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Wonder Spin: Bronze Age Artcard by Kevenn T. Smith

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June 27, 2010 in Comic Books, DC Comics and Wonder Woman. 1 Comment

My Wonder Woman work seems to be the most popular with people who know of my art, and since I haven’t had a Wonder Woman artcard available for a while, I thought it was time to put a new one out there. Usually, when I draw Wonder Woman, I depict the Modern Age version. I’m a big fan of the costume the way Terry Dodson re-designed it, so that’s why that look is usually my go-to version of the costume. However, for this artcard, I felt it was time to do something different, and that’s why I ended up going with the Bronze Age Wonder Woman when she still had the eagle instead of the later double “w” symbol.

And what could be a more fun way of depicting Bronze Age Wonder Woman than in a Lynda Carter inspired Wonder Spin? Another way that I like to depict Wonder Woman, is smiling. I like the idea of a Wonder Woman who loves life and enjoys what she does. My ideal Wonder Woman is happy.

This artcard and all the other artcards I’ve done are all original hand-made works and can be purchased or $15 plus shipping ($4.95 USPS Priority Shipping – international shipping will be calculated upon an individual order).

4.25 x 5.5 inches cardstock.

Pencil, ink, Prismacolor pencil, Prismacolor marker.

Wonder Woman ©DC Comics 2010

Built Like An Amazon: Artemis of Bana Mighdall Artcard by Kevenn T. Smith

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November 8, 2009 in Comic Books, DC Comics and Wonder Woman. 0 Comments

This artcard showcases Artemis of Bana Mighdall in her Requiem costume that seems to have made a comeback in DC Comics’ recent publications. Artemis is from the Middle Eastern tribe of Amazons from the hidden city of Bana Mighdall. At one point, Artemis ended up beating Princess Diana of Themiscyra for the title of Wonder Woman. Artemis served as Wonder Woman for a short time. The Amazon sorceress, Magala, had put a spell on Diana on the behest of Queen Hippolyta that would transfer half of Diana’s strength and speed when they were near each other. Artemis’ stint as Wonder Woman was short-lived, and she was killed by the villain, The White Magician. However, death cant keep a tough Amazon down, and Artemis ended up clawing her way out of hell and her own grave.

Artemis has proven to be a popular character in the Wonder Woman franchise. She’s more headstrong and less compassionate than Diana, but her heart is in the right place. She ended up becoming the leader of the Bana Mighdall Amazons on Themiscyra. Aretmis has just returned to Themiscyra in the Wonder Woman title, and her future roll remains to be seen.

For this piece, I went back to Ed Benes’ original drawings of Artemis in the Requiem miniseries, as well as Nicola Scott’s take on the costume in the recent Secret Six storyline. In some of Benes’ early drawings, he had the green lining at the decolletage make a “w” shape. I like that element to help visually tie Artemis into the Wonder Woman family, and as a former Wonder Woman, I believe she’s entitled to wear a “w” symbol – even a simplified one. I left of the skull on her headband because I thought that element was excessively 90′s. Instead, I opted to repeat the tripple-arrow “A” symbol that the Requiem costume has on the sternum area. I really liked the seams and the side-lacing that Nicola Scott added to the costume in the Secret Six issues, as well as the kneecap armor she gave the boots. The sword is the special demon killer sword that Artemis ended up having in the Byrne run of Wonder Woman that was also included as an accessory to the Artemis action figure that DC Direct made.

This artcard has been sold, but all the other artcards I’ve done are all original hand-made works and can be purchased or $15 plus shipping ($4.95 USPS Priority Shipping – international shipping will be calculated upon an individual order).

Artemis of Bana Mighdall by Kevenn T. Smith ©Kevenn T. Smith 2009

4.25 x 5.5 inches cardstock.

Pencil, ink, and Prismacolor pencil.

