All but BLOODSHOT - SOME COVERS I DID FOR VALIANT COMICS (with prelim sketches!)

There's a new Vin Diesel movie coming out called Bloodshot. If you're a comic book fan, you may know that this character was created for Valiant comics long ago.

Valiant had a decent run in the 90's and then went under. It got bought then sold then bought...frankly I lost track until one Dinesh Shamdasani got some investors together and revived the entire line about 8 years ago. He did such a good job that a movie studio came and bought up properties to make films out off...and eventually another one just bought the whole company.

Dinesh is onto other schemes and plots in between plugging the new Bloodshot movie.

During his run as head boss of Valiant, he had me do a bunch of covers for their books...although I never did get around to doing a Bloodshot cover. Almost did ...it was next but then other things fell into my lap and and his and we never did get a chance to get back to each other and get it done. Such is the nature of the business.

BUT I do have some covers here to show you...along with the preliminary sketches. I'd do two or three sketches, they would pick one ( usually the one I hated) and I'd make the finished cover ( which would end up turning out well...and was evidence that they made the right choice and the sketch I liked would not have been as good as a finished cover. I never told them that though, haha)

First is a cover for Archer and Armstrong ( one of the first properties they sold to the movies...that project is still in the works somewhere). The only elements they specifically mentioned was having Archer and Armstrong and a bunch of demons from another dimension.

here's a couple of the sketches.

Can't find the sketch of the idea they went with, but here it is in black and white--

and the finished color version--

Next up is a cover for a hero named Faith. I did two covers for her, but we'll do this one for now. They wanted a time machine looking thing, and a bunch of the other Valiant universe characters. Here' the sketches--

and here's the final inked --

and in color

Hey...wait a minute! That is Bloodshot in the lower right hand side corner. I guess I did draw Bloodshot for Valiant....technically.

More next time and the SECOND CONTEST where everyone who's part of the community ( all ya gotta do is click "join" ) has a chance to win an autographed copy of one of the issues I did for Valiant!

Later.

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