I knew absolutely nothing about this character, not even in passing. I think it was a plot that I just hadn’t come across. This design was tough for me as I tried in most cases to stay true to Ditko’s originals but I just did not gel with this character’s look. It is very “of the time” in terms of design, and I just don’t think I did it justice unfortunately.

As much as I was not a fan of the design, this character does have a fun colour palette I can get behind. Again, applying a very minimal amount of shading and effects, I just tried to work within a confined palette. As this character is from the Doctor Strange storyline, I did a little throwback to my first coloured piece of the man himself and brought back some of the halftones to highlight the magic.

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

I've been participating in a monthly sketch exercies for the month of October, in honour of Steve Ditko and the many characters he created. Here are the first 8. Of the group, I think Sandman is my favourite, but I tried to do something different with each.

In order they are:
#1 Doctor Strange
#2 J. Jonah Jameson
#3 Nightmare
#4 Aunt May
#5 Dormammu
#6 Captain Atom
#7 Sandman
#8 Clea

Labels: Aunt May, Captain Atom, Clea, Ditkoctober, Doctor Strange, Dormammu, J. Jonah Jameson, Nightmare, pen and ink, Pentel, Sandman, Steve Ditko