Today artist Danny Silva gets featured for the second time during Sketch Card Week, this time with a nice sketch of famed barbarian(ess?) Red Sonja holding what appears to be an orc or goblin's severed head. Gory stuff, I suppose, but fighting goblinoids isn't clean work. This set came out a couple of years ago, but Silva recently posted a video of him working on this sketch card to his blog.
That's pretty cool stuff. It's neat to see the progression of the art from pencil to inks to colors. I'm glad I was able to find the video. This card came from Breygent's Women of Dynamite card set, which is based on the various female characters whose rights are owned by comic book publisher Dynamite Entertainment. It was a small set released in sketch card packs that were only available at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con (and later from resellers). Each pack had two sketches, 6 base cards (from an 18-card base set), and a promo card (from a 6-card promo set). I bought a pack of the cards once, but I never blogged about it here. One of the sketches was a little on the risque side and I wound up selling it on eBay for a couple hundred dollars to a person who PC's the artist. If I recall correctly I paid about $35 for that pack, so it was a pretty good deal for me.
This sketch joins my small Red Sonja PC and I'll definitely be looking for more work by Danny Silva in the future.
Any card with a severed head is a beautiful addition, nice pick up.
ReplyDeleteI've never really been a fan of horror and gore, but in this context the severed head is pretty awesome.
DeleteThe sketch card is cool... but actually seeing your sketch card being made makes this one of the coolest sketch cards ever. Very... very awesome!
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty cool to see it come together. A lot of artists post these process videos, but this is the first one I've come across featuring a card in my possession.
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