Sketches of the Day

30Characters #1: Von Goetz

Here’s my first entry into the “30 Characters in 30 Days” challenge, Von Goetz, ruthless Aerostadt Commandant of the Fatherland Imperium:

By all means, feel free to post links to your own submissions here as well!

I drew this earlier this morning for the Daily Sketch subreddit. The green gradient either represents a deep philosophical statement on the antagonism between the external Superman self (as represented by the shirt) and the inner death of Kryptonite, or I just like green.

SOD – Adam Strange

I haven’t done one of these for a while, but I got the overwhelming urge to draw Adam Strange today.

SOD – JunkMech

As his prize for winning Caption Contest 123, Ian requested:

A giant junkyard-built mech, with a body formed from two semi-truck cabs, four legs made from beat-up construction equipment armatures, two arms – one giant grasping/tearing claw, one with a huge circular sawblade. Oh, and a flamethrower! And homemade machine guns! MAJOR BADASS DESTRUCTION!

And this is what I came up with:

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Enjoy! I didn’t manage to squeeze in the machine guns but otherwise I think it’s pretty close. I like how junky it came out. Although now that I look at it, maybe this is Crab-tor the Junk Mech Crustacean.