Artemis ©DC Comics 2010

Amazing Amazon – A Wonder Woman Art Event

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September 29, 2009 in DC Comics, Illustration and Wonder Woman. 0 Comments

My piece for Wonder Woman Day #4, “Here, Kitty! Kitty!” is being exhibited in the Amazing Amazon exhibit at the Lara Sydney Framing Gallery in Portland, Oregon. It will be available for viewing between October 1 and October 24. On the 25th, it will be available for bidding at the charity auction for Wonder Woman Day #4.

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“Here, Kitty, Kitty!” for Wonder Woman Day #4

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September 7, 2009 in Comic Books, DC Comics, Illustration, Masters of the universe/Princess of Power and Wonder Woman. 3 Comments

I’m participating in the Wonder Woman Day IV Charity Auction this year. The auction benefits these Domestic Violence Shelters and hot-lines: Raphael House of Portland, Bradley-Angle House, and Portland Women’s Crisis Line. I am very proud to participate in this auction because these are very important causes to me. Please bid, and bid high!

I wanted to do a picture of Wonder Woman being happy and having fun – something that I don’t think happens nearly enough in the comic books. I also really wanted to draw She-Ra and Catra, as well as Wonder Woman’s enemy, Cheetah. Most pictures I’ve seen that have Wonder Woman and She-Ra together have them fighting each other. I really don’t care for that, because I believe that Wonder Woman and She-Ra would get along really well and a tremendous sense of camaraderie, and I wanted to show them being friendly and having fun together. I also wanted to play on the fact that they both have well-known enemies with a cat theme.

While I take a lot of my cues for Wonder Woman and Cheetah from the way that Terry Dodson depicted them when he drew the Wonder Woman comic book, I also take a couple of Lynda Carter elements that I sneak in here and there with Wonder Woman. Cheetah also has a few George Perez elements in her design, especially when it comes to her facial markings, which Dodson mostly abandoned.

She-Ra and Catra were really fun to draw. I’m a big fan of Mattel’s Masters of the Universe Classics action figure line. It’s a melding of various canons of their franchises into one cohesive line. My approach to She-Ra and Catra was along that lines. I wanted to depict them with the familiarity of the Filmation designs of the cartoon that everyone knows and loves these characters from, but also bring in some of the details that the action figures had, whose designs were very different from the cartoon designs. The result give detailed and interesting looks that easily stand up well alongside Wonder Woman and Cheetah.

The background is inspired by the Whispering Woods background paintings that were featured in the She-Ra: Princess of Power cartoon. They are lush, flamboyant and magical looking. As I was planning out the background, I thought it would be fun to have Lookie in it. Lookie was always hiding in the background of the cartoons, and at the end of the episodes, he would reveal his hiding place and explain the episode’s moral. Once I decided that Lookie was going to be in it, I wanted to balance the picture, and tried to think of a character in Wonder Woman’s lore that could serve as an analogue to Lookie. The two franchises are pretty rife with analogues: Ares/Hordak, Circe/Shadow Weaver, Giganta/Scorpia, Steve Trevor/Bow, Nemesis/Sea Hawk. When it came down to it, I settled on the whimsical and fun Wonder Tot, who is Wonder Woman as a small child in the Silver Age comic book stories. Wonder Tot often had “impossible adventures” right alongside Wonder Woman as an adult and Wonder Woman as a teenager (Wonder Girl), and I thought that the magical nature of the Whispering Woods, and the fact that She-Ra’s planet of Etheria was likely in another dimension, would provide a narrative that would allow Wonder Tot.
Here, Kitty, Kitty! ©Kevenn T. Smith 2009

Here, Kitty, Kitty!
8.5″ x 11″ on Bristol Board
Pencils, Inks and Prismacolor Color Pencils

Wonder Woman, Cheetah and Wonder Tot ©DC Comics 2010

She-Ra, Catra and Lookie ©Mattel 2010

Marla Bea Benefit Comic Book Auction: Wonder Woman & Power Girl

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August 16, 2009 in DC Comics, Illustration and Wonder Woman. 0 Comments

This piece was penciled by Ray Caspio, and I was the inker and colorist. We made this piece for the Marla Bea Benefit Comic Book Auction that begins on Monday, October 12, 2009. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. I lost a very good and dear friend several years ago to breast cancer, so this is a cause that I feel very strongly about and is very close to me. I was very happy and proud to be able to participate in this auction, and I hope that our piece will raise a lot of money to contribute in the fight against breast cancer. Please consider bidding in the auction to support this worthy cause.

