GI JOE : Snake Eyes vs Cobra in Color

Sorry for the long intervals between posts, I've been focusing on picking up a pencil and trying to finally finish some illustrations for once instead of leaving things half way.

So here we go:

I colored my inked drawing of Snake Eyes on the ipad using a Wacom stylus in the Artstudio app.

I'm really surprised as to how well it turned out being that I hate coloring due to the fact that I've ruined a lot of my better looking drawings trying to color them with markers and watercolor, that I pretty much gave up on coloring until recently. Anyhow here it is hope you like it.

GI joe's Snake Eyes in : CROM RULEZ THE DEAD

 I went back to basics on a some "MARVEL" Strathmore comic stock I had lying about. good old fashion pencils on inks laid down with a Mocron .005 & a Micron brush tip which I love. Just a nice little scene with our buddy Snake Eyes using a Cobra Officer for a shield. The tag "Crom Rule the Dead" is a little fan service for a friend a mine who sent me a pic of that particular tag spray painted in the NYC subway tunnels.

The ipad is cute for doodles but Paper & Inks are my bread and butter.

Max Landis deconstructs "The Death of Superman" and shines a floodlight on what's wrong with comics today.

Max Landis, son of famed 80's movie director John Landis ( Animal House, Blues Brothers) pulls at the string of the horrible 90's comic book debacle known as the "Death of Superman" and unravels everything that's wrong with mainstream comics today.

It's a very entertaining little video that runs at about 17 minutes.

also keep an eye out for cameos by Elijah Wood, Simon Pegg, Mandy Moore, Morgan Kratz, Ron Howard just to name a few.



(I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.)
- Obi Wan Kenobi

And we're back!

I took a little time off to tend to the family and figure out what the hell I'm going to write about on this little corner of the interwebs...my conclusion is that I'm not going to over think about my posts, good or bad it's all going to be more of a stream of consciousness kind of blog.


(with the occasional fan service)

Ok here we go!

My online art gallery.

In 2012 I want to do a little more drawing and I hope to share these attempts with anyone who's interested on a personal little art blog I created called....

(insert drum roll here)


 http://johnbeatoart.blogspot.com

so if you curious to see my finished drawings, feel free to pop on in from time to time and feel free to leave any comments.

Thanks.