Emerald Satellite: Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, Artcard

With DC's Blackest Night event going on right now, Green Lantern is one of DC Comics' hottest properties at the moment.  So of course, there couldn't be a better time to showcase my Green Lantern artcard here on this site.  Hal Jordan is DC's premiere Green Lantern at the moment, so he won out when it came to choosing which Green Lantern to depict.

I've always enjoyed the few times I've drawn "spacescapes" in illustrations, and this piece was no exception.  I wanted to use photographs of some of the planets and moons in our solar system for inspiration when coloring the ones depicted in this artcard, but I wanted to make it clear that this was not our solar system.  As photographs from the Hubble Telescope has shown us, space can be quite colorful, and I definitely wanted to incorporate that into this piece.

For Green Lantern, I used Ray Caspio as a model for the pose.  I also took visual cues from the updated costume in the comics.  For example, I had the Green Lantern symbol on his chest actually project itself as a lazer light projection hovering over his chest.  I always liked Hal Jordan visually because green has always been one of my favorite colors, and also because he was one of the few superheroes who had brown hair.  Most superheroes when I was growing up had blond or black hair, and I liked that he was different in that respect.

This artcard is available as cards, posters, and prints at RedBubble.com!


4.25 x 5.5 inches cardstock.

Pencil, ink, Prismacolor pencil.

Green Lantern ©DC Comics 2011