Wonder Woman & Power Girl for Marla Bea Benefit

8.75″ x 12″ on Bristol Board
Ray Caspio: Pencils
Kevenn T. Smith: Inks, Prismacolor Color Pencils, and Prismacolor Markers

Wonder Woman and Power Girl ©DC Comics 2010

One More For Wonder Woman Day III

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October 15, 2008 in Comic Books, DC Comics, Illustration and Wonder Woman. 0 Comments

Not only did I create my own piece of art for Wonder Woman Day III this year (see below), but Ray Caspio and I collaborated together on another piece like we did last year for Wonder Woman Day II.

This one, based on the ABC TV series starring Lynda Carter, has Private Etta Candy (played by Beatrice Colen) and Yeoman Diana Prince (Lynda Carter, of course), who we wanted to make sure were represented in the auction this year.

Etta Figures it Out?
8.5″ x 11″ on Bristol Board
Ray Caspio: Pencils
Kevenn T. Smith: Inks and Colors (Prismacolor)

Wonder Woman, Diana Prince and Etta Candy ©DC Comics 2009

Art For Mid-Ohio-Con Part 2

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October 2, 2008 in Batgirl, DC Comics, Illustration, Supergirl, Superman and Wonder Woman. 0 Comments

Here are more of the artcards that I will be selling at Mid-Ohio-Con this weekend, along with prints of some of the work in my Illustration Gallery:

Superman:

Wonder Woman:

Donna Troy as Wonder Girl:

Supergirl (I wanted to capture the feeling of the aerial ballet in the Supergirl movie starring Helen Slater.):

Green Lantern:

Batgirl:

Nightwing:

Flamebird (based on International Supermodel and D-Listed.com’s Hot Slut of the Year 2007, Phoebe Price):

Wonder Clubbing For Wonder Woman Day III

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September 25, 2008 in DC Comics, Illustration and Wonder Woman. 1 Comment

This piece, entitled “Wonder Clubbing,” is one that I did for the silent auction for Wonder Woman Day III to benefit two domestic violence shelters and a women’s crisis line. I wanted to do a piece that showed Wonder Woman and her closest friends having fun and enjoying themselves, so I depicted them dancing at a club with a couple of admirers. One of my goals for this piece was to also include characters close to the hearts of Wonder Woman comic book fans like Artemis, Etta Candy, Donna Troy, and in a way, Circe.

Wonder Woman, Donna Troy, Etta Candy, Artemis, and Circe ©DC Comics 2009

DC Comics Villainesses 2007

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July 22, 2008 in DC Comics, Illustration and Wonder Woman. 3 Comments

After completing the DC Comics Heroines 2007 piece that can be seen in my illustration gallery on this site, my goal was to create a companion piece for it that would contrast it with a showcase of DC Comics’ various villainesses.

Once again, my goal was to depict iconic representations of the characters that would give an idea of who these characters were, just from looking at them, as well as rendering them in the styles of my favorite artists who have depicted them. Some of those artists include Terry Dodson, Jim Balent, Nicola Scott, Matthew Clark, Lee Moder, Dustin Nguyen, George Perez, Joe Bennet, J.G. Jones, Dale Eaglesham, Jesus Saiz, Patrick Olliffe, H.G. Peter, Mark Buckingham, Ed Benes, Adam Kubert, Drew Johnson, Ethan Van Sciver, Joe Benitez, Phil Jimenez, Gary Frank, Tom Raney, Graham Nolan, John Byrne, and Don Kramer. Some of the characters have only appeared in animated DC projects, but I did not feel that the animated style would work well with the others styles present in this piece, so I rendered them in my own style instead.

