I’ve always gotten a kick out of the character of Doctor Strange. It’s been interesting watching these characters come out on the big screen and how they’ve been interpreted compared to how I remember them as a kid.

In terms of this drawing, I simply wanted it to be dynamic with lost of magic crackling around him; I wanted the air to feel electric. I did get a kick out of the fact that he was so concentrated that you could only see eyebrows.

This was the first one I coloured, and I think I was still finding my footing a bit on how to tackle these. There’s elements here I would repeat later, such as the halftones or colour holds bleeding out past the image border, but this is the only image where the entirety of it is coloured with no black ink. I thought about approaching it again when assembling them here, but I like the idea of sticking to my original intent and showing progress image to image.

Labels: Ditkoctober, Doctor Strange, Pentel, Photoshop, Steve Ditko