Batgirl & Hellboy – Head Sketches

Continuing to take more small, baby steps on my list of “to-do” art.

Here are 2 head sketches for a Facebook fan in the Philippines!

John Beatty | Hellboy Head Sketch

Hellboy: © Mike Mignola

John Beatty | Batgirl Head Sketch

Barbara Gordon – Batgirl © DC Comics

These head sketches are always fun to do and each one presents a new challenge for me to not ‘repeat’ the same head drawing when doing a character over and over. Tough not to do, but I try!

I draw them on 4.5 x 6.5″ [ 11.4 x 16.5 cm ] colored paper, I try and pick a color that will reflect the character. And I use some marker, colored pencil and, etc, to add a bit more ‘finish’ to them.

Price is $20- per head sketch plus shipping.

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Interested in having me do some for you?

If so, please CONTACT me.

Thx for dropping in, and if you have an extra minute, feel free to leave a comment!

- John

PS: I’m doing these as “warm-up” in the mornings before anything else … I have a couple more to get to in the morning and then I think they are completed on my ‘head sketch’ list.

Shadow and Bronze

Earlier this year I was contacted by Terry Allen.

He has a collection of sketch cards featuring “The Shadow” and “Doc Savage”.

I had been seeing these sketch cards popping up over at the Comic Art Fans site.

A quick look thru Terry’s galleries and you’ll see a lot of very nice sketch cards, so I was thrilled when he emailed and asked if I would be interested in doing a card of each for his collection.

It didn’t take any arm pulling to say “yes.”

Here are the cards I completed:

John Beatty, The Shadow and Doc Savage Sketch Cards

These are always fun and challenging to do on many levels.

Browse Terry’s “Shadow” and “Doc Savage” galleries for other artists’ interpretations of these 2 characters.

If you have a sketch card collection and would like to have me contribute to it, please feel free to contact me to discuss the terms.

Thanks for looking.

- John

Rebuilding The Web Site

So I had just did a quick re-install of wordpress and put up a really bland theme just to post a message … the one below this one.

I knew that I wanted to re-design my site at sometime, but didn’t expect to have to do it out of making a mistake in deleting my database. Which I had not backed up and didn’t want to pay for my host to put back up.

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Sometimes Things Go Wrong, Very Wrong

I didn’t go anywhere, but my old database got deleted by ‘me’ when I was doing some ‘clean-up’ in the back of this site.

I was looking to put up a ‘new theme’ soon. Now this will delay things a bit.

You can still contact me at: johnbeatty5661[@]gmail.com

Sorry for the inconvenience.

- John