What follows is a numbered version of the piece, and below that is the key to the names of the numbered characters, as well as the superhero/heroine or group they are the most common adversary to or affiliated with:

01. Silver Banshee (Superman/Supergirl); 02. Ursa (Superman);
03. Phobia (Teen Titans/Manhunter); 04. Mercy Graves (Superman);
05. Livewire (Superman); 06. Rampage (Superman/Supergirl);
07. Magenta (Flash); 08. Terra (Teen Titans);
09. Shimmer (Teen Titans/Outsiders);
10. The New Ventriloquist & Scarface (Batman);
11. Siren (Titans/Tempest); 12. Knockout (Secret Six);
13. Jinx (Teen Titans/Wonder Woman); 14. Scandal Savage (Secret Six);
15. Gundra the Valkyrie (Wonder Woman); 16. Silver Swan (Wonder Woman);
17. Medusa (Wonder Woman); 18. Dr. Veronica Cale (Wonder Woman/52);
19. Giganta (Wonder Woman); 20. Dark Angel (Donna Troy/Wonder Woman);
21. Queen Clea (Wonder Woman); 22. Dr. Poison (Wonder Woman);
23. Osira (Wonder Woman); 24. Dr. Cyber (Wonder Woman);
25. Devastation (Wonder Girl/Wonder Woman); 26. Circe (Wonder Woman);
27. Cheshire Jade (Titans; Secret Six); 28. Superwoman (JLA);
29. Catwoman (Batman); 30. Blue Lama (Sargon the Sorcerer);
31. Volcana (Superman); 32. Scorch (Martian Manhunter);
33. Blackfire (Starfire/Titans); 34. Morella (Catwoman);
35. Golden Age Catwoman (Batman); 36. Cyber Cat (Catwoman);
37. Golden Age Cheetah, Priscilla Rich (Wonder Woman);
38. Baroness Paula Von Gunther (Wonder Woman);
39. Cheetah, Dr. Barbara Minerva (Wonder Woman);
40. Granny Goodness (Female Furies); 41. Tala (Phantom Stranger);
42. Lashina (Female Furies); 43. Morgana LeFay (Demon Etrigan);
44. Bernadeath (Female Furies); 45. Fatality (Green Lantern);
46. Star Sapphire (Green Lantern); 47. Lady Styx (Capt. Comet);
48. Roulette (JSA); 49. Chain Lightning (Mary Marvel);
50. Eclipso, Jean Loring (Mary Marvel, JLA); 51. Shiv (Stargirl/JSA);
52. Hummingbird (Hawkman/Hawkgirl); 53. Mad Harriet (Female Furies);
54. Satanna (Hawkman/Hawkgirl); 55. Killer Frost (Firestorm);
56. Stompa (Female Furies); 57. Plastique (Suicide Squad);
58. Queen Bee (JLA); 59. Tigress (JSA/Hawkgirl); 60. New Wave (Outsiders);
61. Lady Lunar (Superman); 62. Jewelee (Suicide Squad); 63. Linx (Robin);
64. Amanda Waller (Suicide Squad); 65. Lady Vic (Nightwing);
66. Alley Cat (Catwoman); 67. Sickle (Teen Titans/Catwoman);
68. Harley Quinn (Batman); 69. Lady Shiva (Batman);
70. Roxy Rocket (Batman); 71. Poison Ivy (Batman);
72. Spy Smasher (Birds of Prey); 73. Velvet Tiger (Batgirl); 74. Orca (Batman);
75. Spellbinder III (Batman); 76. Talia al Ghul (Batman)

2008 National NOW Conference

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July 13, 2008 in Character Design and Wonder Woman. 0 Comments

My frequent collaborator, Ray Caspio, was contacted by a representative of NOW, the National Organization for Women, concerning a Wonder Woman piece that he had posted on his website. The NOW National Conference: 2008 was coming up, and they wanted to use his Wonder Woman illustration for the cover of their program book. It was decided that a new character needed to be created for this, for rights purposes, and that’s where I came in. Ray and I talked about what the costume should look like and what goals we wanted to achieve with it. We wanted to create a new character that had a classic 1940′s Golden Age of Comics look, but I wanted to give it a slightly modern twist. Ray had to use his original illustration as a basis for the illustration for NOW, but with a change in the costume and coloring details. The design needed to be an homage to Wonder Woman without being Wonder Woman. I came up with this:

Ray Caspio then used the costume elements that I came up with and transposed them onto his piece, creating what is now the program cover and image used by NOW to promote the conference, where the theme is “No Capes, No Masks, No Boundaries: Super-Women Unite!”

