Sketch Card Week: Red Sonja by Danny Silva

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.

Sketch Card Week: Power Girl by Danny Silva

It's Day 2 of Sketch Card Week, and today's card comes from a set that is going to be pretty common this week, Cryptozoic's DC Comics: The Women of Legend. I am struggling to get Sketch Card Week off the ground. I have the cards scanned, but getting the posts written has become a challenge. I spent the 4th of July rafting on the Payette River with my family, and I am absolutely exhausted. It was a fun time, but it wore me out.

This sketch card features the character Power Girl by artist Danny Silva. The eyes on this Power Girl are pretty creepy, but I think it's a really neat piece of art. He did a few other characters for this set in this style as well as a few others with a more traditional look. I think I prefer these ones, as they stand out a bit more from the crowd. I am actually a little surprised that DC let these through the approval process. The comic companies seem to be pretty strict about how their characters are drawn on sketch cards, although I think Marvel / Disney are more strict than DC when it comes to depicting characters exactly how they appear currently in comics. Silva is pretty active across his social media accounts, which are all linked to from his website.

That's about all for this post. I need to get some sleep so that I can recover from today's festivities. I am glad that I was able to get this card for my collection, and I hope to add more work by Danny Silva to my collection in the future.