Miscellaneous Gallery
Last Updated: 7/20/10
with Jeff Mace's Captain America redesign, and more Kawaiiju.
These are drawings which really don't have anything to do with the LNH, RACC,
RoboMACs or Transformers. All images are copyright Dave Van Domelen
as of the date listed.
A special look at my early art, mostly stuff from before I started working in
sketchpads. This shows one of my oldest superhero ideas reworked from the
time I was 11 until I was 22, plus a look at a much more recent use of the
concept. Now includes a 2007 drawing.
Fan Art
Stuff from comics and webcomics done by people who I
know.
Something Positive and related Webcomics:
- Davan, the Boy Wounder: Fan art of Davan from
Something*Positive, dressed as
Robin. 5/11/05
- Kestrel: The caped vigilante, occasional partner
of Davan the Boy Wounder, Kestrel seeks to keep stupid people from breeding!
From Queen of Wands. 12/6/05
- Kharisma von Doom: Something Positive
character who got somewhat scarred by self-inflicted stupidity (and a lighter
and hairspray). I decided this was the next logical step for her, and did a
very quick sketch. May 2006 sometime.
K-Girls (Twisted Kaiju Theater):
Green Avenger:
- Green Avenger: Main character of the webcomic of the same name. She's
crushing a bundle of six pencils for obscure injoke reasons. I decided to
try inking it all in thicker Sharpie "fine point" linkes, which worked okay
except in the face. 12/7/05
- Lady Groincrush: Former teammate of the
Green Avenger. No superpowers, but she has the willingness and ability to
CRUSH your GROIN. 2/7/06
Galaxion:
- Patty: Patty's got a thing for
weird hats, so I put her in one of the weirder hats out there as she prepares
for a dangerous First Contact mission.... 7/29/99 (better scan uploaded
9/18/06) Note: the story is being retold online, and Patty hasn't appeared
yet in the retelling.
- Fusella: The owner of the starship
Galaxion. I did this all in Prismacolor cool grays. 11/30/06
- "Zandarin's Hat": A quick gag strip about
Zandarin's experience with Patty's favorite haberdashers. Inked in Sharpie,
with a little digital fill. 4/30/08
Mark Crilley:
- Most of my Akiko stuff is Kitbashes or
Convention
T-shirts. But I've done some style-biting drawings too.
- Akiko as Bright Girl: Akiko post-"Training
Master" (i.e. Junior High age) dressed up for Who Wants To Be A
Superhero? auditions. 7/26/07
- Miki Reaps: Miki of Miki Falls as she
might be if Hiro were a Soul Reaper (from Bleach) and she tried to get into
his world. 7/27/07
- Mr. Beeba: From Akiko. Done for a board
avatar, the avatar cropped
this down to just the head and hand. Ink and colored pencils, pose
referenced from Flights of Fancy page 207. 1/1/08
- Bishonen Spuckler Boach: From
Akiko, sort of. Ink and markers, Spuckler head in lower right drawn
from reference. 7/1/08.
Skin
Horse:
- Tip: A cross-dressing ex-Marine
psychologist, token human from Project Skin Horse (the project being named
after the character in the Velveteen Rabbit). The webcomic by Garrity and
Wells is named simply Skin Horse. 2/12/08.
- Unity as a Jagermonster: A construct
co-worker of Tip's, having discovered the Jagermonster lifestyle from Phil
Foglio's Girl Genius. Hat design sketch. 6/20/08.
White Lightning Productions:
- Chi-Chi Chan in Bustgunner: Chi-Chi Chan is
the star of an adult webcomic, a former child star whose career ended when
puberty hit with a vengeance. Most of her stories involve anime and manga
parodies, so I decided that the "bouncing bustline" giant robot series
Gunbuster would suit her. Note: I drew her limbs significantly longer than
they should be. July 2006.
- CoffeeCreamer Maid: My own fancharacter
placed in the Magnificant Milkmaid (NSFW) comic universe. While all the
other "magical girl" types there get breasts the size of milk jugs (or
bigger), poor Kimiko gets single serving cups. 11/22/07.
Eric Burns fanart:
Other comics and webcomics:
- Niriko: A character from the webcomic Nahast: Lands of Strife, done for an art
contest held by the creator, Alejandro Melchor. 10/23/04
- Fire Lad: A re-envisioning of Staq Mavlen of the
Legion of Substitute Heroes along more Ditko-ish lines, done for the latest
incarnation of the Legion MUSH. 11/20/04
- Bun on a Bombarde: Pau-Henoa of the "Amy
Unbounded" Universe (who may be findable here if link-rot doesn't
get to me) playing a Bombarde, a realllly loud wind instrument. Pau-Henoa,
aka The Mad Bun, is just the sort to try playing a Bombarde while wearing
mittens. 2/10/07
- "NASCAP": In Civil War Frontlines #11, Captain
America was chided for not having a MySpace page, following NASCAR, or
watching YouTube videos. So I made up this new Cap, hand-picked by Tony
Stark, who has a Vibranium-coated NASCAR-styled Dodge Charger and a MySpace page. Design sketch.
