So there’s this thing, and I guess all the cool kids are doing it over on the Twitters and the Instagrams. It’s called “Art Vs. Artist.” You put some of your work together in this format, along with a picture of yourself in the center. It seemed like something that might be sorta fun to take a crack at, so here we go!
To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what all the rules are (if there are any), so I’m probably breaking some of them. I did get the idea that this was supposed to center around faces, so there’s at least that. Some of these samples are more recent and others slightly older. At the moment, I feel like this works pretty well. If I were to attempt this again tomorrow, it’s possible I could pick a few other images.
I feel like I might be breaking one of the rules with my photo in the center. It’s (obviously) not a current selfie. Not by a long shot! That’s a 12 year-old me, on my birthday. If you could see more of the picture, you’d see I was attempting to paint a picture (using oils) of the USS Enterprise firing on a Klingon ship. Why that photo? I figure: don’t we all start someplace like that as artists? Everything else flows from that.
Nicely done, Mark. Is the fellow in the red t‑shirt supposed to be Quality’s Captain Triumph or MLJ’s Steel Sterling? And where did the yellow-and-blue Batman appear? Just curious. Anyway, please do this again, with different images!
Thanks, John! The guy in the middle row on the right who you’re trying to identify is an old Nedor comics character, Doc (as opposed to “Doctor”) Strange. Awhile back, I had done a cover as if his adventures (and Nedor as a comics company) had continued on into the ’60s. You can find that here: Doc (“Don’t Call Me ‘Doctor!’”) Strange. In the lower right corner, that’s actually not the Batman you know, but a character called the Golden Batman who kind of fascinated me when I found out about him, and I got inspired to do a drawing. You can find that post on my site here: “I’m Not Batman!”.
Excellent mashup topped by the young preuser of the books. Thanks
Thanks, Joe. I thought it might be fun to take a crack at that meme. Even though posting here instead of someplace else like Instagram or Facebook perhaps defeated the purpose.