, but then I remembered that there are also grunting uber-masculine brutes like Ulik and Skurge and that kind of messed with my idea of eventually discussing gender roles as they play into villain status in that particular pocket of Marvel.
Yeah, the three main types of villains in Thor stories are effeminate magical fops, hyper-masculine thugs, and pretty girls who want to kiss Thor* and are mad that Thor doesn’t want to kiss them back.
But yo, one could talk for a long time about the theme of hegemonic masculinity in Thor books! That is such a thing!
* All ladies in Thor comics want to kiss Thor.
OmigoshOmigoshOmigosh, “Thor 2” is gonna have MALEKITH in it?!?!?!?! The hammy dark elf who is basically a Sailor Moon villain!! EXCITE!!! (Link)
Warm-up drawings for this week are gonna be sketches of lady characters from Thor comics, because…awesome?
Concluding this series with my very favorite Marvel character, Loki! (Of course.) During that stretch of time when he was a woman. Which was awesome. (In, like, actual Norse mythology, Loki is god of (among other things) non-binary gender stuff. Nice!) I have a tangle of love-hate emotions about that part of the comics, but I’m pretty solidly in favor of Loki being a lady sometimes. With an enormous, fabulous fur coat. And such wonderful, sarcastic expressions. I don’t know how that headpiece is working, though; must be, like, 400 bobby-pins up in there.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls;
It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Loooooki
La la la la Looooki
La la la la Loooookiiiiii…
J. E. Seames, 2012
(For sale, $10.)