3/9/07
- Spider-Bad: A five minute thing thrown together
in Crayola marker and Sharpie for a gag. Spider-Man drawn a la Strongbad of
Homestarrunner.com. 3/17/07
- Catalymon: Sketched up during the fourth
season of Digimon, scanned much later to scare people with. It's a
hypothetical combined digivolution of two characters who never did that in
the show.
- Silver Age Stargirl: Just another colored
costume design sketch, an idea for how DC's Stargirl might dress if stuck in
the Silver Age and trying to fit in. October 2007.
- Tetsujin of the Iron Village: Tony Stark in
the Narutoverse. A cursemark is placed on him that will cause all eight of
his Eight Gates to open if he doesn't obey his captor, but he develops a
special set of Chakra armor that seals the curse and later lets him tap his
Gates at will, artificially reproducing jutsu, such as the Rasengan. Think
of it as a sort of Sharingan that takes some lab time to make work. Design sketch. 11/18/07.
- Black Lantern Suicide Squid: An old
standby from Rec.arts.comics, Suicide Squid is a typo run amok. With Suicide
Squad (the original inspiration for Squiddy) getting a "back from the dead"
issue as part of Blackest Night, I was inspired to make Suicide Squid as a
Black Lantern, the ring catching him during one of his many temporary
deaths. 12/26/09.
- Duchess Dire: The token female of the Black
Widows, the villain group from the 1980s cartoon Spiral Zone. I mostly based
her on the comicbook adaptation's design, since there's no real online
resources other than a head shot and pictures of the toy. Prismacolor
markers and pencils. 5/29/10.
- Jeff Mace redesigns Captain America: Done for a
Project Rooftop challenge, to redesign the costume for a canonical Captain
America (NASCap above is a new character, so wouldn't be enterable). I
decided that in 1949, while thinking of retiring, Jeff Mace (aka the Patriot,
the third main wearer of the Captain American uniform) would have tried
making the role more his own by redesigning the suit to incorporate some of
the elements of his Patriot costume and otherwise updating the look. Original design doodle (notice several changes), tight pencils and the version I submitted with a nicer background and no
signature. 7/16/10.
Sketch Meme
Results of "name a character and I'll draw it" Livejournal meme
posting.
December 26, 2008
True Miscellany
Stuff I haven't moved into other sections
yet, and may never.
- Thunderfist: Drawn three days before my 18th
birthday, I realized after I was done how horribly Freudian the costume was,
and tried to fix it with a belt. Didn't really help. Still, one of my early
attempts at multi-figure composition. 7/15/88
- Osprey: One of my late-college Hardsuit
designs, and the first one I inked with a tech pen instead of a quill.
2/29/92
- Iron Eagle: Basic concept by John "Elvis"
Marcotte, I did this drawing on commission ($5, woo). 4/7/92
- Spectrum: Champions character of a friend.
Last thing I drew before graduating from college. Not to be confused with
the Superguy character. 5/7/92
- Gauntlet: An attempt at taking the
then-current costume trend and making something that didn't look ugly out
of it. I think it worked. 5/19/92
- Paladin: Fifth incarnation of a character I've
been kicking around since 1985. 7/13/92
- Myrmidon: Originally supposed to have a light
sabre, but I realized after inking it that I'd put the blade
going the wrong way. So I turned it into a staff/baton. 1/8/93
- Myrmidon 1989: Original version of the
character. Before I started doing breakdowns in my art. 3/28/89
- Vector: Another iteration of my "telekinetic
martial artist" character, based on a costume design I was fiddling with for
a CCMUX character (but that was not used for CCMUX). 3/23/04
- Fennec: A PC from the silly Champions campaign I
ran in my final semester of college back in 1992, redrawn for the player
after I got in contact with him again after a decade. Character created by
Josef Ricketts. 10/11/04
- High School Art: I took a drawing and painting course my Junior year of
high school (1986-7), turning out three finished pieces. A pencil drawing of
an ear of corn, and the two below. Dunno what happened to the corn, but the
other two lasted until it was time for me to clean out my old bedroom in
2007, at which point it was junk pickup for 'em. Dad took photos before they
were carted off, though. Both were way too big to take on the plane with me,
and not really worth mailing and continuing to store.
- Demon Mask pastel: Taken from a National
Geographic reference photo, I was forbidden to use black for shadows except
on the bone parts.
- Doctor Who and Sea Devil oil: Adapted from a
Doctor Who Magazine photo of the Third Doctor facing down a Sea Devil, done
in oil paints.
- Helium Atom: My concept of how an atom
might look, done to help out a colleague's research project (comparing
drawings of scientists to drawings of students). Not to scale, the electron
cloud should really be 100,000 times bigger than the nucleus, give or take.
And I can't prove protons are green, I just like it that way. 5/1/08
- Jimmaku "Jimmy" Nishimura: My character in a
Scion: Hero campaign, he's a scion of Set and the world's best street racer.
Visuals based on Kamina from Gurren Lagann. Character sheet.
12/18/08.
(If I do more Scion characters I may create a subsection for it.)
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