DC Comics Heroines 2007

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July 6, 2008 in DC Comics, Illustration and Wonder Woman. 2 Comments

I thought the best way to get the ball rolling here on my portfolio was to write about one of my favorite pieces from my Illustration gallery on this site.

The goal of this piece was to portray my favorite versions of my favorite DC Comics Heroines, including the costume details and artist depictions of them. I also wanted to try to depict as many characters as I could in a way that was iconic to the character; to try to communicate something about who that character was.

Some of the artist whose styles I worked to emulate for these characters were: Terry Dodson, Amanda Conner, Nicola Scott, Adam Hughes, Ed Benes, Joe Bennet, Joe Staton, Dale Eaglesham, Brian Bolland, Tony Daniel, Pete Woods, Mike McKone, Michael Turner, Jamal Igle, George Perez, Kevin Maguire, Chris Batista, Phil Jimenez, J.G. Jones, Al Barrionuevo, Daniel Acuna, Matthew Clark, Todd Nauck, Tom Grummet, Bill Willingham, Adriana Melo, and Jesus Saiz.

What follows is a numbered version of the piece, and below that is the key to the names of the numbered characters:

01. Jade; 02. Raven; 03. Isis; 04. Supergirl (Kara Zor-El);

05. Supergirl (Linda Danvers); 06. Aquagirl; 07. Ravager;

08. Batgirl (Barbara Gordon); 09. Speedy; 10. Misfit; 11. Black Canary;

12. Oracle; 13. Huntress; 14. Big Barda; 15. Lady Blackhawk; 16. Thorn;

17. Manhunter; 18. Gypsy; 19. The Question (Renee Montoya);

20. Batwoman; 21. Batgirl (Cassandra Caine); 22. Queen Hippolyta;

23. Flamebird; 24. Starfire; 25. Power Girl; 26. Sasha Bourdeaux;

27. Catwoman (Holly Robinson); 28. Catwoman (Selina Kyle); 29. Spoiler;

30. Bumblebee; 31. Ice; 32. Miss Martian; 33. Wonder Girl;

34. Earth-2 Wonder Woman; 35. Wonder Woman; 36. Miss America;

37. Donna Troy; 38. Fury I; 39. Artemis; 40. Vixen; 41. Firehawk;

42. Hawkgirl; 43. Cyclone; 44. Stargirl; 45. Liberty Belle;

46. Earth-2 Huntress (Helena Wayne); 47. Phantom Lady; 48. Red Bee;

49. Empress; 50. Dr. Light II; 51. Skyrocket; 52. Mera; 53. Katana;

54. Mary Marvel; 55. Crimson Fox; 56. Nightshade; 57. Thunder;

58. Fire; 59. Natasha Irons; 60. Madame Xanadu; 61. Zatanna;

62. Enchantress; 63. Grace

Archive for the 'Wonder Woman' Category

Wonder Spin: Bronze Age Artcard by Kevenn T. Smith

Built Like An Amazon: Artemis of Bana Mighdall Artcard by Kevenn T. Smith

Amazing Amazon – A Wonder Woman Art Event

“Here, Kitty, Kitty!” for Wonder Woman Day #4

Marla Bea Benefit Comic Book Auction: Wonder Woman & Power Girl

One More For Wonder Woman Day III

Art For Mid-Ohio-Con Part 2

Wonder Clubbing For Wonder Woman Day III

DC Comics Villainesses 2007

2008 National NOW Conference

DC Comics Heroines 2007

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