Jack Kirby Romance: Daredevil by Mark Hurst

Ok, so I thought this was a great theme and have enjoyed them so far. So here's my take on it, while I'm not really sure what the hell is going on in the real cover... it kind goes that I'm really not sure what the hell is going on in my retake of the cover. I just love the idea of Daredevil fearing dancing and especially the samba.

Daredevil by Rob Ayotte

So I was trying some new things for me,. I worked metaphorically. I'm always thinking that good art doesn't need explanations, so I hesitate when I offer one. I'm not saying this is good art in fact through most of it's production I felt lost. Any who, the concepts I was considering concerning Daredevil were, Christan martydom (St Sebastian), Justice, and his love and weakness towards women. I' m a huge Daredevil fan and with so many great artists working on him I really wanted to try and do something different. Not too sure if I succeeded but here it is.
My couples piece is gonna be really late, this one just wouldn't relent .

Here comes DAREDEVIL, the man without fear, by Josh Puprle

Some more silly fun :) .  I was thinking, enhanced senses, so... big nose, big ears, big hands, -and that's when I thought, he's an imp!  Used this cover for reference.  Not that it's fitting, but I thought it would be kinda' fun to have him as an evil little imp ( I should have given him a goatee).

Original pencil

Daredevil by: Mark Hurst

So I've never really read any strictly DD comics. But for some reason I have always loved the red and yellow costume. It isn't as sensible as the all red, but the colors are great to me. So here is my yellow daredevil costume with some ninjas getting ready to get some butt kicked by DD himself.

The Man Without Fear by Mike McMahon

The other day I came up with an idea of Daredevil in the air kicking the crap out of a couple guys and did a rough sketch of what it would look like (which you can see here). Then I noticed that Beth pretty much did the same exact thing and did it a hell of a lot better.

So it was back to the drawing board and came up with what you see above.

The small cartoon, I came up with tonight and thought it'd be pretty funny.

Daredevil, the Man Without Fear by Justin Zyduck

So the reason that I suggested this theme is because I've been wanting to try out this style on Daredevil for years now.

The first time I ever saw Cowboy Bebop, I was totally blown away by the main title sequence to the point where I was disappointed when the show actually started that the whole thing wasn't done that way. So that's basically what I'd want to do with Daredevil. I sent everybody this long, rambling e-mail about how Frank Miller still exerts this huge gravitational influence over how we think of Daredevil after thirty years -- all film noir and anguish. If I were doing DD, I'd want to move on from that without rejecting Miller (because why would you?), so what I'd really like to do is what Bebop did. Bebop takes film noir as a starting point in a lot of places, but then totally goes off the rails -- it's not slavish to film noir in the way that I think artists and writers tend to be slavish to Miller.

So yeah, if I got the keys to Daredevil, I'd want it to be bright, stylized colors with an emphasis on graphic design, and "Chick Habit" by April March would be the theme song. (Appropriate stylistically and lyrically given Daredevil's history!) I didn't draw enough of him for you to really be able to tell (although maybe you could from the lips), but Matt Murdock is to be played by James Spader in Pretty in Pink.

The Man Without Fear by Beth Davis

I was introduced to Daredevil and my favorite comic artist, David Mack, at the same time when he did a 5-issue DD series (that was mostly about a secondary character named Echo). So I tried to pay homage to DD and Mr. Mack this week.

You know how you go through a love-hate cycle with art? Well, this ended on the Hate side of things. There are about 20 things I wish had turned out differently, but I jumped off the deep end, and stepped outside of my comfort zone so I guess I shouldn't worry about it.

David Mack is the reason I embraced watercolors in college, he was doing radically different things at the time. I think I have followed his style though it is choppy. I kind of rushed at the end.

Oh, and the circles are supposed to be echolocation soundwaves.

Also, here is the pencil sketch I did for DD:

Sorry I don't know how to make it a link. So, go ahead and rip me a new one, lol...

The Man Without Fear by Josh Lynch

So I did a couple of different sketches this week.  The one I chose to upload is an homage to my favorite visual look for Daredevil done by Rafael Grampa.  While I have loved the art from Michael lark, Miller and Janson, Buscema, and many many others I really dug what Grampa did to bring in that boxer influence.
Other Daredevil Sketch
Other...Other Daredevil sketch

The Man Without Fear by Eric Schuster

Daredevil's an interesting character, and a lot of great creative teams have worked on the title.  It's cool that his power comes at the expense of something else.  I always liked that kung-fu movie logic applied to superpowers.  The first Daredevil stuff I ever read was in the daily newspaper comic when he teamed up with Spiderman.  I thought he was a villain at first because heroes aren't called "devil," are they...?