I've had this idea for a Paul Bunyan book for a while, and wanted a different look for it... softer, done in watercolors or pencil art scanned and colored. I'm practicing with watercolor, here is a sample...
2022-04-07 03:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I've posted some in progress pics of these pages before, but here are the finished ones.
2022-04-04 07:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Some sketching, a value study for the confrontation between John and the soldiers. This book and the Foreman are the next on the schedule to finish.
2022-03-31 01:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
When last we saw Jason the giant, a nuke was heading his way... didn't stop him! The client has the finale planned next.
2022-03-29 23:28:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Another older piece... it may have been done from a photo reference... acrylic wash over pencil, I have a Paul Bunyan book in mind that I want to do with this technique or watercolor.
2022-03-20 17:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Another early drawing from the Muscle Studio. Did I see him at a game or make him up? Young bro cheering on his team.
2022-03-19 19:44:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I found the originals of some of the early Muscle Studio art, rescanning at high res. Here's the beginning of an early macro saga, without the watermark through it (still on JMS site.)
2022-03-19 18:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post
With Smokeout coming up next month, here's another drawing I did from a few years back inspired by the event.
2022-03-19 17:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy St. Patrick's Day. Art I did some years back for my Muscle Studio site. May have posted this here before, if so, here it is again! www.jeffsmusclestudio.com #irish #Leprechaun #StPatricksDay #stpatricksday2022
2022-03-17 17:18:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Not sure if I posted this already - if so, apologies. Page 3 of Big Arms of the Law, where the muscled cop handles the young thugs. Not sure if I like the split screen effect in the first two panels. The preceding page attached for context.
2022-03-15 22:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostSad to read of the passing of Big Scott Hall at 63. I had drawn the foreman character before I'd ever seen him wrestle, but he looked just like I imagined the character.
2022-03-15 03:35:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey heh, today online I was told I looked like a beefcake Alan Moore, maybe the best compliment ever.
2022-03-15 00:20:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The rough pencils for the next installment... curling a semi truck is easy for the modern Hercules.
2022-03-12 10:15:50 +0000 UTC View Post
A new storyline for the H & I strip... some mad displays of strength by the young Herc!
2022-03-02 22:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Coloring in progress for this rendering of H & I's John's big gun.
2022-02-24 21:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post
That's what John is gonna be after a few months at the Project Hercules base, where he has taken over...
I was doing some flexing sketches of him, nice bicep pose of a big bodybuilder, but somehow that wasn't enough... his mass needs to be super freaky, so here are a couple quick sketches of where he's headed...
And his super strength has grown too, of course...
2022-02-23 06:37:34 +0000 UTC View Post
An early drawing from www.jeffsmusclestudio.com
2022-02-14 18:31:21 +0000 UTC View Post
An early H & I strip, the second one I think.
2022-02-14 18:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The coloring is time consuming... here are pages 12 & 12 in progress.
2022-02-12 18:08:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Size matters... next some comparisons.
2022-01-31 23:49:49 +0000 UTC View Post
As we last left them, the Foreman had brought his little assistant to his home. They are about to get intimate...
2022-01-28 20:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post
A pencil drawing tonight of Carl and John wrapped in each other. Will color it later.
A little refresher... this book (untitled as yet) would be the last in the Entwined Lives arc, after the Celt/Norse "King of Stones," set in a near future. I always wanted to write science fiction, so now moving out of the realm of myth and the past, here's the chance. As readers of the early H & I books know, Carl is a beginning pilot and John an aerospace engineer. I imagined their lives a couple generations later, with grandsons (elaborate on that at another time) on a space mission. I...
2022-01-06 20:56:09 +0000 UTC View Post
