My superhero art

Greetings all! I recently graduated from an illustration course at university, which was all very serious and academic. One of the first things I drew after finishing was something that I hadn't done in a long time, despite being dear to my heart - super heroes.

First up a quick Iron Man one, I like how he turned out, so I need to attempt a full body one at some stage.



Next up I wanted to make a poster for the release of TDKR, so here's a few images of how it came together













Thats all for now, I'm ridiculously excited for Man of Steel so a teaser poster might be the next thing I try to tackle, many thanks for looking!

 

Thanks all!

That's great advice thanks, hadn't heard of french curves at all, after a google search I'm now all the wiser! Now to just avoid doing it

Anyway my next superhero piccy, I wanted this to be like a 'teaser' poster, much like a teaser trailer doesn't show too much. I'll definitely attempt a more dynamic one closer to June next year t:

 

Thanks for all the kind words guys, this is all in my spare time so it means a lot coming from people who aren't bias, i.e friends or family! And thanks grafffik for the continued feed back, my technique tends to be just bludgen my way through a piece of work, using the undo function as much as I need to, so techniques like your describing would definitely help me get things on track more efficiently I suspect. I too have seen comic book artists using shapes like that,I need to start adopting it, especially if it makes form in images that much stronger.
And thanks Syncos for the feedback, you're absolutely right the text is often an afterthought for me, which no doubt shows. I tried to be a bit more conscious of it this time, and reduced the font size, like you said it doesn't need to be big at all.

Here's my next poster for Man of Steel. It's a simple one again, as I did it to have a break from something else I was working on and wanted to bash it out in an evening (it took 2 in the end).



And a movie accurate, no 'S' on cape version

 

Man of Steel portrait

 

I might have sunk a 'few' hours into Skyrim so I know exactly what you're talking about So you think the edge's are a little too sharp/jagedy in the illustrations? I've experimented very little with brushes on photoshop, only just started using pre-sets, so I'll definitely play about with the blurring and see if the lines become less harsh on the eye. Thanks again!

 

I'm really looking forward to the Flash pilot, I thought Barry's introduction into Arrow was done really nicely, so fingers crossed the series is a hit. I'm still working on the actor's likeness for this pic, but I need a break from working on this before I take another pass at it.

 

Thanks guys! Means alot. I've updated my flash piece, the likeness is hopefully that bit closer to the actor from the new tv show. Felt inspired after watching the new trailer to add the quote.


Second is a work in progress and part of a bigger poster I'm doing for Cap. My hype levels for this film were high so I had to start drawing something for it, but it's taking its time coming together.